May 8, 2008:   "Will" by Bruce Bond   "To the locusts that blur the lyres of their shells..."
May 7, 2008:   "Turning Back" by Dan Albergotti   "We turn back, always bowing to that urge..."
May 6, 2008:   "Lifting whither" by Karen Volkman   "Lifting whither, cycle of the sift..."
May 5, 2008:   "Obey Gravity" by Cynthia Arrieu-King & Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis   "A turnip puts a leg down in the earth..."
May 4, 2008:   "Deathsong" by Stephen Berg   "Punch your fist mind of a fist through this black wall al-..."
May 3, 2008:   "Things That Bend" by Leslie St. John   "The inch worm in the window sill, curling...."
May 2, 2008:   "Nostalgeurysm" by John Thomas   "Sick of gilding these childhood vignettes...."
May 1, 2008:   "In Support of Corporate Farms" by Cody Lumpkin   "Stalin scythed wheat in Russian Georgia, Mao waddled knee..."
April 30, 2008:   "Elegy" by Jett McAlister   "To begin with, the house by the water. Which would be..."
April 28, 2008:   "Preemptive Elegy" by Paul Guest   "Another future I don't want to believe in..."
April 27, 2008:   "The Cetacean Society" by Noelle Kocot   "The cetacean society was lucky..."
April 26, 2008:   "Kingdom Come At Once" by Travis Brown   "Once it's in..."
April 25, 2008:   "Baby Epic" by Tanya Larkin   "Gird your mysterious loins, I am trying to think..."
April 24, 2008:   "An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities" by Rebecca Loudon   "How much easier it would have been if you had simply..."
April 23, 2008:   "Knowing No Better" by Nance Van Winckel   "In the course of one night..."
April 22, 2008:   "The Welcoming" by Beth Ann Fennelly   "Distance was the house from which I welcomed you...."
April 21, 2008:   "The First Chakra" by Eric Schwerer   "What is this tumbling, tumbling: the first chakra...."
April 20, 2008:   "Coal Seam Fire" by Steven D. Schroeder   "The kobolds in the coal..."
April 19, 2008:   "From a Dead Fox In a Suburban Backyard" by Robert Pesich   "Do not forget..."
April 18, 2008:   "Bends" by Ron Paul Salutsky   "I'm always wrong, in fact..."
April 17, 2008:   "The Music in Her" by Richard Jordan   "Mother says her femurs dream inside..."
April 16, 2008:   "Elegy for Tim Buckley" by Bruce Bond   "Scat singing for the sleep deprived..."
April 15, 2008:   "Schrödinger Reincarnated" by Dana Curtis   "The dumpster child grows up, becomes..."
April 14, 2008:   "Dancing In My Room Alone" by Brenda Shaughnessy   "I could be an eel in whirled stillwaters..."
April 13, 2008:   "The Hierophant Of Hartford" by Kurt Brown   "Never has a noble vocabulary been loved so much..."
April 12, 2008:   "Scheherazade" by Susan Elbe   "Another night washes up at my feet..."
April 11, 2008:   "First Counter-clockwise Canto of the Möbius Strip" by John Kinsella   "Some days the attraction of outdoors is so overwhelming..."
April 10, 2008:   "Orchid Anatomy" by Claudia Emerson   "This evening's study the anatomy of the orchid..."
April 9, 2008:   "Quail" by Paul Muldoon   "Forty years in the wilderness..."
April 8, 2008:   "Sestina Aguilera" by Matthew Guenette   "Christina Aguilera has a blue..."
April 7, 2008:   "Twilight Box" by Jason Bredle   "From one lemur to a city of many other lemurs..."
April 6, 2008:   "Please Advise Stop" by Rusty Morrison   "with practice a memory like a voice can be thrown into any unsuspecting object stop..."
April 5, 2008:   "Water Study" by Myronn Hardy   "Boats mean we exist...."
April 4, 2008:   "The Hunter and the Figs" by Gaylord Brewer   "Victimizing a final slice of fig tart..."
April 3, 2008:   "These Are a Few of My Favorite Things" by Joseph Lease   "It's a pretty light, you know. The way anyone leans..."
April 2, 2008:   "The Book of Sleep" by Eleanor Stanford   "In the kitchen, you lay down your crowbar..."
April 1, 2008:   "Self-Portrait as Future Third Person" by D. Antwan Stewart   "His face becomes mammal-skin..."
March 31, 2008:   "Ostriches" by C.J. Sage   "When my father held his head from the sand for a time..."
March 30, 2008:   "Eternia" by Clay Matthews   "Jimmy, I'm lonesome sometimes again. In the mirror..."
March 29, 2008:   "Family Portrait" by James Allen Hall   "If I could turn the photograph, bring my mother's face..."
March 28, 2008:   "Magic Turns to Math and Back" by Brenda Shaughnessy   "If time were tellable, we wouldn't keep asking...."
March 27, 2008:   "The Weight of Paper" by Dan Kaplan   "Preoccupation with bureaucracy..."
March 26, 2008:   "Agnostic Radio" by Karl Elder   "Agnostic Radio. Maybe there could..."
March 25, 2008:   "Dress Pattern with an Interior" by Caroline Knox   "I will be assembled out of..."
March 24, 2008:   "Daphne" by Barbara Helfgott Hyett   "What then this milking, what then..."
March 23, 2008:   "Ars Poetica" by Bryan D. Dietrich   "Start with the darkest corner of what was..."
March 22, 2008:   "Island Remnant" by Endi Bogue Hartigan   "I carved a miniature horse out of wax. The wax was meant to coat a surfboard..."
March 21, 2008:   "Penelope" by Michele Newcomb   "When October rain and the hissing..."
March 20, 2008:   "Grafton" by D. Nurkse   "Hardly had I died..."
March 19, 2008:   "Dahlias" by Robert McNamara   "They arrive on my desk, a clear demonstrative bunch..."
March 18, 2008:   "Gloucester" by Ann Snodgrass   "This seascape's now more cataract..."
March 17, 2008:   "The Rhinoceros Graveyard" by James Doyle   "On the way to the graveyard, the great white..."
March 16, 2008:   "The Farewell" by Guy Goffette, translated by Marilyn Hacker   "You might be able to grab the sea by the hair..."
March 15, 2008:   "Sadness Therapy" by J. W. Marshall   "On the second floor..."
March 14, 2008:   "We End, Like Galileo" by B. T. Shaw   "With years came diminishing ability to focus..."
March 13, 2008:   "Coligny" by D. Nurkse   "There was a passerby on that road..."
March 12, 2008:   "The Weight of Light" by Sidney Wade   "We sit on a bench in the park..."
March 11, 2008:   "Canto of the Workshop" by John Kinsella   "As when they discover that the collective..."
March 10, 2008:   "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok   "Then one day we were putting silver back..."
March 9, 2008:   "Parable of a Blade of Grass" by Roger Reeves   "Where the fire enters..."
March 8, 2008:   "Near Christmas Once" by Sarah Busse   "Near Christmas once we drove away from lights..."
March 7, 2008:   "Your Way of Thinking" by Christopher Kang   "I was busy thinking cosmologically, and it made me appreciate life..."
March 6, 2008:   "Instinct" by Changxin Fang   "Little baby, you lay your head..."
March 5, 2008:   "Gerhard Richter" by Chad Bennett   "Dresden was still in ruins, so we were..."
March 4, 2008:   "Two Crooks" by Peter Waldor   "As in two underarms..."
March 3, 2008:   "Garbage Walk" by Moira Magneson   "My husband and I are wheeling out..."
March 2, 2008:   "Courtship" by Susan Lewis   "I have more selves than I can listen to, he told me, his..."
March 1, 2008:   "Apostasy" by Carol Quinn   "On Sundays, they appeared..."
February 29, 2008:   "Hymn" by Anne Shaw   "The pink troll of our decade snickers from under its bridge..."
February 28, 2008:   "Fold, Fold" by Mary Crow   "Fold, fold away the silk-sack clouds...."
February 27, 2008:   "Benediction" by Martha Collins   "Not a story, they said, not even a line...."
February 26, 2008:   "Dogma Mask in Favor of Alice" by Elena Karina Byrne   "How many windows can a house bear?..."
February 25, 2008:   "Anubis" by Alan Shapiro   "There suddenly / where the streetlight..."
February 24, 2008:   "Post-war deployment" by Lee Sharkey   "It is thought that cows' unhurried lowing..."
February 23, 2008:   "Proposal" by Sandra Beasley   "Show me a tent of well-dressed witnesses..."
February 22, 2008:   "Notes From a Journey" by David Krump   "We died during a train wreck..."
February 21, 2008:   "Scientific Method" by Adam Clay   "Twenty-three percent when placed under..."
February 20, 2008:   "Driving Out to Innisfree" by Matthew Thorburn   "Naturally we zipped right by...."
February 19, 2008:   "Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus" by Dean Young   "I knew it was on the other side of the door..."
February 18, 2008:   "Street Fight" by Wayne Miller   "What it was that filled me..."
February 17, 2008:   "College Town" by John Hoppenthaler   "Dinner tonight is chili dogs with onion, pepperoni rolls..."
February 16, 2008:   "Before Anything Happened the House Had No Skeleton" by Karyna McGlynn   "the termites had deboned the thing..."
February 15, 2008:   "Shaggy's Soul Food Open Soon, Said the Sign outside of Tallulah" by Alison Pelegrin   "I once had faith in this message hand-lettered..."
February 14, 2008:   "Hooked and Crooked" by Nicole Walker   "Over the buildings a thinning mist, dawn takes a match to...."
February 13, 2008:   "One Body" by Yerra Sugarman   "Over the buildings a thinning mist, dawn takes a match to...."
February 12, 2008:   "Jazz from Cripple City" by Stephen Kuusisto   "I saw tonight four men in wheelchairs eating..."
February 11, 2008:   "Domestic Manners of the Americans" by Debora Greger   "Look into the sunlight..."
February 10, 2008:   "Narcissists Anonymous" by Teresa Leo   "A jackal among hedgehogs. At the meeting..."
February 9, 2008:   "A Holiday" by Sarah Kennedy   "White feathers snowing the highway, thank God..."
February 8, 2008:   "One Last Thought" by Benjamin S. Grossberg   "And what if one finally can't be found? What if Leander..."
February 7, 2008:   "Small Ode to My Ignorance" by Steven Reese   "To wake, at this age, and realize how..."
February 6, 2008:   "In Search of the Owl's Mirror" by Jen Currin   "So it happens I am mortal: my heart..."
February 5, 2008:   "Love's Short Grammar" by Robert Bense   "Whether we should take out..."
February 4, 2008:   "There's Just No Telling" by Jennifer L. Knox   "Gobi (not your real name), where were you..."
February 3, 2008:   "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel   "Hours after my decision to defect, the elders of the West..."
February 2, 2008:   " Stargazer" by Tara Gorvine   "He arrives at my door with Stargazer lilies..."
February 1, 2008:   " Greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia)" by Sarah Hannah   " You can scorch it, strip it, tear it down..."
January 31, 2008:   "The History of Bluegrass" by Jeffrey Bahr   "The bees form a living mitt about the aspen's narrow branch...."
January 30, 2008:   "War Story" by Sarah Murphy   "One day (but not today) I will play the lady..."
January 29, 2008:   "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay   "Before the leaves fell they waved like flags..."
January 28, 2008:   "The Blue Sylvia" by Terrance Hayes   "A daily dose of repentance. Eyeballs rattling..."
January 27, 2008:   "Last Look" by Todd Hearon   "The ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica are melting..."
January 26, 2008:   "Tattooed" by Ronald Wallace   "My sister gets a tattoo..."
January 25, 2008:   "Root Beer" by James Haug   "We found new combinations of interiors...."
January 24, 2008:   "Being a Model" by David Wagoner   "An old friend said if I didn't have anything..."
January 23, 2008:   "On Betrayal" by Phillis Levin   "The Woman Who Is And a voice came to me and said..."
January 22, 2008:   "The Woman Who Is Early" by Nin Andrews   "The Woman Who Is Early is always at least one step ahead of..."
January 21, 2008:   "Eclipse" by Sarah Hannah   "Every so often I am dilated; the pupils..."
January 20, 2008:   "A Shiver" by Seamus Heaney   "The way you had to stand to swing the sledge..."
January 19, 2008:   "So a Ballerina Walks into a Biker Bar" by Suzanne Parker   "Her tutu is luminescent..."
January 18, 2008:   "I-beam" by Gerard Malanga   "Will someone please explain what happened here?..."
January 17, 2008:   "The Idea is the Fleeting Ghostly Fish" by Kate Light   "that's lit up in the world of fathoms-deep..."
January 16, 2008:   "Like Kafka" by Dan Stryk   "To wake in the late evening..."
January 15, 2008:   "An Ancient Dog Grave, Unearthed During Construction of the Athens Metro" by A. E. Stallings   "It is not the curled-up bones, nor even the grave..."
January 14, 2008:   "New Girl" by John Whalen   "If you meet a beautiful woman for the first time..."
January 13, 2008:   "Area 25" by Catherine Wing   "Hello, seat of my soul..."
January 12, 2008:   "Like Us" by Maria Costantini   "pigs form close bonds. Studies of pigs..."
January 11, 2008:   "Elephant" by Kate Evans   "To feel the smooth skin of water on your back..."
January 10, 2008:   "The World Wakes Up" by Andrew Michael Roberts   "So we stop at the side of the road, and there is..."
January 9, 2008:   "Canto of the Examination (24: Eighth Sphere)" by John Kinsella   "The huntsman lies low..."
January 8, 2008:   "Adam And Steve" by Catherine Carter   "But what if God did? What if I showed you..."
January 7, 2008:   "The Traffic" by Philip Schultz   "At first it objected..."
January 6, 2008:   "bearing on the glory of love" by Deborah Bogen   "There are twelve trees on my block...."
January 5, 2008:   "The Dime-Store Parakeet" by Gary Soto   "The bird didn't speak..."
January 4, 2008:   "You'll See a Sailboat" by Jaswinder Bolina   "See the punk-haired bush as a stout little argument between..."
January 3, 2008:   "'King,' 'Queen,' etc." by Alison Powell   "I love airports as they are: stinking, octagonal, full..."
January 2, 2008:   "Furlough" by Leslie Williams   "On the nightstand the corpse of a pear..."
January 1, 2008:   "This Morning After Snow, the Body Scrapes Off" by K. A. Hays   "sludge, is mere action. It strips the sleet from the walk..."
December 31, 2007:   "In Night's Cold Streets" by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Sholeh Wolpé   "I don't repent..."
December 30, 2007:   "Beloved & Stranger" by Daneen Bergland   "What of the dog that died in the middle of the road..."
December 29, 2007:   "The Cows" by Darren Morris   "The ferry boat capsized, the cattle starved in the snow, and the televangelist smirked..."
December 28, 2007:   "Saint Anthony Falls" by William Waltz   "A language of snapping..."
December 27, 2007:   "Fetching" by Christopher Matthews   " Because aggression damns us to a clumsy..."
December 26, 2007:   "One of the Magi" by Greg Wrenn   " Buggy baby, the Thou..."
December 25, 2007:   "A Blessing" by Terry Blackhawk   "David says his soul..."
December 24, 2007:   "Prayer Essay" by Oliver de la Paz   "I was unusually ahead of my time with my own..."
December 23, 2007:   "Eye Contact" by Craig Morgan Teicher   "As if bees are known for their pride...."
December 22, 2007:   "Tissue Culture" by Robert Pesich   "Some hearts dissolve in one day...."
December 21, 2007:   "Saint Anthony Falls" by William Waltz   "A language of snapping..."
December 20, 2007:   "A confluence of processes" by Bob Hicok   "It was a kind of battery, the Earth..."
December 19, 2007:   "The Tower" by Laynie Browne   "The flower is always within the almond...."
December 18, 2007:   "Blackbirds" by Greg Rappleye   "Who wrote these lyrics?..."
December 17, 2007:   "In a Better World Than This" by James Cushing   "Some people can handle their instruments..."
December 16, 2007:   "Blue Sky" by Michael Chitwood   "Everyone he knew believed in God...."
December 15, 2007:   "A Table Full of Wasps" by Rebecca Seiferle   "Outside the tables are full of wasps, so fervent..."
December 14, 2007:   "Self-Admonition at Summer Seat" by Davis McCombs   "Consider the shelf of cracked bedrock where the roots..."
December 13, 2007:   "My Heart" by Kim Addonizio   "That Mississippi chicken shack...."
December 12, 2007:   "The Halo Factory" by Susan Firer   "Under the granite clouds, through..."
December 11, 2007:   "Uncles (Play)" by Kevin Young   "There's a way a man walks..."
December 10, 2007:   "Corn Maze Afternoon" by Carol Ann Davis   "There where the blooms of burnt trees are promised. There..."
December 9, 2007:   "Domain, Wednesday" by Rebecca Aronson   "The arc of sound firing into the morning, each volley broken in the..."
December 8, 2007:   "To the Future" by Lynn Levin   "Fountain of the forward notion...."
December 7, 2007:   "Cord of Wood" by Danielle Pafunda   "Livid. Warp-stacked, scenting, known. The law whelps..."
December 6, 2007:   "Pearl" by Danielle Pafunda   "Permanent prenatal nimbus, whack-skulled..."
December 5, 2007:   "I Am Talking Dirty to You Like You are the Only One in the Room" by Danielle Pafunda   "Down to the boneyard, then. And dig your corpse and..."
December 4, 2007:   "My New Life" by Molly Tenenbaum   "I've been in you..."
December 3, 2007:   "Thanks for a Great Season, See You in the Spring" by Nancy K. Pearson   "Bumper to bumper stars honk from their darkened..."
December 2, 2007:   "Flying Over America" by J.P. White   "January's claw can't scrape the snow-dusting..."
December 1, 2007:   "Visit" by David Huddle   "Myth Man appears on my front porch..."
November 30, 2007:   "Inquiry #3" by Susan Rich   "The way of the heart..."
November 29, 2007:   "In Cana" by Monica Raymond   "The Lebanese spelled it with a q, without the u...."
November 28, 2007:   "History" by Betsy Sholl   "In Mongolian bars now Genghis Khan beer's..."
November 27, 2007:   "Energy" by R. T. Smith   "On days like this, Roosevelt's whirligigs..."
November 26, 2007:   "Tread-softly (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)" by Sarah Hannah   "Hell, this is a field without end..."
November 25, 2007:   "The Table" by Lee Upton   "To rise from the table..."
November 24, 2007:   "Watermelon" by Alice Friman   "Small as a bocce ball, dark..."
November 23, 2007:   "In the Women's Locker Room" by Sally Bliumis-Dunn   "Over the tops of the lockers..."
November 22, 2007:   "Fighting" by Dana Goodyear   "Abundance. The fruited tree..."
November 21, 2007:   "Flicker" by Joanna Klink   "Is there no simplicity..."
November 20, 2007:   "Poem Beside Itself" by Graham Foust   "Where in the capsized animal..."
November 19, 2007:   "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond   " The bird Noah sent second was the dove..."
November 18, 2007:   "On Realizing That I Tend to End with Nature Imagery" by Tim Lockridge   " I need to meet more robots. Now androids..."
November 17, 2007:   "Whole Worlds Had Already Happened" by Lynne Potts   " Train windows doled fields..."
November 16, 2007:   "Why Dogs Tell Stories" by Cathryn Essinger   " She stands at the end of the driveway..."
November 15, 2007:   "The Body is the House, and" by Kim Addonizio   " according to the spiritual teacher..."
November 14, 2007:   "Lazy Eye" by Lesley Wheeler   " The stranger unplugs her bogus teeth..."
November 13, 2007:   "Poem Starting with a Line by Jason Bredle" by J. P. Dancing Bear   " According to Hercules, if we make an angel..."
November 12, 2007:   "Chipmunk Squirrel Costume Party" by Jason Bredle   " In a black forest, God is birthing a beautiful..."
November 11, 2007:   "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks   " Do not expect to be always happy on this way...."
November 10, 2007:   "Columba livia" by Sandra Meek   " The year we understood city by feral, honeysuckle..."
November 9, 2007:   "Poltergeist" by Jennifer Metsker   " In sixth grade each day forty minutes free read...."
November 8, 2007:   "If You Should Care For Me" by Lacy Schutz   " She 'gan him soft to shrive. She asked him, What..."
November 7, 2007:   "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver   " My heart, that used to pump along so pleasantly..."
November 6, 2007:   "A celebration of lasting achievment" by Bob Hicok   " The man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died...."
November 5, 2007:   "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio   " What a relief to lie down finally..."
November 4, 2007:   "Just Off Campus" by Christian Knoeller   " This raucous flock arrives uninvited..."
November 3, 2007:   "Love Like Rocks" by Stephen Massimilla   " Respect the rocks, the way they hold..."
November 2, 2007:   "Elegy for My Novel" by Paula Closson Buck   " At first the ants come singly..."
November 1, 2007:   "Sweet Pea's Lament" by Mitchell Metz   " Whose timber Mom shivered..."
October 31, 2007:   "Takeoff" by Angie Estes   " Mistaken, taken for..."
October 30, 2007:   "[Accoutred as I was plungèd in]" by Emily Rosko   " Slippery slope of affects. I wetted..."
October 29, 2007:   "Would That We Had" by Lacy Schutz   " Oh, would that we had walked the sun's beams as..."
October 28, 2007:   "Weak Strong" by Gary Gildner   " When the common flicker stitches..."
October 27, 2007:   "Winter Song" by Maggie Nelson   " Solitude is a gift..."
October 26, 2007:   "Footling" by Nickole Brown   " We have heard her tell the story..."
October 25, 2007:   "Out of the Garden, 4" by Kathryn Kirkpatrick   " When nasturtiums bloom..."
October 24, 2007:   "Rattle" by Jesse Ferguson   " The train rattles in God's hand, while the sleeping man..."
October 23, 2007:   "Moose, Looking" by Anna Leahy   " It's the jowls, really..."
October 22, 2007:   "See Daddy Make a Deal" by Caroline Noble Whitbeck   " At the bank I've been..."
October 21, 2007:   "Goddess of the Hunt" by Miguel Murphy   " The cello for me bears an agony like the hunter's..."
October 20, 2007:   "Steering by Monarchs" by Holly J. Hughes   " Fog thick enough to lick, horizon a blanket..."
October 19, 2007:   "Lywelwyn's Dog" by Peter E. Murphy   " Bunnies will not stop eating all..."
October 17, 2007:   "I'm Drinking Again, Let's Start a Family" by Jason Bredle   " Bunnies will not stop eating all..."
October 16, 2007:   "The Night in Question" by Paul Lisicky   " The rising seas, the bulldog dean: nothing bothered me tonight. My..."
October 15, 2007:   "City of Blastocyst" by Heidi Lynn Staples   " The blastocyst is the city of us...."
October 11, 2007:   "Duration of the Spider" by Christopher Kennedy   " Though spider is my nature..."
October 10, 2007:   "This Late in Love" by Myrna Stone   " Ardor comes as wry comfort this late..."
October 9, 2007:   "Shepherding" by Allison Titus   " If not to clutch this flock..."
October 7, 2007:   "Wrapping Paper" by Susanna Rich   " The brook slows. Early ice..."
October 6, 2007:   "Evergreen" by Mike Luke   " It's hot inside. Aphasia sweat...."
October 5, 2007:   "The Age of Bent Blood in the Throat" by George Kalamaras   " When the ithic gods wagered words, we had an enigmatic release...."
October 4, 2007:   "The Devil's in the Details" by James Doyle   " The marsh creaks back and forth..."
October 3, 2007:   "Epiphany" by Jessi Lee   " The crazy lady is feeding the fucking birds..."
October 2, 2007:   "The Bar Code of Love" by Erika Meitner   " I brandished the wand & pushed..."
October 1, 2007:   "This Song is Made of Ideas" by Elizabeth Langemak   " Holding your fingers, I make them a song..."
September 30, 2007:   "Regarding The Intentional Attendance Of Poetry Readings" by Joe Wenderoth   " Our neighbors, directly behind us..."
September 29, 2007:   "Ghost" by Nancy Krygowski   " There is a ghost in this room..."
September 28, 2007:   "I Take Her Tresses In" by Mike Luke   " I unhinge myself from nature..."
September 27, 2007:   "We Little Historians" by Nicolas A. Destino   " We did not stop the Praetor Maximus..."
September 26, 2007:   "Spring" by Jennifer Juneau   " Eyes dumb with no love to speak of..."
September 25, 2007:   "Pacific" by Lola Haskins   " The ocean where I was raised would..."
September 24, 2007:   "Raft" by Dorianne Laux   " Small flying creature for whom..."
September 23, 2007:   "Spring Comes to the Mistress of the Obvious" by B.T. Shaw   " Iridescence replaces winter's aerodynamics..."
September 22, 2007:   "Stag Beetle" by Karen Harryman   " Sleek black worry stone with legs..."
September 21, 2007:   "My Snake" by David Wagoner   " By the railroad tracks, on cinders..."
September 20, 2007:   "As If I Wasn't There" by Dick Allen   " True talent, what is that, we wondered..."
September 19, 2007:   "Elemental: Nitrogen" by Suzanne Heyd   " Four-fifths of every breath..."
September 18, 2007:   "Transmissions" by Nathan Hoks   " Help, I'm a vortex, says the father..."
September 17, 2007:   "Lamb" by Andrew Michael Roberts   " God Forgets. He leaves the iron on and your beautiful city..."
September 16, 2007:   "Missouri" by Rebecca Aronson   " Near Saint Joseph the fields sigh and corn stands up..."
September 15, 2007:   "October" by Laura Van Prooyen   " It must be October, when the bones..."
September 14, 2007:   "A Story About Things" by Heather Maki   " To be required to dust..."
September 13, 2007:   "The Chapter of the Rending in Sunder" by Mia Nussbaum   " And then I began my habit..."
September 12, 2007:   "Spaghetti Western" by Tom Haushalter   " Several trains whistle at once through Mechanicsburg..."
September 11, 2007:   "Poem for the National Hobo Association Poetry Contest" by Paul Guest   " I will not be there with you but think..."
September 10, 2007:   "Extravagance" by Steve Wilson   " Like a numbing thumb..."
September 9, 2007:   "O Woolly City" by Priscilla Sneff   " O Woolly City, each thing dings dully as an acorn..."
September 8, 2007:   "Parking Space" by Susan Briante   " Billboards yield to burdened cloud..."
September 7, 2007:   "Our Situation" by Patrick Phillips   " In the dark we watch..."
September 6, 2007:   "Starting Small" by Carrie Fountain   " At sunset on the Fourth of July..."
September 5, 2007:   "I Want to Live in a Paper House" by Sharon Black   " Let's just say I've learned nothing..."
September 4, 2007:   "The Pitch" by Patty Seburn   " I can save you time and money, he said...."
September 3, 2007:   "Starts Out a Mouse" by Aaron Anstett   " gnaws the wiring, the drunk inside him..."
September 2, 2007:   "Song of the Turtle Unburrowing" by Laurie Kutchins   " Was it the sweet smell..."
September 1, 2007:   "Allegorical" by Rafael Campo   " In the beginning, time was animal...."
August 31, 2007:   "Phrasing and form" by Noah Eli Gordon   " the landlord calls this part an opera..."
August 30, 2007:   "Reciprocity" by Carl Phillips   " Rest, now. All that ruggedness, blood-pain, and blindness-to-its..."
August 29, 2007:   "Cosmology" by J. Stephen Rhodes   " Above broken clouds, Orion and Aldebaran...."
August 28, 2007:   from "Great Women of Science" by Kate Greenstreet   " Many things about the story are puzzling...."
August 27, 2007:   "The Very Old Man" by Patrick Phillips   " When he met himself..."
August 26, 2007:   "Take One" by Clay Matthews   " I was west of home but still east of everything..."
August 25, 2007:   "Babylon Honda" by Joe Robitaille   " It was a red dove said the deacon..."
August 24, 2007:   "Last Speaker of Alaska's Eyak Language Turns 81" by Jean Monahan   " Her kingdom for one more argument..."
August 23, 2007:   "Conscript" by Michael Quattrone   " You’re on stage and I’m behind the scenes...."
August 22, 2007:   "It's Wednesday," by Nina Lindsay   " and the morning sky convulses with the sounds..."
August 21, 2007:   "The Chicken That Lived the Longest without a Head" by Kim Bridgford   " The first few days produced the most surprise..."
August 20, 2007:   "Three's Brainchild Is" by Lesley Jenike   " Made from hope's detritus, the stuff of wisdom but wider..."
August 19, 2007:   "Living with Poets" by Chris Green   " Living is like reading James Wright, for example...."
August 18, 2007:   "Perfection Letter (viii)" by Patty Seyburn   " The senior v.p. in charge of h.r...."
August 17, 2007:   "Praying to the Patron Saint of Saved Marriages" by Kelli Russell Agodon   " She tells him what she cannot name..."
August 16, 2007:   "Bless Their Hearts" by Richard Newman   " At Steak-n-Shake I learned that if you add..."
August 15, 2007:   "At the Falls" by Martha Carlson-Bradley   " Above the current..."
August 14, 2007:   "Counting Sheep" by Glenn J. Freeman   " How strange for me to sing of insomnia; I sleep..."
August 13, 2007:   "Allegory" by Jenny Mueller   " The cockatoo hears gamelan..."
August 12, 2007:   "Jellies" by Sara Talpos   " One day they just appear, thick..."
August 11, 2007:   "They May Come to Break Us" by Jamaal May   " Outside sheets are pulling..."
August 10, 2007:   "Drinking Alone on a Spring Day" by Elton Glaser   " New grass grows faster than I..."
August 9, 2007:   "First Anniversary, With Monkeys" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil   " There is no crumbly frozen cake to thaw...."
August 8, 2007:   "Home" by Richard Newman   " I like my hometown more..."
August 7, 2007:   "Free Fall" by David Wagoner   " At first he's making better and better time..."
August 6, 2007:   "Ariadne (Postscript)" by Christopher Bakken   " The story of my marriage is all bunk..."
August 5, 2007:   "Be the Dog" by J. Allyn Rosser   " The administrative assistant stands serenely..."
August 4, 2007:   "Bar Pilots" by John Struloeff   " All summer their prows push the weight of waves..."
August 3, 2007:   "Lament" by Philip White   " My heart stopped..."
August 2, 2007:   "Haruspicy" by Sarah Hannah   " In good old Greece, to read futures in entrails..."
August 1, 2007:   "What a Boy Lies Awake Wondering" by Paul Hunter   " Footsore trudging these fields..."
July 31, 2007:   "Mule" by Kaya Oakes   " I am becoming you; inhabitable lorry..."
July 30, 2007:   "Excavation" by Éireann Lorsung   " Who says the polars are stirring? Ice..."
July 29, 2007:   "In My Next Life" by Noah Michelson   " Cartoon bluebirds carrying..."
July 28, 2007:   "First Anniversary, With Monkeys" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil   " There is no crumbly frozen cake to thaw...."
July 27, 2007:   "Studies for a Portrait of a Father and Son" by Richard Lyons   " I was about to say, in rain like this, the boy Moses..."
July 26, 2007:   "Gacela of Animal Theory" by J. P. Dancing Bear   " Every time I explain Schrödinger's cat to the animal..."
July 25, 2007:   "Marco Polo" by James Doyle   " found the old gods again..."
July 24, 2007:   "Bats" by Bryan Penberthy   " Nervous mathematicians—they could be proving..."
July 23, 2007:   "A Windmill Makes a Statement" by Cate Marvin   " You think I like to stand all day, all night..."
July 22, 2007:   "Afire" by Andrea Scarpino   " As in a girl's scalp, pulled tight in braids...."
July 21, 2007:   "Inishmór Goats" by Ronda Broatch   " The star they made..."
July 20, 2007:   "Protean Woods" by Cathy Park Hong   " In the pollen furred woods, the air floats with fair fauna..."
July 19, 2007:   "Non-Sonnet For Sleeping Birds" by Betsy Wheeler   " Early morning light spills trails..."
July 18, 2007:   "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not" by Mary Jo Bang   " Imagine the movie..."
July 17, 2007:   "Seduction With Entropy" by Paul Guest   " If you think I'm honest, speak to me..."
July 16, 2007:   "Poem for the New Year" by Kim Addonizio   " So far it's suspiciously similar..."
July 15, 2007:   "Trial Marriage" by D Nurkse   " Strangers treat each other..."
July 14, 2007:   "The Rule of Geese" by Tricia Asklar   " When the geese pass overhead..."
July 13, 2007:   "The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife" by Jeannine Hall Gailey   " I could have kept you..."
July 12, 2007:   "The Riddle of the Sphinx Moth" by Sarah Hannah   " An enormous body kamikaze-dives..."
July 11, 2007:   "Curiosity" by Frances Schenkkan   " The cat worked her head into a milk bottle..."
July 10, 2007:   "Centaurs" by Stuart Bartow   " Not yet apparitions, they came to fetch me..."
July 9, 2007:   "Blue Failure" by Cynthia Arrieu-King   " The gym. Milk-breathed girls sweated in their polyester..."
July 8, 2007:   "Confessions of a Music Box" by Bruce Bond   " No larger than a bird coffin..."
July 7, 2007:   "G Is for Not Just One George" by Mary Jo Bang   " Gilbert and his brother, plus the monkey..."
July 6, 2007:   "The Cruelest Month" by Grace Bauer   " Kill it! A child screams from the sidewalk below..."
July 5, 2007:   "Now You See Me" by Elizabeth Bradfield   " The neighbor whose daughter last week..."
July 4, 2007:   "The Method" by Marvin Bell   " Of the knees we might say they beseech..."
July 3, 2007:   "For My Biographers, Hints of My Lover" by Molly Tenenbaum   " Earth, air, the whole astronomy, more..."
July 2, 2007:   "The Car" by James Hoch   " He liked the car because it went nowhere..."
July 1, 2007:   "Matter and Disappearance" by Allan Peterson   " I know my heart brings me missiles..."
June 30, 2007:   "Notions" by Lorna Knowles Blake   " Just like Eve in the garden..."
June 29, 2007:   "From a Swaying Hammock" by Joseph Hutchison   " With a raw squawk the raven breaks..."
June 28, 2007:   "Progress of History" by Matthew Hotham   " The televisions talk only of bad endings...."
June 27, 2007:   "The Sunset" by Randall Mann   " Fog, like reason, settles on the peeling district...."
June 26, 2007:   "Baby Born Holding Heart in Hand" by Patricia Smith   " Imagine holding it there, thrumming, taunt..."
June 25, 2007:   "There Is No Pretending" by Mary Jo Bang   " There is no pretending to know..."
June 24, 2007:   "Betrayals" by Kevin Higgins   " When the bombers refused to turn..."
June 23, 2007:   "Re-Cognition" by Daniel Newman   " Now I know how ol'Tommy..."
June 22, 2007:   "Prophecy: Snow White" by Donna Prinzmetal   " I keep everything..."
June 21, 2007:   "Epithalamium with Peeping Tom" by Jennifer Perrine   " What's this ring? Not the gold..."
June 20, 2007:   "Sonnet" by Evan Nagle   " Infinity drives a shutsuck white car...."
June 19, 2007:   "Laustic" by Sierra Nelson   " Well, I am the Captain of Fun..."
June 18, 2007:   "Memo from Homeland Security" by Steven Cramer   " Mourning doves and lovebirds..."
June 16, 2007:   "Iconography of the Heart" by Michael Meyerhofer   " We see it haunting lockets, cards..."
June 15, 2007:   "O Mouth Fable" by Elena Karina Byrne   " It darkens in the bride..."
June 14, 2007:   "A Bestiary" by Maurice Manning   " The reason the woman was fond of chickens..."
June 13, 2007:   "El Mar" by Tracy K. Smith   " There was a sea in my marriage...."
June 12, 2007:   "Eat This" by Nance Van Winckel   " Target cake with a bull's-eye looming...."
June 11, 2007:   "Inside the Body" by Nathan Hoks   " Saying things can be hard. I try..."
June 10, 2007:   "Looking Forward to the Twentieth Century" by James Doyle   " Horses and carriages stir up the beach..."
June 9, 2007:   "Aware of Angels" by Mark Jarman   " They are drunk and amused with themselves...."
June 8, 2007:   "Earth-tone Anecdote" by John Gallaher   " They are speaking in the other room..."
June 7, 2007:   "Fugue" by Jibade-Khalil Huffman   " Simultaneous Netherlands..."
June 6, 2007:   "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez   " On the day that we die..."
June 5, 2007:   "Something in My Eye" by Allison Smythe   " The world is writ in Braille but our hands..."
June 4, 2007:   "How to: an Apology" by Thomas Kane   " Instance I: Everyone here is loved. A street fight over prize..."
June 3, 2007:   "Curse" by David Lehman   " Whatever your position, you will reverse it...."
June 2, 2007:   "Birdsong from My Patio" by Ellen Bass   " I've never heard this much song..."
June 1, 2007:   "Owl" by Endi Hartigan   " Lift more pieces..."
May 31, 2007:   "Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages" by Kimberly Johnson   " Prayed loud all night and so humbled over..."
May 30, 2007:   "On a Woodpecker Drinking from a Knothole Still Full of the Last Rain" by Maurice Manning   " I'm not always Mr. Sunshine, but..."
May 29, 2007:   "Cuckoo" by Larissa Szporluk   " I nudge the eggs..."
May 28, 2007:   "Why Bother Resurrecting the Dead" by Jane Springer   " When their multitudes of affliction may better serve..."
May 27, 2007:   "The Walls" by Matthew Henriksen   " I worked in a bookshop...."
May 26, 2007:   "A Ghost is Born" by Amy King   " Hissing news opens for ensuing..."
May 25, 2007:   "Solfeggio" by Ellen Dudley   " You can solfege the foghorns here and the fog..."
May 24, 2007:   "Western Fragment" by Tracy K. Smith   " We were tired of dry spells, the whole town..."
May 23, 2007:   "My Nightmare" by Paul Guest   " My nightmare isn't falling or even falling..."
May 22, 2007:   "Afterbirth" by Lynne Knight   " There's a look of panic on his face...."
May 21, 2007:   "XOXO Los Angeles" by Ian Harris   " The stars are wandering around you. You're not at sea..."
May 20, 2007:   "Misappropriation" by John Pursley III   " A wood thrush hustles leaves from one side to the next, making about..."
May 19, 2007:   "Planting Dahlias with a Pick-Ax" by Lynnell Edwards   " I have made their grave..."
May 18, 2007:   "Autumn Again" by Michael Pettit   " Sending their cries before them who can say..."
May 17, 2007:   "Barns in Snow" by Lisa Fishman   " The sunset here, through acts of trees...."
May 16, 2007:   "Horse-Boat" by Sarah Vap   " there can only be intelligence..."
May 15, 2007:   "Gargoyle" by Larissa Szporluk   " A hunter's sickness..."
May 14, 2007:   "Nursemaid's Elbow" by Peter Pereira   " Named not for the mother, frazzled and rushed..."
May 13, 2007:   "Leaving Mud Road" by Claudia Carlson   " The house is watermarked from drains..."
May 12, 2007:   "When I Say World I Mean Please" by John Gallaher   " We begin somewhat after the beginning, in..."
May 11, 2007:   "Bats" by Paisley Rekdal   " unveil themselves in dark...."
May 10, 2007:   "Loveliest Grotesque" by Sandra Lim   " I kept the little ruin near me, I stowed it in the kitchen..."
May 9, 2007:   "Selfless" by Forrest Hamer   " When he found himself falling, and he was falling..."
May 8, 2007:   "Hell" by Jason Bredle   " I wouldn't be surprised if some oratorical..."
May 7, 2007:   "Infidelity" by C. Dale Young   " The sun hovering a mile above the edge..."
May 6, 2007:   "The Tightrope Walker" by Lesley Dauer   " This is her field sobriety test...."
May 5, 2007:   "The Fox Explains The Dream of Foxes" by Hannah Craig   " The women have come through the field..."
May 4, 2007:   "Insomnia" by Rynn Williams   " I try tearing paper into tiny, perfect squares..."
May 3, 2007:   "Heavy Rain" by Newton Smith   " The rain is a river now. Outside trees bow down...."
May 2, 2007:   "Joy" by Donald Platt   " Joy is the jumbo..."
May 1, 2007:   "Plunder" by Michael Robins   " The heart, which often seems a gangplank..."
April 30, 2007:   "Sinning Skel Misclape" by Lisa Jarnot   " O sinning skel misclape thy lock..."
April 29, 2007:   "Brought to You by the Letter Ox , Or: Why I Want my Son to Remain Illiterate" by Mitchell Metz   " We took the ox from Egypt..."
April 28, 2007:   "For Six Seconds" by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis   " you won't wander into the room where I keep you..."
April 27, 2007:   "China Traces" by Charles Wright   " Nature contains no negatives...."
April 26, 2007:   "The Gulls" by Eric Burger   " inch closer and closer to my towel..."
April 25, 2007:   "Tricycle" by David Dodd Lee   " About this unhappiness..."
April 24, 2007:   "Lament" by Betsy Sholl   " Fog dense as a bed sheet hung at the window..."
April 23, 2007:   "Spectators Along the Interstate" by Josh Rathkamp   " A few miles outside Kalamazoo you and I wonder..."
April 22, 2007:   "Thin Ice" by Randall Stiffler   " Fish have abandoned..."
April 21, 2007:   "Mock Orange" by Melanie Almeder   " Everything on the tongue goes stunned bird...."
April 20, 2007:   "Sharp" by Matthew Rohrer   " Music all day on the stereo. And the rain..."
April 19, 2007:   "Drift" by Mary Biddinger   " What you did that day..."
April 18, 2007:   "Shaking the Grass" by Janice N. Harrington   " Evening, and all my ghosts come back to me..."
April 17, 2007:   "The Insomniacs' Afterlife" by Gabriel Fried   " Unprepared for the exotic stillness..."
April 16, 2007:   "Legato" by Mary Cornish   " As when a crow flies up from a field, the sky..."
April 15, 2007:   "Drift" by John Hennessy   " After leaving home and school..."
April 14, 2007:   "The Moon Is a Lemon Wedge" by Quincy Troupe   " the moon is a lemon wedge over guadeloupe..."
April 13, 2007:   "Setting" by Beth Bachmann   " A lilac can hold on, half-dead, for days..."
April 12, 2007:   "Now over the Empty Apartment" by Kate Northrop   " You in the door look back..."
April 11, 2007:   "Anniversary" by Erin Malone   " You're the icing. I'm the swarm of candles..."
April 10, 2007:   "Nocturne: Andalusian Dog" by Tracy K. Smith   " I rise. I pant. I scrape..."
April 9, 2007:   "Shepherding" by Paige Ackerson-Kiely   " Mild lamb, I would..."
April 8, 2007:   "Absent" by Melinda Wilson   " Suppose an organ gets lost..."
April 7, 2007:   "Death School" by David Swanger   " Everybody graduates. We become..."
April 6, 2007:   "Hives" by Debra Wierenga   " Not ones with wasps — although that hectic buzz..."
April 5, 2007:   "White" by Jessica Johnson   " A long Antarctica of hotel sheets...."
April 4, 2007:   "Climograph" by James Grinwis   " To be a valley inside walls...."
April 3, 2007:   "The Strange Girl Asked Politely to be Called Princess" by Kate Nuernberger   "When Sally Lida skips rope her hair flies..."
April 2, 2007:   "The Faithful" by Midge Goldberg   "You'd think they're Jesuits, the way..."
April 1, 2007:   "So You Want to Be a Teaching Assistant in English" by Jeff Worley   "Rent a tiny room half a mile from campus...."
March 31, 2007:   "In 1986 My Uncle Jack Sits On His Front Porch" by William Delman   "Brown Stetson. As the shadows draw on detritus..."
March 30, 2007:   "The Efficacy of Prayer" by Richard Cecil   "Yes, but however hard they pray..."
March 29, 2007:   "Animal Funerals, 1964" by Claudia Emerson   "That summer, we did not simply walk through..."
March 28, 2007:   "Dear Guest" by Paige Ackerson-Kiely   "The leaves are only leaves..."
March 27, 2007:   "Dream Fox" by Jack Roberts   "Not the five tiny black birds that flew..."
March 26, 2007:   "Dive" by Kate Northrop   "More difficult by night, you must..."
March 25, 2007:   "Lullaby" by Seth Abramson   "At the store I bought..."
March 24, 2007:   "Directions" by Erin Malone   "Stranger, one whole side..."
March 23, 2007:   "Nocturne" by Nate Pritts   "Cleaning today, I found a cricket in the house..."
March 22, 2007:   "Statue of Eve at the Bauhaus, Weimar" by Yvette Siegert   "What I know isn't even fit to be useless...."
March 21, 2007:   "All That Glitters Is Gold" by James Doyle   "Wine flask, beer cans..."
March 20, 2007:   "Doing Hegel's Laundry" by Melissa Tuckey   "He said not to worry about separating..."
March 19, 2007:   "Timbuktu" by Mike Dockins   "Arctic winds slash infinities across this geography quiz...."
March 18, 2007:   "Parked Beneath a Pear Tree" by William Wenthe   "When I drove away..."
March 17, 2007:   "Dead-Heading the Flowers" by Juddith Skillman   "Hold the stem of this flower..."
March 16, 2007:   "The San Simeon Zebras" by C. J. Sage   "hidden; their hides are more..."
March 15, 2007:   "The Cry Bone's Connected to the Why Bone" by Jenny Browne   "Cold front blasts a train through..."
March 14, 2007:   "Blackout" by Derek Mong   "Little blue bolt on a split wire..."
March 13, 2007:   "New Year's Eve" by Nate Pritts   "It's six o'clock in the evening & where I am..."
March 12, 2007:   "You Are Incomplete Exactly" by Yvette Siegert   "You are incomplete exactly..."
March 11, 2007:   "Open Other End" by Muriel Nelson   "In the land of toothpicks..."
March 10, 2007:   "Jigsaw" by Ray Skjelbred   "If we re-cut the jigsaw puzzle..."
March 9, 2007:   "Another Good Friday, Good Death" by Gaylord Brewer   "It was easy: staring stonily into the ice-splintered sea..."
March 8, 2007:   "Sevenling (Emotions scramble)" by DGB Featherkile   "Emotions scramble thalamus..."
March 7, 2007:   "Yet" by Amisha Patel   "History is the moon with its lack of atmosphere..."
March 6, 2007:   "Love Note to Alfred E. Neuman" by C. J. Sage   "A slogan’s ideology and so I reject..."
March 5, 2007:   "Country Album" by James Capozzi   "much of which is..."
March 4, 2007:   "Xochi's Tale" by Maxine Kumin   "Is it my fault I'm part rat terrier, part..."
March 3, 2007:   "China" by Billy Collins   "I am an ant inside a blue bowl..."
March 2, 2007:   "Dusk Outside the Braille Press" by Paul Hostovsky   "The lights go on in all the windows but one...."
March 1, 2007:   "Sien" by Judith Skillman   "The picture of sorrow..."
February 28, 2007:   "Ode to a Heart Loser" by Stephen Dunn   "You need not lead with your heart..."
February 27, 2007:   "Reinante" by Jennifer Barber   "Dust of wheat..."
February 26, 2007:   "The Joy is Everywhere" by Matthew Lippman   "This coming from a guy who hasn't had sex in a really long time...."
February 25, 2007:   "No Picnic" by Lisa Russ Spaar   "My heart hollows..."
February 24, 2007:   "Parts of a Feather" by Matthew Gavin Frank   "The superstitious geometry of the rock dove rests..."
February 22, 2007:   "Self-Portrait as Bovine" by Chanda Feldman   "Trodden—the slope—lands covered and recovered...."
February 21, 2007:   "If I Could Throw My Voice" by Keith Althaus   "like the ventriloquist..."
February 20, 2007:   "The Deer" by Michael Chitwood   "I am being prayed for...."
February 19, 2007:   "Sky One" by Nance Van Winckel   "In an early sky, the molecules of my wings..."
February 18, 2007:   "After the Affair" by Claudia Emerson   "There was no one to tell, so it settled..."
February 17, 2007:   "Nighties" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan   "...slippers with slender heels and feathers...."
February 16, 2007:   "Then Thensome" by R. D. King   "Second passion second-angel, this verse being dawn..."
February 15, 2007:   "Surprising the Gods" by Dan Albergotti   "Suppose Eurydice had, running through the evening field..."
February 14, 2007:   "Love Poem" by Paul Hostovsky   "I love this poem...."
February 13, 2007:   "Meadows" by Judith Skillman   "What would the meadow hold..."
February 12, 2007:   "Last Days of Orpheus" by Morri Creech   "As for the songs, he still remembered them..."
February 11, 2007:   "Children" by Steven Cramer   "We pray they'll bury us, naturally...."
February 10, 2007:   "In Muir Woods" by June Beisch   "Last night, a giant redwood fell..."
February 9, 2007:   "Mysterious Ways" by Alison Pelegrin   "He actually said it—that, and..."
February 8, 2007:   "Say This" by Elizabeth Cox   "Say that a river flooded the house...."
February 7, 2007:   "Reconciliation" by David Ray Vance   "Wooden lattice outside a window creaks..."
February 6, 2007:   "Communiqué" by Carol Stevens Kner   "I've settled in quite nicely here...."
February 5, 2007:   "Sadness" by Theodore Worozbyt   "deceives even the closest..."
February 4, 2007:   "A Dog Eating Grass Brings Rain" by Hannah Craig   " I have no anecdote to relate—as usual, the story tight..."
February 3, 2007:   "After a Minor Oratory" by Ryan Collins   " Keep the glossy on your voice, little man...."
February 2, 2007:   "In Retirement" by Ronald Wallace   " He said he would do nothing...."
February 1, 2007:   "Zip_________" by Chad Reynolds   " In days of yore, et cetera, good guys traveled..."
January 31, 2007:   "Travel" by Kevin Pilkington   " I admit I see things a bit differently...."
January 30, 2007:   "The Cave" by Christine DeSimone   " The trouble with miracles is there's no way to prepare...."
January 29, 2007:   "Lost Tense" by Stephen Malin   " The past tense of ash..."
January 28, 2007:   "From Winslow Homer's Ocean, A Nation" by Joseph P. Wood   " Each American, the painter believed..."
January 27, 2007:   "Semilla" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa   " As with galaxies, with flowers..."
January 26, 2007:   "At Last" by Erin Belieu   " In this story / no one dies..."
January 25, 2007:   "Road Trip" by Jessica Goodfellow   " Because the horizon is not a number line..."
January 24, 2007:   "Daffodils." by Joy Katz   " God's cold call goes colder, goes black and white...."
January 23, 2007:   "A Leaf, A Hare" by Rebecca Dunham   " To arrive, one learns to journey..."
January 22, 2007:   "March First" by Jeffrey Harrison   " No news today—the newspaper got buried..."
January 21, 2007:   "An Understanding Unnaturally Prolonged" by Bill Knott   " Someone was talking on the telephone..."
January 20, 2007:   "Begetting Stadia" by Ben Lerner   " The roof fell in..."
January 19, 2007:   "Temporary Sanity" by Rane Arroyo   " I'd watch the Muppets just to piss off..."
January 18, 2007:   "Auscultation" by Carolina Ebeid   " Fame brings with it an afterlife, a chrome circle of light...."
January 17, 2007:   "Prisoner's Wreath" by Aaron McCollough   " Insatiable cormorant come light by me..."
January 16, 2007:   "Bass Line" by Betsy Sholl   " He needs a bigger body, bull fiddle..."
January 15, 2007:   "Among the Most Recent Projectiles" by James Doyle   " storming the sky is the earth...."
January 14, 2007:   "Matt Hart Running With Daisy, His Dog" by Matt Hart   " Running with his dog, Matt Hart sucks in..."
January 13, 2007:   "Merryland" by Daniel Gutstein   " The problem with half-serious is that..."
January 12, 2007:   "(Pregnancy)" by Nadia Herman Colburn   " I will not be scared, it said..."
January 11, 2007:   "On Divination by Birds" by Kimberly Johnson   " Try a small black radio from any year..."
January 10, 2007:   "Studebaker" by Gerald Stern   " Try a small black radio from any year..."
January 9, 2007:   "Something for the Low End" by Betsy Wheeler   " Dear Alto Section, you angel me...."
January 8, 2007:   "Dulia" by Carolina Ebeid   " Every room became a clearing..."
January 7, 2007:   "To My Son In Iraq" by Frances Richey   " There's a new space show..."
January 6, 2007:   "Other Victims" by Rigoberto González   " Thank heavens for victims who find their way..."
January 5, 2007:   "Temptation to Believe" by Andrea Cohen   " Dumbstruck in the awesome..."
January 4, 2007:   "A Guess Is Spiritual Then, & Will Try to Help You" by John Gallaher   " Two pregnant women are walking together under the portico...."
January 3, 2007:   "God's Ode to Creation" by Maura Stanton   " Today's the kind of day when I feel good..."
January 2, 2007:   "Easter, Looking Westward" by Kimberly Johnson   " The stars! the stars have fled the sky!..."
January 1, 2007:   "Where" by Mary Jo Bang   " In this cicada city, we are dead..."

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