Passion

“Peanut Butter” by Eileen Myles

“Beautiful Signor” by Cyrus Cassells

“[Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?]” by Marilyn Hacker

“Recreation” by Audre Lorde

“Mayakovsky” by Frank O'Hara

“To the Fair Clorinda” by Aphra Behn

“Pupil” by D.A. Powell

“You Love, You Wonder” by Brenda Shaughnessy

Long-Term Love

“Domestic” by Carl Phillips

“Snow” by Maureen Seaton

“Winter” by Timothy Liu

“Asking About You” by Eloise Klein Healy

“[the day shifts . . .]” by kari edwards

“Proportion Surviving” by Renee Gladman

For the Beloved

“Poem for My Love” by June Jordan

“One Girl” by Sappho

“Smooth Horizon of the Verb Love” by Nicole Brossard

“A Lady” by Amy Lowell

“Accidents of Birth” by William Meredith

“Swan” by Ana Božičević

“continental divide” by D.A. Powell

Love Poems for Strangers

“Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand” by Walt Whitman

“The Dream” by Aphra Behn

“One Night Stand” by Jack Spicer

“The Fluffer Talks of Eternity” by D.A. Powell

“The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods” by Rigoberto González

“Other Fugitives and Other Strangers” by Rigoberto González

“Words to be Broadcast over Eagle’s Nest Sound System – I” by Brad Gooch

“Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)” by Emily Dickinson

Long Distance

“A Second Train Song for Gary” by Jack Spicer

“Want” by Joan Larkin

Heartbreak and Longing

“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop

“Sonnet 16” by Richard Barnfield

“Project for Fainting” by Brenda Shaughnessy

“A Regret” by David Trinidad

“Oh God” by Michelle Tea

“Poem ('Instant coffee with slightly sour cream')” by Frank O’Hara

“Poem for Haruko” by June Jordan