December 31, 2010 (A 2010 Favorite):   "No Wasn't Full" by C. J. Sage   "No wasn't full..."
December 30, 2010 (A 2010 Favorite):   "San Clemente" by Carol Muske-Dukes   "Shame & shame: sound of neap tide..."
December 29, 2010 (A 2010 Favorite):   "Timbered" by Emily Rosko   "Round and round they go..."
December 28, 2010 (A 2010 Favorite):   "Asphodel" by Angela Vogel   "Hi, I’m Asphodel, the flower of hell..."
December 27, 2010 (A 2010 Favorite):   "Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird." by y madrone   "Pigeon is an everywhere..."
December 26, 2010:   "Hurricane" by Yona Harvey   "Four tickets left, I let her go..."
December 25, 2010:   "The Priest Stops in the Churchyard" by Joanna Solfrian   "It is not quite peace, this breathing rain..."
December 24, 2010:   "A Segment of Irradiated Mangosteen" by Jack Boettcher   "If I posit magic fruit..."
December 23, 2010:   "Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird." by y madrone   "Pigeon is an everywhere..."
December 22, 2010:   "The Hour" by Norman Dubie   "The linden tree lifts..."
December 21, 2010:   "The God Who" by James Richardson   "It was the small gods we talked to..."
December 20, 2010:   "'Generous I may have been, amnesiac" by Carol Frost   "I became. Autumn fattened and thinned..."
December 19, 2010:   "By the Water-cooler" by Matthew Caley   "Apparently, we gather by the water-cooler..."
December 18, 2010:   "Lost" by Christina Olson   "Admit it: more interesting..."
December 17, 2010:   "The Tortoise" by Bertha Rogers   "A recluse who..."
December 16, 2010:   "Seasonal" by Star Black   "Behind the deep-brown evening gowns..."
December 15, 2010:   "Ex Libris" by Holly Iglesias   "Unlike the sock who mistook static for love..."
December 14, 2010:   "Invisible Eye" by Fiona Sze-Lorrain   "Fog / chalks the skeletons..."
December 13, 2010:   "Gravity in Our Hands" by Noël Hanlon   "We forget about the universe..."
December 12, 2010:   "This is what was bequeathed us" by Gregory Orr   "This is what was bequeathed us..."
December 11, 2010:   "Spoke" by Shira Dentz   "in the whirr of the tire..."
December 10, 2010:   "Going" by Michael Chitwood   "To seep..."
December 9, 2010:   "Elope" by Chad Sweeney   "Sky's upper limit is mind..."
December 8, 2010:   "Sea to Sea, Shining" by Kristin Kelly   "They are giving birth control to squirrels in Santa Monica..."
December 7, 2010:   "After Adam" by Eric Weinstein   "A stillness over the face..."
December 6, 2010:   "One Twenty-One A.M." by Patty Seyburn   "Full moon through clerestory slats...."
December 5, 2010:   "Equinox" by David Rigsbee   "A slow burn. And then, even the cells..."
December 4, 2010:   "The Mandolin" by Rick Bursky   "This was the night police chased the musicians from the roof...."
December 3, 2010:   "Aubade with a Broken Neck" by Traci Brimhall   "The first night you don't come home..."
December 2, 2010:   "Columbia River" by David Dodd Lee   "the smell of the body..."
December 1, 2010:   "The Listener, The Land" by Trey Moody   "I ask your name to understand..."
November 30, 2010:   "Reconcile" by Sarah Vap   "The earliest light we know..."
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley   "Weeks of over one hundred degrees...."
November 28, 2010:   "Letter Home No. 3" by Kyle Dargan   "Is apple butter as simple..."
November 27, 2010:   "On Not Making Arrangements" by Margot Schilpp   "Organization is overrated: rivers..."
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci   "Quiet sun, white dwarf..."
November 25, 2010:   "The House on Laurel Hill Lane" by Megan Snyder-Camp   "Between the neighbor's cherry trees..."
November 24, 2010:   "The Earth-Tone Madonna" by David Dodd Lee   "What were you..."
November 23, 2010:   "Portrait" by Daniel Groves   "That old scene — monkey see and monkey do —..."
November 22, 2010:   "Self-Portrait in the Town Where I Was Born" by Jake Adam York   "The smell of the ocean..."
November 21, 2010:   "Volta" by Christina Pugh   "It won't take much for me to glide mad..."
November 20, 2010:   "the fidelity of disagreement" by Marty McConnell   "because there are seven kinds of loneliness..."
November 19, 2010:   "Tulips" by Mario Petrucci   "That / tulip set..."
November 18, 2010:   "Talking about Autumn Rain" by Nate Pritts   "I hereby submit this yellow leaf as a charter..."
November 17, 2010:   "Scheherazade" by Jayne Pupek   "Tell me again how the skies opened for winter..."
November 16, 2010:   "Halo" by Melissa Stein   "A swirl of it: a stain, like cinnamon..."
November 15, 2010:   "Body of the Hour" by Beckian Fritz Goldberg   "To say, the soul..."
November 14, 2010:   Two poems by Ellen Doré Watson   "You are like a leaky row boat pretending..."
November 13, 2010:   "The Former Pirate on His Way Back to Lisbon" by Weston Cutter   "I'm over..."
November 12, 2010:   "This Is Not My Story" by Shin Yu Pai   "cereal boxes in the kitchen..."
November 11, 2010:   "Ovaries" by Gary L. McDowell   "The body of water that cries..."
November 10, 2010:   "From The Handbook for Emergency Situations" by Kelli Russell Agodon   "When we were in love..."
November 9, 2010:   "Egret" by John Thomas York   "Against the black pines..."
November 8, 2010:   "Wish" by Helen Ivory   "Talk soft to me..."
November 7, 2010:   "Arachne in Detention" by Saara Myrene Raappana   "So this is the ripe crop of hubris..."
November 6, 2010:   "View from the High Road" by Lisa Fay Coutley   "It is as you'd expect, beyond the rusting guardrails..."
November 5, 2010:   "Birdhouse" by Diane Lockward   "In the garden a single rose..."
November 4, 2010:   "Below the Lifeboat" by Nancy White   "If you wake up under your life, you see..."
November 3, 2010:   "Before the Tide" by Berwyn Moore   "An eastern beach—the sun spreads..."
November 2, 2010:   "Rinsing East" by Janée J. Baugher   "Over the Atlantic now, between..."
November 1, 2010:   "All We Can Do" by Morton Marcus   "All we can do on this earth is step into the future..."
October 31, 2010:   "When Big Falls" by Annie Appleton   "I dip my hand..."
October 30, 2010:   "Man Vs. Nature" by Michael Derrick Hudson   "The half-moon tips my..."
October 29, 2010:   "End of Myth" by Holly Karapetkova   "Hotels are sprouting, white as scars..."
October 28, 2010:   "Perennial" by Rebecca Foust   "When you've gone, it won't matter to the musk rose..."
October 27, 2010:   "Time's End, Will Restore" by W. Perry Epes   "Bought this house, woke up..."
October 26, 2010:   "Late" by Marc Rahe   "The cold night is starry...."
October 25, 2010:   "Reflexive" by John Taggart   "Consider whether you can be solitary and alone..."
October 24, 2010:   "Root" by Karen Lepri   "Antithesis of stuck, stable, mud posse..."
October 23, 2010:   "Drinking" by January Gill O'Neil   "A coworker says..."
October 22, 2010:   "If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them" by Jean Valentine   "Dear Reginald..."
October 21, 2010:   "Pioneers" by Carl Dennis   "If time were in fact like money..."
October 20, 2010:   "If You Have Ghosts" by John Pursley III   "The dark is enough: the smallness of morning..."
October 19, 2010:   "Be Here First" by Ellen Doré Watson   "I don't know my trees but I know my trees...."
October 18, 2010:   "Penny Pincher Leaves Millions" by Mark Bibbins   "A child was entrusted to me..."
October 17, 2010:   "That Kind of Party" by Patrick Swaney   "I go to the party wearing a strand of lights around my neck..."
October 16, 2010:   "I'll Say It Again" by Amanda Nadelberg   "Shame gets out of bed for..."
October 15, 2010:   "Ode to Autumn" by Susan Browne   "Thoughts are mist. I'm restless..."
October 14, 2010:   "Ergot Theory" by Rebecca Dunham   "It is a holy fire, this budding..."
October 13, 2010:   "Day of My Dead" by Mark Conway   "so the cicadas drone louder..."
October 12, 2010:   "What You Work For" by Rebecca Foust   "Heft and hank of rope, halyard..."
October 11, 2010:   "Duff" by Robert Wrigley   "Under the deep needle thatch..."
October 10, 2010:   "Marvel the Magician's Last Will and Testament" by Myrna Stone   "To you, Tallulah, I leave my satin top hat..."
October 9, 2010:   "Witch Dance" by Glenna Luschei   "Winter presses our hands..."
October 8, 2010:   "The Dusty Smell of Hay" by Vern Rutsala   "Locking the barn door..."
October 7, 2010:   "The Transformation" by Lisa Lewis   "It had been afternoon as long as I could bear...."
October 6, 2010:   "2-Step" by Elizabeth J. Colen   "You thought a little dancing would do it. Knowing my weakness for..."
October 5, 2010:   "Bombing the City" by Wayne Miller   "Some nights it was leaflets..."
October 4, 2010:   "To Whom It May Concern:" by Erika Meitner   "Please excuse me from the meeting...."
October 3, 2010:   "Like" by Amy Holman   "The clearest bell ringing..."
October 2, 2010:   "Identities " by James Brasfield   "Another night, another packed trolley..."
October 1, 2010:   "The New Intelligence" by Timothy Donnelly   "After knowledge extinguished the last of the beautiful..."
September 30, 2010:   "Gorgeous Light" by Doug Ramspeck   "We lived by a bay..."
September 29, 2010:   "Say the Unseen" by Michele Glazer   "Say, the unseen needs a body in the world...."
September 28, 2010:   "Mavka #38." by Padma Thornlyre   "Indestructible life!—the Sun a yolk that breaks..."
September 27, 2010:   "Timbered" by Emily Rosko   "Round and round they go..."
September 26, 2010:   "Cell Phone God" by Henry Hart   "After hiking the Presidentials, I stop in churches..."
September 25, 2010:   "the inciting incident" by T. J. Beitelman   "Scene: Arc d' Triumph. Jude Law meets Gabriel..."
September 24, 2010:   "Not Something To Be Captured, Did You See the Signs?" by Lucy Anderton   "As if I know what..."
September 22, 2010:   "May the World to Come Be Neon, Be Water" by Erika Meitner   "because my shoes are too tight...."
September 21, 2010:   "Accordion" by Elizabeth Spires   "Hurtling through dark tunnels on a lightless day..."
September 20, 2010:   "Etymology" by Stephen Massimilla   "Out of yellow brain, out..."
September 19, 2010:   "What the Water Gave Me (VI)" by Pascale Petit   "This is how it is at the end..."
September 18, 2010:   "Pluto" by Maggie Dietz   "Don't feel small. We have all..."
September 17, 2010:   "Mystes" by Lisa Lewis   "A calm arrested the vibrato of tunnels...."
September 16, 2010:   "The Future" by Charles Simic   "It must have a reason for concealing..."
September 15, 2010:   "(Save)" by Alison Doernberg   "The throaty jangle of pennies against..."
September 14, 2010:   "Omnivore" by Allan Peterson   "Perhaps I could even eat candles and survive..."
September 13, 2010:   "Pima Road Notebook" by Keith Ekiss   "No one ever told me I belong to the earth...."
September 12, 2010:   "Teleology" by Rebecca Foust   "In the seed lies all that it can ever be..."
September 11, 2010:   "Letter to the End of the Year" by Susan Rich   "Lately, I am capable of small things...."
September 10, 2010:   "Metaphysical Bailout" by James Cihlar   "My endeavor is an assemblage of tissue, bone, and nerve..."
September 9, 2010:   "Empire of Light" by Bruce Bond   "It's the lantern that we look to most..."
September 8, 2010:   "Converted Church" by Medbh McGuckian   "I couldn't cultivate myself..."
September 7, 2010:   "City You Won't Come Back To" by Anne Shaw   "White light strafes the railyard as freight trains churn and click..."
September 6, 2010:   "Flesh" by C. McAllister Williams   "I apologize to anyone. Ask me to buckle & I will..."
September 5, 2010:   "Sunday" by Jordan Stempleman   "I picked a really yellow raincoat, asked how many times..."
September 4, 2010:   "[without action]" by Maxine Chernoff   "on the Grecian urn..."
September 3, 2010:   "The Bee Hummingbird" by Candace Pearson   "No bigger than two pennies side-by-side..."
September 2, 2010:   "His Theogony" by Timothy Donnelly   "In the bathtub I envision..."
September 1, 2010:   "Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory" by Cecily Parks   "I rehearse my rangy faith..."
August 31, 2010:   "All the Ape-Gone Songs" by John Bradley   "Where are all the ape-gone songs?..."
August 30, 2010:   "The Incredible Shrinking Fool" by William Trowbridge   "Mountain lion! thinks Fool, just before he sees..."
August 29, 2010:   "Too Darn Hot" by Sarah Perrier   "Why sort the doubletalk from the innuendo..."
August 28, 2010:   "Anecdote of a Goat" by Abayomi Animashaun   "There, is one with slackened tie...."
August 27, 2010:   "Love in Wartime (III)" by Elyse Fenton   "The teacher wanted a clearer starting place...."
August 26, 2010:   "Worse Than The Bite" by Rebecca Givens Rolland   "Memories, won't you please just follow orders..."
August 25, 2010:   "Lines of Refusal" by Julie Carr   "Nothing here, just the sound of the heat, the sound of the cars..."
August 24, 2010:   "Between Seasons" by Rob Schlegel   "Walking the neighborhood streets I glanced..."
August 23, 2010:   "The Claw" by Angela Vogel   "Swinger, come hither...."
August 22, 2010:   "In Extremis" by Neil de la Flor   "By a rock the Egg lights up out of that sound..."
August 21, 2010:   "Conditionals" by Ryan Flaherty   "All worlds begin with asking. Instinctively..."
August 20, 2010:   "Intersection" by Wendy Videlock   "There tedium and suddenness..."
August 19, 2010:   "Somewhere with Your Name" by Michael Rattee   "Somewhere there's a dog..."
August 18, 2010:   "Lecture on Kickball at Sundown" by Steve Healey   "I was the keynote speaker, not the red ball kicker...."
August 17, 2010:   "Summer Meadow in Gotland" by Joan Colby   "The flowers in this painting..."
August 16, 2010:   "The Naturalist's Last Love Poem" by Ashley Anna McHugh   "Nothing on earth..."
August 15, 2010:   "Cabbage, a Love Song" by Marcela Sulak   "I dislike you, cabbage. Your tight-fisted order..."
August 14, 2010:   "Seconds Before the Floorboards Fail" by Julie Doxsee   "When I hear your wish, gates..."
August 13, 2010:   "One Bee Escapes the Ether and Grubs What's Left of Air" by Regan Good   "Across the darkling yard, the black bell sounds...."
August 12, 2010:   "The Birth and Death of an Island in a River" by David Wagoner   "In a season of low water..."
August 11, 2010:   "Stone Seeking Warmth" by Stephen Dunn   "Look, it's usually not a good idea..."
August 10, 2010:   "Scrim" by Kevin Clark   "Book to chest, lost in the rogue, silk-white threads of hair, the scented labyrinth..."
August 9, 2010:   "Puffer Fish" by Charles Harper Webb   "When I snatch a fly out of the deepening dusk..."
August 8, 2010:   "Snake Handlers" by Mike Carson   "I have to admire at least one thing..."
August 7, 2010:   "The Little Songs" by Paul Lisicky   "Three notes into the song, and I'm cooked. And I know myself..."
August 6, 2010:   "The Other Son" by Elisabeth Murawski   "My father welcomes the prodigal...."
August 5, 2010:   "The End" by Dora Malech   "Then they faced each other..."
August 4, 2010:   "attributed" by y. madrone   "opportunistic, swoop and snatch at everything soaking...."
August 3, 2010:   "Hurricane Season" by Alexandra Teague   "When I become accustomed at last to lying in bed alone..."
August 2, 2010:   "Dear Empire," by Oliver de la Paz   "These are your dead...."
July 31, 2010:   "Tara" by Catherine Sasanov   "No movies filmed inside of shattered ruins...."
July 30, 2010:   "Imaginary Garden: An Afterlife" by Henry Israeli   "The day is jade, but smells a little yellow..."
July 29, 2010:   "Unusable Elegy" by Zachary Harris   "Sometimes the living make us very sad. This is not an unusual condition...."
July 28, 2010:   "Youths" by Michael Rutherglen   "Then barb arced..."
July 27, 2010:   "Portrait of an Iris" by J. Michael Martinez   "You are porcelain pretty one..."
July 26, 2010:   "Love Note" by Leslie Adrienne Miller   "This little message slipped under the ear's..."
July 25, 2010:   "The Mockingbird in May" by Madeline Tiger   "A mockingbird sings near my son's grave..."
July 24, 2010:   "Queen of Spades" by Theresa D. Smith   "Until I cut the card in half, the Queen..."
July 23, 2010:   "Wasp in a Trap" by Lindsay Wilson   "What trick is this thing with no escape..."
July 22, 2010:   "I Was Using Your Mail Order Drugs" by Karyna McGlynn   "I was using your mail order drugs...."
July 21, 2010:   "Without Warning" by Bernadette Geyer   "No one ever warns how low..."
July 20, 2010:   "Zorada Reads the Clown" by Erin Keane   "Your hand speaks for you. No luck. No love..."
July 19, 2010:   "At Night My Armless Brother's Heart Sounds Like This: Systole & Diastole" by Ander Monson   "like salt..."
July 18, 2010:   "Lament of Shovel and Bell (noon)" by Sharon Dolin   "Closest to sun-strength..."
July 17, 2010:   "Sleeping Our Way to the Middle" by Jeni Olin   "Since I unwittingly advertise shame..."
July 16, 2010:   "3/15" by Susan Stewart   "Wake up sprung..."
July 15, 2010:   "Recess" by Jehanne Dubrow   "The children are playing at murder again...."
July 14, 2010:   "Just Like Thumbelina's Blues" by Sarah Kathryn Moore   "I was so little I got lost in kimono...."
July 13, 2010:   "Confluence" by Mary Biddinger   "In place of everything that came..."
July 12, 2010:   "Ruin" by Donora Hillard   "I am given articles written..."
July 11, 2010:   "Valve Job" by Ron Egatz   "The scalpel slides across his shaved chest..."
July 10, 2010:   "What You Believe" by Cristina Garcia   "That you can speak to dogs...."
July 9, 2010:   "To Sleep Beside a Stream" by Geoffrey Nutter   "Father Thoughtful and Father of Waters..."
July 8, 2010:   "Echoing Canto of Fixedness" by John Kinsella   "The effort made by stars..."
July 7, 2010:   "Sunday Morning" by Camille T. Dungy   "Desire swung like that: like her..."
July 6, 2010:   "I Don't Remember the Talk of Men" by Dorothea Lasky   "I don't remember the words of men that talk..."
July 5, 2010:   "Demimonde" by Diane Kirsten Martin   "She writes with lavender ink on cream vellum. A crow..."
July 4, 2010:   "Smoke" by Moira Egan   "'If you were smoke,' he said, 'you'd be the smoke..."
July 3, 2010:   "Anatomy of the Grotesque" by Susan Slaviero   "One cannot separate flesh from burn—..."
July 2, 2010:   "Artifacts" by Marisa Crawford   "The creak in the door got stuck in my spinal cord...."
July 1, 2010:   "Ghost Lights" by Keith Montesano   "What about the part where the story ends? It ends..."
June 30, 2010:   "Almanac Magic" by Allen Braden   "Believe in the bounty of drought..."
June 29, 2010:   "Compendium of Lost Objects" by Nicole Cooley   "Not the butterfly wing, the semiprecious stones..."
June 28, 2010:   "Midnight Sun" by Cynthia Hogue   "Light fends the sky's teal..."
June 27, 2010:   "Mistakes About Heaven" by Wesley McNair   "Contrary to what is said..."
June 26, 2010:   "Folksong" by Mike Smith   "Everything is in order..."
June 25, 2010:   "Poem in the Manner of a Refrigerator" by Michael Cirelli   "My song goes..."
June 24, 2010:   "How I Learned Quiet" by Oliver de la Paz   "Begin with slowness—the drag of a candle's flame..."
June 23, 2010:   "The Never" by Judith Skillman   "They lie in separate rooms while the moon..."
June 22, 2010:   "Stabat Mater (Marie Curie's Pitchblende)" by Colin Cheney   "Like flashbulb, maybe a firefly..."
June 21, 2010:   "Chain Letter" by Martha Zweig   "Send me a modest money & copy..."
June 20, 2010:   "What's There" by Dan Rosenberg   "There's seeing the girl and there's seeing her..."
June 19, 2010:   "Waiting" by April Lindner   "Someone's carried off the aquarium..."
June 18, 2010:   "Ice Plant" by Rae Gouirand   "All the transparence of the old..."
June 17, 2010:   "There Was One Tongue and It Was Forgotten" by Kyle McCord   "I live in a house. My closet..."
June 16, 2010:   two poems from Bird Signs by Mary Molinary   "Either 2 birds crossed..."
June 15, 2010:   "Hokkaido" by Lucia Perillo   "War Emblem, the famous stallion..."
June 14, 2010:   "a classical education can’t save you from the radio" by Sarah Barber   "I looked up sky. I blued, obscured...."
June 13, 2010:   "Ecclesiastes" by Khaled Mattawa   "The trick is that you're willing to help them...."
June 12, 2010:   "Ode to a Wire Brush" by Dave Bonta   "Never was walking..."
June 11, 2010:   "Monster-Life" by Nathan Anderson   "You might as well learn..."
June 10, 2010:   "A Brief Informal History" by J.P. Dancing Bear   "For us, there was never a Harry Houdini..."
June 9, 2010:   "Starlings" by Roddy Lumsden   "Hours, minutes. The smiles which women..."
June 8, 2010:   "Birthday" by Jay Griswold   "The clock keeps perfect time...."
June 7, 2010:   "Syntax" by D. Nurkse   "When we were apes..."
June 6, 2010:   "Color Theory" by Eric Leigh   "'I envy your yard,' an old woman once said..."
June 5, 2010:   "Zoological Garden" by Suzanne Frischkorn   "cement frogs with faulty faucets did me in..."
June 4, 2010:   "Two Love Poems" by Eric Gudas   "We first kissed a year ago, in the concrete alley..."
June 3, 2010:   "Landscapes with Elephant Seals and Umbrellas" by C.J. Sage   "In the water solitary creatures..."
June 2, 2010:   "The Heart is a Lonely Shopper" by Melanie Dusseau   "Forever bypassing the discount bin..."
June 1, 2010:   "Sarah Winchester Speaks" by Carrie Shipers   "No one knew what haunted me..."
May 31, 2010:   "A Rainy Night in a Crowded City" by Eleanor Lerman   "Once, I knew a man who liked to talk to me..."
May 30, 2010:   "The White Visitation" by David Brennan   "is 'The Swan of Mantua' in reverse negative: the..."
May 29, 2010:   "Why We Love Our Dogs" by Amy M. Clark   "Once, while walking, I happened..."
May 28, 2010:   "Trial of the Oblique Triangle: Building Permit #78" by Dorine Jennette   "No mail-order kit—from fig leaves and wire..."
May 27, 2010:   "Dead Telegram to a Dead Poet" by Bruce Cohen   "Dear Spot. Stop. An off-the-cuff off-duty reality check: you're not sleeping it off now..."
May 26, 2010:   "Stunned Again" by Matt Anserello   "I'm full of bad ideas & nights of nothingness. The striking..."
May 25, 2010:   "I Want You" by Weston Cutter   "The smallest draft + the door slams, our lives..."
May 24, 2010:   "Popular Songs About Feeling Bad" by Zach Savich   "That was the year I ended marriages. I don't know why..."
May 23, 2010:   "Poem" by Herbert Scott   "Isn't it here..."
May 22, 2010:   "El Dorado (Goodbye, Utah)" by Rane Arroyo   "Mi amor, I'm surrounded by mountains...."
May 21, 2010:   "Threading" by Andrew Demcak   "Your cancer was trimmed with blue scissors...."
May 20, 2010:   "Awake" by Rachel Contreni Flynn   "Of course it turns out..."
May 19, 2010:   [A cave of. Crumbling] by Heather Cousins   "A cave of. Crumbling..."
May 18, 2010:   "She of Tioga Creek" by Jonathan Johnson   "Marsh went mostly unnoticed then..."
May 17, 2010:   from "Its Plastic Light" by Julia Story   "I make the travel plans. When two ghosts..."
May 16, 2010:   "Eat" by Arra Lynn Ross   "Take an egg from under a hen...."
May 15, 2010:   "For a Friend, Who Fell Asleep While Smoking" by Jean LeBlanc   "That huge black dog you owned for a few weeks..."
May 14, 2010:   "Postcard Home" by Heather Hartley   "The hotel room's an absolute disaster. Your feet under your head, etc...."
May 13, 2010:   "Grunge" by Yusef Komunyakaa   "No, sweetheart, I said courtly love...."
May 12, 2010:   "Possum" by David Wagoner   "You're crouching on the thin top of a fence..."
May 11, 2010:   "The Elegist" by Raymond Luczak   "When someone dies, he is asked...."
May 10, 2010:   "The Black Forest" by Christopher DeWeese   "A boorish silence fills the forest..."
May 9, 2010:   "Drift" by Gregory Mahrer   "I am a guest among small swarms of winged insects..."
May 8, 2010:   "Definition:" by MRB Chelko   "to hold a thing accountable for being itself..."
May 7, 2010:   "Prayer for Teeth" by James Hoch   "When I smile the wise can tell..."
May 6, 2010:   "Arise, Therefore" by Elaine Bleakney   "What I didn't know was where the balloonists met. Long streams..."
May 5, 2010:   "Earth-Eater! Earth-Eater!" by Byron A. Kanoti   "Please take and holster these offered meats..."
May 4, 2010:   "Good Night, Ladies" by Jennifer Chang   "The hens won't do what I want them to..."
May 3, 2010:   "San Clemente" by Carol Muske-Dukes   "Shame & shame: sound of neap tide..."
May 2, 2010:   "The Exquisite Foreplay of the Tortoise" by Nicky Beer   "Every movement of my body..."
May 1, 2010:   "Grunion" by Dore Kiesselbach   "the moon has cut the bulging..."
April 30, 2010:   "More Precisely" by Ander Monson   "What I meant was stars: lots of them...."
April 29, 2010:   "Tips for Domestic Travel" by Hayden Saunier   "If you walk up, weeping, to an airline counter..."
April 28, 2010:   "Ardentia Verba" by dawn lonsinger   "the ocean laps toward shore, but land puts nearly its whole..."
April 26, 2010:   "None of Them Would Stop" by Daniel Coudriet   "Laughing, the sudden taxidermies..."
April 25, 2010:   "Bee Prophecy" by Jay Udall   "Walking through summer fir and aspen..."
April 24, 2010:   "Landscape" by Judy Halebsky   "Hang me, your honor, up with the furniture..."
April 23, 2010:   "Letters" by Frieda Hughes   "There's no justice I can do..."
April 22, 2010:   "Just Past this Road Lives a Figure Imprisoned in a Tower" by Malinda Markham   "Each moment starts again, each blade of grass..."
April 21, 2010:   "Lawns" by Pamela Gemin   "All over my city, on streets named for trees..."
April 20, 2010:   "Postcard" by Margaret Ronda   "Travelled inside the sea wall, gauzy net, hole..."
April 19, 2010:   "Wind" by Michael Walsh   "If you sprint fast enough..."
April 18, 2010:   "All Souls' Day" by Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons   "Lost on roads not known..."
April 17, 2010:   "In Snow Fog" by Lex Runciman   "Cedars lust for definition...."
April 16, 2010:   "Long Before We Got Here, Long After We're Gone" by Peggy Shumaker   "In the season blue-white sun..."
April 15, 2010:   "private pantheon" by Greg Hewett   "past the last cul-de-sac..."
April 14, 2010:   "The Faith of Falling" by Mark McMorris   "An interior space opens on a sudden whisper..."
April 13, 2010:   "Complaint" by Mary Leader   "I am tired of being accused of lack of seriousness when I feel..."
April 12, 2010:   "Melanoma" by L. S. Asekoff   "After the freezing, the incision, the five stitches..."
April 11, 2010:   "Reckless sleeper" by Ron Houchin   "Letting go of the world..."
April 10, 2010:   "Slow Dance Music" by Tom C. Hunley   "I can't explain the rain's attraction to my head..."
April 9, 2010:   "The Anonymous Mermaid" and "Stapler" by Maura Stanton   "I live in a big clamshell down here under the coral reef, and I don't go..."
April 8, 2010:   "No Wasn't Full" by C. J. Sage   "No wasn't full..."
April 7, 2010:   "lone wolf" by Aaron Belz   "Goodnight, moon. Or rather, goodbye...."
April 6, 2010:   "The Incomplete is Unforgiving" by A.E. Stringer   "Split a rock right. To a sharp..."
April 5, 2010:   "Tributary" by Joan Kane   "Just beyond a bend in the river..."
April 3, 2010:   "Monet's Garden" by Burt Kimmelman   "The lily's charm is not..."
April 2, 2010:   "The Children's Museum" by Ange Mlinko   "It's hard to know whether today or yesterday was the full moon..."
April 1, 2010:   "Young Helen" by Lightsey Darst   "impossible to remove & therefore remaining forever..."
March 31, 2010:   "Divine Wow:" by Bruce Cohen   "Select one isolated cloud...."
March 30, 2010:   "Fallacy of Accident" by T. R. Hummer   "Phallus, fallacy, and fool sound vaguely alike..."
March 28, 2010:   "Confession" by Mary Rose O'Reilley   "Last night, I ate a soup bowl of ice cream..."
March 27, 2010:   "Obituary" by Todd Davis   "Third week of March and sugaring is nearly finished...."
March 26, 2010:   "Just the Ones" by Dan Kaplan   "From deep in a hole of tequila..."
March 25, 2010:   "How to Say I Love You" by Gary L. McDowell   "On evenings when my dogs and I circle the block..."
March 24, 2010:   "Dear B—" by Alexandra van de Kamp   "Dear Babaushka, dear..."
March 23, 2010:   "A Captivating Corset" by Simone Muench   "We look for refuge but drift to damage..."
March 22, 2010:   "Afro" by Kiki Petrosino   "Whereas these strands, well-oiled & diligent in their parts, & appearing..."
March 21, 2010:   "Ghost Images" by Deborah Bogen   "The mind's a mad cupboard, blackened silver, cups and thimbles...."
March 20, 2010:   "nathaniel mackey" by Fred Moten   "come from some of everywhere, somewhere so deep that some of..."
March 19, 2010:   "Ilona's Eyelids" by Eileen G’Sell   "A fondness for the concept of holy water...."
March 18, 2010:   "Asphodel" by Angela Vogel   "Hi, I’m Asphodel, the flower of hell..."
March 17, 2010:   "Skandha" by Michael Meyerhofer   "You nurse the origami of your theory..."
March 16, 2010:   "Southhampton turned Suffer into Suffolk" by y madrone   "how that man Nat took a legacy...."
March 15, 2010:   "Key" by Miles Waggener   "Consider from the door..."
March 14, 2010:   "The Leisure Class" by Robert Avery   "There's nothing demands we hoe..."
March 13, 2010:   "Woodpecker" by Harry Bauld   "To dig an inch he bangs..."
March 12, 2010:   "Not Yet" by Ben Howard   "Give me, if you will, a little time..."
March 11, 2010:   "Rites to Allay the Dead" by Amit Majmudar   "It is never enough to close their door...."
March 10, 2010:   "Let Me Explain" by Dora Malech   "Spring, and the tulips urged me..."
March 9, 2010:   "Love Letter Written While Speeding Past the City Limit Sign" by Carrie Jerrell   "Four summer months of third-shift factory eyes..."
March 8, 2010:   "Still and All" by James Galvin   "A moist spring evening lowers itself..."
March 7, 2010:   "Last Will" by Hayden Saunier   "When I am ash, as is my wish..."
March 6, 2010:   "Seeds and Seeding" by Nathaniel Perry   "We're shaking seeds into their furrows..."
March 4, 2010:   "Outside Consultant" by Cathryn Essinger   "He walks in, sits down, tucks his tail fin..."
March 3, 2010:   "Aviary" by Michael Leong   "The box's safe: the cockatoo must be singing...."
March 2, 2010:   "Teaching 'The Red Wheelbarrow' the Thirtieth Time" by Wendy Barker   "I know I've explained how..."
March 1, 2010:   "White Live Doves for Funerals" by Sarah Barber   "According to Birds of North America..."
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood   "Two men are as one, or they are a single..."
February 27, 2010:   "Zero" by George Bilgere   "First it was five above, then two..."
February 26, 2010:   "(it was so hot...)" by Matthew Guenette   "It was so hot..."
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins   "The boulders like god-fists littering stubble-fields in March...."
February 24, 2010:   "Comfort, Cape Henlopen" by JoAnn Balingit   "As the moon set I saw a big toad smashed in the road, entrails popped from its side...."
February 23, 2010:   "Natural History" by Michael Dumanis   "I'm fully posable, a leather and clay creature..."
February 22, 2010:   "A Tenderness Like Knives" by Lance Larsen   "Beside the cottage, a forest she no longer wanders...."
February 21, 2010:   "The Disciples of Winter" by Stephanie McKenzie   "Grace must wander even with the lonely sight of crows..."
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown   "I want to relax, but it's April...."
February 19, 2010:   "Pulling off the Highway on the Way to a Deathbed to Visit a Workhorse at Rest" by Frannie Lindsay   "We are no more..."
February 18, 2010:   "Woodpecker" by Christine Rhein   "Again he startles me..."
February 17, 2010:   "The Rooster" by Shane Seely   "His frowning beak, his fleck-of-granite eye...."
February 16, 2010:   "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins   "A paradise forecloses once an aperture—no narrative but trees..."
February 15, 2010:   "Splitting the Distance, an advanced application of Goldbach's Conjecture:" by Michele Battiste   "every number greater..."
February 14, 2010:   "Empty Spaces" by Brenda Cárdenas   "She is a switchblade afraid of the hint in a two-second glint that..."
February 13, 2010:   "Musing the Obscure" by Charles Simic   "What do these mutts barking in unison..."
February 12, 2010:   "Grace" by Jason Tandon   "Beneath a sapling cypress, Buddha floats..."
February 11, 2010:   "News" by Austin Straus   "Red/yellow/purple petals..."
February 10, 2010:   "A Mid-Wife's Late Sabbatical" by Peter Richardson   "Say tilted fields run up shadowed valleys..."
February 9, 2010:   "Choke" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz   "Winter overstayed its dumb welcome...."
February 8, 2010:   "Praise Nothing" by Joshua Robbins   "April's cold snap..."
February 7, 2010:   "Sacrament of the Moths" by Penelope Scambly Schott   "Dust from a moth's wing is lint from a prayer...."
February 6, 2010:   "Aubade" by H. Palmer Hall   "Listen, I've never really understood..."
February 5, 2010:   "Little Wing" by Kelle Groom   "Charles decorated Nagasaki with cut petals, thousands..."
February 4, 2010:   "Because the Body is Made of Water" by Ephraim Scott Sommers   "A thimble full of moonlight..."
February 3, 2010:   "Waking Up at the Wheel" by Christopher Kennedy   "I woke up behind the wheel and told my wife I had been talking to Good..."
February 2, 2010:   "Maimonides on What Is Meant by 'Vision'" by Benjamin Paloff   "Nothing ever comes true. Not the future of the American kitchenette..."
February 1, 2010:   "Read 'The World'" by Genine Lentine   "For [you], I cast [the world]..."
January 31, 2010:   "The Short Walk" by Rich Levy   "As you lug your groceries and books..."
January 30, 2010:   "Indian Summer" by Judith Skillman   "The sun rests on its stem..."
January 29, 2010:   "Foreshadow From Buffalo" by Dana Elkun   "This beast begins with abundance..."
January 28, 2010:   "Before the Ship Arrives" by Adrianne Kalfopoulou   "Night and the wait is long...."
January 27, 2010:   "Tails" by Maxine Kumin   "Weekly we tried a different remedy..."
January 26, 2010:   "Ice Out" by Connie Wanek   "The south wind discovers a loose thread..."
January 25, 2010:   "String Theory" by Ronald Wallace   "I have to believe a Beethoven..."
January 24, 2010:   "Labor Day Weekend" by Emily Elizabeth Schulten   "I sat in the stern, so you..."
January 23, 2010:   "Hunger Artist" by Rita Signorelli-Pappas   "I believe I could have saved him...."
January 22, 2010:   "Green-Striped Melons" and "Bamboo" by Jane Hirshfield   "They lie..."
January 21, 2010:   "Aubade with whales" by Bob Hicok   "Kyle spiffed stiffs..."
January 20, 2010:   "Teleidoscope" by Sarah O'Brien   "Say sun, say feather, say here. The whole..."
January 19, 2010:   "Target" by Jason Koo   "Today I'm thinking of all the people not in love: I'm with you!..."
January 18, 2010:   "Earth and Sky" by Read Blinn   "Of all things contained here..."
January 17, 2010:   "Alfoxden: Dorothy Wordsworth, 1798" by Rebecca Dunham   "Always we walk to, a great part of the way...."
January 16, 2010:   "Before Her Death" by Maurya Simon   "Yearly, the slug crisscrosses his own tearstains..."
January 15, 2010:   "His Other Car Was a Train" by Nance Van Winckel   "My tapping for him..."
January 14, 2010:   "Diagnosis" by Brent Armendinger   "What a hidden memory is electricity..."
January 13, 2010:   "Monkey Heart" by Ben Mirov   "Pick, it up...."
January 12, 2010:   "Chinook" by Geraldine Connolly   "Come January, let winter unweave..."
January 11, 2010:   "With the Herd" by James Najarian   "Late in the afternoon, the goats ascend..."
January 10, 2010:   "First Blood" by Jean Hollander   "After the fall when snake..."
January 9, 2010:   "Elegy as Spot's Lift-the-Flap Book" by Victoria Chang   "Spot is under the flap. Tom is..."
January 8, 2010:   "An Algebra of Fifty" by Catherine Abbey Hodges   "Out back between the marvelous..."
January 7, 2010:   "Paul Celan's Ashes" by Ray Gonzalez   "Here is the hand in its shade of absolute..."
January 6, 2010:   "Kissing the Throat of True Love" by Alan Britt   "The funny thing about true love..."
January 5, 2010:   "Burial" by Matt Jasper   "She whispers—The ocean..."
January 4, 2010:   "Love Poem with Exiles" by Octavio Quintanilla   "The dogs are mute and wait for daybreak...."
January 3, 2010 (A 2009 Favorite):   "Animal Lover" by Terese Svoboda   "A horse rises in a balloon..."
January 2, 2010 (A 2009 Favorite):   "Ebb" by Martha Zweig   "In my good night's..."
January 1, 2010 (A 2009 Favorite):   "The Widdershins Garden" by Olivia Clare   "Blink, the sunglint flies..."

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