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..."
December 31, 2009 (A 2009 Favorite):   "Jellyfish" by George David Clark   "The dark sea dreams them...."
December 30, 2009 (A 2009 Favorite):   "Nest" by Katy Didden   "Yellow bill, deft needle..."
December 29, 2009 (A 2009 Favorite):   "[The night was animal]" by Claire Hero   "The night was animal, was owlmaw..."
December 28, 2009 (A 2009 Favorite):   "Still as in a Still after Still" by Mary Jo Bang   "How-then-why is charted like a map is a chart..."
December 27, 2009:   "Caisson" by Carol Quinn   "That we might be rootless, ruthless, industrious, dust..."
December 26, 2009:   "Coos Bay" by Sid Miller   "The paint in the back alley spells out..."
December 25, 2009:   "To Mindless Forces" by K.A. Hays   "who tumble..."
December 24, 2009:   "Untitled" by Andrew Zawacki   "Or the dance we do is..."
December 23, 2009:   "Untitled" by Hans Carl Artmann (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)   "hocus pocus..."
December 22, 2009:   "Beginning with Two Lines from Kenneth Rexroth" by Ray Gonzalez   "I see the unwritten books, the unrecorded experiments, the unpainted..."
December 21, 2009:   "Fall Grapes" by Adrianne Kalfopoulou   "We didn't know the acrid scent of trodden grapes..."
December 20, 2009:   "State of a Nation" by Amy King   "The actor is a second life..."
December 19, 2009:   "Mr. Nobody Speaks to His Voice" by Emmanuel Moses (translated by Marilyn Hacker)   "Voice, you sprouted like a shrub..."
December 18, 2009:   "Sparrows: For Gerald Stern" by Campbell McGrath   "Mexican sparrows picking at seeds..."
December 17, 2009:   "Illustrating" by Joshua Poteat   "I see fireflies as perforations, the meadow..."
December 16, 2009:   "Ode to the Chameleon" by Yusef Komunyakaa   "Little shape shifter, lingering..."
December 15, 2009:   "The Opening" by Philip Schultz   "Everyone arrives later than everyone else..."
December 14, 2009:   "The Bird of God" by Robin Ekiss   "Tutankhamen's ebony bed..."
December 13, 2009:   "The Underworld" by Sharon Bryan   "When I lived in the foothills..."
December 12, 2009:   [Emerson said, "Every word was once an animal." Re: bunny.] by Ron Koertge   "Emerson said, "Every word was once an animal." Re: bunny...."
December 11, 2009:   "Crows" by Jeff Friedman   "You came with your dark hats..."
December 10, 2009:   "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley   "We all went in a yellow school bus..."
December 9, 2009:   "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson   "what can you suppose I want from you?..."
December 8, 2009:   "Bioluminescence" by Lee Ann Roripaugh   "The eggs burn softly..."
December 7, 2009:   "Julbilate" by William Notter   "Now I will consider my purple Plymouth Duster...."
December 6, 2009:   "Gnosticism as a Modern Construct" by Marc J. Sheehan   "Late one afternoon, we watched the dragonflies..."
December 5, 2009:   "Night Garden" by T. J. Anderson III   "In the garden there is a row of dahlias..."
December 4, 2009:   "Creation Myth" by Mathias Svalina   "In the beginning everyone looked like Larry Bird..."
December 3, 2009:   "from 1977-2050" by Zachary Schomburg   "All the space around me..."
December 2, 2009:   "Trembling on the Brink of a Mesquite Tree" by Brynn Saito   "And the Lord said Surprise me, so I moved to LA...."
December 1, 2009:   "Former Automotive Plant" by Allison Titus   "What poor moon deserves this night..."
November 30, 2009:   "Supplicant" by CE Perry   "Give the doe that extra..."
November 29, 2009:   "[my mind grew quiet]" by Jehanne Dubrow   "My mind grew quiet..."
November 28, 2009:   "Winter's Tale" by Pamela Harrison   "Until today, I never got the logic..."
November 27, 2009:   "Paradiso I 54-63" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky   "I fixed my eyes on the sun-beyond our ways..."
November 26, 2009:   "I Never Intend To, How 'Bout You?" by Christopher Citro   "It's eight o'clock. Time to plug the ladder in. I love our new..."
November 25, 2009:   "Fragile" by Jenny Hanning   "At the Children's Museum they collect pennies in a penny pit. It..."
November 24, 2009:   "Structure of Houses" by Allen Strous   "Something stared at..."
November 23, 2009:   "My Sister Was a Chair" by Jorn Ake   "I was the monkey in pieces..."
November 22, 2009:   "Journey" by Linda Annas Ferguson   "I see the world from behind two blades..."
November 21, 2009:   "Leaves/Tongues" by Molly Bendall & Gail Wronsky   "Let    me    be                      "straight"..."
November 20, 2009:   "Secret Sonnet For The Cockroach" by Alex Grant   "They live without their bodies for a week..."
November 19, 2009:   "Point of View" by Richard Jackson   "While his memories pace back and forth like expectant..."
November 18, 2009:   "An Interruption" by Karen Kevorkian   "A black cat appeared against a smooth adobe wall in a break..."
November 17, 2009:   "Postscript: Autobiographical" by Ed Skoog   "I rode my bike across the Argentine...."
November 16, 2009:   "I Show Up Twelve Years Late For Curfew" by Karyna McGlynn   "I appear cold, muddy, unstable in the foyer...."
November 15, 2009:   "Hope" by Daniel Donaghy   "I'm thinking again of Pandora..."
November 14, 2009:   "Epigenesis" by Joseph Bathanti   "The moon leavens...."
November 13, 2009:   "County Fair" by Terri Kirby Erickson   "Pulled like rotten teeth from the open mouths..."
November 12, 2009:   "Hedgerow after Roadwork" by Eamon Grennan   "What was the ragged hedgerow of sally trees..."
November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch   "In the rented performance space..."
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes   "Why we resist coming after, coming second, coming late..."
November 9, 2009:   "Days Like This Are Necessary" by Walter Bargen   "Fifteen men, the beginning of a pirate's song..."
November 8, 2009:   "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis   "When they ask me can they just be honest..."
November 7, 2009:   "The Religion of Birds" by Megan O'Reilly Green   "Everywhere people are mad for miracles...."
November 6, 2009:   "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn   "My oracles of icicles and snow..."
November 5, 2009:   "Still Life, with Drawing" by G. C. Waldrep   "The drawing of a bird draws..."
November 4, 2009:   "An Underworldliness" by Heather McHugh   "Maybe a maker makes..."
November 3, 2009:   "In a Dark Time Together" by Mary Ann Samyn   "All day I say every blessings I can think of...."
November 2, 2009:   "City Beach" by Dora Malech   "Your mouth said so long from so long said high..."
November 1, 2009:   "Love is When a Boat is Built From All the Eyelashes in the Ocean" by Zachary Schomburg   "When the bats..."
October 31, 2009:   "The Tortoise Survives the Fire" by Lisa Allen Ortiz   "He's at my friend's house now...."
October 30, 2009:   "The Clock of the Long Now" by Marion Boyer   "No wonder Einstein was mad for light...."
October 29, 2009:   "Wonder" by Kascha Semonovitch   "Let me speak to you of the strange...."
October 28, 2009:   "Sweetlips and Spangled Emperors" by Mark Bibbins   "We lost the change that looking..."
October 27, 2009:   "Folding the Fitted Sheet" by A.V. Christie   "There is a way to do this...."
October 26, 2009:   "In England Again after Years Away" by Lois Williams   "Because tonight is warm..."
October 25, 2009:   "Confession of the Oak Tree" by Alice Pettway   "I would shed my leaves in an instant..."
October 24, 2009:   "The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start" by Charles Harper Webb   "when, in the first movement of the Emperor Concerto..."
October 23, 2009:   "To Leuconoë" by Erica McAlpine   "You should not ask..."
October 22, 2009:   "After Baby After Baby" by Rachel Zucker   "When we made love you had..."
October 21, 2009:   "Beat the Ranger" by Christopher DeWeese   "I am from extremely real streets...."
October 20, 2009:   "When We Decided to Build the Wall" by A.K. Scipioni   "I want an olive tree...."
October 19, 2009:   "Don't Say My Name" by Dara Wier   "Skull, axis, kernel of focus..."
October 18, 2009:   "The Multiple States of Matter" by Jenny Browne   "If four legs make a desk, a friendship, a donkey..."
October 17, 2009:   "Some Things Along Strada C.A. Rosetti" by Christopher Bakken   "Far too quiet last night out on the street...."
October 16, 2009:   "Suitor Underwater" by Molly McQuade   "The giant prawn..."
October 15, 2009:   "From As Complete As a Thought Can Be" by Adam Clay   "Seven years into the longest..."
October 14, 2009:   "Bluet" by Dan Chiasson   "Flowers have faces. They are happy or sad...."
October 13, 2009:   "The Ark in the Window" by Debora Greger   "Forty days and forty nights, it rained...."
October 12, 2009:   "A Cast of a Smokestack" by Adam Atkinson   "It's the future, and there are future men..."
October 11, 2009:   "Veni Vidi" by Chana Bloch   "The world / is about to be created...."
October 10, 2009:   "Little Fugue of Love and Death" by Richard Newman   "The sky is gray. My joints are old...."
October 9, 2009:   "Disappearing Act" by Jason Whitmarsh   "As the milkmaids do it, with aplomb—no ersatz..."
October 8, 2009:   "The Field Behind the Dying Father's House" by Linda Nemec Foster   "I'm the thin yellow..."
October 7, 2009:   "Around Killingsworth and Albina" by Sid Miller   "Behind a dumpster in an alley lies an old copy..."
October 6, 2009:   "Little Elegy (1977-1991)" by Claudia Keelan   "The world was strong..."
October 5, 2009:   "Mystery Beneath a Handprint of Light" by Beth Bachmann   "In another rendering, the repetition might add up..."
October 4, 2009:   "Particular Flight" by John Deming   "The woman sweeping..."
October 3, 2009:   "Animal Lover" by Terese Svoboda   "A horse rises in a balloon..."
October 2, 2009:   "Acknowledgment, 1964" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi   "Could have gone west. Could have packed your things..."
October 1, 2009:   "The Streets of My Heart" by Rhett Iseman Trull   "What a display. The light chromed off the ornate lamps and signs..."
September 30, 2009:   "Sleepwalking" by Frances Justine Post   "It is a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush..."
September 29, 2009:   "Bear" by Chad Sweeney   "Monday on the way to work..."
September 28, 2009:   "Doors without Locks and Other Entrances" by Timothy Henry   "All seasons have a coda..."
September 27, 2009:   "Moving into Night" by Mark Thalman   "I walk down to the dock...."
September 26, 2009:   "Homo Erectus Recalls the Better Days of Man" by Lynn Levin   "I cast my gaze over the coarse grass...."
September 25, 2009:   "Lilac Tree" by Andrew Sage   "Everyone has a yellow swing..."
September 24, 2009:   "The Human Experience" by Nick Courtright   "But what is its rationale? See, earth has nothing to do..."
September 23, 2009:   "Improveras, I Heart Abandonment" by Dannyka Taylor   "I fond too late if the mother..."
September 22, 2009:   "The Fear Was in the Northeast" by G. C. Waldrep   "The fear was in the northeast...."
September 21, 2009:   "My Fortune 500 Love Poem" by Rachel Contreni Flynn   "Amid all the typical bullshit, the fake laughter, the trumped-up urgency..."
September 20, 2009:   "Kentucky Derby Poem (2008)" by Liz Robbins   "Eight Belles, the filly who snapped..."
September 19, 2009:   "Ladder to the Moon" by X. J. Kennedy   "If I had a ladder that reached to the moon..."
September 18, 2009:   "Elmer Rice's 'The Adding Machine'" by Marvin Bell   "The staging of clerks in green visors..."
September 17, 2009:   "Girl in a Purple Dress" by Dorianne Laux   "Riding her bike down Water Street..."
September 16, 2009:   "Horizons" by Judy Little   "let anywhere as all..."
September 15, 2009:   "Hay Day" by Robert Wrigley   "Beautiful, the fourteen-hundred-pound round..."
September 14, 2009:   "13 Arkansas" by Stacy Kidd   "Delta: the days don't bring you quicker. No..."
September 13, 2009:   "While Refuged at Sophie's Cottage as Bombs Fall on London, Nina Hamnett Pens a Postcard to Wyndham Lewis" by Tom Holmes   "Sophie collects new moons..."
September 12, 2009:   "I Was Thinking of Beauty" by Sydney Lea   "I surrender myself to Charles Mingus. I'm spinning Tijuana Moods..."
September 11, 2009:   "Cosmonauts" by Rhett Iseman Trull   "Cosmonauts have nine lives, too. That is why we launch ourselves..."
September 10, 2009:   "Destinations, VI." by Nick Courtright   "Even after I died, I could not close my eyes..."
September 9, 2009:   "Valle Vidal" by John Poch   "Like a cutthroat..."
September 8, 2009:   "I Trade My Family for Junk" by Travis Wayne Denton   "The older I get, the more of my family..."
September 7, 2009:   "Notes from a Marine Biologist's Daughter" by Anne McCrary Sullivan   "My mother loves the salty mud of estuaries..."
September 6, 2009:   "Vase with Autumn Asters" by Carol Dine   "A shadow settles behind the vase..."
September 5, 2009:   "Do the Right Thing" by Adrian Matejka   "Spike Lee is so small I didn't even..."
September 4, 2009:   "Emily, It's Better This Way" by Christopher Citro   "They landed in the morning and nothing happened...."
September 3, 2009:   "Past Bedtime" by Lesley Wheeler   "Sometimes I feel like a stream, she said...."
September 2, 2009:   "Your Leaving Vienna with the Hapsburgs" by Jason Spear   "Just as the sun fell down, you slipped out behind the slinky cat. I think..."
September 1, 2009:   "Evening at Home" by Arthur Madson   "The eye that closes at dusk..."
August 31, 2009:   "The Escape Artist in Winter" by Allison Funk   "I'm under it again, that foot of ice...."
August 30, 2009:   "Then" by Patricia Fargnoli   "Then, he held me there as if stunned, the figure who had appeared saying..."
August 29, 2009:   "Repititions" by Jennifer Moxley   "When fixed into my explanations this phrase..."
August 28, 2009:   from Catabolism by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa   "A body is not always everything we are taught..."
August 27, 2009:   "Lightweights" by Jeff Hardin   "Even in these hostile times..."
August 26, 2009:   "Dear P. XII" by Victoria Chang   "When you fall onto the floor, your cry..."
August 25, 2009:   "Certainly Uncertain: a love of tone poem" by Bob Hicok   "Here is the place I am thinking..."
August 24, 2009:   "Was to Have Been Called Whip-poor-will" by Lisa Olstein   "Dog hears it..."
August 23, 2009:   "A Letter to Serafin" by John Minczeski   "Serafin, orphaned angel..."
August 22, 2009:   "The Lovers at Eighty" by Marilyn L. Taylor   "Fluted light from the window finds her..."
August 21, 2009:   "Whippoorwill" by John Clarke   "Dead leaf or whippoorwill? In a wood..."
August 20, 2009:   "Green Heron" by Daniel Wolff   "A little green in a fine mist...."
August 19, 2009:   "Ebb" by Martha Zweig   "In my good night's..."
August 18, 2009:   "Lightweights" by Jeff Hardin   "Even in these hostile times..."
August 17, 2009:   "[receding sphinx]" by Lisa Olstein   "I'm working with a common family of flower feeders. Many..."
August 16, 2009:   "Selfish" by Lesley Wheeler   "When you are always right, it is hard to diet..."
August 15, 2009:   "Orchard" by Noel Conneely   "Between the red and the green..."
August 14, 2009:   "If Palinurus" by Timothy O'Keefe   "You put me here...."
August 13, 2009:   "Lifeguards" by William Greenway   "You either have one..."
August 12, 2009:   "Valentine" by Kiki Petrosino   "Today I got rejected from the Bible...."
August 11, 2009:   "Shark" by Heather Hamilton   "In the thick dark I nose..."
August 10, 2009:   "I Will Begin Tagging “Sad Robot Inc...." by Kate Angus   "The ficus drapes its one long vine around..."
August 9, 2009:   "Condemned" by Susanna Lang   "Above the street, above this bungalow I've lived in since before my son could walk..."
August 8, 2009:   "Astronaut" by Ulick O'Connor   "For too long we had watched them fade, the flickering lights..."
August 7, 2009:   "The Reclamation of Paradise" by Stephen Kampa   "The butterflies' abrupt communiqué..."
August 6, 2009:   "The Somnabulist" by L.S. Klatt   "When it happens, you're glad it's not you..."
August 5, 2009:   "Gifts" by Eamon Grennan   "Saphire, emerald, amethyst of..."
August 4, 2009:   "Bartonsville" by Robert Gibb   "Here in the first clear light..."
August 3, 2009:   "Bernal Heights" by Cheryl Dumesnil   "Knit cap rolled down to eyebrows, corduroys..."
August 2, 2009:   "Asleep Then, Despite Color" by Carol Willette Bachofner   "The elusiveness of grass, though we walk on it..."
August 1, 2009:   "Kelp" by Paul Farley   "A puppet forest has gone to wrack..."
July 31, 2009:   "Still as in a Still after Still" by Mary Jo Bang   "How-then-why is charted like a map is a chart..."
July 30, 2009:   "The Sumerians" by James Doyle   "built a suburb of stepped towers..."
July 29, 2009:   "The Velocity of Love" by Kate Gleason   "On the scale we're now talking..."
July 28, 2009:   "Tale" by Anna Lowe   "The book say go. Go feed..."
July 27, 2009:   "Dust" by Deborah Warren   "So what? Even if the whole thing's doomed..."
July 26, 2009:   "Dust" by Ravi Shankar   "Congregated in loops of dirt and hair..."
July 25, 2009:   "Love After Lovely Leaves" by Andrew McCarron   "The problem of pathos must be..."
July 24, 2009:   "Then From Our Green Branch" by Oni Buchanan   "then the "safety net" they held..."
July 23, 2009:   "Bottomlands Tongue" by Doug Ramspeck   "And so the burning of this sun beside the pickerelweeds..."
July 22, 2009:   "Three in a Maze and a Monster (Vertigo)" by Lesley Jenike   "Directed to take in with her eyes the whole..."
July 21, 2009:   "A Personal Matter (1987)" by Lisa Sewell   "The first suggestion comes in sleep..."
July 20, 2009:   "These Gods are Known by the Shapes of Their Teeth" by John M. Anderson   "Spade-tooth, coil and axle-tooth...."
July 19, 2009:   "Eve, Seducing the Apple" by Kathleen Winter   "You extraordinary apple, Consciousness..."
July 18, 2009:   "Power Line" by Arthur Sze   "As light runs along the length of power lines..."
July 17, 2009:   "California" by Jen Denrow   "Forget your life...."
July 16, 2009:   "Mermaid in my Fish Bowl" by Doug Ramspeck   "I would say she was no larger..."
July 15, 2009:   "Anniversary" by Janine Oshiro   "I fashioned an acre, made moderate..."
July 14, 2009:   "[The night was animal]" by Claire Hero   "The night was animal, was owlmaw..."
July 13, 2009:   "Waking" by Mia Nussbaum   "Through pool-light..."
July 12, 2009:   "Wound" by Corinne Wohlford Taff   "If I have loved, it is mostly..."
July 11, 2009:   "Unburdening" by Octavio Quintanilla   "I wait for you in a room..."
July 10, 2009:   "Love Note" by E.G. Burrow   "Clouds crash and boil up..."
July 9, 2009:   "The Fox" by Dean Young   "Remember trying to feed the fox?..."
July 8, 2009:   "Of course, I told the women," by Stacy Kidd   "the river was changeless and could not be wounded..."
July 7, 2009:   "Foot Hounds" by Claudia Burbank   "There are no bad dogs someone says..."
July 6, 2009:   "The House Rhapsody" by John Gallaher   "For the difficulty of dinner tables..."
July 4, 2009:   "Deeply Impersonal" by Bob Hicok   "This is a good way to take life in. The eyes...."
July 3, 2009:   "Millificent" by Emma Trelles   "No one has entered..."
July 2, 2009:   "How to Sleep" by Dorianne Laux   "Let your mountainous forehead..."
July 1, 2009:   "Matryoshka" by Teresa Pfeifer   "No house of self, my little Matryona..."
June 30, 2009:   "Inland Song" by Lesley Wheeler   "In some kind houses the doors..."
June 29, 2009:   "The Euphoria of Peoria" by Dean Young   "Help me please breathe..."
June 28, 2009:   "And the Cantilevered Inference Shall Hold the Day" by Michael Blumenthal   "Things are not as they seem: the innuendo of everything makes..."
June 27, 2009:   "Fracture" by Leslie Adams   "I've seen already how I could hate your thin mouth..."
June 26, 2009:   "After Whitman's 'There Was a Child Went Forth'" by Ralph Salisbury   "The chilling shade and the albino dog..."
June 25, 2009:   "Bats in the Attic" by Chelsea Rathburn   "By day, God how we hated them hanging there..."
June 24, 2009:   "Resurrection Fern" by Sara Johnson   "On ghostly days..."
June 23, 2009:   "Rip Cord" by Jamie Thomas   "If we were meant to jump from airplanes..."
June 22, 2009:   "A Dog in Hanoi" by Joseph Duemer   "Maybe Ngoc Ha is nothing...."
June 21, 2009:   "The Child and the Parent" by Ted Kooser   "The child has torn off the front of the parent...."
June 20, 2009:   "The Fugitive Kind" by Austin Hummell   "She wakes in Asia on Sunday, buses..."
June 19, 2009:   "A Great Whirring" by Bruce Snider   "A bird's cry cracks  open the day..."
June 18, 2009:   "It Is Virtually Without Thickness and Has Almost" by Angie Estes   "no weight. If rubbed between forefinger..."
June 17, 2009:   "This is Not About Pears" by Matthew Hittinger   "Cézanne was wrong, or rather correct..."
June 16, 2009:   "The Widdershins Garden" by Olivia Clare   "Blink, the sunglint flies..."
June 15, 2009:   "Diagnosing God" by Michael Meyerhofer   "I wonder what phobia made God..."
June 14, 2009:   "He Tells You About the Dress You Wore" by Debra Nystrom   "Every few years he calls from..."
June 13, 2009:   "Your Own Winnebago" by Sandra Simonds   "There's a volcano in my Alaska, a Paris..."
June 12, 2009:   "Treatment Options" by Bin Ramke   "Inside, the palm and fingers..."
June 11, 2009:   "Idiot Means Good Luck" by James Haug   "Too bad the storm cellar could fit all of us..."
June 10, 2009:   "After All This" by Richard Jackson   "After all this love, after the birds rip like scissors..."
June 9, 2009:   "'A line of hills'" by Donald Revell   "A line of hills..."
June 8, 2009:   "Surrender" by Dorianne Laux   "Supine under branches..."
June 7, 2009:   "Dancers" by Christopher Howell   "The bee drifts from the lily and the lily fronds..."
June 6, 2009:   "New World" by Jim Harrison   "This moment says no to the next...."
June 5, 2009:   "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Wendy Barker   "How I'd like to buy flowers, how I'd like to place a sterling..."
June 4, 2009:   "First Date with a Dozer" by Victoria Boynton   "D-8, you want me..."
June 3, 2009:   "Rain on the Roof" by Beverley Bie Brahic   "It rains on the roof of the church, fat drops..."
June 2, 2009:   "Questions about Birds" by Billy Collins   "I am going to sit down on a rock near some water..."
June 1, 2009:   "Sasquatch" by Norman Dubie   "I am not a costume..."
May 31, 2009:   "Numbers" by Katharine Coles   "They won't stick. They gleam like brilliantine...."
May 30, 2009:   "The Terrible Poem" by Dara Wier   "Love lives just sit there on the sidelines...."
May 29, 2009:   "Without Us" by Joel Friederich   "What if we'd left enduring..."
May 28, 2009:   "The Match" by Carley Moore   "At the stairs to the top of the volcano..."
May 27, 2009:   "Dig" by Elizabeth Rees   "The prospector hollered Go! and we raised our shovels..."
May 26, 2009:   "asunder" by Craig Arnold   "On the fire escape of your rented room..."
May 25, 2009:   "Moving day" by Bob Hicok   "When it's time, the hotels of Ardmore no longer interesting..."
May 24, 2009:   "What Remains" by Juleta Severson-Baker   "In an undertow of air my skin..."
May 23, 2009:   "Labrador" by Brandi Homan   "I still sleep with one arm..."
May 22, 2009:   "Imperative" by Orlando White   "Break a sentence; use letters for teeth...."
May 21, 2009:   "Apples Are No Longer American. Nor Traffic." by Jennifer Kronovet   "The gnats swarm..."
May 20, 2009:   "Elmina" by David Mills   "'Ghana’s, Gold Coast has now virtually changed..."
May 19, 2009:   "Animal Planet" by Jim Natal   "This is the hour of hyenas...."
May 18, 2009:   "Cousins" by Debra Nystrom   "Afternoons, Grandma sent us inside..."
May 17, 2009:   "Autumn Thoughts on the East Fork" by Charles Wright   "Daytime is boredom after awhile, I've come to find, and nighttime..."
May 16, 2009:   "A Wave" by Stuart Dybek   "gathers into a towering question..."
May 15, 2009:   "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson   "I hate to say the spring. It's become..."
May 14, 2009:   "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield   "I had lived on this earth..."
May 13, 2009:   "Thanksgiving" by Andrea Hollander Budy   "Her voice has too much jewelry in it...."
May 12, 2009:   "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio   "The gods are rinsing their just-boiled pasta..."
May 11, 2009:   "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker   "The most common cause of death is cars...."
May 10, 2009:   "The Loneliness of Dogs" by Tim Mayo   "About spelling the human masters..."
May 9, 2009:   "Yellow Boat" by Kathleen Driskell   "Lifted into dry dock, where the sun..."
May 8, 2009:   "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat   "It seemed like suffering, or a lesser form of anguish..."
May 7, 2009:   "Duly Noted" by John Gallaher   "Every now and then you've simply got to empty it all out..."
May 6, 2009:   "Horse in Snow" by Pamela Porter   "First, the nail-bitten fencepost..."
May 5, 2009:   "Chicken Little" by Tiffany Atkinson   "So I lift your dress..."
May 4, 2009:   "And the Crow Makes Wing to the Rooky Wood" by Elizabeth Biller Chapman   "Wings of moss, the fabric of this place where..."
May 3, 2009:   "Theory of lost things" by Keetje Kuipers   "Because loneliness and beauty are inseparable, one is often..."
May 2, 2009:   "Preparedness" by Paul Willis   "The earthquake prediction for California..."
May 1, 2009:   "The New World Deli" by Bruce Cohen   "At a cocktail party I met the actual guy who cloned sheep...."
April 30, 2009:   "Cryptozoology" by Sherman Alexie   "I saw a crow, with a row of blue feathers..."
April 29, 2009:   "How We Fail to Envision the Dead" by Phebe Davidson   "We rarely see him looking up..."
April 28, 2009:   "Retrobulbar" by Laurie Clements Lambeth   "as though the lesion somewhere behind the bulb..."
April 27, 2009:   "They Dredge Up Visions" by Jennifer Kronovet   "as if fires were always..."
April 26, 2009:   "It Never Comes Easy" by Robert Parham   "Theft never comes easy...."
April 25, 2009:   "Oppenheimer Maps His Coordinates" by Cynthia Lowen   "After so much time in the desert..."
April 24, 2009:   "Self-Portrait as Zipper" by Courtney Queeney   "I can't escape the parting..."
April 23, 2009:   "Echoing Canto of the Gleaners (Inferno)" by John Kinsella   "Galahs and corellas comb the paddocks..."
April 22, 2009:   "Y at the End of It" by Nancy Eimers   "My neighbor Lee is calling her cat home again..."
April 21, 2009:   "Free Period" by David Yezzi   "Outside study hall..."
April 20, 2009:   "Take Cover" by Angie Estes   "and couvre feu, cover the fire..."
April 19, 2009:   "Sunday Morning" by Kathryn Simmonds   "Since I've stopped praying..."
April 18, 2009:   "Isle Au Haut" by D. Nurkse   "I spent that August in your mind..."
April 17, 2009:   "Sand" by Bruce Bond   "So many grains, so many little tombs..."
April 16, 2009:   "South City" by Randall Mann   "Even the pines are industrial-park green...."
April 15, 2009:   "On Finally Blaming Myself a Little Finally" by Maggie Glover   "My porch upon the cliff, my house upon the mountain..."
April 14, 2009:   "Missed Connections" by Sherman Alexie   "Descending, in our forty-seat airplane..."
April 13, 2009:   "Inseminating the Elephant" by Lucia Perillo   "The zoologists who came from Germany..."
April 12, 2009:   "A Corpse of Vortices" by Tom Holmes   "After they kill me..."
April 11, 2009:   "There Were Horses" by Annie Lighthart   "There were horses in all our days...."
April 10, 2009:   "Elegy for My Sex Life" by Karen Kovacik   "Goodbye, closing credits and kissing..."
April 9, 2009:   "Humans" by Elizabeth Austen   "the day begins in disarray..."
April 8, 2009:   "Shell" by Joan Colby   "Broken conch whitened and drilled with tiny holes..."
April 7, 2009:   "The Crinolines" by Judith Skillman   "In cages readied beside water..."
April 6, 2009:   "The People on the Bus" by Stephen Burt   "We have had our lives...."
April 5, 2009:   "Monday" by Randall Mann   "While you wait for the J train, for work, think..."
April 4, 2009:   "A List of Possibilities in an Uncertain Order" by Jack Ridl   "Lighthouses may well still be useful...."
April 3, 2009:   "A History in Six Couplets" by Idra Novey   "Called a bird, the distant..."
April 2, 2009:   "Iridescent, One Might Say" by Mary Ann Samyn   "I was beautiful at a distance..."
April 1, 2009:   "Scales of Little Wisdom" by Roberto Juarroz (translated by Mary Crow)   "Scales of a little wisdom..."
March 31, 2009:   "Secret Sea" by Nathan Parker   "This morning a child offered me water..."
March 30, 2009:   "Hare" by Joseph Campana   "Hare says Moon but Moon..."
March 29, 2009:   "Mechanics of Early Autumn" by Helena Mesa   "Migrant workers pick late tomatoes..."
March 28, 2009:   "The Cow" by Adam Day   "There I was, snagged in barbed-wire..."
March 27, 2009:   "Idolum Naturae Magnum: A Meditation" by Sandra Meek   "In space rich—Beautiful for its worlds—the immensity..."
March 26, 2009:   "In The Woods" by James Doyle   "The house wriggled gingerbread and cinnamon...."
March 25, 2009:   "The Uses of Things" by Liz Waldner   "When the stove clock hands sprawl..."
March 24, 2009:   "confessions of a teenage drama queen " by D. A. Powell   "I was a male war bride. I was a spy..."
March 23, 2009:   "Larger Than Life" by Michelle Boisseau   "And so it came to pass that the immortal..."
March 22, 2009:   "The Ironer" by Allison Benis White   "Obscene as the taste of blood and the closeness of her tongue..."
March 21, 2009:   "Alcatraz, and Back" by Cody Walker   "All I'm saying is this guy, this showbiz..."
March 20, 2009:   "The Rescue" by Alison Stine   "He brought birds, the man from the rescue..."
March 19, 2009:   "Clouds" by Jason Bredle   "That was the day..."
March 18, 2009:   "How it Started" by Leslie Harrison   "At the point you start throwing pebbles..."
March 17, 2009:   "Threshold" by Kathryn Kirkpatrick   "The jagged trail of pee..."
March 16, 2009:   "Return as Black Currant" by Anna Journey   "Because she bleeds dark jelly and French liqueur..."
March 15, 2009:   "The Bull" by Stefi Weisburd   "In the beginning, he enjoyed volume..."
March 14, 2009:   "Wintering" by Kristin Bock   "All night, hemlocks drop their cones on stone steps...."
March 12, 2009:   "Since You've Gone" by Frank Gallimore   "Let's not decorate it. Someone..."
March 11, 2009:   "Your Picture" by Jean Valentine   "Brown museum hair, brushed the way they brush it there..."
March 10, 2009:   "Deer Poem" by Dennis Hinrichsen   "So now the placement of the "I" to the edge of this field: two..."
March 9, 2009:   "Diadem" by Kathy Fagan   "When the moon assembles the stars on the blue baldachin..."
March 8, 2009:   "Morning and Night" by Richard Lyons   "It will be at least another hour before the sun comes up...."
March 7, 2009:   "Rock Me, Mama" by Erica Dawson   "I-65 has stalled. The spokes..."
March 6, 2009:   "Tornado" by Nancy Cherry   "In Oklahoma, there are windows without houses...."
March 5, 2009:   "Game Night at the Deaf Club" by Frank Gallimore   "Goodbyes flit from their hands as lights go..."
March 4, 2009:   "L’art D’aimer" by Teresa Chuc Dowell   "First are the songs— a composition of whistles..."
March 3, 2009:   "Dear Succubus" by Lee Upton   "Ornery and ancient..."
March 2, 2009:   "Jellyfish" by George David Clark   "The dark sea dreams them...."
March 1, 2009:   "Dropping Names" by Greg Delanty   "To go unnoticed is good, though mostly we forget..."
February 28, 2009:   "One Fish, Two Fish" by Erica Dawson   "Downstairs, dolphins eat minnows, schoolgirls shriek..."
February 27, 2009:   "Intelligent Design" by Richard Cecil   "Before I bought my Code-a-Phone I wondered..."
February 26, 2009:   "Legitimacy Is So Chummy" by J. P. Dancing Bear   "First thing is: everyone presses the room...."
February 25, 2009:   "Evening" by Steve Wilson   "Foolish, to need when there is sky..."
February 24, 2009:   "Self-Portrait with Taxidermy" by Oliver de la Paz   "In my anatomy studies, I expected..."
February 23, 2009:   "Dog Moon" by Dorianne Laux   "The old dog next door won’t stop barking..."
February 22, 2009:   "Personal" by Anthony Walton   "Younger than you..."
February 21, 2009:   "The Pencil" by Billy Collins   "I held the pencil so lightly today..."
February 20, 2009:   "Holidays and Sundays" by David Bottoms   "They'd settle in our living room, cross their legs—three or four uncles..."
February 19, 2009:   "The Battle-Axe" by Melissa Range   "Because not every yeoman can afford..."
February 18, 2009:   "The Natural World" by Peter B. Hyland   "One September the neighbor's terrier found a way..."
February 17, 2009:   "Eurydice & Orpheus" by Mark Irwin   "Long her darkness there, his turning head..."
February 16, 2009:   "Palsy" by Bob Hicok   "Ignoring the obvious is most of manners...."
February 15, 2009:   "Morning on the Moors" by Elizabeth Volpe   "The cow's heavy head swings over the oat grass and thistle..."
February 14, 2009:   "Advance Requiem for a Lovely Couple" by Elton Glaser   "So Beauty's gone under the knife again..."
February 13, 2009:   "Astrologia" by James Grabill   "Earth jerks around the sun, blue Ford Galaxies..."
February 12, 2009:   "Bookends" by Sandra Kohler   "Walking along the river after a month’s..."
February 11, 2009:   "Sense" by Brian Diamond   "It takes 4¢ to make a penny..."
February 10, 2009:   "Night's Song" by Inès Pujos   "The night cuts you open as you sit her..."
February 9, 2009:   "The God of the Normandy Coast" by James Doyle   "When the God of the Normandy Coast..."
February 8, 2009:   "Sunday at the Boat Building School" by C. E. Perry   "When a garden of amputees feels..."
February 7, 2009:   "Deathmatch Mode" by Steven D. Schroeder   "First Ty killed Jay, killed Jack, killed Rick...."
February 6, 2009:   "The Gulf" by Jericho Brown   "Seaweed chokes the sand..."
February 5, 2009:   "Scullery" by Sarah J. Sloat   "The mop makes a dismal instrument...."
February 4, 2009:   "A Poem for David Schubert" by Sandra Simonds   "Went to the valley and it was green went to the valley..."
February 3, 2009:   "Hopkins Palindrome" by Aaron Belz   "I caught this..."
February 2, 2009:   "Rabbit" by Ron Padgett   "It's hard to understand what..."
February 1, 2009:   "Dailiness" by Robin Chapman   "It is the birds..."
January 31, 2009:   "Pixels" by Dick Allen   "Each small thing he examines, every microdot..."
January 30, 2009:   "Canterbury Tale" by William Greenway   "The flowers she buys at the grocery..."
January 29, 2009:   "The Park in Winter" by Stacy Kidd   "Poor little pigeon parked on a park bench..."
January 28, 2009:   "Inclement Shades of Weather" by Cynthia Atkins   "As if with intention, the rain navigates..."
January 27, 2009:   "The Storm" by Jennifer Moss   "Where one mind stops..."
January 26, 2009:   "Double Down" by Kary Wayson   "I try to make a poem in order to be smart..."
January 25, 2009:   "Il pleut" by Chris Glomski   "The sentence begins the sentence began by thinking..."
January 24, 2009:   "The Blue Grotto" by Monica Ferrell   "Somewhere in this world I will understand..."
January 23, 2009:   "What We're up Against" by John Gallaher   "On the way home from the funeral..."
January 22, 2009:   "Memory is a Disease of Animals" by Marc McKee   "This is the shirt you wore..."
January 21, 2009:   "Getaway" by Clay Matthews   "I was not so keen as the others on the sing-a-long..."
January 20, 2009:   "Nest" by Katy Didden   "Yellow bill, deft needle..."
January 19, 2009:   "Altered Beast" by Lucia Perillo   "You were a man and I used to be a woman..."
January 18, 2009:   "Ovid in Exile" by John Hart   "The cat whines in the kitchen..."
January 17, 2009:   "Possum Nocturne" by Doug Ramspeck   "The boy found a possum skull..."
January 16, 2009:   "The Platypus Speaks" by Sandra Beasley   "As far as the duck-billed platypus goes..."
January 15, 2009:   "Theology" by K. A. Hays   "The sea, for now, is a blue swag..."
January 14, 2009:   "Post-op, Medical Humanities" by Sandra McPherson   "Compared to my husband's kiss..."
January 13, 2009:   "Bees" by Cathryn Essinger   "Some worship the sun..."
January 12, 2009:   "Gamophobia" by Patrick Ryan Frank   "It's just that each of us is engaged already..."
January 11, 2009:   "Lake Powell, AZ" by Ian Harris   "From the canyon rim..."
January 10, 2009:   "So Perky" by Ken Rumble   "Tendency skip rock plate techniques..."
January 9, 2009:   "Go On, Sure, Why Not" by Gail Wronsky   "My beloved black bamboo seems wrong..."
January 8, 2009:   "Psalm against a Rapture" by K. A. Hays   "The monks are on a pilgrimage, swinging uphill..."
January 7, 2009:   "In the hospital parking lot" by Marianne Boruch   "In the hospital parking lot..."
January 6, 2009:   "Ontology and the Platypus" by Kathy Fagan   "So which mammalian fuck-up list produced..."
January 5, 2009:   "Brian's Brain" by William D. Waltz   "Science insists and how..."
January 4, 2009 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Natural Enemies" by J. P. Dancing Bear   "all day the owl is dreaming of a crow, dreaming..."
January 3, 2009 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Skin" by Alex Lemon   "Because the rain did not stop humming..."
January 2, 2009 (A 2008 Favorite):   "August" by William Kloefkorn   "I am not old but old enough to believe..."
January 1, 2009 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Knowing No Better" by Nance Van Winckel   "In the course of one night..."
December 31, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics" by Mary Ann Samyn   "—Some want a guiding principle, narrative pick-me-up...."
December 30, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus" by Dean Young   "I knew it was on the other side of the door..."
December 29, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Bicycling from Todtnauberg" by Suzanne Zweizig   "Minnows : silverfish : other gray skimming...."
December 28, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Psalm of Snow" by Tony Barnstone   "I had forgotten how to say yes. That's the trick of heartbreak...."
December 27, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Oh Grow Up" by Dora Malech   "First thing's first aid and off-track..."
December 26, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Goat" by C.J. Sage   "Hoofed culler of things ignored..."
December 25, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "The Sand Speaks" by Sandra Beasley   "I'm fluid and omnivorous, casual in..."
December 24, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Lifting whither" by Karen Volkman   "Lifting whither, cycle of the sift..."
December 23, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle   "My literary inclinations..."
December 22, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Deer in the Apples" by Joan Murray   "A horde of apples lying in the cleft between the trees..."
December 21, 2008:   "Maximillian Sunflowers" by Brett DeFries   "As for us, we bend and know the pull of sun..."
December 20, 2008:   "Hear" by Joseph Massey   "The field / throb. Early..."
December 19, 2008:   "The Dead" by Fleda Brown   "The dead are disorderly. If they rot, worms..."
December 18, 2008:   "Barter" by Michael Chitwood   "We invented money..."
December 17, 2008:   "First Defense" by Megan Gannon   "Suddenly everything..."
December 16, 2008:   "Portrait of Hooper as a Drama Minor Pulling an All-nighter for the Finance Exam" by Charles Sweetman   "Return on Investment (ROI) tests management’s efficiency...."
December 15, 2008:   "Tell it Slant" by Sally Bliumis-Dunn   "Have to sail at an angle..."
December 14, 2008:   "Return" by Rachel Moritz   "Made of all the structures in my life..."
December 13, 2008:   "Nothing is Haunted" by Sandy Longhorn   "in quite the way small Midwestern farms..."
December 12, 2008:   "When Worlds Collide (1951)" by Maggie Smith   "If Dr. Bronson's calculations prove to be correct..."
December 11, 2008:   "Attack Attack" by Marc McKee   "The imperfect products of the nation-state..."
December 10, 2008:   "Metronome" by Sally Van Doren   "I hit normal, but it turns out..."
December 9, 2008:   "How We Didn't Tell Her" by Sandra M. Gilbert   "that the housekeeper said that..."
December 8, 2008:   ": Shadow : Dwelling : " by Jessica Goodfellow   "Dwelling in a foreign land. Time is the only familiar..."
December 7, 2008:   "Elegy for Robert Creeley and Pope John Paul II, Dead Three Days Apart" by Tom C. Hunley   "Something dramatic is going to happen to me soon...."
December 6, 2008:   "An Animal" by Katy Lederer   "Black, derogatory...."
December 5, 2008:   "The Tulip Thief, Mi Amor" by Suzanne Frischkorn   "At first it was an ember; its glow I nursed..."
December 4, 2008:   "Spoke" by Erin Malone   "For every language, a landscape: Park..."
December 3, 2008:   "A World of Rights and Wrongs" by Jason Tandon   "Afraid of white lies..."
December 2, 2008:   "Bathing in the Burned House" by Karen Rigby   "The house shimmers..."
December 1, 2008:   "To the Family of the Man We Ate 130 Years Ago" by Sharon Dolin   "We are sorry, but when your kinsman, the reverend..."
November 30, 2008:   "Winter Sea" by Jacqueline Marcus   "You wake up to the deepening light through the window..."
November 29, 2008:   "Earth" by Wendy Drexler   "Forgive me if I feel a little shaky...."
November 28, 2008:   "For All Anyone Knows" by Susan Meyers   "The wasps congregating on the wind chimes, late August..."
November 27, 2008:   "August" by William Kloefkorn   "I am not old but old enough to believe..."
November 26, 2008:   "Lucifer's Beginning Poetry Workshop" by Philip Memmer   "Lucifer loves the beginners...."
November 25, 2008:   "Black Crosses" by T. Zachary Cotler   "What about him, who stayed..."
November 24, 2008:   "July" by C.J. Sage   "I was wondering dollars half-hearted..."
November 23, 2008:   "The Blackmailer's Wife Reads History and Considers the Nature of Guilt" by Judy Brown   "After the Bourbons returned, people claimed they saw..."
November 22, 2008:   "Daphne" by Emma Jones   "And if I was changed, what was the difference?..."
November 21, 2008:   "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson   "Let's assume about the body..."
November 20, 2008:   "Patterns" by Theodore Worozbyt   "Just now where the scar nearly touches your hair a red siren..."
November 19, 2008:   "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley   "A poet is as old as what he sees..."
November 18, 2008:   "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels   "When the painter said, OK, you guys..."
November 17, 2008:   "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira   "The dog barked that year..."
November 16, 2008:   "What Kind of an Animal Would Do That" by Laurie Blauner   "There's blood everywhere and a throat full of rabbits. Intent is what happens..."
November 15, 2008:   "The Voice of The Insomniac" by Blanca Castellón, translated by J. P. Dancing Bear   "is a fragment of hell that sometimes occurs during nights of insomnia. In..."
November 14, 2008:   "Franklin. Swimming." by Mike Smith   "Out back the grapes are overripe and falling...."
November 13, 2008:   from "All the Purple Deer" by Christopher Shipman   "I have loved you for a thousand years..."
November 12, 2008:   "Andalusia" by Matthew Rohrer   "Andalusia—the wavy..."
November 11, 2008:   "Every Will Builds Itself a Satellite" by Chris Tonelli   "It's hard for Gravitron to remember exactly when it all stopped being so..."
November 10, 2008:   "Curtains" by Sarah J. Sloat   "For weeks I have been waking up..."
November 9, 2008:   "Free Bible in Your Own Language" by Heather Kirn   "Call me doubting Tom, but have you heard..."
November 8, 2008:   "Flares" by Simmons B. Buntin   "South of Arizona 86, we slow at a sudden..."
November 7, 2008:   "Governing Bodies" by Tim Lockridge   "There's a rash of harlequin romance written..."
November 6, 2008:   "Dear Jealousy" by Ellen Andolsek   "I know I said I hated you..."
November 5, 2008:   "World Hypothesis" by Jennifer Militello   "The geese again...."
November 4, 2008:   "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson   "Grab that large picnic cloth. Gingham unfurled..."
November 3, 2008:   "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda   "I'm always boarding..."
November 2, 2008:   "Common Loon" by Daniel Wolff   "Mindless, the tide insists that the body..."
November 1, 2008:   "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle   "My literary inclinations..."
October 31, 2008:   "The Sunset District" by Sarah V. Schweig   "Meet me in the Sunset District, out by the shoreline..."
October 30, 2008:   "Red" by Allan Petterson   "Such a red is extreme in these precincts..."
October 29, 2008:   "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh   "It's an illness in her, they think, seeing me kneel..."
October 28, 2008:   "The Return" by Kate Lim   "Ghostly lemurs..."
October 27, 2008:   "A Last Poem" by Camasin Middour   "Dear, there's not much more I can do..."
October 26, 2008:   "Inchadoney" by Dave Lordan   "I have run my heart down..."
October 25, 2008:   "Chinese Box" by Carmen Germain   "All night I climb in dream rubble..."
October 24, 2008:   "The Laughing Thrush" by W.S. Merwin   "O nameless joy of the morning..."
October 23, 2008:   "Bad Blood" by Diann Blakely   "A woman stares, wild-eyed from the terror known only when death..."
October 21, 2008:   "Invocation" by Erin Malone   "O potato, freckled-in-rows-of-four-where-pierced..."
October 20, 2008:   "My Sister Is A Flight Of Birds" by Michael Daley   "I’m standing on ice, a flight of geese..."
October 19, 2008:   "Jacket" by Caryl Pagel   "He bites a tape-measure between his teeth..."
October 18, 2008:   "Baseball" by Deborah Burnham   "I love your hands when we talk baseball, how..."
October 17, 2008:   "The Sparrow And The Moth" by Damon McLaughlin   "Perhaps a small wind..."
October 16, 2008:   "The Possibilities for Wings" by Gary Fincke   "How often have the customs of strangers..."
October 15, 2008:   "Octopus" by Nancy Pagh   "Some men are beautifully..."
October 14, 2008:   "Nothing to It" by Chris Forhan   "My mind a lake of milk: a lack..."
October 13, 2008:   "Over a Ballpoint" by Allan Peterson   "They are afraid they said..."
October 12, 2008:   "No" by Joumana Haddad   "I see you in daylight, an impossible moon..."
October 11, 2008:   "The Pause in the Plummet for Prayer" by Gary Fincke   "They'd plunged thousands of feet, crash-certain, and now..."
October 10, 2008:   "The Feeding" by Michelle Bitting   "It was about love. It was about survival...."
October 9, 2008:   "The Emperor's Wife" by Laurie Blauner   "Belief is everything. Yet I can't describe..."
October 8, 2008:   "Letter to Beowulf" by Paul J. Willis   "Sleeping under that pine tree the other night..."
October 7, 2008:   "Before it Was a Business" by Justin Courter   "Hey you disastrous sasquatch—watch where the hell you're..."
October 6, 2008:   "Blue Car" by Natt Pritts   "That blue car you drive just passed by..."
October 5, 2008:   "Progress" by Carrie Fountain   "Before they paved the streets of Mesilla..."
October 4, 2008:   "Woven and Sewn" by Nancy White   "You are no virgin, listen. You must stop here...."
October 3, 2008:   Dante's The Inferno "Canto I" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Mary Jo Bang   "Stopped mid-motion in the middle..."
October 2, 2008:   "Goat" by C. J. Sage   "Hoofed culler of things ignored..."
October 1, 2008:   "Oriole" by Paula Bohince   "Consider three orioles..."
September 30, 2008:   "The Sand Speaks" by Sandra Beasley   "I'm fluid and omnivorous, casual in..."
September 29, 2008:   "An Explanation" by Albert Goldbarth   "I wanted to say..."
September 28, 2008:   "Morning Edition" by Andrzej Sosnowski, translated by Benjamin Paloff   "Garrulous mornings, dynamic..."
September 27, 2008:   "Afterlife" by Paul Hunter   "Sown in their jostling millions..."
September 26, 2008:   "Sunday" by Lawrence Raab   "Once there was music that could tear..."
September 25, 2008:   "Memory of Soil" by Eleanor Paynter   "The new tenants change a few things...."
September 24, 2008:   "My Lives" by Al Maginnes   "In one I was a dog, reason enough..."
September 23, 2008:   "The Huntsman's Resumé" by Angela Vogel   "Oh, I'm ready for the chase. The green pelts, the headless acorns...."
September 22, 2008:   "Popular Science" by Steve Davenport   "Whatever construction we put on..."
September 21, 2008:   "Ever After" by Dennis O'Driscoll   "Whatever construction we put on..."
September 20, 2008:   from "The Dance of Atoms" by Lucretius, translated by A. E. Stallings   "Unfamiliar with the logic of the physical world..."
September 19, 2008:   "Undoing" by James Cihlar   "Unfamiliar with the logic of the physical world..."
September 18, 2008:   "Love Song" by Kimberly Johnson   "Stay, adder, startled from the spikenard..."
September 17, 2008:   "Birthday's Profile" by Daneen Wardrop   "Sometimes my shadow is attached a little crooked..."
September 16, 2008:   "On the Abduction of Calvin Klein's Daughter Marci: A Captor's Narrative" by Robyn Schiff   "Eternity, Escape, and Obsession fly the same neutral flag..."
September 15, 2008:   "For Want of a Wife" by Barbara Schweitzer   "He’ll become no geography, float free..."
September 14, 2008:   "Big Moon Over the Neighborhood" by David Bruzina   "The herd is strong in me. It steers me when I think...."
September 13, 2008:   "Difficult Speech: Welcome" by Molly Tenenbaum   "Come all you periwinkles and brilliantines..."
September 12, 2008:   "For the Night People" by Muriel Nelson   "A little celebration..."
September 11, 2008:   "Young John Clare" by Michael Waters   "Not often do I find a nest fallen..."
September 10, 2008:   "At the Jumps" by Laura McCullough   "Boys bury the junk of the town..."
September 9, 2008:   "Ventouse Sous Verre" by Nicky Beer   "Those empty, aubergine-edged saucers, her best..."
September 8, 2008:   "The Guidance Counselor to the Girl" by Catherine Pierce   "The test suggests an aptitude for solitary work..."
September 7, 2008:   "Narcissus" by Brian Brodeur   "Each day his body, tangled in ferns and larkspur..."
September 6, 2008:   "Deer in the Apples" by Joan Murray   "A horde of apples lying in the cleft between the trees..."
September 5, 2008:   "Special Ed Girl" by Deborah Bogen   "Remembering was hoisting into sight..."
September 4, 2008:   "The Poem You Hang on Your Wall Like a Painting Because It Does Something Different Each Time the Light" by Timothy Kelly   "I thought that once, near the end..."
September 3, 2008:   "Word for Word" by Nance Van Winckel   "Halfway into the book..."
September 2, 2008:   "Formation" by Eavan Boland   "The boredom of the spring afternoon...."
September 1, 2008:   "Airplanes" by Katharine Whitcomb   "especially circling a city before landing at night..."
August 31, 2008:   "Bones" by John Godfrey   "Listen to voices in my fingertips..."
August 30, 2008:   "How to Do It" by Paul Gibbons   "Know what a mule..."
August 29, 2008:   "A Convincing Story" by Beth Bretl   "They will say my husband was..."
August 28, 2008:   "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman   "A woman walks the trails at night..."
August 27, 2008:   "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown   "They're out there rattling their trailers..."
August 26, 2008:   "Settle" by Chanda Feldman   "We were in a place we rarely go..."
August 25, 2008:   "rosette" by Carina Gia Farrero   "surely we are..."
August 24, 2008:   "Prelude" by Mark Granier   "I wake to find a grey day waiting...."
August 23, 2008:   "Descartes, Nightmare" by Susan McCabe   "Robed in pink, snapping his picture-machine..."
August 22, 2008:   "Poem" by Nico Alvarado-Greenwood   "So many people I love having become..."
August 21, 2008:   "Natural Enemies" by J. P. Dancing Bear   "all day the owl is dreaming of a crow, dreaming..."
August 20, 2008:   "If They Don't Have Ritalin in Heaven," by Roy Jacobstein   "I guess I'll be up there with all of them..."
August 19, 2008:   "Speedy Inexpensive Chaos Theory Poem About Short Term Memory Loss" by Peggy Munson   "This is the intellectual property of an iconoclast...."
August 18, 2008:   "The Ghost Town" by John Poch   "It need not be a desiccated wreck..."
August 17, 2008:   "Virtual Death" by Joseph Harrison   "Let's not pretend we don't know how he felt..."
August 16, 2008:   "For Her Waking" by Tom Holmes   "Down the canal they arrive..."
August 15, 2008:   "'Night, the Astonishing...'" by Jeff Gundy   "One star only, and all the trees looming, not my enemies..."
August 14, 2008:   "Onstage" by David Wagoner   "I took a director to a waterfall..."
August 13, 2008:   "The Injured Thumb" by Alberto Ríos   "He hurt his thumb as he was cleaning..."
August 12, 2008:   "Late Valentines" by Derick Burleson   "My darling I have imagined you dead..."
August 11, 2008:   "An Old Story" by Richard Hoffman   "A few days after my mother died..."
August 10, 2008:   "What Miss Plath Doesn't Tell the Doctor" by C. E. Perry   "My wounds are turning..."
August 9, 2008:   "The Lawnmower People" by Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz   "Make whirring sounds..."
August 8, 2008:   "Smithereens" by L. S. Klatt   "The treetop, at 9.86 meters per second squared..."
August 7, 2008:   "India Rubber Man's Credo" by Tony Barnstone   "The softest creature in the world is hard..."
August 6, 2008:   "Diorama with a 20-Watt Bulb Inside" by John Isles   "Child hunkered down in grass..."
August 5, 2008:   "The Eroticised World" by Timothy Kelly   "We passed, on the wetlands boardwalk..."
August 4, 2008:   "Elegy for the Builder's Wife" by Nick Courtright   "Slow build, houses where thousands live..."
August 3, 2008:   "For a Senior Killed on Prom Night" by Gail White   "It's useless to pretend you would have been..."
August 2, 2008:   "Sunset Knoll" by George Bilgere   "When the smoking hot barrista..."
August 1, 2008:   "1992 (Nachtlied)" by Lizzie Hutton   "And then sex sometimes felt like a clenched horse refusing...."
July 31, 2008:   "A Cure for Dead Dogs" by Craig Morgan Teicher   "As if time were a cure. As if all things..."
July 30, 2008:   "Trajectory" by Laurie Blauner   "I waited to leave the leg..."
July 29, 2008:   "Jacob's Ladder" by Dan Bellm   "The young man and woman waiting for the trolley..."
July 28, 2008:   "Captain America" by Matt Hart   "Your makeover begins..."
July 27, 2008:   "Mermaid" by Moniza Alvi   "About human love..."
July 26, 2008:   "Fire" by Edip Caserver, translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast   "If you go outside, watch out! Don't encounter flowers...."
July 25, 2008:   "Man in a Fox Suit" and "Fox in a Man Suit" by Michael Symmons Roberts   "Thin red hide, flea-ridden, caked..."
July 24, 2008:   "Tuning Fork" by Bruce Bond   "Lynchpin of the singing wheel..."
July 23, 2008:   "Jubilee" by Kimberly Johnson   "No seduction in the hothouse, its aisles..."
July 22, 2008:   "Bicycling from Todtnauberg" by Suzanne Zweizig   "Minnows : silverfish : other gray skimming..."
July 21, 2008:   "(detail)" by Billy Collins   "It was getting late in the year..."
July 20, 2008:   "The Möbius Strip of Grief" by Ruth Stone   "When I went into the room where you waited..."
July 19, 2008:   "Star in Daylight" by William O'Daly   "O sun full of fingernails..."
July 18, 2008:   "The Heart That Lies Outside the Body" by Stephanie Lenox   "I know people want to touch it..."
July 17, 2008:   "Almost Impervious" by Nance Van Winckel   "From across the river a last dream..."
July 16, 2008:   "Psalm of Snow" by Tony Barnstone   "I had forgotten how to say yes. That's the trick of heartbreak...."
July 15, 2008:   "Skin On Skin Off Skin On Skin Off" by Alex Lemon   "It was a snake-eyed night and we were doomed..."
July 14, 2008:   "The Cow" by Knute Skinner   "There’s a white cow standing upon the hill..."
July 13, 2008:   "On the Water" by Robley Wilson   "How remote everything is..."
July 12, 2008:   "Turnstile" by Elaine Sexton   "I carry the prints of a hundred thousand..."
July 11, 2008:   "Cicatrice" by Patrick Chapman   "You did not see mine, on the first night we met...."
July 10, 2008:   "A Certain Swirl" by Mary Ruefle   "The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty..."
July 9, 2008:   "Chagall Takes a Prisoner" by Mark Yakich   "Morning breaches a flying horse...."
July 8, 2008:   "Hope, As The World Is A Scorpion Fish" by Liz Robbins   "On the near-island of Rovinj..."
July 7, 2008:   "Beneath the Bridge" by Adam Clay   "The dead shepherd. The little river. The fields...."
July 6, 2008:   "At The Gym" by Mark Doty   "This salt-stain spot..."
July 5, 2008:   "Jerusalem" by Austin Hummell   "Was a time when just west of there..."
July 4, 2008:   "Cantilevered Bedtime Story" by Deborah Bogen   "Wallpaper farm, the girl..."
July 3, 2008:   "Vortex: The Super-Sized Supermarket" by Matthew Guenette   "...I've been elbowed in the ribs, made to ask..."
July 2, 2008:   "In a time of biblical references" by Bob Hicok   "I've fallen behind. I have in fact..."
July 1, 2008:   "Snow" by Mary Ruefle   "Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have..."
June 30, 2008:   "Starlit" by G. E. Patterson   "Oh my people how quickly tears fill bowls..."
June 29, 2008:   "Between Us" by Juleta Severson-Baker   "Bees in our bed..."
June 28, 2008:   "Cortes Island B.C." by Sandra Savage   "The sun lounges on the mountain crest, today..."
June 27, 2008:   "A Poem About Monkeys" by Corey Mesler   "How they're noisy, how..."
June 26, 2008:   "Scar" by Bruce Bond   "What is it you forget in your vigil..."
June 25, 2008:   "Apeman" by Nate Pritts   "All the normally tectonic hunks of cloud, white..."
June 24, 2008:   "'This is Funny'" by Catherine Pierce   "Not the whiskey, though that, too..."
June 23, 2008:   "Blue" by Ed Madden   "A coy moon glows beyond..."
June 22, 2008:   "The Pomegranate" by Martha Serpas   "On the tray is a pomegranate and..."
June 21, 2008:   "Licorice" by Daniel Hales   "If it's been over ten years since you last tried..."
June 20, 2008:   "Fresh Rose" by W.S. Merwin   "Fresh rose, fresh rose..."
June 19, 2008:   "Some Coin" by C.J. Sage   "Inside, she was hendecagonic...."
June 18, 2008:   "from Lights Strung Lights" by Alex Lemon   "What bangs against the body while neon I sleep..."
June 17, 2008:   "The Geese" by Lisa Russ Spaar   "Just as God is not my sorrow..."
June 16, 2008:   "Civic" by Anthony Lacavaro   "A funny-looking man, so much smarter..."
June 15, 2008:   "The End" by Victoria Chang   "The end of ambition..."
June 14, 2008:   "Morality" by Susie Meserve   "Gently, now, for we begin in earnest...."
June 13, 2008:   "If You Step Off Now" by Dana Roeser   "Waking from her nest..."
June 12, 2008:   "The Rescue" by Wayne Miller   "All our debris above the sunken ship..."
June 11, 2008:   "Solution" by Rae Armantrout   "A solution is found..."
June 10, 2008:   "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy   "A pleasant, leather poison..."
June 9, 2008:   "Cine S-a Fript Cu Ciorba, Suflã şi-n Iaurt" by John W. Evans   "We reverse the spell in inches..."
June 8, 2008:   "Even the Dead Do It" by Sue Owen   "Feel regret about the one..."
June 7, 2008:   "Oh Grow Up" by Dora Malech   "First thing's first aid and off-track..."
June 6, 2008:   "What She Thought" by Jennifer Clarvoe   "But if this is an idea of truth as inclusive..."
June 5, 2008:   "I Wanted More Than I Could Steal" by Michael Robins   "Instead the opening, the end, the tunnel..."
June 4, 2008:   "Over The Hedge" by Dorianne Laux   "We labor in the backyard, weeding..."
June 3, 2008:   "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics" by Mary Ann Samyn   "—Some want a guiding principle, narrative pick-me-up...."
June 2, 2008:   "Pterodactyls at Work" by Adam O. Davis   "It was an era of strange hope. Back-broken, blistered..."
May 31, 2008:   "Apprehension in the Blurry Trees" by Cameron Thomas   "Fallen, what can a leaf care about being plucked from its..."
May 30, 2008:   "Songs to Learn & Sing" by Chris McCreary   "He was wandering amid obscene..."
May 29, 2008:   "A Song in There" by Betsy Sholl   "To stave off trouble, the old bluesmen are singing..."
May 28, 2008:   "I Wanted More Than I Could Steal" by Michael Robins   "Instead the opening, the end, the tunnel..."
May 27, 2008:   "Apostrophe to What's Still Here" by Christine Marshall   "Three brilliant pinpricks..."
May 26, 2008:   "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern   "As for those who face their death by wind..."
May 25, 2008:   "The Party by the Lake" by Kevin Prufer   "Such a time we had at the lake those days..."
May 24, 2008:   "Dusk at St. Marks, As Seen From Dunkin Donuts" by Dylan Willoughby   "The spire silhouettes a fire..."
May 23, 2008:   "Sky Harbor" by Norman Dubie   "The flock of pigeons rises over the roof..."
May 22, 2008:   "[I Saw My Face on the Dull Head]" by Adam Clay   "I saw my face on the dull head..."
May 21, 2008:   "What is Coming" by Sandra Kohler   "What is is coming. Light behind light, presence..."
May 20, 2008:   "Open Field" by Phillis Levin   "Forget the comma, the crow said, darting..."
May 19, 2008:   "Saint of Perpetual Sorrow" by James Meetze   "Call me a spent orange in the dirt, a primer-gray birdhouse in the tree..."
May 18, 2008:   "Bee Purple" by Floyd Skloot   "Deep in a montane forest two bees flit..."
May 17, 2008:   "Late Husband" by Doug Ramspeck   "In her dreams, then, she imagined him as feverish...."
May 16, 2008:   "Theories of Falling" by Sandra Beasley   "After years of research, I can only guarantee..."
May 15, 2008:   "A wedding night" by Bob Hicok   "A groom goes out with a pillow to where the sheep..."
May 14, 2008:   "Lost in the Heart of the Concert" by Pattiann Rogers   "I thread through the assembly..."
May 13, 2008:   "Anniversary" by Cecilia Woloch   "Didn’t I stand there once..."
May 12, 2008:   "My Sea Legs" by Danielle Pafunda   "From then on, Zorba called me 'Princess of Quite-a-Lot'...."
May 11, 2008:   "Midden" by Brendan Galvin   "My shovel rang against this pile..."
May 10, 2008:   "Tremble" by Marc McKee   "I am mystified by the fingerprints I have left..."
May 9, 2008:   "Folk Art" by Sarah J. Sloat   "Naïve, you called me, posh..."
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..."

For more archives click on the year: 2008-present        2007        2006        2005        2004        2003        2002