February 2, 2012:   "Three kinds of sudden equal three" by Marianne Boruch   "Three kinds of sudden equal three..."
February 1, 2012:   "Fang Face" by Matt Hart   "The joy is too much, and the mouth is too..."
January 31, 2012:   "The Sprig of Rosemary" by Angela Vogel   "That life is a tiny apology is prettier than true...."
January 30, 2012:   Two poems by C. McAllister Williams   "Only monsters live in the waters. I have proof...."
January 28, 2012:   "The Identity in My Crisis" by Amy King   "This last meal could not have been my only palette..."
January 27, 2012:   "Corfu" by Neil Shepard   "Late afternoon we watch the waters change..."
January 26, 2012:   "Thames Music" by William Wenthe   "Groan of hawser as barge heaves..."
January 25, 2012:   "Just off the hummingbird highway" by Eileen Hennessy   "down a winding packed-sand road..."
January 24, 2012:   "Swath" by Stephanie E. Schlaifer   "Almost always..."
January 23, 2012:   "January" by Katharine Rauk   "She saw how the trees' shadows lay down..."
January 22, 2012:   "Sentences" by Quincy Troupe   "movement of time through the music of space..."
January 21, 2012:   "The Bees Have Not Yet Left Us" by James Crews   "With a click, morning news pours heavy into the bedroom..."
January 20, 2012:   "Listen" by Christopher Howell   "Is it an empty house, the body alone..."
January 19, 2012:   "Biography" by Amy Dryansky   "I don't remember much. A feeling of pressure...."
January 18, 2012:   "Customs of Golems" by Brad Ricca   "Fearing. discovery..."
January 17, 2012:   "How to Hand Scissors or Knives to Someone You Like" by James D'Agostino   "First write the treatise on the causes of the giving..."
January 16, 2012:   "Dear So-and-So" by Monica Berlin   "Down the hall the accordion man turns into a door..."
January 15, 2012:   "Winter, reflected in our keen houses" by Debora Kuan   "Live needlers of..."
January 14, 2012:   "Winter, reflected in our keen houses" by Genevieve Kaplan   "The sky is plain and the bushes thin, the walks bare..."
January 13, 2012:   "After the First Shot" by Saeed Jones   "I run the dark winter..."
January 12, 2012:   "Sleep Is Not Unlike a Waiting Room" by Michael Robins   "The dead deer is more alive to you now..."
January 11, 2012:   "Finding the Heart" by Kathryn Kirkpatrick   "Under the hydrangea, a heart..."
January 10, 2012:   "Of Genocide, or Merely Sound" by Roger Reeves   "How much saying nothing..."
January 9, 2012:   "the Theta Xi chapter" by Anne Marie Rooney   "Confer to comfort: can each girl be first..."
January 8, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Actual Animals" by Rebecca Hazelton   "It's not that the antlers pain, exactly..."
January 7, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Habitual" by Melissa Dickey   "I arrive with wind in my sweater..."
January 6, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "[20]" by Shelly Taylor   "When proxy all night I poured Jack into..."
January 5, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "'Bees see your face as a strange flower.'" by Naomi Shihab Nye   "Nashville warblers see you as a scary-looking tree...."
January 4, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Waiting Room" by Paul Hostovsky   "The woman with the portable oxygen tank..."
January 3, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Valentine" by Laurie Lamon   "In Manhattan, after wit and spar, after..."
January 2, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Calamity The Way I Think It" by Elizabeth Breese   "The radio is a brown jug..."
January 1, 2012 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Barefoot on the Pulpit" by Lisa Fay Coutley   "Backstage, we don't kiss for an empty auditorium. We kiss..."
December 31, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Marriage" by Sara Michas-Martin   "One side at a time scientists paralyze the brain, then ask..."
December 30, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "City of Lavender" by Jason Bredle   "I had everything I ever wanted to say to you organized in my head..."
December 29, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Ghosts" by Amy Graziano   "When God takes a man he makes a baby..."
December 28, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "zoo sonnet" by dawn lonsinger   "the veined flood did not care what the mute sang..."
December 27, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):   "Prairie" by Sidney Wade   "everything..."
December 26, 2011 (A 2011 Favorite):     "Flight, Fight Or" by Dora Malech   "Every rearview a lovescape of ex-towns...."
December 25, 2011:   "Frost in the Low Areas" by Karen Skolfield   "The health survey said..."
December 24, 2011:   "Dog Days" by Oliver Bendorf   "When my camera looks up at November, it shows me..."
December 23, 2011:   "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis   "There goes the ink that bled this river dry...."
December 22, 2011:   "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" by John Gallaher   "The best idea I ever had..."
December 21, 2011:   "Day for Years of Distress" by Elaine Bleakney   "Day visible..."
December 20, 2011:   "A Dedication to the Rich Is in the Ark" by Robert Ostrom   "He knew they'd dig up his masks..."
December 19, 2011:   "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone" by Lily Brown   "Repetition smudges in...."
December 18, 2011:   "Life on Mir" by Carole Satyamurti   "They took small fish, to observe..."
December 17, 2011:   "Nativity" by Lawrence Sail   "They will not be distracted — kings..."
December 16, 2011:   "White Stork" by Michael Waters   "Such jazzy arrhythmia..."
December 15, 2011:   "Actual Animals" by Rebecca Hazelton   "It's not that the antlers pain, exactly..."
December 14, 2011:   "Endurance" by Richard Jackson   "A few deer pause inside the rain, more gauze..."
December 13, 2011:   "Problems with the Dictionary" by Luke Johnson   "Shouldn't the distance between impossible..."
December 12, 2011:   "This Morning the Small Bird Brought a Message from the Other Side" by Aracelis Girmay   "I would not call it fear..."
December 11, 2011:   "Erik Satie Watusies His Way Into Sound" by Jeff Alessandrelli   "Bastard sons of bastard sons build filthy nation-states in..."
December 10, 2011:   "The Severists," by Belle Randall   "Above the marble balcony, the balustrade..."
December 9, 2011:   "Mysticism in the Dark" by Mira Rosenthal   "As children we were warned not to whistle at night for fear of evil spirits...."
December 8, 2011:   "Imperfect Love Poem" by Sandra Kohler   "The day takes wing like the blackbirds..."
December 7, 2011:   "Habitual" by Melissa Dickey   "I arrive with wind in my sweater..."
December 6, 2011:   "Sea Lettuce" by Larissa Szporluk   "How easily our loved ones..."
December 5, 2011:   "Stick Your Head in the Copier" by Jessica Goodheart   "Let the light seep into your eye sockets..."
December 4, 2011:   "For This Morning" by Paul Goldman   "I am present..."
December 3, 2011:   "Midnight Winds" by Edward Byrne   "Just as dusk begins to darken..."
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan   "I enjoy a long walk on a crisp morning now..."
December 1, 2011:   "The Owl" by Sarah Stern   "What is she thinking of..."
November 30, 2011:   "Cassandra Looks at Dark Matter Through Hubble's Eye" by Robin Chapman   "Winter again, and all that futile calling out..."
November 29, 2011:   "The Gleaners" by David Moolten   "Bless the thieves, for they shall inherit..."
November 28, 2011:   "[20]" by Shelly Taylor   "When proxy all night I poured Jack into..."
November 26, 2011:   "[We Watched Ravens...]" by Killarney Clary   "We watched ravens ransack the truck-stop trashcans..."
November 25, 2011:   "He Considers What the Young Have to Teach" by Martyn Crucefix   "to stand up invisible..."
November 24, 2011:   "First, Hunger" by Lynnell Edwards   "Every morning I know your hunger...."
November 23, 2011:   "My Epicurean Curse" by Katie Chaple   "I think of what I'd like to leave you with..."
November 22, 2011:   "[7]" by Shelly Taylor   "The beach gives onlookers, men with poles. I am just trying to jog..."
November 21, 2011:   "Miner Death" by Zachary Schomburg   "This time when I come out of the mine, I step..."
November 20, 2011:   "A Box of Paperclips" by Erin Elizabeth Smith   "In some ways it's simple. Here..."
November 19, 2011:   "Downloading the Meltdown" by Elton Glaser   "Rumple of clouds at sunset, low and pink..."
November 18, 2011:   "Women's College" by Kenneth Hart   "I didn't think of myself as a sex offender..."
November 17, 2011:   "Upon Seeing the Brightly Lit" by Marc McKee   "At any given moment..."
November 16, 2011:   "Work Harder" by Carrie Oeding   "I'm tired of what I can do—..."
November 15, 2011:   "L'Etat C'Est Moi" by Ron Slate   "That's my green garden..."
November 14, 2011:   "Church" by Jim Harrison   "After last night's storm the tulip..."
November 13, 2011:   "A Shape with Forty Wings" by Luke Hankins   "Love is strange and calls me to stranger things...."
November 12, 2011:   "Poem Asleep" by William Stobb   "Native flora regain their dominance..."
November 11, 2011:   "Contra Chekhov" by Michael Salcman   "The gun never went off: not in the first act, not in the second..."
November 10, 2011:   "Clean" by Matthew Guenette   "There was an octopus in the fish..."
November 9, 2011:   "Mrs. P. Goes House-Hunting" by Alexandra van de Kamp   "Buzz, buzz, buzz goes the world. We are each in a distortion of our own making...."
November 8, 2011:   "Grocery Night" by William Olsen   "I have seen nothing that hasn't already been..."
November 7, 2011:   "The Space Traveler's Tense" by Benjamin S. Grossberg   "My species has one for nouns..."
November 6, 2011:   "In Defense of Poverty" by Ocean Vuong   "We lost our way in that forgotten city...."
November 5, 2011:   "Everyone in Goya's Black Paintings..." by Jeff Whitney   "Everyone in Goya's black paintings was mad. It's true; they grazed..."
November 4, 2011:   "Coffin Tree" by Adam Fell   "Somewhere in the national forest..."
November 3, 2011:   "Knickerbocker" by L. S. Klatt   "Suppose a man steps out of the fog..."
November 2, 2011:   "Man as Walnut" by Susanna Childress   "Head thrown back, he cries, is not ashamed..."
November 1, 2011:   "A Thing of Beauty" by Mike White   "I want my goldfish..."
October 31, 2011:   "Koi Pond in Slow Motion" by Alexander Long   "They move under ice as thin as a bible's paper...."
October 30, 2011:   "Limit" by George Bradley   "Beast put to pasture does not feed..."
October 29, 2011:   "Archaeology" by Michele Wolf   "The storm had bitten away the shoreline..."
October 28, 2011:   "Birdhouse" by Anna Woodford   "You fiddle with the catch..."
October 27, 2011:   "Earthbound" by James Grinwis   "Big sky flexion..."
October 26, 2011:   "Syrens" by Stuart Bartow   "Often they are described as twain, but who thinks..."
October 25, 2011:   "Fooling the Buffalo" by David Hernandez   "A buffalo could outrun a lion, could outlast..."
October 24, 2011:   "North of North" by James Haug   "When I passed on the road a stranger..."
October 23, 2011:   "Music & Story" by Tom Holmes   "The cave has its sound as I have mine..."
October 22, 2011:   "Oracle" by Dean Young   "I find myself more and more among..."
October 21, 2011:   "The Divider" by Janice N. Harrington   "Drop the thermometer in its dough...."
October 20, 2011:   "What the Mapmaker Knows" by Mary Jo Bang   "O is the ocean and t the consequence..."
October 19, 2011:   "Anthem" by Michael Robins   "I had yet imagined a stream fed in feather...."
October 18, 2011:   "For Soren" by Noelle Kocot   "Smell of grass colliding with the..."
October 17, 2011:   "Beggar's Cup" by Jack Myers   "I'm slowing down now..."
October 16, 2011:   "City Rain" by Linda Lerner   "For days, rain blasting away..."
October 15, 2011:   "'Bees see your face as a strange flower.'" by Naomi Shihab Nye   "Nashville warblers see you as a scary-looking tree...."
October 14, 2011:   "Assault on Precinct 13" by Andrew Kozma   "Please come in, this town is closed. Roadblocks cinch the arteries..."
October 13, 2011:   "Waiting Room" by Paul Hostovsky   "The woman with the portable oxygen tank..."
October 12, 2011:   "Valentine" by Laurie Lamon   "In Manhattan, after wit and spar, after..."
October 11, 2011:   "Haiku (Failed)" by Nick Flynn   "The thin thread that hold us here, tethered / or maybe tied, together..."
October 10, 2011:   "At This Hour" by Carol Ann Davis   "Say I am not wrong to want the two finches who ring out...."
October 9, 2011:   "Scene: Interior, Night" by Elizabeth Austen   "one thin wall a narrow world away..."
October 8, 2011:   "Ancestors" by Anthony Thwaite   "My father traced our ancestors for years..."
October 7, 2011:   "Students Painting in the Community Garden on Newark Street" by Elizabeth Poliner   "Standing scattered..."
October 6, 2011:   "under one box another box" by Michael Teig   "I head off like an inventory..."
October 5, 2011:   "School is a Sculpture Called Soft" by Daniel Coudriet   "I'd been growing sod under manholecovers..."
October 4, 2011:   "The Door" by Adam Wyeth   "I sit in the garden..."
October 3, 2011:   "As Far As I Know" by Allan Peterson   "As far as I know is not that far..."
October 2, 2011:   "After Us" by Nikola Madzirov   "One day someone will fold our blankets..."
October 1, 2011:   "Luna Moth" by Jeff Friedman   "I thought it was a bat, looking for trouble..."
September 30, 2011:   "I am weatherly and so" by Jody Rambo   "I am weatherly and so when I must fix myself in time, I choose..."
September 29, 2011:   "Till It Sticks" by Michael Teig   "They wooden hut. They walk backwards...."
September 28, 2011:   "Portrayal, X-Ray" by Cori A. Winrock   "We snag cabs and drift through the middle..."
September 27, 2011:   "After the Fever: A Pastoral" by Wayne Miller   "After four months, the fever withdrew into her..."
September 26, 2011:   "The Strategy" by Kascha Semonovitch   "Time. A great board game played on flat sand..."
September 25, 2011:   "Migrating, Swallows, Assateague" by Matthew J. Spireng   "It was not a matter of individuals, though..."
September 24, 2011:   "Uninvited Guest" by Elizabeth Knapp   "Mid-September. First turn of the maples..."
September 23, 2011:   "Questions about the Wife" by Rebecca Hazelton   "I'm having trouble understanding the wife...."
September 22, 2011:   "Coxwain" by Nance Van Winckel   "My silence grants the rowers..."
September 21, 2011:   "The Sea" by George Keithley   "Helpless her hands lose hold, slip away...."
September 20, 2011:   "Cat" by Kate Northrop   "Now do you see what I mean?..."
September 19, 2011:   "Pura Vida in Costa Rica" by Sarah Stern   "How does the light change red bricks..."
September 18, 2011:   "Not Whiskey" by Drew Blanchard   "At dusk—west of Patch Grove—..."
September 17, 2011:   "Hitching Tuam Road" by Joseph Lennon   "I found a rhythm of walking today..."
September 16, 2011:   "Halloween" by Christopher Salerno   "You were a white cocoon shot through with gravel...."
September 15, 2011:   "I Foresee the Breaking of All That Is Breakable" by John Estes   "Perhaps after all it is, merely, a desire..."
September 14, 2011:   "Tips of the Slung" by Amy Schrader   "Let's free associate, my friend: your bat..."
September 13, 2011:   "'Mania Klepto'" by Carolyne Wright   "Eulene never comes to shoplift..."
September 12, 2011:   "Crowd Forming a Mob" by C.J. Sage   "Before the egg shop closed..."
September 11, 2011:   "Joy" by Julie L. Moore   "Fireflies flashing over hip-high corn..."
September 10, 2011:   "The Elephant in the Room" by Kim Bridgford   "Choose another way to conduct yourself...."
September 9, 2011:   "Evening Twilight" by David Trinidad   "Of sea and wind, and through the deepening gloom..."
September 8, 2011:   "To Sleep" by Lisa Fay Coutley   "not as a woman who brews tea and kneels..."
September 7, 2011:   "Camera Lucida" by Joshua Diamond   "From this angle you've a rooster on your shoulder..."
September 6, 2011:   "Like a Machine, Struggle for Mother" by Andrea Baker   "I speak and God licks the wine from me...."
September 5, 2011:   "The Book of the Dead Man (Rhino)" by Marvin Bell   "The dead man rode a rhino into Congress...."
September 4, 2011:   "The Bridge at Rest" by G.C. Waldrep & John Gallaher   "The bridge is dreaming again...."
September 3, 2011:   "Calamity The Way I Think It" by Elizabeth Breese   "The radio is a brown jug..."
September 2, 2011:   "What the Camera Says to the Voice" by Suzanne Wise   "Going public becomes you...."
September 1, 2011:   "Arrows" by Bruce Bond   "Every thrill in us creates unease..."
August 31, 2011:   "The Field of Mars" by Benjamin Paloff   "Too many marches and formations, lectures on conditions..."
August 30, 2011:   "A Series of Movements:" by Daniel Khalastchi   "And with each step tile..."
August 29, 2011:   "So When She Looks at Her Reflection" by Patty Seyburn   "If there is an anteroom..."
August 28, 2011:   "The Room and The Road" by Jane Duran   "River I cannot swim from..."
August 27, 2011:   "New Sparrow, New Sorrow" by Matthew Henriksen   "Moon burnt up in a tree limb's wobble...."
August 26, 2011:   "White-throated Sparrow" by Nancy Eimers   "Made by trees..."
August 25, 2011:   "Found" by Stephanie Levin   "I'd like to be who I am with her all the time. So brilliant..."
August 24, 2011:   "Alley" by Jeffery L. Bahr   "The optimist arrived and said to the men..."
August 23, 2011:   "Dog Days" by Matthew Guenette   "It was so hot..."
August 21, 2011:   "Enlistment" by Joshua Edwards   "I was chosen for my knowledge..."
August 20, 2011:   "A Poet" by Lee Rossi   "He has a boy's gift for error..."
August 19, 2011:   "Peccadillo" by Scott Minar   "When I talk about my family..."
August 18, 2011:   "The Narrows" by Christopher DeWeese   "The water oh the sounds..."
August 17, 2011:   "The Horses" by Rachel Richardson   "Under the live oak, and out along the stretch..."
August 16, 2011:   "Following Him on Twitter" by Philip Fried   "A man or a woman, afraid with any sudden..."
August 15, 2011:   "The Final Amnesia" by Dana Curtis   "The gardeners have decided..."
August 14, 2011:   "On Cold Days Like These" by Kevin Pilkington   "I hear a cape flapping over..."
August 13, 2011:   "Trapeze Swinger" by Andrew Michael Roberts   "and sprung now..."
August 12, 2011:   "The Gallery" by Annie Lighthart   "Van Gogh stood in the rain at Saint Rémy..."
August 11, 2011:   "The Seastack" by Christopher DeWeese   "I walked out there..."
August 10, 2011:   "Diane Arbus" by Justin Vicari   "submerged the prints in their chemical..."
August 9, 2011:   "Visions of the Divine on Hare Island" by Stephen Murray   "Slapped back upon the heels..."
August 8, 2011:   "Saint Monica Wishes on the Wrong Star" by Mary Biddinger   "Maybe they were both the wrong star...."
August 7, 2011:   "The Man with a Green Face" by Tamura Ryuichi (translated by Christopher Drake)   "It was a beautiful morning..."
August 6, 2011:   "Notes on How to Love a Boy" by Lauren Berry   "My mother left handwritten notes..."
August 5, 2011:   "And A Third Autumn" by Leah Goldberg (translated by Annie Kantar)   "Thistle. Bramble. Stones. I crossed..."
August 4, 2011:   "Near Miss" by Michael Chitwood   "It's a hands-in-your-coat-pockets-stroll kind of a day...."
August 3, 2011:   "The Pier" by Christopher DeWeese   "There is no amusement..."
August 2, 2011:   "Tomb Figurine" by Dan Beachy-Quick   "Retrograde mind: Beehive: Yesterday's drone..."
August 1, 2011:   "The Estate of Single Blessedness" by Mary Ruefle   "In this room..."
July 31, 2011:   "Poultry Chronical" by Michael Teig   "My chicken has pointy ears..."
July 30, 2011:   "World Cup" by Tom Sleigh   "In all the cafes..."
July 29, 2011:   "Giant Slayer Man" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa   "Rifling brochures..."
July 28, 2011:   "Dust" by Michael Meyerhofer   "It seems we've left skin..."
July 27, 2011:   "I,Putative" by Geri Doran   "Barer than January maples, bare abandoned hives..."
July 26, 2011:   "The Trapeze Artist's Dear John Letter" by Carrie Etter   "I recede like a vanishing point on my ribboned trapeze..."
July 24, 2011:   "The Plan" by Arthur Vogelsang   "The prudent carry an extra oarlock and make a will..."
July 23, 2011:   "The Keys to the Jail" by Keetje Kuipers   "It's the second day of spring...."
July 22, 2011:   "Outage" by John Barr   "Our dogs in the sudden silence raise..."
July 21, 2011:   "The Birthdays of Ex-Lovers" by Michael Meyerhofer   "How they pinball through the mind..."
July 20, 2011:   "Drone & Buck" by Katrina Roberts   "Where in the continent of heart..."
July 19, 2011:   "EStonia" by Jeff Hoffman   "Her brother's Plymouth..."
July 18, 2011:   "On a Walk" by Sally Bliumis-Dunn   "I wonder if we've taken..."
July 17, 2011:   "The Development of Mathmatics" by Stan Mir   "As it is now, you're back from fishing...."
July 16, 2011:   "Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding" by Jeannine Hall Gailey   "Better to be the lover than the beloved, you'll have passion...."
July 15, 2011:   "Nightmare for the Last Night on Earth" by Brian Barker   "Through the hole in the back of my head..."
July 14, 2011:   "Untranslatable" by Rebecca Dunham   "The mourning lily's..."
July 13, 2011:   "With a big simile" by Muriel Nelson   "she wrote he warped his arms around me..."
July 12, 2011:   "Absent Absence" by Stephen Malin   "Unexpected and interrupting..."
July 11, 2011:   "To a Soldier" by Carol Muske-Duke   "Imagine it: a world away, Autumn...."
July 10, 2011:   "The Sea" by Michael Dickman   "Everyone's first memory..."
July 9, 2011:   "The Giants" by Maxine Scates   "Out here, all darkness, stars overhead..."
July 8, 2011:   "Navigating by the Light of a Minor Planet" by Jessica Goodfellow   "The trouble with belief in endlessness is..."
July 7, 2011:   "Barefoot on the Pulpit" by Lisa Fay Coutley   "Backstage, we don't kiss for an empty auditorium. We kiss..."
July 6, 2011:   "To Bear" by Mary Quade   "The polar bear is threatened..."
July 5, 2011:   "The Fifth of July" by Jeff Simpson   "Kids down the street pop leftover firecrackers..."
July 4, 2011:   "At the Dock at Dusk" by Michael Chitwood   "The rowboats are all tucked in..."
July 3, 2011:   "The Consulting Room" by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu   "How is your breathing asked..."
July 2, 2011:   "Love, the English Teacher" by Lois Marie Harrod   "Love, the English teacher, grades the snow...."
July 1, 2011:   "Om Nom" by Alex Lemon   "These blistery days cloak so amazingly..."
June 30, 2011:   "Flight" by Camille T. Dungy   "It is the day after the leaves, when buckeyes..."
June 29, 2011:   "Wing" by Lisa Williams   "People can remove themselves from us...."
June 28, 2011:   "Letter to Laundry on the Line" by Russ Kesler   "Letter to Laundry on the Line..."
June 27, 2011:   Two poems by Charles Rafferty   "It is cloudless and moonless and breezeless..."
June 26, 2011:   "Medusa of Libya" by Iain Haley Pollock   "he used my ugliness against me. no..."
June 25, 2011:   "Hunger Strike" by Kristine Ong Muslim   "Strange how we do not alter ourselves..."
June 24, 2011:   "Noye's Fludde" by Anne Pitkin   "Onstage, they are shaking the firmament, two at each end...."
June 23, 2011:   "The Commendation" by Dean Young   "We had no choice but to live..."
June 21, 2011:   "The Helicopters" by William Virgil Davis   "We hear them before we see..."
June 20, 2011:   "To My Translator" by Marsha Pomerantz   "Maybe the lunge to the sideward, your..."
June 19, 2011:   "Your Lingual Heart" by Jeffrey Greene   "Friday night at the ER..."
June 18, 2011:   "Marriage" by Sara Michas-Martin   "One side at a time scientists paralyze the brain, then ask..."
June 17, 2011:   "Living on Earth" by Elizabeth Raby   "Desperate for a drink..."
June 16, 2011:   "Devotion: For Our Bodies" by Brett Foster   "Yes love, I must confess I'm at it again..."
June 15, 2011:   "Speculation" by Derek Mong   "Have I cornered you, my self, again..."
June 14, 2011:   "Overture to a Legend" by Bridget Talone   "The only person I ever wanted..."
June 13, 2011:   "Is This Why Love Almost Rhymes with Dumb?" by Dean Young   "In love there's many obstacles..."
June 12, 2011:   "Svendborg Sound" by Rich Hilles   "All May, and everywhere..."
June 11, 2011:   "How Shedding Feathers Taught The Children to Make a Kite..." by Rob Carney   "A boy and a girl, then a dozen more..."
June 10, 2011:   "I Don't Mind the Mess that Comes from Pressing Hard..." by Matt Mauch   "I can tell the sky that for nine years I listened..."
June 9, 2011:   "True Latitude" by Matthew Nienow   "When I lie to you it sounds..."
June 8, 2011:   "Ghosts That Need Reminding" by Dana Levin   "Through shattered glass and sheeted furniture, chicken..."
June 7, 2011:   "The confession of an apricot" by Carl Adamshick   "I love incorrectly...."
June 6, 2011:   "On Buffers" by Elizabeth Robinson   "Each one knows herself by her fat, the insulation of the idea..."
June 5, 2011:   "Light Away Now" by Matt Cozart   "What to find: a little well..."
June 4, 2011:   "God Has Put You on Hold" by Kevin Higgins   "And the world has no room..."
June 3, 2011:   "Granada" by Joanne Diaz   "To be so far from oxtail stew, sardines..."
June 2, 2011:   "Coupled" by Lisa Lewis   "The neck’s crest bridges to the pricked ears...."
June 1, 2011:   "Farm Woman and Her Children, 1920-1925" by Adam Kirsch   "The chain of flowers that runs along the hem..."
May 31, 2011:   "From Mars" by Matthew Rohrer   "We have some sad news..."
May 30, 2011:   "Fog" by Dorianne Laux   "The first of us must have looked up at the night agog..."
May 29, 2011:   "Remedial Weeding" by Julie Hanson   "You don't need to know its name..."
May 28, 2011:   "Heirloom" by Nikky Finney   "Sundown, the day nearly eaten away..."
May 27, 2011:   "'Never Let Your Reader's Attention Wander.'" by Ron Koertge   "In Cat People, Oliver marries Irena, but she says they can't..."
May 26, 2011:   "David Bowie Esperanto" by Jim Daniels   "A flash of metal trash in a vacant lot...."
May 25, 2011:   "Actually Present" by Paul Killebrew   "I don't remember you, but you keep..."
May 24, 2011:   "City of Lavender" by Jason Bredle   "I had everything I ever wanted to say to you organized in my head..."
May 23, 2011:   "Flowers, For Frank" by Larry Sawyer   "When a friend died..."
May 22, 2011:   "Awake" by Michael Heffernan   "I lay down in my bed and went to sleep..."
May 21, 2011:   "She Walks on Water" by Michelle McGrane   "The air is heavy with salt spray and kelp...."
May 20, 2011:   "Girl Under Bug Zapper" by Caki Wilkinson   "This haywire night, she's back from church..."
May 19, 2011:   "Feast Day" by James Doyle   "The town by the hundreds..."
May 18, 2011:   "Flight Log" by Jim Daniels   "The prop plane tilts a wing..."
May 17, 2011:   "Love poem" by Laura Kasischke   "The water glass. The rain. The scale..."
May 16, 2011:   "Bone Fires" by Mark Jarman   "The manikin's head is filled with water so..."
May 15, 2011:   "News Says" by Stacie Leatherman   "Scientists hotwire pigeon..."
May 14, 2011:   "After The Music Went Home" by Jaimee Kuperman   "It's nice to think that somewhere the winters are returning...."
May 13, 2011:   "Nostalgic" by Paula Bohince   "Jar of feathers becoming..."
May 12, 2011:   "His Eye" by Penelope Scambly Schott   "Somewhere where terrible things happen..."
May 11, 2011:   "Dublin" by Rachel Bennett   "People caution, "Dublin..."
May 10, 2011:   "The Yellow House as God" by Robin Behn   "Saffron cube comets lick..."
May 9, 2011:   "Primitives" by Ravi Shankar   "Banish the glaze of objects from the firmament..."
May 8, 2011:   "The Acquisition of the Senses" by Alice Notley   "They, too, wandered in darkness, crying out for a home in the body of mercy...."
May 7, 2011:   "Wild Mint" by Simmons B. Buntin   "Did you know that in my hand-sized guide you are shelved..."
May 6, 2011:   "My Flimsy Crew" by James Grinwis   "They’re in the boat and the boat..."
May 5, 2011:   "Old Boys" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz   "I would've never believed that I'd forget you..."
May 4, 2011:   "Hooker Avenue Serenade" by Joshua Harmon   "An aluminum box fan in a window..."
May 3, 2011:   "Epithalamium" by Gregory Fraser   "They will say you go together like a lid..."
May 2, 2011:   "Jubilee Rotation" by Marc McKee   "Let's face it: the gods we chase into the decay of dusk..."
May 1, 2011:   "Blue for Oceans" by Charles Douthat   "Astonishing that he could forget and forget and remember so...."
April 30, 2011:   "The Bees" by Maureen A. Sherbondy   "Those bees you crushed..."
April 29, 2011:   "The Tooth Ministry" by Janet Kaplan   "Cuddle me, says Vastwing. Hold my hand. Give me a..."
April 28, 2011:   "Erasure" by Ralph Angel   "I don’t want you to know about any of this...."
April 27, 2011:   "The Folly of Mercutio in a Pacifist Town" by Phoebe Reeves   "The emperor moth battles the emperor..."
April 26, 2011:   "Summons" by Sandra Kohler   "Surprise always, the day wakes us, the dream..."
April 25, 2011:   "Aggressive Pesto Warfare" by T.A. Noonan   "Nothing is worth hoarding but basil..."
April 24, 2011:   "The Hum of Imagined Bees" by Jane O. Wayne   "Some non-stop motor..."
April 23, 2011:   "Taking Leave" by Gail Hanlon   "Like most love poems..."
April 22, 2011:   "Millificent" by Emma Trelles   "No one has entered..."
April 21, 2011:   "Start" by Ryan Flaherty   "Start at either end of a history...."
April 20, 2011:   "from Clangings" by Steven Cramer   "So I left my apartment, got down where..."
April 19, 2011:   "Getting Serious" by Alice Friman   "Today I started looking for my soul...."
April 18, 2011:   "Why I'm Not Coming to My Funeral" by Sue D. Burton   "You don't want me there...."
April 17, 2011:   "Nocturne: Redaction" by John Casteen   "Tonight I hear machines at their dark work in the dark, I understand..."
April 16, 2011:   "The Red Pool" by Ron Padgett   "Oh dear here we are again in a pool of blood..."
April 15, 2011:   "I Want You Dangerously" by Danielle Cadena Deulen   "open. But I am a woman, so cannot..."
April 14, 2011:   "The Crowd at the Gates" by Stephen Dunn   "The crowd had gathered by the gates...."
April 13, 2011:   "A solitude of the ear buoys the breath's answer" by Joshua Corey   "A solitude of the ear buoys the breath's answer..."
April 12, 2011:   "Spun" by Anna Maria Hong   "The very people are not very nice...."
April 11, 2011:   "Calla lily, shameless" by Sandra Gilbert   "hussy flaunting..."
April 10, 2011:   "Memorial Sonnet" by Stephen Gibson   "This is for the bruised eye, the swollen lip..."
April 9, 2011:   "Beach" by Emily Kendal Frey   "Wants the heavier shoulder...."
April 8, 2011:   "Island in Dispute Disappears into the Sea" by William D. Waltz   "We’re not so different..."
April 7, 2011:   "Self-Portrait as a Child’s Stick Figure Drawing on a Refrigerator" by Tom C. Hunley   "Often I’m a musical instrument..."
April 6, 2011:   "Foolproof" by William Trowbridge   "Just turn it on, when I tell you to," says God..."
April 5, 2011:   "The Real World is Like This:" by Esther Lee   "My sister's bed's a bird's nest, all edges..."
April 4, 2011:   "Ghosts" by Amy Graziano   "When God takes a man he makes a baby..."
April 3, 2011:   "Figures" by Maurice Harmon   "In front of me a table rock in three segments..."
April 2, 2011:   "Scarecrow Woman" by Noel Monahan   "I catch sight of her on a sea of wheat..."
April 1, 2011:   "A Bad Break" by Paul Dickey   "Lou Gehrig is crying. Lou Gehrig is crying for every story in New York..."
March 31, 2011:   "To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall" by Lucia Perillo   "Half costume jewel, half parasite, you stood..."
March 30, 2011:   "Dear Fringe" by Erin Murphy   "Jangle on a flapper..."
March 29, 2011:   "How it Happened" by Chelsea Rathburn   "I blame that little village in Spain..."
March 28, 2011:   "zoo sonnet" by dawn lonsinger   "the veined flood did not care what the mute sang..."
March 27, 2011:   "High Rise" by Les Murray   "Fawn high rise of Beijing..."
March 26, 2011:   "The sparrows gather nearby..." by David Harris Ebenbach   "The sparrows gather nearby..."
March 25, 2011:   "[Without Objectivity]" by Maxine Chernoff   "the hundred voices..."
March 24, 2011:   "Prairie" by Sidney Wade   "everything..."
March 23, 2011:   "In the Early Morning in the Cypress Grove" by Michael Schiavo   "The man has announced we cannot go on..."
March 22, 2011:   "Ficus" by Gregory Fraser   "The morning you left, I pretended..."
March 21, 2011:   "The String" by Corey Marks   "unspools someone's..."
March 20, 2011:   "Circle of Life" by Noelle Kocot   "Nobody loved Jim, but that..."
March 19, 2011:   "Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91" by L. S. Klatt   "A weathered barn on a hilltop; a nude woman..."
March 18, 2011:   "The Listening of Plants" by Laura Shovan   "On the buffet where she kept her celadon dishes..."
March 17, 2011:   "Red Salmon" by David Dodd Lee   "You could relent a little..."
March 16, 2011:   "Love Song for an Enemy" by Elaine Equi   "I love you..."
March 15, 2011:   "Detachable" by Jenna Cardinale   "The elk's antlers grow..."
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms..."
March 13, 2011:   "When he left, how many birds did he leave?" by Jessica Young   "When he left, he left one bird. He left one bird..."
March 12, 2011:   "Plants Retake the Sidewalk" by Cynthia Hardy   "Chamomile, leaves bunched and feathery..."
March 11, 2011:   "Magnolia Blossom" by Peter Pereira   "Who knew so many shades of white..."
March 10, 2011:   "Elegy as a Red Dress" by Victoria Chang   "We open our red dresses..."
March 9, 2011:   "March" by Mary Madec   "The month of raw..."
March 8, 2011:   "Ascent" by Mary Austin Speaker   "Triangulation means..."
March 7, 2011:   "Aspirin and Shadow" by Chris Forhan   "Moon I swallow at dawn..."
March 6, 2011:   "Fighting" by Michael Cirelli   "Since the time when..."
March 5, 2011:   "One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds" by Jeff Tigchelaar   "A black cat crossing your path is bad for luck, it's said...."
March 4, 2011:   "Feral Evening" by Doug Ramspeck   "Not the bats diving..."
March 3, 2011:   "Sufficiency" by Zach Savich   "Things being increasingly maintenance, leaf..."
March 2, 2011:   "Instructions for Vigilant Girls" by Erika Meitner   "Be the sleeping sister who sees no one...."
March 1, 2011:   "The Applicant [4]" by Uljana Wolf   "blew the interview. Cracked window..."
February 28, 2011:   "The Point of a Ship in a Bottle is the Bottle" by Martin Arnold   "The Chihuahua's courage..."
February 27, 2011:   "A Sunday to Her Liking" by J. Patrick Lewis   "She was propped on the prow..."
February 26, 2011:   "Love and the Eye" by Laura Newbern   "There you are: a sudden head..."
February 25, 2011:   "scalawag" by Uljana Wolf (translated by Ute Schwartz)   "that old toad in my throat..."
February 24, 2011:   "While You Were Away" by Richard Jackson   "Sleeves of sunset hung empty over the brown hills...."
February 23, 2011:   "Fountain of the Planet of the Apes" by Matthew Ladd   "One by one, they pulled themselves from the water..."
February 22, 2011:   "The Writer" by Anne Pierson Wiese   "People in the neighborhood called him The Writer..."
February 21, 2011:   "Grass" by Chris Preddle   "The grass anticipates the cows..."
February 20, 2011:   "She Has Never Known" by Linnea Johnson   "She has never known when to leave well enough alone..."
February 19, 2011:   "The White Doves of Mazar" by Timothy McBride   "For crusts of bread..."
February 18, 2011:   "Like a Daffodil" by Mary Ruefle   "What went on when I suddenly understood him..."
February 17, 2011:   "Visionary" by Richard Jackson   "I could feel a few dying stars hovering over my shoulder..."
February 16, 2011:   "Hello, Kickstand" by Julia Cohen   "Insect recipes & a performance pitted..."
February 15, 2011:   "The Way We Go On" by Charles Gillispie   "Your hot bath and talcum..."
February 14, 2011:   "Valentine for You" by Robert Creeley   "Where from, where to..."
February 13, 2011:   "Suppose You Were a Moray Eel" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil   "when ancient Romans kept glass aquariums filled to bubbling with your..."
February 12, 2011:   "March 22, 2000, at This Stone" by Tom Holmes   "This man who mumbles..."
February 11, 2011:   "Animal Dark" by Sally Rosen Kindred   "There is no sleep in the ark...."
February 10, 2011:   "Pastoral" by Michael Glaviano   "On the tracks you can die from two directions..."
February 9, 2011:   "Laryngitis" by Philip Dacey   "I had nothing interesting to say anyway...."
February 8, 2011:   "Interview: Antique Iron Bed" by Landon Godfrey   "Why don't we call..."
February 7, 2011:   "Casals" by Gerald Stern   "You could either go back to the canary..."
February 6, 2011:   "Gallant Phantoms through the Pineapple Door" by Travis Nichols   "The cranes were silhouettes that night, thousands..."
February 5, 2011:   "You and I, the Cranes, the River" by Marjorie Saiser   "The cranes were silhouettes that night, thousands..."
February 4, 2011:   "Cost of It" by Veronica Golos   "Go beyond the past tense into the present...."
February 3, 2011:   "Pulse" by Stacy Kidd   "This is not how hearts begin..."
February 2, 2011:   "Angel of Erosion" by Dean Young   "Grows pale the dulcet gizmo..."
February 1, 2011:   "Beginning" by Eva Tihanyi   "You begin somewhere, perhaps..."
January 31, 2011:   "Axioms" by Barbara Perez   "We are parallel lines, an exponential bloom..."
January 30, 2011:   "Cursing Pot" by Katrina Roberts   "Mired I was on that steep fuzzed bank where the fence..."
January 29, 2011:   "Love Poem" by Milan Djordjevic, translated by Charles Simic   "My dear Nothing..."
January 28, 2011:   "Romanticism" by Ashley Elizabeth Hudson   "Held the telescope to your eye..."
January 27, 2011:   "Valentine with broken birds" by Joni Wallace   "Enclosed find pieces of the starling flown flat..."
January 26, 2011:   "Flight, Fight Or" by Dora Malech   "Every rearview a lovescape of ex-towns...."
January 25, 2011:   "Late December" by Daniele Pantano   "Clearly. Nothing much is happening. Kids continue to wish...."
January 24, 2011:   "Horses Running Fast" by Shane McCrae   "We married in an open field a wide..."
January 23, 2011:   "First Domestic" by Anne Marie Rooney   "There is a house to me. When Saturday leaves a gradient..."
January 22, 2011:   "From the Undergrowth" by Jeannine Savard   "New roses flush in the serein..."
January 21, 2011:   "Well, I Still Have My Teeth, And That's Not Nothing" by Charles Wright   "The twilight reveals the edges at play in pitch..."
January 20, 2011:   "Gacela of Twilight Bats" by J.P. Dancing Bear   "The twilight reveals the edges at play in pitch..."
January 19, 2011:   "Valentine with saints and sharps" by Joni Wallace   "There's not much to do..."
January 18, 2011:   "Leaf at the End" by Lily Brown   "I climbed a giant leaf at the end..."
January 17, 2011:   "Love Song" by Jon Wilkins   "Words leapt from your mouth then..."
January 15, 2011:   "This Far Away" by Howard Wright   "Absolutes of water and atmosphere wait for us..."
January 14, 2011:   "Today It Seemed I Had Nothing to Say" by Todd Boss   "that hadn't been said already..."
January 13, 2011:   "Release the Sterile Moths" by D.A. Powell   "The flutter, apple brown, invites..."
January 12, 2011:   "Song" by Debra Kang Dean   "Goldfinches—they were..."
January 11, 2011:   "Ocean Beach at TwiIight: 14" by Dean Rader   "Who's to say the stars understand..."
January 10, 2011:   "Farsickness" by Megan Harlan   "Imagine a love turned out..."
January 9, 2011:   "The Adriatic Sea" by Zachary Harris   "A bell-shrouded town; town around a steeple, strafed..."
January 8, 2011:   "Feeding the Birds" by Susan Rothbard   "I wanted them to come. Wanted cardinals..."
January 7, 2011:   "Late" by Sidney Wade   "our summer..."
January 6, 2011:   "Dictator" by Melissa Stein   "The quail are back: the big quail..."
January 5, 2011:   "The Hatching" by Kate Daniels   "Burning in our twin scarlet fevers..."
January 4, 2011:   "The Feather, an Optical Sorrow" by Eric Beeny   "The feather..."
January 3, 2011:   "Why I Am Not a Good Kisser" by Mary Ruefle   "Because I open my mouth too wide..."
January 2, 2011 (A 2010 Favorite):   "The Exquisite Foreplay of the Tortoise" by Nicky Beer   "Every movement of my body..."
January 1, 2011 (A 2010 Favorite):   "Ice Plant" by Rae Gouirand   "All the transparence of the old..."

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