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- “The Teller on the Right” by John Oliver Hodges
- THE SECOND QUESTION by Diana Der-Hovanessian
- “Dressing Room Without Curtains” by Cheryl Dellasega
- “All-Consuming” by Maggie Greene
- HALFLIFE by Meghan O’Rourke
- “Torching the Playhouse” by Mark D. Hart
- SOME NIGHTS NO CARS AT ALL by Josh Rathkamp
- “Sky Stays the Same” by Marsha Smith Janson
- “Conga! at the Rio” by Veneta Masson
- “A Poem for Valentine’s Day” by Aseem Kaul
- “Prayer” by Keetje Kuipers
- Essay: “A Kind of Gift” by T.S. Davis
- “Being Jewish in a Small Town” by Lyn Lifshin
- IF NO MOON by Moira Linehan
- “Spin” by Alison Townsend
- “Love Song with Plum” by Diane Lockward
- “Fable Telling How Night Invented Herself Out of Sound” by Marty McConnell
- “Corner Store” by Brian Satrom
- MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE by Margaret Atwood
- “Of Unity and Wholeness” by Jay Udall
- “The Afterlife: In the Summer House” by Susanna Mishler
- “Stud Spray” by Peter Moore
- Essay: “Nursing and the Word” by Cortney Davis
- “Open House” by Allan Nicoletti
- “Nursing Note #8” by Sean Aden Lovelace
- “Not Knowing Better” by Barbara Paparazzo
- THE KNOT by Bruce Spang
- “Seven Simple Exercises…” by Tim Poland
- “Man, Boy, Dog” by Sophia Rivkin
- “Underground” by Lee Rossi
- TEETH by Aracelis Girmay
- “Amber” by Maya Jewell Zeller
- “Speculum Oris” by Patricia Smith
- “Homeland in an Old War” by Lianne Spidel
- MY FLORIDA by Kathleen Tyler
- “A Poet Is Supposed to…” by Alan Fox
- “First Love” by Damien Echols
- “Schoolgirls” by James Doyle
- “Nursing Internship, LA County, 1990” by Tracy Klein
- SO WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN TIME OR by Sawako Nakayasu
- “The Sea Turtle” by Mary H. Palmer
- “Dad’s Report of a Tornado…” by Judy Schaefer
- “Ceremony” by Kelly Sievers
- “The Dark Miracle of Insomnia” by Jim Daniels
- HERE IN THE BIG EMPTY by Mark Sanders
- “Nails” by Kandie St.Germain
- “Stepmother” by Kendra L. Tanacea
- “Lost” by Christine Stewart-Nunez
- TALKING UNDERWATER by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
- Essay: “A Split Personality” by Anne Webster
- “Dry Drowning” by Anne Webster
- “The Traffic of Tulips” by S Stephanie
- DISCLAMOR by G.C. Waldrep
- “Her Brother’s Pickhole” by Kathleen Walsh Spencer
- 2008 Rattle Poetry Prize Winners
- “Still Life” by Jessicca Daigle Vidrine
- WHAT LOVE COMES TO by Ruth Stone
- “Lessons” by Scott Weaver
- “Midwifing My Father” by Shawna Swetech
- “Howlin’ Moon” by Christine Wideman
- THE FRATERNITY OF OBLIVION by Larry D. Thomas
- “My Neighbor Gives Me Meat Bones” by Hilda Weiss
- “Miss Memory” by Jake Willard-Crist
- SCHOLARSHIP GIRL by Lesley Wheeler
- “Death, Again” by Mark Gibbons
- LICKING THE SPOON by Joanie Dimartino
- “On the Past” by Marvin Glasser
- “Rats” by Papa Osmubal
- “Watching the Bat” by Jeff Friedman
- “Bruises” by Mark Halperin
- THE HEADLESS SAINTS by Myronn Hardy
- “Vigilance” by Sam Hamill
- “Stray Instrument” by Claire Fields
- Two Poems by Patrick Ryan Frank
- “Why I Am Not a Scientist” by Robert Funge
- CREATION MYTHS by Mathias Svalina
- “Dangerous Blood IV” by Kate Gale
- “Home” by Bob Drojarski
- “Songs for Would-Be Suicides” by Jack Conway
- DEATH’S HOMELAND by Dragan Dragojlovic
- “Sterile” by Ash Bowen
- THEORIES OF FALLING by Sandra Beasley
- “Silk Woman” by Alan Fox
- “An Act of Procreation” by Frank Hughes
- DARK CARD by Rebecca Foust
- “To Levitate …” by Cathryn Essinger
- “Trip” by Arthur Gottlieb
- “On a Former Student’s Spread in Hustler Magazine” by Nathan Graziano
- EVEN THE HOLLOW MY BODY MADE IS GONE by Janice N. Harrington
- “Counting Coupons with the Italian Ladies” by Pam O’Brien
- “Sleep Over” by Jeff Vande Zande
- THE COUNTRY OF WOMEN by Sandra Kohler
- Essay: “What’s Really Wrong with Poetry Book Contests” by David Alpaugh
- OLD MAN LAUGHING by Robert King
- “Conspiracy” by Sophia Rivkin
- “Stars and Stripes” by Catherine Wiley
- “Visitation Rites” by Ed Galing
- QUEEN OF A RAINY COUNTRY by Linda Pastan
- “Night Visitor” by Joyce La Mers
- “Hosanna to Life” by Fred Fox
- Two Poems by Leonard Nathan
- LEAVING IOWA by Michael Meyerhofer
- “Fallon, Nevada” by Juanita Miller
- BLUE RIBBONS AT THE COUNTY FAIR by Ellaraine Lockie
- “Drowning Poem” by Peter Ciccariello
- “Lovely Day” by Bob Hicok
- OCTOPUS by Tom Hunley
- “Moments” by J. Stiles Askew
- 2008 Pushcart Prize Nominees
- “Reproduction” by Bonnie Bolling
- “Autumn” by Gregory Orr and Trisha Orr
- “Dougie’s Sister Exposes Herself” by Tony Trigilio
- DIVINE COMEDY: JOURNEYS THROUGH A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY: THREE NEW WORKS by John Kinsella
- “The Preakness” by John Colasacco
- “Early Light” by Ian Finch
- “I” by Amy Sara Carroll
- FRENCH KISS DESTINY, THE DVD by Marvin R. Hiemstra
- “Expiration Date” by Michael Bazzett
- “The End and the Aim” by Ruth Bavetta
- Poetry Comics by Jessy Randall
- BEHIND MY EYES by Li-Young
- “Harvesting the Carrots” by Tom Boswell
- “The Periodic Table of the Elements” by Louis Phillips
- “Class Politics” by Kevin Clark
- “Inside this Next Vase, Likely” by Jennifer Boyden
- THE CLOCK MADE OF CONFETTI by Michael Salcman
- from A Conversation with Marvin Bell
- “Self-Portrait with Purple Erogenous Zones” by David Hage and Dan Waber
- “Shame Is the Dress I Wear” by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- SWEETWATER, SALTWATER by Rosie King
- “The Johari Window” by Denise Duhamel
- “How to Write an Erotic Letter” by Anthony Farrington
- ODALISQUE by Mark Salerno
- Received for Review in December
- “To Be Alive” by Gregory Orr and Trisha Orr
- WE MEET and THE WALKING-AWAY WORLD by Kenneth Patchen
- “I Am Anything” by Ruth Bavetta
- “Undercover” by Paul F. Cummins
- “Playground” by Dianne Carroll Burdick & Linda Nemec Foster
- THE DIRTY SIDE OF THE STORM by Martha Serpas
- “Walden, Sprawl and All” by Kip Deeds
- “Strip Taze” by David Alpaugh
- “Five Stages of Grieving” by ellen
- ALABAMA STEVE by Karyna McGlynn
- “Boy w/ Joker” by Krista Franklin
- “The Driving Range” by Alejandro Escude
- “Coupling” by Alan Fox
- “The Town Drunk’s Last Stand” by Peter Funk
- TALL IF by Mark Irwin
- “Wheat State Salvation” by Paul Dickey
- “Western Michigan University, 1989” by Pamela Garvey
- “Please Hold” by Jonathan Wells
- “Elevated Findings” by Kip Deeds
- VOICES by Lucille Clifton
- “Halfway House for the Incoherent” by Jennifer Gresham
- “Letter to Hugo from Union Street” by Michael Jemal
- Received for Review in January
- “Show and Tell” by Bob Hicok
- “Red Fence” by Ellen Peckham
- THE QUESTION OF RAPTURE by Claire Keyes
- “Goats” by Allan Johnston
- “Hay Elote” by Michael Jon Khandelwal
- “The Dream of Trees” by Dianne Carroll Burdick & Linda Nemec Foster
- LOOKING FOR AN EYE by Peter Krok
- “Assisted Living” by Joy Gaines Friedler
- “My Grandfather’s 90th” by Jared Harel
- EXCHANGING LIVES by Damon McLaughlin
- “Claiming to Be Canadian” by Andrew Miller
- “On Attending a High School Graduation” by Joe Mills
- WAKING STONE by Carole Simmons Oles
- “Repairman” by Dave Morrison
- “Every Drunk Has a Passport” by Jason Nemec
- “Sonnets to Orpheus: Part 2 #13” by Rainer Maria Rilke
- ALSO IN ARCADIA by Andrew Mulvania
- “LOOKING AT A PHOTOGRAPH FROM WAR TIME…” by Timothy David Shea
- “The Loss of Lemons” by Chrys Tobey
- [one love affair]* by Jenny Boully
- Received for Review in February
- “The Making of History” by Ruth Bavetta
- “Space Monkey” by David Alpaugh
- Additional Pushcart Nominees
- A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Niki Nymark
- “Death and Tacos” by Nathaniel Whittemore
- “Nocturne with Cat and Spider” by Douglas Woody Woodsum
- “After My Third Tattoo” by Elizabeth Wurz
- THE WHITE BRIDE by Sarah Maclay
- “Origami” by Meg Yardley
- “You Might” by John Yohe
- “Dinner” by Pablo Garcia Casado
- “Built by Angels” by Krista Franklin
- WRONG by Laurie Blauner
- “The Perishable” by Jane Zwart
- “Castrati” by Sally Albiso
- “Can Slam Poetry Matter?” by Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
- FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
- “Monarchs” by Caryn Lazzuri
- “Triptych” by John Amen
- “Mandate” by Roger Bonair-Agard
- “Midnight” by Shannon Amidon
- “Piraha” by Grace Bruenderman
- WILD WEST by Judith Rechter
- “Every Element is Relevant” by Marlon O. Carey
- “If to Say” by Gregory Orr and Trisha Orr
- Received for Review in March
- UNDID IN THE LAND OF UNDONE by Lee Upton
- “The Day Jam Master Jay Died” by Kevin Coval
- “Two Bits” by Katie F-S
- “Eulogy of Jimi Christ” by Regie Gibson
- CLEAR ALL THE REST OF THE WAY by Alexa Mergen
- “The Service” by Trina Burke
- “What’s Genocide?” by Carlos Andrés Gómez
- “To My Hair” by Alvin Lau
- AMERICA IS HIDING UNDER MY BED by Julia Vinograd
- “Loss and More Loss” by Gregory Orr and Trisha Orr
- “What Teachers Make” by Taylor Mali
- “The Whole Chalupa” by Jack McCarthy
- “MODERN HISTORY: PROSE POEMS 1987-2007” by Christopher Buckley
- “On the Self and Others” by Gary Lehmann
- “The Edge” by Marco A. Domínguez
- THE BOATLOADS by Dan Albergotti
- “Aurora Borealis” by György Faludy
- “After the Bowling Stopped” by Thadra Sheridan
- LAWRENCE BOOTH’S BOOK OF VISIONS by Maurice Manning
- “I Wanted to Be” by Marc Kelly Smith
- “My Father’s Coat” by Marc Kelly Smith
- BUNDLE O’ TINDER by Rose Kelleher
- “When Girls Called” by Sam Pierstorff
- “Africa Party” by Charlene Fix
- HER PLACE IN THESE DESIGNS by Rhina P. Espaillat
- “Convenience Stores” by Buddy Wakefield
- Received for Review in April
- “A Stewardess Smile” by Alan Fox
- “Insecticide” by Cassandra Glickman
- “Telling the Truth to Daughters” by Christopher Goodrich
- BELOVED COMMUNITY: THE SISTERHOOD OF HOMELESS WOMEN IN POETRY edited by WHEEL
- “Cairo Qasidah” by Sam Hamill
- “Attempt” by Elizabeth Hoover
- ORDINARY GENIUS by Kim Addonizio
- “The Day I Got My Timing Down” by D.R. James
- “Motel Night Attendant” by Mark Evan Johnston
- “In the Bleachers” by David Kelly-Hedrick
- “Hello, I Must Be Going” by Krista Klanderman
- FAR FROM ALGIERS by Djelloul Marbrook
- “Dawn on Maui” by John Laue
- “End Game” by Gary Lemons
- “Hot Night Too Loud for Words” by Joanne Lowery
- “Escapees from the Zoo” by Joanne Lowery
- ELEGY by Larry Levis
- “At the Spring” by David T. Manning
- “In the Gynecologist’s Waiting Room” by Joy Maulitz
- “Rhode Island” by Amy Miller
- “Corporal Russell” by Michael Miller
- IT WAS A TERRIBLE CLOUD AT TWILIGHT by Alessandra Lynch
- “The Beginning of a Long Night” by Gabrielle Mittelbach
- “Gratitude” by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
- “Semiotics” by Malcolm Alexander
- “A Brief Introduction to Cowboy Poetry” by Rod Miller
- “Scarlet” by Sherman Alexie
- DOG ROAD WOMAN by Allison Hedge Coke
- “On Submitting Poems: By Any Means Necessary” by Bruce Cohen
- Received for Review in May
- “Considering the Trebonites” by Dick Allen
- “Rider” by Bruce Berger
- THE VEILED SUITE, THE COLLECTED POEMS by Agha Shahid Ali
- “The Neighbor’s Tale” by Phyllis Aboaf
- “After Six” by Meghan Adler
- A RANDOM CENSUS OF SOULS by Samuel Western
- “On the Poverty of My Imagination” by Tiffany Beechy
- “Dear Internal Revenue Service” by John Brehm
- “Dalton’s Law” by Helena Bell
- MUSIC OF TIME: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by David Ray
- “Farrier” by Cal Freeman
- “At a Party on Ellis Island, Watching Fireworks” by Traci Brimhall
- “Expiration Dates” by James Best
- FEAR by Pamela Garvey
- “Mahler in New York” by Joseph Fasano
- “Breaking Babies” by Christine Gelineau
- “Not Everything I Do Is Magic” by David M. DeLeon
- “DANCING AT THE DEVIL’S PARTY: ESSAYS ON POETRY, POLITICS, AND THE EROTIC” by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
- “The Tulip Tree” by Ted Gilley
- “Last Meal” by Marcus Cafagña
- Received for Review in June
- “On the Day of the Translation Workshop” by Alicia Casey
- RHYTHM AND BOOZE by Julie Kane
- “An Honest Man’s Profile for Internet Dating” by Bruce Cohen
- “Aposematic” by Elizabeth J. Colen
- “Pentimento” by Jennifer Pruden Colligan
- MEMORY AND RAIN by Jim Natal
- “Fence Posts Made of Stone” by Al ‘Doc’ Mehl
- “Nameless Boy” by Douglas Goetsch
- “When There’s Frost Upon the Ponies” by D.W. Groethe
- ONEIROMANCE by Kathleen Rooney
- “Watching The Wizard of Oz, Summer 1988” by Rebecca Lehmann
- “The Calf in the Pantry” by Mark D. Hart
- “My People” by Hilary Melton
- MILK CHIP MONDAY by Julie Otten
- “Cow Songs” by M.E. Hope
- “Poem of Four Explanations to Poems at Poetry Readings” by Gary Dop
- “Dream/Time” by Deborah Tobola
- “Wild Bill Hacker” by Mikhail Horowitz
- CRAZY LOVE by Pamela Uschuk
- “The Only Thing” by Alan Fox
- “The Calendar” by Amie Whittemore
- “Muscled Loins and Haunches” by Bil Lepp
- “Guided Tour” by Ed Galing
- EASY MARKS by Gail White
- “A Question About Horses” by Lisa Lewis
- “Bach in the DC Subway” by David Lee Garrison
- “Love Letter After the Fact” by Jennifer Malesich
- “Virginia” by Ted Gilley
- IN THE VOICE OF A MINOR SAINT by Sarah J. Sloat
- “Spring in the Country” by David Romtvedt
- “Bonnard’s Wife’s Ashes” by Paula Goldman
- “Showdown” by Luke Shuttleworth
- “A Family Matter” by Bob Hicok
- WHO’S TO SAY WHAT’S HOME by Kim Calder
- “A Plastic Dashboard Jesus? You Kiddin’?” by Red Shuttleworth
- “Dispatches from the Dream of Personal Flight” by Eric Kocher
- “Authority” by Laurence Snydal
- “Under the Knife” by Hilary Melton
- SIXTY SONNETS by Ernest Hilbert
- “Sheep Kill” by Jeff Streeby
- “My Problem with the World” by Brenda Paro
- “End of Days” by Marge Piercy
- CRAZY LOVE by Pamela Uschuk
- “Telephone Lines” by Eric Paul Shaffer
- “Memory” by Joan I. Siegal
- AMERICAN FUTURE by Peter Bethanis
- “The Tears of India” by John Spaulding
- “Blue Willow: Persephone Falling” by Alison Townsend
- “A Visit to the SuperMart” by William G. Ward
- LIMOUSINE, MIDNIGHT BLUE by Jamey Hecht
- “Daphne Swears Off It” by Susan Rich
- “What Happens Here” by Susan J. Allspaw
- “Myopic” by Nahrain Al-Mousawi
- STILL TO MOW by Maxine Kumin
- “Three Rivers Meet, Become Falls” by Liz Robbins
- “Scenic Postcard” by Paula Bonnell
- “A Brief Note from Spencer” by Jon Andersen
- “The Dinner” by Chuck Augello
- MOM’S CANOE by Rebecca Foust
- “Magritte’s Dog” by Deborah Brown
- “Baby Steps” by Jason Schossler
- WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COMING TO THIS MORNING by Greg Kosmicki
- 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize Winners
- “Under a Bare Bulb” by Walter Bargen
- “Help (In 47 Languages)” by Denise Duhamel
- “Schroedinger’s Cat” by Wanda Schubmehl
- TAKE IT by Joshua Beckman
- “Why Women’s Knees are So Pretty” by Nick Carbó
- “So You Said What You Had to Say” by Susan Abraham
- “Love of Distance” by Prartho Sereno
- SHE DANCES LIKE MUSSOLINI by David James
- “Doing Lineups on my Birthday” by Richard S. Bank
- “Cnidaria” by Lisa L. Siedlarz
- “Hunting” by Joan Dy
- DIVINE COMEDY: JOURNEYS THROUGH A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY by John Kinsella
- “The Day it Rained a Whale” by J. Arron Small
- “Mitosis” by Amanda Blue Gotera
- “Creation” by Lenore Langs
- “What Is Your Idle Job?” by Ace Boggess
- MODERN LIFE by Matthea Harvey
- “Meanwhile, Down at the Fish Market” by Anthony Fedanzo
- “Landscaping” by Michele Battiste
- CLOISTERS by Kristin Bock
- “C6 Corvette” by Sarah Ferris-DiMonda
- “Practice” by Andrew Bode-Lang
- “Picnic” by A.C. Speyer
- VOICE CARRIED MY FAMILY by Robert Sullivan
- “In Your Absence” by Dorothy Mahoney
- “Plea Bargain, June 29” by Mark C. Bruce
- “How Love Came to Us” by Eric Evans
- “A Poem for Uncertainties” by Mark Terrill
- CANTICLE OF IDOLS by Raina León
- “Memories of my Jewish Aunt” by Nancy J. Thompson
- “Chewing Gum Upskirt” by Vince Gotera
- “Cradle” by Anis Mojgani
- “Floaters” by Allen C. Fischer
- THE SPIDER SERMONS by Robert Krut
- “First Pig” by Douglas Woody Woodsum
- “Western Motel” by J.J. Blickstein
- “Small Reflection” by Louis Faber
- WITH THE LIGHT OF APRICOTS by Larry D. Thomas
- “The Death of Old Women” by Elizabeth Smither
- “Bottomlands Widow” by Doug Ramspeck
- “A Man Is Not Supposed to Give in to Tears” by Greg Moglia
- “Pulling Weeds On Your 30th Birthday” by Katie Chaple
- “Home Visit: Danny” by Jennifer Perrine
- ALL ODD AND SPLENDID by Hilda Raz
- “To the Former Self in Art Class” by Hannah Faith Notess
- “It Is Fair to Say There Are Some Lovers Who Never Leave” by Natasha Kochicheril Moni
- “How Did We Come to Be the Ones Whose Feet Are Being Washed?” by Rachel Webster
- ESSENDO MORTI – BEING DEAD by Jéanpaul Ferro
- “Horizon Note” by Luisa Igloria
- “Curves” by Karen Braucher
- “Passenger” by Rebecca Clark
- THE WHOLE MARIE by Barbara Maloutas
- “Hurricane Bob” by Bob Brooks
- “These Wild Turkeys” by Tim Poland
- “The Late Mr. Crowbait” by Louis Daniel Brodsky
- “Cooking Frutti Di Mare On This Early Evening Before the Night Falls On Kentucky Hillsides” by Mike Maniquiz
- THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM by Katha Pollitt
- “Considering My Silence: On Not Writing in the Jungles of Papua, Indonesia” by Erik Campbell
- “Broke” by Bonnie Young
- “Making a Living” by Brent Fisk
- DREAMING THE END OF WAR by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- 2009 Pushcart Prize Nominees
- “Why We Can’t Use Roundup On Our Lawn” by Maya Jewell Zeller
- “How to Make Amends” by David James
- “Saving For Sleep” by Hannah Craig
- “The Air is Cold” by Val Conder
- AN URGENT REQUEST by Sarah Luczaj
- “Apartment 2B” by Albert Abonado
- “Descent and Transcendence…” by Meta DuEwa Jones
- “Why Do They Call Bill Clinton the First Black President” by Idris Goodwin
- “Hopefully Soon” by Alvin Aubert
- ARRANGING THE BLAZE by Chad Sweeney
- “Tonsillitis” by Arlene Ang
- “Cartographer” by DéLana R.A. Dameron
- “Speculative” by Willie James King
- “Home Visit: Jenny” by Jennifer Perrine
- LUCIFER AT THE STARLITE by Kim Addonizio
- “To Stop a Dinner Guest” by Josiah Bancroft
- From “The Telly Cycle” by Toi Derricotte
- “Today She Bought the Hideous Tie They Will Bury Me In” by Patrick Carrington
- “What the Dead Tell Us About Charon, Ferryman of the Dead” by Brett Ortler
- THIS NEST, SWIFT PASSERINE by Dan Beachy-Quick
- “Sound-Part 1 (Girl With Red Scarf)” by Yona Harvey
- “Elevator” by Andrew Kozma
- “Through the Invisible Cloak…” by Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
- “Ars Poetica” by Grace Ocasio
- STONERS AND SELF-APPOINTED SAINTS by Annie La Ganga
- “For Aunt Louise, Who Never Liked Me” by Randy Blythe
- “They Win the Upper Hand” by Camille T. Dungy
- “Far” by Bruce Bond
- “A Few Excuses” by Thomas Sayers Ellis
- THE VOICES: THE POETRY OF PSYCHIATRY by Nancy Kerrigan
- “Load” by Christine Butterworth-McDermott
- “Say It, Say It Anyway You Can” by Vievee Francis
- From “Beirut (1982-84): A Cycle of Poems” by Michael Campagnoli
- “Mucambo” by Myronn Hardy
- THE BROTHER SWIMMING BENEATH ME by Brent Goodman
- “Ode to the Bedpan” by Janice N. Harrington
- “Love” by Heather Bell
- “Crow-Magnon” by Howard Price
- “The Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice” by Alison Townsend
- “Motown Crown” by Patricia Smith
- “On the Question of What Drives Coronary Circulation…” by Mario Chard
- “Last Day on Earth” by Larry Crist
- THE ORIGIN OF THE MILKY WAY by Barbara Louise Ungar
- “Who Are You and Whom Do You Love?” by Jacqueline Jones LaMon
- “Godly” by James Doyle
- “The Lord God Bird” by Danusha Laméris
- “Skinning a Child Alive” by Sally Doyle
- BREATH-LIFE by Juanita Torrence-Thompson
- “All Seasons” by Alan Fox
- “Medusa’s Defense” by Jennifer Donice Lewis
- “On the Flyleaf of C.K.W.’s Selected Poems” by Herbert Woodward Martin
- “A Starbucks Romance” by Robert Funge
- A GUEST IN ALL YOUR HOUSES by Peter Ludwin
- “The Girls On Josephine Street” by Melissa McEwen
- “A Guide for Black and White Crossing” by Katy Richey
- “A Good Bad Day” by Tony Gloeggler
- WILD FLIGHT by Christine Rhein
- “For the Man Whose Son My Son Killed” by Gary Earl Ross
- “Interference” by Kimi Cunningham Grant
- “The Hour of Our Belief” by Mary Mclaughlin Slechta
- “The Famous Outlaw” by David James
- THEN, SOMETHING by Patricia Fargnoli
- “Midwestern Gothic” by Laurie Junkins
- “Civil Rights Cold Case #62 (Or the Yellow Dress)” by Lolita Stewart-White
- “Porn” by Christopher Kempf
- “Overheard at Starbucks: A Black Hat Saying” by Lynne Thompson
- “History of My Body” by Katie Kingston
- THE SELECTED POEMS OF LI PO translated by David Hinton
- “Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City” by Patricia Smith
- “Ghosting” by Tom Chandler
- “Driving Under the Full Wolf Moon” by Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody
- “Off Duty At Bare Exposures Gentlemen Club” by Eric Lee
- SHARP STARS by Sharon Bryan
- “The Redwood Plague” by Phyllis M. Teplitz
- “Lips” by Lyn Lifshin
- “Hero” by Ian Williams
- “An Ordinary Orderly” by Laurie B. Ludmer
- UNTHINKABLE: SELECTED POEMS 1976-2004 by Irene McKinney
- “Homeschool Fieldtrip, 2nd Grade” by Prairie L. Markussen
- “Dreamboys” by L. Lamar Wilson
- “Conversation” by Joe Mills
- RUIN AND BEAUTY by Deena Metzger
- “52” by Patricia Smith
- “Dreaming of Emily Dickinson” by E.K. Mortenson
- “To the High School Thug that Broke Into His English Teacher’s Car” by Scott Woods
- “Crossing the Gap” by Travis Mossotti
- DUST AND BREAD by Stephen Haven
- “Miserable” by Dave Newman
- “Thaw” by David O’Connell
- “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” by Matthew Olzmann
- THE WOMAN YOU WRITE POEMS ABOUT by Danielle (Dani) Montgomery
- First Book Interview with Michelle Bitting
- “Daphne” by Kenny Williams
- “(A+B+C)” by Charlotte Pence
- FAIR CREATURE OF AN HOUR by Lynn Levin
- “Unplotted” by Christine Poreba
- “Ohio” by Charles Rafferty
- “Sunday Picnic on the Vltava” by Tera Vale Ragan
- “Writer in Residence, Central State” by Diana Goetsch
- MOVING HOUSE by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
- “Into the Fog” by Mark Rich
- “The Night Before” by Michael Salcman
- “Poem in Search of a Horse” by Hayden Saunier
- “Early Night” by Alan Soldofsky
- SIX LIPS by Penelope Scambly Schott
- “Determing Who the Marchers Were” by Lee Stern
- “Death of the Hired Hand, Hiawatha, Kansas” by Kate Sweeney
- “Microcosm” by Jeff Vande Zande
- WHAT I KNOW OF INNOCENCE by Cathryn Essinger
- “Claes Attempts to Understand Women” by Tana Jean Welch
- “Don’t You Miss the Phone Booth” by Kate Peper
- “Nine” by Christine Butterworth-McDermott
- SAVE THE LAST DANCE by Gerald Stern
- “In Memory of His Memory” by David Wagoner
- “My Father’s Painting” by Bryan Walpert
- “Turning” by Kelli Youngblood
- “Riptide” by Melanie Wright
- ELEANOR, ELEANOR, NOT YOUR REAL NAME by Kathryn Cowles
- “Folding” by Jim Tilley
- “Fish Blood and Diesel Fuel” by Anne Winter
- “Castlekeep” by Philip A Waterhouse
- “A Country in Our Hearts” by Fred Voss
- OMNIVORE by Allan Peterson
- “Self-Portrait: November” by Sandy Longhorn
- “The Eskimo’s Guide to Fine Dining” by Andrew Vinstra
- “Convert’s Lament” by Laura Van Prooyen
- “Leaves of Grass/Suicide/Psychic Hotlines” by Cathryn Cofell
- A VILLAGE LIFE by Louise Glück
- “Accidental Death and Dismemberment” by Masarah Van Eyck
- “They Can’t Touch You” by Joe Pierre
- “Nature Essay” by Ann Tweedy
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- from A Conversation with M.L. Liebler
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- from A Conversation with Rhoda Janzen
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- Interview with Stefan
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- “The Old Me” by William Walsh
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- OLIVES By A.E. Stallings
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- A Conversation with Li-Young Lee
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- “After a Moment’s Pause” by Agustine F. Porras
- “The Ocean” by Gordon Preston
- “Aubade” by Cheri L. R. Taylor
- “Mathematics and Mole” by Diana Rosen
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- “Beloved Familiar” by Michele Rosenthal
- “Art Festival” by Karen Schoenhals
- “Tip Fogarty (1963)” by Red Shuttleworth
- “Renting Tom Mix’s House on Catalina” by Mark Smith
- PLAYING BACH IN THE D.C. METRO by David Lee Garrison
- “Why Men Go Crabbing” by Diane Stone
- “Carrying Two Packs” by David T. Strong
- “Found Behind the Box Factory” by Donna Stubak
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- “Conjecture” by Anthony Tracy
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- “The Robbery” by Catherine Freeling
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- 2013 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award
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- “Salt Lies Sprinkled” by Irena Praitis
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- “Diagnosis HIV” by Cortney Davis
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- A Conversation with Francesca Lia Block
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- “Conditional Perfect Tense” by Joan Wiese Johannes
- “The Road” by Teresa Mei Chuc
- “How to Pray” by Sage Cohen
- “What I Will Tell His Daughter …” by Meg Day
- “Transfertle the Plum” by Carol Denson
- “Salmon” by Kathmandu Cook
- “Over It” by Alexis Rhone Fancher
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- “Incidentals” by Penny Freeland
- “Custody” by Louis Gallo
- “Big Sis” by James Dailey
- “The Letter Before A” by Colette Inez
- “The Play of Lovers” by Colette Inez
- “The Story, For Now” by Janlori Goldman
- “To My Husband, Who 33 Years Ago …” by Maryanne Hannan
- “The Transfer” by Elise Hempel
- “Emily on Tuesday” by Ken Holland
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- “Horoscope” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
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- MicroReviews for Spring 2014
- “Elephant Drops Dead in the Ring” by Anne Ward Jamieson
- “What to Do with Leftovers” by Edison Jennings
- “Door Gunner” by Jenifer Browne Lawrence
- “In a Quiet Moment” by Hilary Melton
- “Grandpa Bob” by Sophia Dienstag
- “Algebra” by Sarah Brown Weitzman
- “Desert” by Sarah Brown Weitzman
- “My Daughter Calls Me Hag” by Barbra Nightingale
- “Sweatheart” by Janet Nippell
- “Sunday” by January Gill O’Neil
- “Hello Wall” by Gloria Parker
- “He Lives in an Ark and Dreams” by Gabby Dodd-Terrell
- “Looking Back” by Sarah Brown Weitzman
- “Lines in Late April” by Kenneth Salzmann
- “Mothering Solo” by Khadijah Queen
- “In Response to Anyone Who Asks” by Josh Rathkamp
- “Single Dads of Daughters” by Russell Rowland
- “Metaphorical Children” by April Salzano
- “Lessons” by Zea Eanet
- “My Grandfather Only Wears Brown” by Megan Collins
- “Anyway” by Tony Gloeggler
- “Skinny Old Man with Shopping Cart” by Art Schwartz
- “Glosa” by Diane Seuss
- “An Open Letter to Our Sperm Donor” by Robin Silbergleid
- “On the Way to the Airport” by Donna Spector
- “Making Noise” by Kofi Edufo
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- “Bells” by Julia Clare Tillinghast
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- “Juice” by Wanda Morrow Clevenger
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- “Blowing a Kiss to My Sister” by Courtlyn Helder
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- “Presidential Poetry Briefing” by Albert Haley
- “My Mother Told Us Not to Have Children” by Rebecca Gayle Howell
- “What He Must Have Seen” by Stephen Kampa
- “How to Peel a Prawn” by Jill Klein
- “Frozen Shadows” by Jorel Hill
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- “The Unintended Lecture on Desire” by Lynne Knight
- “After Her Affair” by Lynne Knight
- “While Plum Blossoms Sweep Down Like Snow” by Lynne Knight
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- “Famine” by Remington Janssen
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- “After the Memorial” by Megan Collins
- “Mark Trail” by Ron Koertge
- A Conversation with Ron Koertge
- “Waiting” by Karl Krolow
- “Just So You Know” by Tim Laffey
- “Why Should We in Some Forgotten Corner” by Emma Faye Jewell
- “Approaching Storm” by Lynne Knight
- “Black Banana” by Rebecca Schumejda
- “The Witch’s Daughter” by Joan Murray
- “Man on Mad Anthony” by Bea Opengart
- “Laundry List” by Michelle Ornat
- “Untitled” by Mikey Kelsey
- “Poetry, Blood and Cyanide” by Cyrus Mahan
- “On July 8” by Elly Bookman
- “Grey Faith” by Grace L. Park
- “My Four-Year-Old Asks What Happens …” by Tina Parker
- “Thinking Again of that Lone Boxer” by Charlotte Pence
- “Man on the Floor” by Jack Powers
- “The Pangolin’s Love Story” by Skylar Kendall
- “Motor City Tirade” by Dawn McDuffie
- “How I Fathom the Crash” by Megan Collins
- “Hepatitis C” by Michael D. Riley
- “Dilemmas of the Angels: Extraterrestrial” by David Romtvedt
- “Dilemmas of the Angels: Intention” by David Romtvedt
- “Magic” by Liz Scheid
- “The Tired Face of the Magician Rescues Untruths” by Stephanie Lester
- “Silver Moonlight” by Christopher Fox
- “Ya’aburnee” by Zeina Hashem Beck
- “Re: Re: Personal Ad #6 …” by Michael Schmeltzer
- “The Famine of Love” by Jenneva Scholz
- “Who Breathed in Binders” by Patricia Smith
- “Summer” by Graham Linthorst
- “This Poem Is for My Mother” by Andrena Zawinski
- “She Runs from the River” by Elise Liu
- “New Year” by Lindsay Tigue
- “Of You” by Wendy Videlock
- “Courthouse” by Monica Wendel
- “Arms” by Mike White
- “A Journey to Heaven” by Madeline McEwen
- “Found Among Letters to His Mistress” by Ed Wickliffe
- “Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza)” by Marjorie Lotfi Gill
- “Watch” by Mike White
- “Breathing Jesus” by Fred D. White
- “In the Blood” by David Welch
- “Haiku” by Bree, Liya & Anya Miksovsky
- “Cat Love” by Natalie Belle Neal
- “Cracking Up” by Amy Uyematsu
- “Roll Call for Michael Brown” by Jason McCall
- “Of the Lamp” by Gabrielle Bates
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- “Confiding with a Hen” by Chloe Ortiz
- “Twine: A Prayer” by Chloe Ortiz
- “The Detective Asks Me What He Said” by Shoshauna Shy
- “Corpse Flower” by Sonia Greenfield
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- “In Search of History” by Richard Shelton
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- “In the Woods” by Ian Jasper Osborn
- “The Power of Clothes” by Grace L. Park
- MicroReviews for Summer 2014
- “The Letter from James Foley” by Lynne Knight
- “Letter to Dick from Time” by Heather Altfeld
- “Crown for a Young Marriage” by Mary Block
- “Mango Smoothie” by Ace Boggess
- “My Ordinary Love” by Paula Bonnell
- “Dreaming of Friends” by Grace L. Park
- “Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 – 1935)” by Felix Stefanile
- “Labor Day: Atlantic City” by Peter E. Murphy
- “Joy” by Byron Case
- “Cavalier” by Michael Cavanagh
- “The Day Is the Island” by Elizabeth Chapman
- “The Grand Design” by Jim Daniels
- “Lost Things” by Lina Patel
- “Summer Storm in Sicily” by Laura Stortoni-Hager
- “A Spokesperson Said Thoughts and Prayers Go Out” by Sonia Greenfield
- “In a Black Tank Top” by Danielle DeTiberus
- “The Valhalla Machine” by Jehanne Dubrow
- “And Have I Loved You?” by Conrad Geller
- “Beauty of the Prisoner” by Evie Portier
- “The Sacred Lane” by Pasquale Verdicchio
- “Flats; or, I Shot an Arrow Into the Air” by Christopher Kempf
- “The Space Traveler’s Crush” by Benjamin S. Grossberg
- “Ichabod” by Mark D. Hart
- “Hooters” by Jackleen Holton
- “Tamara” by Troy Jollimore
- “Once Upon a Time” by Alexander Prokopiev
- “I’m Not Calling It a Chasm” by Julie Henson
- A Conversation with Troy Jollimore
- “The Space Between” by Jill Jupen
- “Kissing as a Religion” by Susan Doble Kaluza
- “Nocturne in What Now Feels Like a Very Silly Dress” by Courtney Kampa
- “The Rocks Were So Tall” by Madeline Restino
- “Platitudes Grow with Age” by Deborah Stambler
- “For Those Who Would Kill Chickens” by Amy Miller
- “Aftermath” by Nathan Landau
- “The Lovers” by Timothy Liu
- “Love Poem” by Timothy Liu
- “Nostos” by James Davis May
- “Trailer Park Girls” by Christell Victoria Roach
- “Act Three” by Joyce Stein
- “Something Beautiful” by Emily Montgomery
- “Optimist” by Leonard Orr
- “Why I Like Marriage” by George Ovitt
- “The Difference at Cafe D’Arthe” by John Poch
- “Oops” by Sabrina Swerdloff
- “The Writing Spider” by Paula Schulz
- “How to Remove a Hazmat Suit” by Jay Sizemore
- “Three Weeks with Etheridge Knight” by Pamela Rasso
- “Speaking in Code” by Christine Rhein
- “Orange Marmalade” by Timothy Schirmer
- “My Father Asks Me to Kill Him” by Lauren Schmidt
- “Girl Rising” by M. T.
- “The Writing Spider” by Caroline Giles Banks
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- “Bright Red Bit” by Charlotte Seley
- “Valediction, on Arriving in a Distant Land” by Eric Paul Shaffer
- “The Alteration of Love” by Myra Shapiro
- “Past” by Maximilian Tellini
- “Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town” by John Philip Johnson and Julian Peters
- “Nathan Cirillo” by Sneha Madhavan-Reese
- “Satori” by Mark Smith-Soto
- “Instead of a Victorian Novel I Write a Victorian Poem” by Joanna Solfrian
- “Triolet for Carol” by John L. Stanizzi
- “Burka” by Charles Harper Webb
- “Evening Trees” by Junuh Tolan
- “A Woman’s Jewelry” by A. F. Thomas
- “The Electorate” by Kevin Heaton
- “Dip” by Holly Welker
- “In the Presence of Absence” by Richard Widerkehr
- “Desert Love Poem” by Dominika Wrozynski
- “River” by Nic Alea
- “Abandoned Church” by Jose Angel Araguz
- “See You at Home” by Jack Urness
- “On Hearing of Robin Williams’ Diagnosis” by Lynne Knight
- “Spring, 1989” by Andrew Bennett
- “Ruin Porn” by Jacqueline Berger
- “The Butter Smells Funny” by Daniel Bohnhorst
- “For the Female Suicides” by Kim Bridgford
- “Fucking the Gap” by T.L. Burns
- “Explain Sunbeams!” by Jamie Uy
- “Unsent Letter from Philae, Comet 67P” by Rachel J. Bennett
- “Rat King” by Marty Cain
- “The Ice Man” by David Cavanagh
- “Before Riding West” by J.P. Celia
- “I Took Nothing” by Teresa Mei Chuc
- “Nobody Likes Me” by Peyton Vernon
- “Inspiration” by Tabitha Welch
- “Sonnet Consisting of One Law” by Lynne Thompson
- “What I Remember as My Father Is Dying” by Beth Copeland
- “Your Fat Daughter Remembers What You Said” by Lucas Crawford
- “No Body” by J. Divina Erickson
- “The River” by Alan Fox
- from A Conversation with Juan Felipe Herrera
- “In the Forest” by Ben Wilson
- “The Gun in its Holster” by Marjorie Lotfi Gill
- “Cutting Room” by Troy Jollimore
- “Cardiac Concussion with Delay” by Stephen Kampa
- “Everything Is Broken” by Sharon Kessler
- “I Guess” by Marianne Kunkel
- “Topless Swimming Pool” by Britt Luttrell
- “Deaf Child, Sweet Sound” by E. Wen Wong
- “Dark Prison Ledger” by Lynne Knight
- “On My First Trip to the Strip Club” by Michael Meyerhofer
- “Translation” by Jeffrey Morgan
- “The Difference Between String and Spring” by Z. Mueller
- “Mars and Venus” by Kathleen Diane Nolan
- “Circumspect” by JoLee G. Passerini
- MicroReviews for Fall 2014
- “Mystery Story” by Fiona Lauradunn Woolf
- “In the Winter of 2014 We Were Always Taking His Name” by Mihir Vatsa
- “La Campagna, London, Friday Night” by Robert Peake
- “Among the Yellows, the Faces Slack” by Charlotte Pence
- “Church Bulletin” by Amy Plettner
- “The Night Before Christmas 2014” by Russell Colver
- “When Researching Public Sex Theatres for a Poem” by Sam Sax
- “I Want to Tell the Fish” by Tianyue Xia
- “Hello Miss Pretty Bitch” by Emily Yoon
- “A Lobster’s Home” by Rebecca Schumejda
- “The Diminishing Politics of Senator Les S. Moore” by Janice D. Soderling
- “Clay” by Taylor Supplee
- “Ode to Short Shorts” by Kenny Tanemura
- “Good News Bad News” by Bruce Taylor
- “Diaspora” by Doug Ramspeck
- “Sparrows” by Chera Hammons
- “Battleground” by William Trowbridge
- “Trust Fall” by Paul Watsky
- “Bathtub Baptism” by Leslie Marie Aguilar
- from a Conversation with Chris Anderson
- “Blessing” by Chris Anderson
- “Dream of the Disappeared” by Cecil L. Sayre
- “Pussy Nation” by R.G. Evans
- “Love Letter to Argenta Perón” by Doug Paul Case
- “14, Sunday School, 3 Days Late” by Leila Chatti
- “Dua for Dervishes” by Michael Cirelli
- “Recursives” by Peter Cooley
- “Apophatic” by Maryann Corbett
- “Clean White Sheets” by M
- “Words for a Craven Editor” by Conor Kelly
- “What Is Faith, After All?” by Carol V. Davis
- “Transfiguration of the Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Todd Davis
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- “Little Eucharist” by Phillip T. Egelston
- “Signs and Wonders” by Ted Eisenberg
- “Carelessness” by Michael Hallock
- “Realism: For an Infant Doused in Gasoline” by Andrew Collard
- “Little Angel” by Albert Haley
- “The Transformation” by Red Hawk
- “I Find It Difficult to Talk to My Bible Friend” by David James
- “At the Communion Rail” by Mark Jarman
- “There Have Come Soft Rains” by John Philip Johnson
- “Dear Grandma” by Gabriella Altmanni
- “Gratuitous Super Bowl Poem” by Vincent Toro
- “Ten Facts About the Towers” by Richard Leach
- “The Way a Psalm Can Begin” by Moira Linehan
- “Two Small Fish” by Celeste Lipkes
- “Desert Cell” by Steve Myers
- “Broken Eggs” by Danelle Antelo
- “Levels of Shit or Thom Tillis Rejects Government Regulation” by Beth Gylys
- “Love Poem” by Dan Nemes
- “Water Under World” by Hannah Faith Notess
- “Saved” by Kate Peper
- “What Is My Life About?” by Julie Price Pinkerton
- “A Beautiful Town” by Haya Pomrenze
- “Imaginary Deafness” by Elliot L. Armitage
- “The Words Come, They Choke Me” by Leila Chatti
- 2014 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award
- “Save the Human Race” by Christine Potter
- “Canticle” by David Radavich
- “Lennon Lyric” by Scott Corbet Riley
- “Belief” by Marilyn Robertson
- “Singing Together in a Small Ventilation Hole” by Elliot L. Armitage
- “Elegy for Philip Levine” by Dante Di Stefano
- “Why I Can Dance Down a Soul-Train Line in Public and Still Be Muslim” by Aisha Sharif
- “Dish Team at Church Camp” by Tim Sherry
- “Credo” by Roz Spafford
- “For Jeff, on the Anniversary of His Death” by Richard Spilman
- “Stardust” by Colette Tennant
- “Over Dust” by Darius Atefat-Peckham
- “Perfidious Under Fire” by C. Wade Bentley
- “Sometimes Peter, But Never Paul” by Laurie Uttich
- “NPR Reports” by Sherrill Vore
- “Escape” by Linda Whittenberg
- “Rosemary Lamb” by Kenny Williams
- from “Wolfe” by Donald Mace Williams
- “My Prince” by Nathalia Bernstein
- “Questions for Lyudmila” by Marie-Aline Roemer
- “The Everyday” by Michael Bazzett
- “I Have This Fantasy” by Heather Bell
- “A Brief History of Poetry” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
- “Do Not Walk Outside This Area” by Steven Dondlinger
- “Lana Del Rey Intervenes When She Notices I’ve Stopped Writing About My Ex” by Megan Falley
- “Let’s Say the Rain” by Oscar Brady
- “How Florida Lost Its Edge” by Damian Caudill
- “Howard’s Funeral” by Alan Fox
- “Autobiography” by Jackie Fox
- “Biscuit” by Hannah Gamble
- “Edifying Just to See” by Hannah Gamble
- from a Conversation with Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- “I Remember the Squirrel” by Oscar Brady
- “Dolphin Legend of the World Before” by Janice D. Soderling
- “The Last Time I Used the N Word” by Tony Gloeggler
- “Wakening” by Jessica Goodfellow
- “Slurry Cleanse” by Steve Henn
- “An Idea She Got from Oprah” by Joel F. Johnson
- “Dear Yeobo,” by Tanya Ko
- “Cats” by Vivienne Charpentier
- “The Descent of the Germanwings” by Chera Hammons
- “Town Crier” by Ron Koertge
- “Q & A” by Ron Koertge
- “Saturday Morning 6-22-2013” by Greg Kosmicki
- “Alimentum” by Len Krisak
- “Godfather Death” by Rebecca Lehmann
- “Stars” by Katherine Chritton
- “The Poetry Lesson” by Jackleen Holton
- “The Man Who Was Thursday” by Christopher McCurry
- “Lesbians or Exchange Students” by Matt Muth
- “A Six-Box & Dried Legumes” by James Proffitt
- “The Reductionist” by Charles Rafferty
- “Water Fall” by Kailani Bird Clarke
- “Feeling Fucked Up” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
- “The Roofers” by Mather Schneider
- “Divorce and Astronauts” by Jesse Valentine
- “The Robert Frost Kickball Club” by Maceo J. Whitaker
- “Waiting in Vain” by Craig van Rooyen
- “My Father Worked Piece-Rate at the Schult Mobile Home Plant” by Josh Bontrager
- “Potpourri” by Liz N. Clift
- “Section B, Page 6” by Meryl Stratford
- “Taxonomy of an Automobile Accident” by Samantha Deal
- “How to Meet the Love of Your Life: A Basic Guide” by Stephen Kampa
- “The Reality Auction” by James Davis May
- “Holy Shitballs!” by Jack Powers
- “Location’s Everything” by Steven Dondlinger
- “National Poetry Month” by Will Nixon
- “A Story” by Sarah Pemberton Strong
- “The Night Relies” by Wendy Videlock
- “Fathers” by Mike White
- “The Nightly Villanelle of Their Twelfth Year” by Shangrila Willy
- “Pixel Poetry: A Meritocracy” by Colin Ward
- “My Cat” by Cody Dane
- “The Polar Bear” by Jennifer Givhan
- “Genetics” by Roberta Beary
- “Presbyopia” by Roberta Beary
- “Three Translations” by David Bowles
- “Three Haiku” by Helen Buckingham
- “Elegy for Madrid” by Catherine Ruffing
- “Untitled” by Kainani Chuc Dowell
- “Unsigned Mother’s Day Card” by Bayleigh Cardinal
- “Five Haiku” by Billy Collins
- “from HAIKU IN CONCRETE” by Michael Luis Dauro
- “from HAIKU IN CONCRETE (2)” by Michael Luis Dauro
- “What If” by Peter Fiore
- “Standing Naked” by Charles P. Ries
- “A City” by Kofi Edufo
- “After the Boston Marathon Bombing” by Susan Cohen
- “Three Haiku” by Richard J. Fleming
- “Three Haiku” by Richard Gilbert
- “Four Senryū” by Jeff Haas
- “After Fukushima” by Mariko Kitakubo
- “2B” by Tony Gloeggler
- “Let Me Write a Poem” by Hazel W. Frew
- “Inheritance” by A.J. Bradley
- “Three Haiku” by Jee Leong Koh
- “Four Haiku” by Deborah P. Kolodji
- “Five Senryū” by Timothy Liu
- “Working with Ghosts” by Bob Lucky
- from a Conversation with Richard Gilbert
- “Remember” by Emily Garroway
- “Memorial Day 2015” by Abby E. Murray
- “from Salaryman (Umami)” by Michael Mejia
- “from Salaryman (To Arrange Oneself)” by Michael Mejia
- “from Salaryman (No George)” by Michael Mejia
- “from Salaryman (A Certain Sorrow)” by Michael Mejia
- “The Dangerous Hermit for the Motorcycle Betrayer” by Diane Wakoski
- “What Am I Doing” by Charlie Gerson
- “To Caitlyn Jenner” by Suzanne Langlois
- “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms” by Marsh Muirhead
- “Willows on the Crow” by Marsh Muirhead
- “Four Haiku” by Marsh Muirhead
- “Three Haiku and a Tanka” by George Swede
- “Getting Tough with John Ruskin” by Ron Koertge
- “Painting Music” by Madeleine Shea Gerson
- “Escape Envy” by Ace Boggess
- “Basho’s Hut: A Haibun” by Kenny Tanemura
- “Simple Tanka Prose for the Seasons” by Charles Tarlton
- “Haiku Sequence” by John Samuel Tieman & Walter Bargen
- “Musashi-san” by Jack Vian
- “Teeny Tiny” by Matthew Murrey
- “Comfort” by Sophya Giudici-Juarez
- “Landscape with Questions” by Patrick Ryan Frank
- “Midday Heat: A Twenty-Stanza Renku” by Jonathan Weinert & Debra Kang Dean
- “True Colours” by Michael Dylan Welch
- “Our Neruda” by Mike Bove
- “Trigger Warning” by Jackson Burgess
- “Abduction” by Kate Gaskin
- “Lunch” by Maci Modean Greenberg
- “After the Vigil for the Charleston Church Massacre” by Stevie Edwards
- “Anniversary” by Erik Campbell
- “What I Mean When I Use the Term, ‘Witch Doctor Sad'” by Erik Campbell
- “One Defense” by Rhina P. Espaillat
- “Muybridge” by L.M. Ferreira
- “Cuscatlán” by Zoë Anglesey
- “An Unexpected Knocking About” by Maci Modean Greenberg
- “Hillanelle” by A.M. Juster
- “Mortality” by Lola Haskins
- “KGB Orchestra at the High School Prom” by John Herschel
- “Whenever I Peel an Orange” by Greg Kosmicki
- “Phantom Limb” by Abby E. Murray
- “A Shipwrecked Person” by James Tate
- “My Terrible Sister” by Nick Hébert
- “In Praise of Jonathan Matthew” by Kerrin McCadden
- “Deep Water” by Christopher Presfield
- “Portrait of the Second Wife as Understudy” by Amber Rambharose
- “Somali Shopping for Organic Figs” by James Tate
- “Orange Groves & Fairy Tales” by Diane Wakoski
- “People of the Megabus” by Justin Barisich
- “Connections” by Nora Hunter
- “Let Me Tell You About One Night Stands” by Bayleigh Cardinal
- “Fragments of a Shooting Script” by Ryan Black
- “Hold Me Like You’ll Never Let Me Go” by Susana H. Case
- “Neighbor” by Bill Christophersen
- “At Jury Duty” by Coco de Casscza
- “Route 9” by Martin Willitts Jr.
- “Balloons” by Jayden Jones
- “Sandy Speaks” by Tiana Clark
- “I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom” by Kim Dower
- “Pilgrimage” by Tony Gloeggler
- “Continuing Education” by Linda S. Gottlieb
- “But How Can You Name What You Don’t Have” by Michele Lent Hirsch
- “Sappho’s Bracelets” by Diane Wakoski
- “Wind Chime” by Kavya M.
- “What Do You Give” by Amy Elizabeth Robinson
- “New Poems” by Jan Heller Levi
- “Miss Jacklyn Analyzes Love” by Arden Levine
- “Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea” by Martin H. Levinson
- “And They’re Running” by Peter Marcus
- “Make Bare the Leg, Uncover the Thigh” by Zoe Reed
- “Smokey’s Blue Eyes” by Abigail Miranda Miller
- “Rhymes with Banish” by Rhina P. Espaillat
- “Our First Five Days in the Country” by Joan Murray
- “Offering” by Harry Newman
- “In a Room at the Marriott Marquis” by Myra Shapiro
- “Central Park Zoo, 1970” by Katherine Barrett Swett
- “Ram Tested on Mount Vert” by Grant Quackenbush
- “She Wore Yellow” by Abbie Minard
- “Sky Beer” by Rayon Lennon
- “The Poe Cottage, 1992” by Katherine Barrett Swett
- “After” by Marilynn Talal
- from a Conversation with Jan Heller Levi
- “1969” by Luke Bauerlein
- “Cruelest of All Are the Gods Who Never Frown” by Michael Meyerhofer
- “The Evening Stroll” by Rachel Mueller
- “Mignon” by Dore Kiesselbach
- “Watching the Wizard of Oz in Prison” by Ace Boggess
- “Rehab” by David Bottoms
- “Career Self-Assessment” by Dennis Caswell
- “Giving Birth” by Meg Eden
- “Government Work” by Stuart Redpath
- “I Asked” by Nathaniel Schott
- “Selfie” by Nausheen Eusuf
- “Eros” by Joseph Fasano
- “In Diminuendo” by Richard Fenwick
- “Horsefly” by Fred Fox
- “Clusters” by Martin Ott
- “Peace and Rain” by Zoey Sheffield
- “Ghazal: Back Home” by Zeina Hashem Beck
- “She Took Everything in the Room With Her as She Went” by Bill Freedman
- “In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit” by Catherine Freeling
- “Burial for a Stray” by Don Kimball
- “One Among a Thousand Possible Versions” by Alison Luterman
- “While Walking Through the Churchyard” by Kenneth O’Keefe
- “The Woman” by Briar Spungin
- “I Am Michael Derrick Hudson:” by Sam Cha
- “At the Playground” by Kathleen McGookey
- 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize Winners
- “Ars Poetica” by Mary Meriam
- “I Dream I Dance with My Sister” by Scott Miles
- “Ice House” by Ann Giard-Chase
- “Mad World” by Mackenzie Tatananni
- “The English Teacher Who Mistook a Clock for a Bomb” by Alejandro Escudé
- “Essential Tremor” by Donald Platt
- “Lorazepam” by Sam Sax
- “The Record of Conduct Book” by Knud Sørensen
- “Nautilus Shell” by Wally Swist
- “Offering” by Arnold Perrin
- “Station Manager” by Catherine Valdez
- “Daraprim” by Kayla Rae Candrilli
- “Finality” by Rob Talbert
- “What Ever Happened to …?” by William Trowbridge
- “Keychain Peep Show” by William Trowbridge
- “To the Man About to Put the Lampshade on His Head” by Ken Wagner
- “Seventy-Five Kimonos” by Lynn Pattison
- “The Dream of Flight” by Michael Wang
- “Two Variations on a Triolet with Refrains from President Obama’s Statement on the Shooting in Roseburg, Oregon” by Gary Leising
- “The Basic Question” by Len Anderson
- “Joint National Commissions Galore” by Daniel Becker
- “Turing Test” by Dennis Caswell
- “Tohoku Ghost Stories” by Meg Eden
- “What Can You Do?” by Charles Bukowski
- “Black Horse” by Railey Warren
- “The Gun and the Gown” by Conor Kelly
- “The Non-Euclidean Universe” by Anna M. Evans
- “How to Pray” by Annelyse Gelman
- “Mummies” by Richard Hedderman
- “Grandmother:” by Ilana Kelsey
- “Sister Moon” by Jane Williams
- “Life” by Caitlyn Wickham
- “Things That Happen” by Emmalee Hagarman
- “Four Haiku” by Julie Bloss Kelsey
- “Tuning Fork” by Ruth Madievsky
- “If This Is Middle Age Then I’ll Die at 93.667” by Peter Munro
- from A Conversation with Peter Munro
- “Things You Cannot Answer” by Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson
- “Synesthesia” by Allison Wise
- “Ossuary” by Ariana Brown
- “Advice to a New Postdoc” by John Nimmo
- “Curie in Love” by Erin Noteboom
- “Inertia Violated” by Edward Nudelman
- “Cleaning” by Katrina Outland
- “Night” by Jianqing Zheng
- “I Wish” by E. Wen Wong
- “The Headline Reads Processed Meat Causes Cancer, Says WHO” by Katherine Lo
- “How the River” by Julia Runcie
- “You Might Think This Is What Happens” by Amy Schrader
- “Dog Sitting in Snow” by Matthew J. Spireng
- “Five Types of Confidence” by Arthur J. Stewart
- “There Have Come Soft Rains” by John Philip Johnson and Julian Peters
- “Time” by Tianyue Xia
- “Resignation” by Akua Lezli Hope
- “Pathetic” by Suzanne Zeitman
- “Ghostly Heron” by George Bilgere
- “Home (Initial Findings)” by Franny Choi
- “Oranges” by Lauren S. Cook
- “St. Andrew’s Head” by Kevin Pilkington
- “Mini Poems” by Tianyue Xia
- “Moments of Silence” by Joanna Lee
- “Enchilada Night” by Mike Faran
- “Ashes to …” by Alan Fox
- “A Prayer for Ducks” by Ethan Joella
- “Buying Produce from the Marked-Down Cart” by Lynn Levin
- “Kamakura Beach, 1333” by Mary Kendall
- “View from My Long Beach Study” by C.E. Chaffin
- “Perpetuation of the Species” by Jessica Goodfellow
- “In the End” by Nina Lindsay
- “If You Really Aren’t a Racist Take This Online Test” by Lisa Martin
- “Roly-Poly Bodhisattva” by Michael Mark
- “At the Artists’ Colony” by James Davis May
- “Shame at Eight” by Bronwen Butter Newcott
- “The View from the Café” by Matt Quinn
- “Level 4: Brussels” by Susana H. Case
- “Together in the Back Yard” by Jack Ridl
- “Tired” by Anele Rubin
- “1WTC” by Adam Scheffler
- “When They Told Me You Had Died” by Thadra Sheridan
- “On Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘Pelvis With The Distance'” by Christopher Buckley
- “The Spool: A Prisoner’s Lament” by Frederic W. Bertoff
- “America Listen Allen Ginsberg Is Calling You Again” by Lynne Knight
- Haiku by Deborah P. Kolodji
- “Stalin” by Sarah Pemberton Strong
- “Holiday Tale” by Dennis Trudell
- “Vision” by Irene Wellman
- “Revisiting My Vita” by Grace Bauer
- “Trumped-Up” by Lisa DeSiro
- “So, If Everyone Jumped Off a Bridge” by Mike White
- “Watermark” by Susan Levin
- “A Woman like That with Problems like Those” by Lisa Glatt
- “The French Lesson” by Michael C. Ford
- “An Hour to Dance” by Virginia Hamilton Adair
- “Map to the Moon” by Matthew Murrey
- “Watching the Sunset Together with a Bird” by Ramandeep Johal
- “Fair Warning” by Virginia Hamilton Adair
- “Red Camellias ” by Virginia Hamilton Adair
- “Bequest: Coat to the Pompidou” by Jim Barnes
- “Carol” by Hillary Bartholomew
- “The Campaign Before Christmas” by Lorna Davis
- “Divining” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- “A Toast” by Wendy Videlock
- “Picnics” by Donald Hall
- “Playing Ball” by Donald Hall
- “Her Living” by Rosemary Adam
- “In a Name” by Rosemary Adam
- “The Origin of Kindness” by D.M. Aderibigbe
- “Flowering” by Gabriella Alexis
- “What Would You Say If You Were Tamir Rice & You Had Two Seconds—” by Chaun Ballard
- “A Total Non-Apology” by Rachael Briggs
- “Cocktail Hour” by Michael Brosnan
- “Blood Brothers” by Mishal Agha
- “The Theory of Everything—Science, Religion, Grammar School, Surfing, & the 99¢ Store” by Christopher Buckley
- “The Flower Thinking” by Lakelynn Amelia
- “This Refuge, from Its Very Inception, Has Been a Tool of Tyranny” by Pepper Trail
- “The Orb Weaver” by Thomas Carrigan
- “Major Tom Turns into Light” by Colin Pope
- “Show Up” by Paul Cummins
- “Compassion for the Minotaur” by Terry Blackhawk
- “New Country” by Richard Donnelly
- “Oatmeal” by Maeve Wander Amoroso
- “Whatever It Is, It Comes in Waves” by M.L. Clark
- “The Movies” by Richard Donnelly
- “The Crossing” by Stephen Dunn
- “Sometimes” by Doris Ferleger
- “Untitled” by Angela Johnson
- “The Kneeling Man” by Dennis Finnell
- “Teeth” by Maeve Wander Amoroso
- “Elegy: #LeilaAlaoui” by Maureen Doallas
- “Internet Word of the Day: Hemidemisemiquaver” by Glenn Freeman
- “After My Friend Phyllis Shows Me the New York Times Obituary Headline” by Rosemerry Trommer
- “Summers with Martha” by Dan Gerber
- “Contrails” by D.R. James
- “‘It’s Been a Week …” by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- “The Bee Finds a Home” by Priya Bartlett
- “Late January Thaw, Refugees, Fragments” by Aliki Barnstone
- “Surrender” by Pat Hanahoe-Dosch
- “Hamlet Off-Stage: Don’t Country This Snapper” by D.C. Berry
- “Entanglement” by Kimberly G. Jackson
- “A Bowl of Fruit” by Stephen Dunn
- “Bird” by Jennifer Jean
- “The Blossoms Awake” by Priya Bartlett
- “I’m Drinking in Bed” by Cade Leebron
- “Rufous Hummingbird” by Amaris Feland Ketcham
- “To the Red Fire Monkey” by Jonel Abellanosa
- “The Twenty-Year Workshop” by Lynne Knight
- “Politicians” by Rebecca Starks
- from A Conversation with Lester Graves Lennon
- “The Whispering of the Wind” by Kaye Marion Campbell
- “Look at That, You Son of a Bitch” by Peg Duthie
- 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award
- “Fantasy Football” by Lester Graves Lennon
- “The Music of Time” by Philip Levine
- “Cognitive Dissonance” by Jeffrey McRae
- “It Won’t Make the News” by Rosemerry Trommer
- “Todestrieb” by Amy Newell
- “Winter” by Kaye Marion Campbell
- “Electing Hell” by Elizabeth Weaver
- “Three Poems” by Rolli
- “New House” by Geraldine Connolly
- “The Prayer” by Rachel Rose
- “Anatomy of a Fustercluck” by Stephanie L. Harper
- “So We Beat Them” by Ed Shacklee
- “Translation Makeover” by Emma Cawood
- “Chillary Clinton Said ‘We Have to Bring Them to Heal'” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
- “Donts and Dews” by Saint James Harris Wood
- “Electorate” by Leah Tieger
- “How to Read Billy Collins” by Jeff Worley
- “The Wreck” by Mike Catalano
- “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” by Christopher Citro
- “Fat and Happy” by Lela Childs
- “Signs” by Kai Carlson-Wee
- “Work in Progress” by Rhina P. Espaillat
- “On Access” by Victoria Kornick
- “The Glance” by Jennifer Givhan
- “Half Hearted” by Cheri L. R. Taylor
- “Morning at the Welfare Office” by Valentina Gnup
- “Sometimes” by H. Sky Clay
- “Elegy” by David Miller
- “Old Age Requires the Greatest Courage” by Red Hawk
- “March 9th, Dusk” by Catherine Pond
- “More Than This” by David Kirby
- “Balloon” by E. G. Burrows
- “Yesterday” by Travis Mossotti
- “My Fish Story” by Cody Dane
- “I Don’t Quite Know What to Think of You, Mother” by Meera Jhala
- “Sugar Babe” by Cherise A. Pollard
- “Images of Kurt Cobain’s Shotgun Released” by William Fargason
- “Deus Ex Machina” by Melissa King Rogers
- “There, in Folded Space, We Must Have Met” by Rommel Chrisden Samarita
- “Elegy” by Patricia Smith
- “The Bee” by Jade Foo
- “B-Word” by Judith H. Montgomery
- “Equilibrium” by Tiana Clark
- “Candidate” by Clint Margrave
- “Crazy-Eights” by T. M. Cox
- “In the Museum of Cold Ideas” by Ginny Lowe Connors
- “Vagus Nerve” by Lisa Baird
- “Dad’s Loving Cat” by Jade Foo
- “Letter to a Tardigrade” by E.E. Lampman
- “Boulder County, September 2012” by Michele Battiste
- “Rootbound” by John Paul Davis
- “Five Haiku” by Roberta Beary
- “Home Movie” by Eileen Doherty
- “While Trying to Write a Novel” by Heather Bell
- “Rinforzando” by Sophya Giudici-Juarez
- “To the Woman Who Ruled ‘Every Rape Is Not a Gender-Motivated Hate Crime'” by Bayleigh Cardinal
- “Rocking” by Claire Blotter
- “Letter to God” by Mark Doty
- “Morning” by Leila Chatti
- “Depositions” by Jeffrey L. Dye
- 2016 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner
- “My Mother Comes Home Crying from GE” by Ann Clark
- “Tracks” by Ella Goldberg
- “From Nigeria to New Zealand” by Sonia Greenfield
- “Women” by Barbara Crooker
- “Jan Böhmermann the Great” by Wederic Eubals
- “Stairway to Heaven Sonnet” by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
- “A Timely Message” by John E. Buri
- “Pervert” by Julie R. Enszer
- “Cuernavaca, Mexico” by Faith Gomez
- “Purple Rain” by Luisa Muradyan Tannahill
- “The C-Section” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- “To Lose and Catch the Trail” by Claire Kruesel
- “Apron Strings” by Beth Gylys
- “The Balcony Collapses and I Become a Bird” by Rebecca Valley
- “When I Say I Bruise Easily” by Kelsey Hagarman
- “Beast” by Zachary Hale
- “MTA” by Maisie Williams
- “After Easter” by Sandra Kohler
- A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan
- “Channellock Pliers” by Amy Miller
- “Ros and Guild, 1994” by Arlene Ang
- “Prayer on National Childfree Day” by Abby E. Murray
- “Chanel No. 5” by Katharine Henderson
- “Profane Androgen” by Brody Parrish Craig
- “Dissonance” by Jenny Qi
- “Harbinger” by Ilyse Kusnetz
- “from The Baby Hygiene Series” by Jessy Randall
- “To My Wife (in the Kitchen Attempting Pancakes)” by Robert Arroyo, Jr.
- “Flashdance” by Laura Read
- “Dreams” by Sophia Hopkins
- “Gun of a Bitch” by Jay Sizemore
- “Machetes: Several” by Lucinda Roy
- “The Healthcare System” by Jana Harris
- “When Miguelito Should Have Been Sleeping” by Yaccaira Salvatierra
- “In Bed with Another Man’s Idea” by Allen C. Fischer
- “Invisible” by Ann Giard-Chase
- “Fun with Xerox” by Amber Shockley
- “Western Haiku” by Lucy Johnston
- “At the Circus” by P.C. Vandall
- “Malignant” by Robin Silbergleid
- “Fried Fish Cafe” by Charles Simic
- “Women Only Write About Themselves” by Julie Steiner
- “[Here, Said the Ocean]” by Rodrigo Dela Pena, Jr.
- “On Coming Home” by Lisa Summe
- “Four of Arrows” by Emma Karnes
- “No Urdu in Dilli, Mian” by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
- “Dust” by Katherine Barrett Swett
- “Only the Stink Will Linger” by K.A. Ghazi
- “And the Women Said” by Kelly Grace Thomas
- “Betrayed” by Arthur Gottlieb
- “Zumba Gold at 9 AM” by Amy Uyematsu
- “The Path” by Shenu Kathymoon
- “Endangered” by Akua Lezli Hope
- “I Would Rather Be Gay than Straight Any Day …” by Julie Marie Wade
- “Little Song (Altar)” by Mark Wagenaar
- “To Choose Each Other Perpetually” by Sara Watson
- “Midsummer” by Charles Simic
- “When I Think About Cats” by Francesca Bell
- “Candle” by Ethan Kim
- “I Am Over Here Sobbing” by Amy Miller
- “Boomer” by George Bilgere
- “Prayer for Anything but Prayer” by Chris Emslie
- “Post-Op” by Taylor Collier
- “Underneath a Car on the Highroad Between Abergavenny and Blaenarvon” by Alexander James
- “May Day” by Billy Collins
- “The Night” by Frances Liebert
- “While Reading the News About Orlando, I Hear the Call to Prayer” by Leila Chatti
- “Lamb” by Russell Colver
- “Alligators” by Jackleen Holton
- “How My Mother Spends Her Nights” by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
- “Alone in Love” by Mary Meriam
- “Late” by M
- “Cliffs and the House by the Shore” by Shoshanah Celia Machlay
- “World’s Smallest Snail Record Broken, Again” by Ryan Dzelzkalns
- “Have You Ever Woken” by James B. Nicola
- “The Void” by Wendy Videlock
- “Paper Birds Don’t Fly” by Al Ortolani
- “Sully: Sixteen Months” by C.K. Williams
- “The Uncertaintest Word” by Christine Poreba
- “My Kitty” by Eva Mathew
- “Who Speaks for the Rock Snot?” by Patricia O’Neil
- “Oldguy: Superhero—Associate” by William Trowbridge
- “Ghazal on Independence Day” by Bayleigh Cardinal
- “Oldguy: Superhero—A Steady Hand” by William Trowbridge
- “Footsteps (Old and New)” by Barry Ballard
- “A Few More Notes on My Fall from the Middle Class” by Resa Alboher
- “Roar” by Rylee McBride
- “The Dead Line” by Nicole Homer
- “For Yumi Sakugawa” by Allan Aquino
- “Digital Anthropologists Find Our Hashtags” by Nordette N. Adams
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- “Europa” by Echo Wren
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- “Dear Phil,” by Jeff Whitney
- “The Shape of Your Elbow” by Jack McGavick
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- “Midnight Lazaruses” by Chaun Ballard
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- “Gimmie Shelter” by Erinn Batykefer
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- “Little Pretty Things” by Stephen Dunn
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- “A Cocky Poem” by Brittany Hause
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- “Grand Illusion” by Michael Estabrook
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- “Shadow Boxing Late at Night” by Daniel Gleason
- “Candy Bandits” by Rosemary Santos
- “Chicago Street, Rainy Day” by Ruth Hoberman
- “Some Long Ago Summer” by Tony Gloeggler
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- “Till She Appeared and the Soul Felt its Worth” by Craig van Rooyen
- “Fall” by Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
- “Invoking the Muse in Cell Block B” by Nancy Miller Gomez
- “Calisthenics” by Laura Kolbe
- “Relic” by Ginny Lowe Connors
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- “At the Border, Late Summer” by Esther Ra
- “Two from Searching for the Soul” by Tom Meschery
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- “The Tale of the Earth” by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
- “Should I Spill My Beer” by Martin Vest
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- “Dear Holden,” by Julia Spande
- “Poem for John McCain” by Seth Simons
- “The Why of Bull Riding” by Guinotte Wise
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- “Sonnet” by Kristian Doyle
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- “Thoughts of Elders” by Saginaw Grant
- “To Mourn” by Jessica Venturi
- “These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends” by Caitlin Gildrien
- “How to Turn Off a Ceiling Fan” by Nasreen Yazdani
- “The Gold Dream” by David James
- “The Queen Ponders Her Laureate Choice” by A.M. Juster
- “Life” by Marvin Artis
- “Free Speech Being (Nowabouts)” by Rolli
- “Penumbra” by Marvin Artis
- “What Is Not Lost” by Sharon Cote
- “Love Poem” by Heather Bell
- “The Jerry Lewis Telethon” by Bruce Cohen
- “Particulate Matter” by Molly Fisk
- “Sad Song” by Heather Bell
- “John Hinckley Can Move Out of His Mother’s House” by J.M. Francheteau
- “The Carbon Monoxide Gas” by Kim Bridgford
- “Locked Brakes on Blacktop” by Guinotte Wise
- “The Oven” by Kim Bridgford
- “Christmas Trees” by John Kennedy
- “InSight” by Elizabeth Coyle
- “Uncle Ivan and the Last Dog Race” by Travis Burke
- “Losses” by Evangeline Blanco
- “Tangles” by Barbara Campbell
- “After Mother Dies, Most Men Need a Lover” by Robert Carr
- “Sonnet for Thunder Lovers and Primary Colors” by Brenda Cárdenas
- “Like Lichen Lingering” by Sarah E.N. Kohrs
- “Elegy” by Kevin Clark
- “To Those Who Were Our First Gods: An Offering” by Nickole Brown
- “After Coffee with My Nurse Friend” by Nicelle Davis
- “By the Numbers” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- “The Real Thing” by Stephen Gibson
- “December Monologue” by Tom Hansen
- “The Not Knowing Tears” by Gustavo Barahona-Lopez
- “C.W.P.” by Mike Good
- “Essays” by T.R. Poulson
- “Jesus Is My Flu Shot” by Jackleen Holton
- “Placebo” by Jill M. Talbot
- “At Night My Father Does Not Sing” by Samuel Hughes
- “Between” by Charles Owen Lawson
- “Your Fear” by Leatha Kendrick
- “Letter to the Ministry of Loneliness” by Judy Kronenfeld
- “Repair” by Nina Lindsay
- “You’re Bound to See Someone You Know at Walmart” by Jacob Lindberg
- “The Happy Game” by Sean Kelbley
- “Gravitational Time Dilation” by Katherine Lo
- “Salt” by Carol V. Davis
- “The Ancients and Us” by Rimas Uzgiris
- “The Father Speaking Through My Son” by Taylor Mali
- “The Countdown” by Aaron Poochigian
- “The Town Drunk Recalls the Rainmaker, Guymon, Oklahoma, 1935” by Benjamin Myers
- “My Sexlife” by Diane Seuss
- “Parting Ritual” by Soonest Nathaniel
- “Confessional” by Leslie Adrienne Miller
- “Why We Drink” by Megan Fernandes
- “Lamps” by Kathryn Petruccelli
- “I Long to Hold the Poetry Editor’s Penis in My Hand” by Francesca Bell
- “The Long Dead” by Doug Ramspeck
- “The Rime of the Ancient Minotaur” by Jack Grapes
- “To My Uncle Who Is in Prison for Robbing Banks” by Aaron Reeder
- “When You’re Afraid…” by Gregory Orr
- “Think. Wait. Fast.” by Ed Wade
- “Suicide Lane” by Mather Schneider
- “Listening to Mars,” by Sally Ashton
- “A Few Questions Before We Go On” by Prartho Sereno
- “Centerfold Art” by Ben L. Hiatt
- “August Evening” by Max Sessner
- “At the Edge of the Hennessey Farm” by Liz N. Clift
- “Abundance” by Amy Schmidt
- “It Is” by Max Sessner
- “Ten Year Challenge” by Sasha Stiles
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- “Substance” by Peg Duthie
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- “Upon Further Review” by Rob Stephens
- “So We Meet Again” by Robert Wrigley
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- “Rain” by Robert Wrigley
- “Shell Thick and Her Own Planet” by Angie Mason
- “Canis Interruptus” by José A. Alcántara
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- “Monsters” by Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
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- “For My Sister, the Feminist” by Jefferson Carter
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- “Late Mammogram” by Francesca Bell
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- “Ode to Antiques Roadshow” by Susan J. Erickson
- “Circle of Cranes” by Luisa A. Igloria
- “In Defense of Those Who Harbor Terrible Ideas at Tax Time” by Alison Luterman
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- “Old Times on Maui” by Alan C. Fox
- “My Mother Was a Dancer and She Never Looked Back” by Luigi Coppola
- “Enoch” by Rodney Gomez
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- “Elexxxion” by John Paul Davis
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- “Nothing Is Fine” by Susan Paris
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- “When I Met the Last Taushiro” by P.L. Sanchez
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- “The Condition of Water” by Peter Dale Scott
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- “On the Occasion of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th Birthday” by William Taylor Jr.
- “Newlyweds” by Delphi Sky
- “It Is Worth Having” by Bettina T. Barrett
- “Time of My Life” by Angela Voras-Hills
- “Sometimes a Man Has to Get His Hands Dirty” by Alexandre Mikano
- “Nascent January, 2018, After Rain” by Florence Weinberger
- “Present” by Brent Fisk
- “The Curious Case of the” by Kat La Mantia
- “I, Stutter” by Rayon Lennon
- “The Blades” by Katie Bickham
- “Malibula” by Robert Carroll
- “Unholy Sonnet Number One” by Mollycat Jones
- “All the Mexicos” by Vincent Toro
- “Lonely, Lovely” by Debra Bishop
- “Vermont” by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
- “You Don’t Look Like Someone” by McKenzie Chinn
- “Orange Peel” by Chana Bell
- “Soccer Dad” by Steve Henn
- “Peculiar Crimes” by Laurie Blauner
- “In Charlottesville After Charlottesville” by Courtney Kampa
- “Portrait of the Black Hole as Alcoholic” by Rebecca Jamieson
- “Will Exult Over You With Loud Singing” by Michael Lavers
- “Happiness” by John Goode
- “To the Insurance Agent Who …” by Darren Morris
- “On Being a Carpet Installer” by James S. Proffitt
- “Notre Dame de Paris Catches Fire” by Rachel Custer
- “The Dead Weight of Dogs” by Loueva Smith
- “The Finish” by Anemone Beaulier
- “The Way” by Mike White
- “Trompe L’oeil” by Juliet Latham
- “Blue Whale Sonnets” by Kim Bridgford
- “Stalking ee in the Fifties” by Colette Inez
- “The Mothers” by Sharanya Manivannan
- “Lament of the Violin” by Deborah H. Doolittle
- “Living in Space After a Break-Up” by Jaime Mera
- “Tonight at Last Call, J. Calls me His Brown Liquor Girl Again” by Alexis Rhone Fancher
- “On the Last Day of Passover” by Anna Talhami
- “Caril Ann Fugate” by Joseph Fasano
- “My Grandmother Told Us Jokes” by Richard Beban
- “Jews in the Wrong Place in San Diego” by Michael Mark
- “Las Vegas” by Brock Guthrie
- “Free Shipping” by Abby E. Murray
- “Petrarch Looks for Laura at Holiday World” by Stephen Harvey
- “Gesture” by Malcolm Alexander
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- “Daily Commute” by Jessica Goodheart
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- “A Housekeeper’s Villanelle” by Maggie Rue Hess
- “To Whoever Inherits the Earth” by Amy Miller
- “Fugue: Red Bird Taking Wing” by Lynne Knight
- “Dear Senator,” by Cambra Koczkur
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- “My Mother Speaks to Me from the Dead” by Alexander Radison
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- “Strong Feather Buries the White Woman” by Jennifer Reeser
- “Late Sonogram” by Amanda Newell
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- “RSVP” by William Stafford
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- “There Used to Be Rules” by Elizabeth S. Wolf
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