| Jonathan Aaron | "Dance Mania" |
| A. R. Ammons | "Anxiety's Prosody" |
| | "Garbage" |
| | from "Strip" |
| John Ashbery | "Baked Alaska" |
| | "Myrtle" |
| | "The Problem of Anxiety" |
| Elizabeth Bishop | "It is Marvellous . . . " |
| George Bradley | "The Fire Fetched Down" |
| Lucie Brock-Broido | "Inevitably, She Declined" |
| Anne Carson | "The Life of Towns" |
| Amy Clampitt | "My Cousin Muriel" |
| Douglas Crase | "True Solar Holiday" |
| Carolyn Creedon | "litany" |
| Thomas M. Disch | "The Cardinal Detoxes: A Play in One Act" |
| Irving Feldman | "Terminal Laughs" |
| Aaron Fogel | "The Printers Error" |
| Alice Fulton | "Powers of Congress" |
| Allen Ginsberg | "Salutations to Fernando Pessoa" |
| Louise Glück | "Celestial Music" |
| | "Vespers" |
| Jorie Graham | "Manifest Destiny" |
| | "What the Instant Contains" |
| Allen Grossman | "The Piano Player Explains Himself" |
| Donald Hall | "Prophecy" |
| | "The Porcelain Couple" |
| Vicki Hearne | "St. Luke Painting the Virgin" |
| Anthony Hecht | "Prospects" |
| Edward Hirsch |
"Man on a Fire Escape" |
| John Hollander | "Kinneret" |
| | "An Old-Fashioned Song" |
| | "The See-Saw" |
| Richard Howard | "Like Most Revelations" |
| Donald Justice | "Nostalgia of the Lakefronts" |
| | "Invitation to a Ghost" |
| Brigit Pegeen Kelly | "The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery" |
| Jane Kenyon | "Three Songs at the End of the Summer" |
| Galway Kinnell | "When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone" |
| Karl Kirchwey | "Sonogram" |
| Kenneth Koch | "One Train May Hide Another" |
| Yusef Komunyakaa | "Facing It" |
| Ann Lauterbach | "Psyches Dream" |
| Philip Levine | "Scouting" |
| Harry Matthews | "Histoire" |
| J. D. McClatchy | "An Essay on Friendship" |
| James Merrill | "A Room at the Heart of Things" |
| | "The 'Ring' Cycle" |
| | "Family Week at Oracle Ranch" |
| W.S. Merwin | "The Stranger" |
| Susan Mitchell | "Havana Birth" |
| A. F. Moritz | "Protracted Episode" |
| Thylias Moss | "The Warmth of Hot Chocolate" |
| Brighde Mullins | "At the Lakehouse" |
| Molly Peacock | "Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?" |
| Bob Perelman | "Movie" |
| Carl Phillips | "A Mathematics of Breathing" |
| Kay Ryan | "Outsider Art" |
| Grace Schulman | "The Present Perfect" |
| David Shapiro | "The Seasons" |
| Charles Simic | "Country Fair" |
| | "The Something" |
| Gary Snyder | "Ripples on the Surface" |
| Mark Strand | "Reading in Place" |
| | "from "Dark Harbor" |
| | "Morning, Noon, and Night" |
| May Swenson | "Sleeping with Boa" |
| Derek Walcott | "Omeros" |
| Rosanna Warren | "The Cormorant" |
| | "Diversion" |
| Susan Wheeler | "What Memory Reveals" |
| Richard Wilbur | "Lying" |
| | "A Wall in the Woods: Cummington" |
| Charles Wright | "Disjecta Membra" |
| Jay Wright | "Madrid" |
| | "The Cradle Logic of Autumn" |
