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John Allman News from Home Reading Andrew Marvell Renters This Time
Becca Barniskis From the Letters of Mrs. Henrietta Shuck
Sandra Beasley Drink She Falls Asleep in Strange Places You
Jennifer Chang Estuary Field Guide to the Night Sky Slept
R. H. W. Dillard Ten Poems from What Is Owed the Dead
Jehanne Dubrow Ars Poetica Charm Against a Broken Tongue
Margaret Gibson East Window, Moon
Lorene Lamothe Paper
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan Caretaker The Melancholy Tailor
Christine Perrin Prisoner of War Camp, Pine Grove Furnace Spring Poem
Catherine Pierce Domesticity This Is Not an Elegy
Ed Skoog Bela
Alison Stine Everything Is an Instrument Tiresias
Sarah Vap Are you expressing a desire to know me? Breast-Feeding Across America The Cow Can’t Fear Something Eternal Horses Remember How Mark Time Night Bath, Sagittarius
Martin Walls Crows
Terri Witek Kimono Pulled Up as Bedclothes (Willow) Stiff-Edged Kimono (Ruffled Iris) Reading to Children Right Over Left