Ghazal / Agha Shahid Ali --
Ars poetica / Tom Andrews --
What is poetry? / John Ashbery --
Dreaming at the Rexall Drug / Robin Becker --
Book of the dead man (#10) / Marvin Bell --
Hairdresser / Molly Bendall --
Gaiety of form / Robert Bly --
Against the muse / Michelle Boisseau --
See Spot run / Earl S. Braggs --
Ars poetica / Christopher Buckley --
Big money / Ralph Burns --
Impossible indispensability of the ars poetica / Hayden Carruth --
here yet be dragons / Lucille Clifton --
Letter from my mother in Spanish / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
In the gardens of fabulous desire / Robert Dana --
Ars poetica / Kate Daniels --
Fish tank / Glover Davis --
Redwing blackbirds / Fred Dings --
Ars poetica / Rita Dove --
Of politics, & art / Norman Dubie --
How it is / Peter Everwine --
Music for death / Carol Frost --
Art class / James Galvin --
Credo / Brewster Ghiselin --
Subjectivity / Jorie Graham --
Life of literature / Linda Gregg --
Ox cart man / Donald Hall --
Descendent / Judith Hall --
Arse poetica / Sam Hamill --
Osprey / C.G. Hanzlicek --
Spring drawing 2 / Robert Hass --
Secreto de mis brazos ; Secret of my arms / Juan Filipe Herrera --
Chain of species / Emily Hiestand --
Little furnace / Brenda Hillman --
Sortes virgilianae / Edward Hirsch --
Justice without passion / Jane Hirshfield --
Stay with me / Garrett Hongo --
House on 15th S.W. / Richard Hugo --
Cubism, Barcelona / Lynda Hull --
Ohio abstract : Hart Crane / T.R. Hummer --
On language / Mark Irwin --
For a long time I have wanted to write a happy poem / Richard Jackson --
Potato planting / Jean Janzen --
What only poetry can do / Mark Jarman --
Ars poetica / Claudia Keelan --
Safe subjects / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Ars poetica : a found poem / Maxine Kumin --
Ars poetica / Carol Lem --
Simple truth / Philip Levine --
Poem you asked for / Larry Levis --
Poesia / Victor Martinez --
Sad stories told in bars : the "Reader's digest" version / William Matthews --
Tapestries / Colleen J. McElroy --
Ars poetica : or: who lives in the ivory tower / Thomas McGrath --
What he thought / Heather McHugh --
Toward Eve / Lynne McMahon --
Two men trading dance movements at Tabby's Blues Box and Heritage Hall, Baton Rouge / Sandra McPherson --
To the muse / Carol Muske --
Pulling in the nets / Chad Oness --
Stan Laurel tutors a would be comedian / Walter Pavlich --
Roots of pessimism in model rocketry, the fallacy of its premise / Lucia Maria Perillo --
Consenting / Donald Revell --
Teodoro Luna's two kisses / Alberto Rios --
And continuing / David Rivard --
Shoveling white the snow keeps falling / Len Roberts --
And language can't find me / Margarita Luna Robles --
Reaching the audience / Pattiann Rogers --
On not being able to write / Marieve Rugo --
To enter that rhythm where the self is lost / Muriel Rujeyser --
For a blow up doll found in a canal / Dixie Salazar --
Unconscious / Dennis Saleh --
Sometimes mysteriously / Luis Omar Salinas --
Abandoned railway station / Sherod Santos --
Because the eye is a flower whose root is the hand / Dennis Schmitz --
Lip's lounge / Peter Sears --
Nature, one might say / Eve Shelnutt --
Problems with the story / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Prodigy / Charles Simic --
Ars poetica / Maura Simon --
Braly Street / Gary Soto --
Diving for Atlantis / Roberta Spear --
Woman on the dump / Elizabeth Spires --
Old writer's welcome to the new / William Stafford --
Another insane devotion / Gerald Stern --
Word silence / Chase Twichell --
Stickball till dawn / Jon Veinberg --
Ars poetica / Ann Vnucak --
Song and story / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
With words / Diane Wakoski --
Impossible / Bruce Weigl --
Human form / David Wojahn --
Ars poetica / Charles Wright --
Ars poetica : some recent criticism / James Wright --
Poetry / Robert Wrigley --
Seven days : an ars poetica / Gary Young.