Rally / Elizabeth Alexander Valediction / Sherman Alexie Soft money / Rae Armantrout Postlude and prequel / John Ashbery To my lover, concerning the yird-swine / Julianna Baggott When at a certain party in NYC / Erin Belieu Banking / Cara Benson Mine is the first rodeo, mine is the last accolade / Jaswinder Bolina The sink / Catherine Bowman Off the Nollendorfplatz / Turner Cassity Dead ass / Michael Cirelli Here and there / Billy Collins Three sonnets. Sonnet (division) ; Sonnet (motion) ; Sonnet (silenced) / Olena Kalytiak Davis Coffee / Matthew Dickman From the lives of my friends / Michael Dickman My strip club / Denise Duhamel Emmett Till's glass-top casket / Cornelius Eady Stays / Jill Alexander Essbaum In November / Alan Feldman From "The Amy poems". Amy survives another apocalypse ; You're really starting to suck, Amy / Farrah Field Morning on the island / Carolyn Forché Everything is nervous / Beckian Fritz Goldberg The space traveler talks frankly about desire / Benjamin S. Grossberg Poppies / Jennifer Grotz August notebook : a death / Robert Hass Lighthead's guide to the galaxy / Terrance Hayes Just as, after a point, Job cried out / K.A. Hays Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry / Bob Hicok The cloudy vase / Jane Hirshfield God's promises / Paul Hoover The funeral sermon / Andrew Hudgins From Holding company. Bereft ; Lying ; The giant swing ending in a split ; Narcissus / Major Jackson Notebooks / Allison Joseph Andrew Wyeth, painter, dies at 91 / L.S. Klatt Kiri Te Kanawa singing "O mio babbino caro" / Jennifer Knox A voice on an answering machine / Yusef Komunyakaa Snow / James Longenbach The pilgrim is bridled and bespectacled / Bridget Lowe The complaint against Roney Laswell's rooster / Maurice Manning Pears / Morton Marcus Dear gaybashers / Jill McDonough Elegy with construction sounds, water, fish / Erika Meitner The side project / Paul Muldoon Word / Jude Nutter Pillow talk / Jeni Olin Cogitatio mortis / Eric Pankey Family math / Alan Michael Parker Postcards from her alternate lives / Catherine Pierce Horn / Robert Pinsky Angels / Katha Pollitt Bugcatching at twilight / D.A. Powell To my father on the anniversary of his death / Gretchen Steele Pratt Even more aphorisms and ten-second essays from vectors 3.0 / James Richardson What my heart is turning / Anne Marie Rooney Provenance / Mary Ruefle Ghost aurora / David St. John The afterlife / Mary Jo Salter The smallest / James Schuyler Nineteen thirty-eight / Charles Simic Nowhere / Matthew Buckley Smith Motown crown / Patricia Smith Dream IV / Gerald Stern Pantoum for the imperceptible / Bianca Stone The poem of the Spanish poet / Mark Strand Thirteen months / Mary Jo Thompson Elegy / Natasha Trethewey Drunk at a party / Lee Upton Thoreau and the lightning / David Wagoner The latch / Rosanna Warren Time pieces / Rachel Wetzsteon Ecclesiastes II:I / Richard Wilbur A hundred bones / C.K. Williams Mix tape to be brought to her in rehab / David Wojahn Toadstools / Charles Wright Cycladic idyll : an apologia / Stephen Yenser