Poetry Magazine

Spencer Reece

• The Manhattan Project

Amanda Jernigan

• Impasse

Susan Stewart

• A Language

David St. John

• From a Bridge
• In the High Country

Calvin Forbes

• Momma Said
• Talking Blues

Liz Waldner

• Sacramento O No
• Prayer
• When I Was In Love and Out of All Else

Linda Gregerson

• Pajama Quotient

The Editors

• Introduction

David Ferry

• Little Vietnam Futurist Poem
• Movie Star Peter at the Supper for Street People
• Learning from History
• That Evening At Dinner
• The Crippled Girl, The Rose
• What It Does
• In Eden
• Seen Through a Window
• The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People
• Out at Lanesville

Thomas Sayers Ellis

• Selected Lens Caps

• Photographs by Thomas Sayers Ellis

Nikki Giovanni

• Chasing Utopia

• Beer, government secrets, and the first black woman in space.

Ange Mlinko

• A Few Leaves of Salted Rocket

• The woman wants a salad.

Michael Hofmann

• Disorder and Early Sorrow

• A taste at the edge of memory.

A. E. Stallings

• All the Greens Whose Names I Do Not Know

• Meditations on the roots of things.

W. S. Di Piero

• What’s for Dinner?

• Imagination, taste, and the makings of a man.

Kristin Naca

• Eating Lorca

• Nouns you can smell.

Daisy Fried

• Specimen Days

• Roy Fisher’s Selected Poems, Laura Kasischke’s Space, In Chains, and Susan Howe’s That This.

Joshua Mehigan

• I Thought You Were a Poet

• A Notebook.

Plutarch

• Laconic Women

• Anecdotes from Ancient Greece. 

A. E. Stallings

• Translator’s Note

Gail Blauvelt

• Letter to the Editor

Michael Hudson

• Letter to the Editor