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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 mathematiciansthey 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 slopelands 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 itthat, 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 todaythe 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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