| Column 752 |
Dana Gioia |
California Hills in August |
| Column 751 |
Lori Becherer |
no more dandruff |
| Column 750 |
Faith Shearin |
Blue Elvis |
| Column 749 |
Gary J. Whitehead |
One-Legged Pigeon |
| Column 748 |
David Mason |
Are We Still Here? |
| Column 747 |
Judith Harris |
April, After Six Months in the Hospital |
| Column 746 |
Joyce Sutphen |
Origami |
| Column 745 |
James Davis May |
Moonflowers |
| Column 744 |
James Bertolino |
A Wedding Toast |
| Column 743 |
Megan Arlett |
I Ask My Grandmother What Trinidad Was Like in 1960 |
| Column 742 |
Elise Hempel |
His New Twin Daughters |
| Column 741 |
Sally Bliumis-Dunn |
Work |
| Column 740 |
Austin Smith |
Cat Moving Kittens |
| Column 739 |
Peter Schneider |
Lost in Plain Sight |
| Column 738 |
Kenneth Lee |
Symbiosis |
| Column 737 |
Faith Shearin |
My Mother's Van |
| Column 736 |
Mark Irwin |
Open |
| Column 735 |
Caitlin Doyle |
The Doll Museum |
| Column 734 |
Peg Duthie |
Decorating a Cake While Listening to Tennis |
| Column 733 |
Jeanie Greensfelder |
Taking Turns |
| Column 732 |
Thomas Reiter |
Pinned in Place |
| Column 731 |
Paul Martin |
Turning Over |
| Column 730 |
Max Garland |
Happiness |
| Column 729 |
Bruce Pemberton |
Autumn 2017 |
| Column 728 |
Pauletta Hansel |
The View from There |
| Column 727 |
Richard Jarrette |
Happiness |
| Column 726 |
John L. Stanizzi |
Ascension |
| Column 725 |
Marjorie Saiser |
Weren't We Beautiful |
| Column 724 |
Liz Ahl |
Aquarium, February |
| Column 723 |
Caitlin Doyle |
Cradle Thief |
| Column 722 |
Richard Robbins |
Old Country Portraits |
| Column 721 |
Judith Askew |
Bakery of Lies |
| Column 720 |
Dante Di Stefano |
With a Coat |
| Column 719 |
Peggy Shumaker |
Exit Glacier |
| Column 718 |
Nancy Miller Gomez |
Growing Apples |
| Column 717 |
Ryler Dustin |
To Make Color |
| Column 716 |
Sally Green |
Shank |
| Column 715 |
Michael Mark |
Estelle |
| Column 714 |
Clemens Starck |
The Girl from Panama |
| Column 713 |
Sonja Johanson |
Three Deer in Oquossoc |
| Column 712 |
Sally Van Doren |
Housewife as Poet |
| Column 711 |
Dan Gerber |
The Cache |
| Column 710 |
Emily Grosholz |
Here and There |
| Column 709 |
Jim Daniels |
Talking About the Day |
| Column 708 |
Kim Lozano |
The Ruts |
| Column 707 |
Peter Schmitt |
The Bench |
| Column 706 |
Matthew Buckley Smith |
Undergrads |
| Column 705 |
Adrian Koesters |
Three Days with the Long Moon |
| Column 704 |
Samuel Green |
Butterflies |
| Column 703 |
David Steingass |
Youth |
| Column 702 |
David Mason |
The Mud Room |
| Column 701 |
Maryann Corbett |
State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day |
| Column 700 |
Tami Haaland |
Sleeping With the Chihuahua |
| Column 699 |
Carol V. Davis |
Covering the Mirrors |
| Column 698 |
Ted Kooser |
Post Office |
| Column 697 |
Betty Adcock |
No Encore |
| Column 696 |
Richard Schiffman |
After the Opera |
| Column 695 |
Terri Kirby Erickson |
My Cousin, Milton |
| Column 694 |
James K. Zimmerman |
Listen to the Deer Tick Sing |
| Column 693 |
Jehanne Dubrow |
From the Pentagon |
| Column 692 |
John Foy |
Woods |
| Column 691 |
Louis Phillips |
The Address Book |
| Column 690 |
James Crews |
Strict Diet |
| Column 689 |
Susanna Lang |
After You Get Up Early on Memorial Day |
| Column 688 |
Bruce Guernsey |
The Wall |
| Column 687 |
Rose King |
In Spring |
| Column 686 |
Joyce Sutphen |
Playing the Pipes |
| Column 685 |
Steve Langan |
Good News |
| Column 684 |
Ruth Stone |
Lighter Than Air |
| Column 683 |
Leland James |
The Sanitarium Window |
| Column 682 |
Jeffrey Harrison |
How It Worked |
| Column 681 |
P. Ivan Young |
Fishing for Bream |
| Column 680 |
Terri Kirby Erickson |
Fund Drive |
| Column 679 |
Sally Bliumis-Dunn |
Startled |
| Column 678 |
Dorianne Laux |
Bird |
| Column 677 |
Matthew Brennan |
Yard Sale |
| Column 676 |
Kevin Cole |
Audubon Warblers |
| Column 675 |
Thomas R. Moore |
Saving Nails |
| Column 674 |
Heid E. Erdrich |
Laundress |
| Column 673 |
Greg Kosmicki |
You Never Get One Thing |
| Column 672 |
Tami Haaland |
Returning |
| Column 671 |
Marjorie Saiser |
Final Shirt |
| Column 670 |
Connie Wanek |
Monopoly |
| Column 669 |
Pat Schneider |
From where I stand |
| Column 668 |
Kim Addonizio |
Aquarium |
| Column 667 |
Peter Everwine |
The Day |
| Column 666 |
James Crews |
Midnight Snow |
| Column 665 |
Nancy Willard |
The Vanity of the Dragonfly |
| Column 664 |
Stella Nesanovich |
Everyday Grace |
| Column 663 |
Christine Stewart-Nuñez |
For Elizabeth, Who Loved to Square Dance |
| Column 662 |
Fleda Brown |
God, God |
| Column 661 |
Naomi Shihab Nye |
Bees Were Better |
| Column 660 |
Maria Nazos |
Cash Register Sings The Blues |
| Column 659 |
Jon Loomis |
At the Lake House |
| Column 658 |
Marge Piercy |
The Air Smelled Dirty |
| Column 657 |
Wesley McNair |
My Mother's Penmanship Lessons |
| Column 656 |
Joseph Hutchison |
Lifting My Daughter |
| Column 655 |
Grace Cavalieri |
The Hot Dog Factory (1937) |
| Column 654 |
David Mason |
Mending Time |
| Column 653 |
Dorianne Laux |
Homecoming |
| Column 652 |
Jill Bialosky |
Red Rover |
| Column 651 |
Jill Bialosky |
The Guardians |
| Column 650 |
Kevin Casey |
Driving West through Somerset County |
| Column 649 |
Linda Pastan |
The Death of the Bee |
| Column 648 |
Rebecca Macijeski |
Taking Apart My Childhood Piano |
| Column 647 |
Lois Parker Edstrom |
Doing Dishes |
| Column 646 |
Bradford Tice |
Milkweed |
| Column 645 |
Catherine Stearns |
Snow in August |
| Column 644 |
Karla K. Morton |
Honeysuckle |
| Column 643 |
Emily Ransdell |
Bowling in Heaven |
| Column 642 |
Ted Kooser |
Death of a Dog |
| Column 641 |
Elise Hempel |
Outboard Motor |
| Column 640 |
P. Ivan Young |
Visiting the Neighborhood |
| Column 639 |
Cathryn Essinger |
Summer Apples |
| Column 638 |
Kelly Madigan |
Porcupine |
| Column 637 |
Judith Harris |
How Quiet |
| Column 636 |
Sarah White |
Nothing But Good... |
| Column 635 |
Heid E. Erdrich |
Stung |
| Column 634 |
Patricia Hooper |
Sunday Flying |
| Column 633 |
January Gill O'Neil |
Sunday |
| Column 632 |
Connie Wanek |
Umbrella |
| Column 631 |
Grace Cavalieri |
Wild Life |
| Column 630 |
Ted Kooser |
Look for Me |
| Column 629 |
Lucia Cherciu |
The New Church |
| Column 628 |
Michelle Menting |
Objects Used to Prop Open a Window |
| Column 627 |
Don Thompson |
Oak Grove Cemetery |
| Column 626 |
Marilyn Nelson |
Daughters 1900 |
| Column 625 |
Carol V. Davis |
Admiral Nimitz |
| Column 624 |
Charles Peek |
Unlike objects, two stories can occupy the same space |
| Column 623 |
John L. Stanizzi |
Cry To Me |
| Column 622 |
Diane Lockward |
For the Love of Avocados |
| Column 621 |
Gary Whited |
My Blue Shirt |
| Column 620 |
Jack Cooper |
L.A. River |
| Column 619 |
Michael Lauchlan |
Thaw |
| Column 618 |
Jonathan Bracker |
Going Down |
| Column 617 |
Robert Tremmel |
All the Questions |
| Column 616 |
Marjorie Saiser |
The Print the Whales Make |
| Column 615 |
Alan Feldman |
Love Poem |
| Column 614 |
Anya Silver |
Just Red |
| Column 613 |
Susan Rothbard |
That New |
| Column 612 |
Jo'lene Dailey |
What I Want to Do Most of the Time |
| Column 611 |
Rachel Richardson |
Astronomer |
| Column 610 |
Faith Shearin |
Sight |
| Column 609 |
Ron Koertge |
Lily |
| Column 608 |
Marilyn L. Taylor |
Aunt Eudora's Harlequin Romance |
| Column 607 |
Dana Gioia |
Prayer |
| Column 606 |
Emilie Buchwald |
My Mother's Music |
| Column 605 |
Natasha Trethewey |
Housekeeping |
| Column 604 |
George Bilgere |
The Forge |
| Column 603 |
Peter Everwine |
A Small Story |
| Column 602 |
Patricia Traxler |
Last Hike Before Leaving Montana |
| Column 601 |
Barbara Crooker |
Grief |
| Column 600 |
Nick Norwood |
Ronnie's |
| Column 599 |
Debra Nystrom |
Restless After School |
| Column 598 |
Elise Hempel |
The Jockey |
| Column 597 |
Stuart Dybek |
Curtains |
| Column 596 |
Sylvia Ross |
Marge's Shoes |
| Column 595 |
Roy Scheele |
In Possession (Minnesota) |
| Column 594 |
Faith Shearin |
Possum in the Garbage |
| Column 593 |
Meg Kearney |
Loneliness |
| Column 592 |
Alberto Ríos |
One Thursday Afternoon: Magdalena, Sonora, 1939 |
| Column 591 |
Dorianne Laux |
Ray at 14 |
| Column 590 |
Carrie Shipers |
Mother Talks Back to the Monster |
| Column 589 |
Sharon Chmielarz |
Fisher's Club |
| Column 588 |
Jane Mead |
Passing a Truck Full of Chickens at Night on Highway Eighty |
| Column 587 |
Peter Everwine |
The Girl on the Bullard Overpass |
| Column 586 |
Stephen Behrendt |
Snakeskin |
| Column 585 |
Cynthia Ventresca |
Delivered |
| Column 584 |
Arden Levine |
Offering |
| Column 583 |
Tim Nolan |
My Dead |
| Column 582 |
Jennifer Gray |
Summer Mowing |
| Column 581 |
Ginger Murchison |
River |
| Column 580 |
Pat Emile |
They Dance Through Granelli's |
| Column 579 |
Don Welch |
With Spring In Our Flesh |
| Column 578 |
Mark Vinz |
The Way We Said Goodbye |
| Column 577 |
David Huddle |
Stores |
| Column 576 |
Richard M. Berlin |
A Lobsterman Looks at the Sea |
| Column 575 |
Susan Aizenberg |
Mornings |
| Column 574 |
Kim Dower |
I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom, |
| Column 573 |
Philip Terman |
Deer Descending |
| Column 572 |
Richard Jarrette |
My Mother Worries About My Hat |
| Column 571 |
Thomas R. Smith |
The Paper Boy |
| Column 528 |
Kyle Harvey |
Settler's Creek |
| Column 570 |
Jo McDougall |
This Morning |
| Column 569 |
Dorianne Laux |
Enough Music |
| Column 568 |
Freya Manfred |
This Stranger, My Husband |
| Column 567 |
William Trowbridge |
Long Distance to My Old Coach |
| Column 566 |
Ken Smith |
Playing His Heart Out |
| Column 565 |
Vanessa Stauffer |
Lessons |
| Column 564 |
Mandy Kahn |
At the Dorm |
| Column 563 |
Floyd Skloot |
Handspun |
| Column 562 |
Kevin Cole |
Deer Fording the Missouri in Early Afternoon |
| Column 561 |
Judy Ray |
Turning of the Year |
| Column 560 |
Wesley McNair |
The Puppy |
| Column 559 |
J. Allyn Rosser |
Pelicans in December |
| Column 558 |
Patricia Traxler |
Weather Man |
| Column 557 |
Debra Marquart |
Traveling with Guitar |
| Column 556 |
Marjorie Saiser |
Thanksgiving for Two |
| Column 555 |
Barbara Crooker |
Sustenance |
| Column 554 |
Jim Daniels |
Brushing Teeth with My Sister after the Wake |
| Column 553 |
Jehanne Dubrow |
Armed Services Editions |
| Column 552 |
Ed Ochester |
Fall |
| Column 551 |
Patrick Phillips |
The Singing |
| Column 549 |
Glenna Luschei |
Comings and Goings |
| Column 548 |
Michael McFee |
Ovation |
| Column 547 |
John Philip Johnson |
There Have Come Soft Rains |
| Column 546 |
Robert King |
Embedding the Cancer Port |
| Column 545 |
Barbara Crooker |
25th reunion |
| Column 544 |
Carol V. Davis |
Animal Time |
| Column 543 |
D. R. Goodman |
Exiting the Night |
| Column 542 |
April Lindner |
Carried Away |
| Column 541 |
Robert Morgan |
Heaven's Gate |
| Column 540 |
John Drury |
Motor Lodge |
| Column 539 |
Patrick Phillips |
The Guitar |
| Column 538 |
Chelsea Woodard |
The Flower Press |
| Column 537 |
Anya Silver |
Doing Laundry In Budapest |
| Column 536 |
Wendy Videlock |
A Relevance |
| Column 535 |
Melissa Balmain |
Nightmare |
| Column 534 |
Barbara Crooker |
Strewn |
| Column 533 |
Ned Balbo |
The Sugar Thief |
| Column 532 |
George Bilgere |
The Wading Pool |
| Column 531 |
Glenna Luschei |
Home |
| Column 530 |
Terri Kirby Erickson |
Hospital Parking Lot |
| Column 529 |
Sally Bliumis-Dunn |
Heart |
| Column 527 |
David Livewell |
Custodians |
| Column 526 |
Kyle Harvey |
Settler's Creek |
| Column 525 |
Pauletta Hansel |
Husbands |
| Column 524 |
Melissa Balmain |
Love Poem |
| Column 523 |
Jill Breckenridge |
Pretty Ricky |
| Column 522 |
Penny Harter |
In the Dark |
| Column 521 |
Amanda Strand |
Father and Daughter |
| Column 520 |
Karen J. Weyant |
Yellowjackets |
| Column 518 |
Barbara Ellen Sorensen |
Pelican |
| Column 517 |
Kathleen Aguero |
Send Off |
| Column 516 |
Kurt Brown |
The Kiss |
| Column 515 |
Paul S Piper |
Dog and Snow |
| Column 514 |
Don Welch |
Shuffling Out Toward Morning |
| Column 513 |
Kwame Dawes |
Coffee Break |
| Column 512 |
J. T. Ledbetter |
Elegy for Blue |
| Column 511 |
Danusha Laméris |
Insha’Allah |
| Column 510 |
Billy Collins |
Winter |
| Column 509 |
Roger Pfingston |
December |
| Column 508 |
Mary Avidano |
City Lights |
| Column 507 |
Margaret Hasse |
Truant |
| Column 506 |
James Crews |
God Particles |
| Column 505 |
Stuart Kestenbaum |
Prayer for Joy |
| Column 504 |
Jennifer Gray |
Horses |
| Column 503 |
Marty Walsh |
The snow's/feet slip |
| Column 502 |
David Allan Evans |
Sixty Years Later I Notice, Inside A Flock Of Blackbirds, |
| Column 501 |
John Philip Johnson |
Bones and Shadows |
| Column 500 |
Elise Hempel |
The Transfer |
| Column 499 |
Ted Kooser |
Two |
| Column 498 |
Robert Haight |
Early October Snow |
| Column 497 |
Jennifer Maier |
Rummage Sale |
| Column 496 |
Jim Daniels |
Work Boots: Still Life |
| Column 495 |
Karina Borowicz |
September Tomatoes |
| Column 494 |
Jackie Fox |
MRI |
| Column 493 |
Matt Mason |
The Story of Ferdinand the Bull |
| Column 492 |
Faith Shearin |
Music at My Mother's Funeral |
| Column 491 |
Heather Allen |
Grasses |
| Column 490 |
Linda M. Hasselstrom |
Planting Peas |
| Column 489 |
Jonathan Greene |
One Light to Another |
| Column 488 |
Shari Wagner |
Creek-Song |
| Column 487 |
Mark Kraushaar |
The Ring Toss Lady Breaks a Five |
| Column 486 |
Sharon Chmielarz |
The Pillow Cleaners Come to Town |
| Column 485 |
Maryann Corbett |
Finding the Lego |
| Column 484 |
Barbara Crooker |
Sparklers |
| Column 483 |
Leo Dangel |
In Memoriam |
| Column 482 |
Diane Gilliam Fisher |
Violet's Wash |
| Column 481 |
Ivan Hobson |
Our Neighbor: |
| Column 480 |
Frank Osen |
The Lath House |
| Column 479 |
Catherine Savage Brosman |
Cattle Fording Tarryall Creek |
| Column 478 |
Peter Everwine |
After the Funeral |
| Column 477 |
Jeanie Greensfelder |
Sixth Grade |
| Column 476 |
Donna Spector |
On the Way to the Airport |
| Column 475 |
William Jolliff |
Rain on a Barn South of Tawas |
| Column 474 |
Amy Fleury |
First Morel |
| Column 473 |
Robert Hedin |
This Morning I Could Do/A Thousand Things |
| Column 472 |
Andrea Hollander |
Ex |
| Column 471 |
Peggy Shumaker |
Spirit of the Bat |
| Column 470 |
Karla Huston |
Sway |
| Column 469 |
Robert Hedin |
My Mother's Hats |
| Column 468 |
Amy Fleury |
Ablution |
| Column 467 |
Chelsea Rathburn |
After Filing for Divorce |
| Column 466 |
Li-Young Lee |
I Ask My Mother to Sing |
| Column 465 |
Thomas Reiter |
Releasing a Tree |
| Column 464 |
Jonathan Greene |
Untitled |
| Column 463 |
Dan Gerber |
Advice |
| Column 462 |
Susan Kelly-DeWitt |
Apple Blossoms |
| Column 461 |
Peter Everwine |
A Story Can Change Your Life |
| Column 460 |
Kim Dower |
Bottled Water |
| Column 459 |
Nancy Simpson |
Pink Pantsuit |
| Column 458 |
Thomas R. Moore |
Removing the Dross |
| Column 457 |
Maryann Corbett |
Holiday Concert |
| Column 456 |
Kathleen Driskell |
Seed |
| Column 455 |
Jay Leeming |
Blind Date |
| Column 454 |
Sherod Santos |
Out of the World There Passed a Soul |
| Column 453 |
Richard Levine |
Bread |
| Column 452 |
Nancy Willard |
The Vanity of the Dragonfly |
| Column 451 |
Rachel Richardson |
Relic |
| Column 450 |
Mo H. Saidi |
The Night of the Snowfall |
| Column 449 |
Mary M. Brown |
Classic Toy |
| Column 448 |
Gabriel Welsch |
A Garden’s End |
| Column 447 |
Debra Nystrom |
Little Parka |
| Column 446 |
Joseph Hutchison |
Winter Sunrise Outside a Café |
| Column 445 |
Ada Limón |
What It Looks Like To Us and the Words We Use |
| Column 444 |
Tami Haaland |
A Colander of Barley |
| Column 443 |
Marie Thurmer |
A Grandfather |
| Column 442 |
Tracy K. Smith |
The Good Life |
| Column 441 |
April Lindner |
Dog Bite |
| Column 440 |
Joseph Millar |
Labor Day |
| Column 439 |
Helen T. Glenn |
Noguchi’s Fountain |
| Column 438 |
Gabriel Spera |
Grubbing |
| Column 437 |
A. E. Stallings |
The Pull Toy |
| Column 436 |
Joyce Sidman |
Dog in Bed |
| Column 435 |
Bruce Snider |
Afterlife |
| Column 434 |
D. Nurkse |
First Night |
| Column 433 |
Lisel Mueller |
Things |
| Column 432 |
X J Kennedy |
Old Men Pitching Horseshoes |
| Column 431 |
James Doyle |
In the Planetarium |
| Column 430 |
Tami Haaland |
Little Girl |
| Column 429 |
Robin Chapman |
Time |
| Column 428 |
George Bilgere |
Basal Cell |
| Column 427 |
Marsha Truman Cooper |
A Knot of Worms |
| Column 426 |
Laura Dimmit |
School photo, found after the Joplin tornado |
| Column 425 |
Wendell Berry |
The Vacation |
| Column 424 |
Maureen Ash |
Church Basement |
| Column 423 |
Patricia Clark |
Fifty-Fifty |
| Column 422 |
Michael McFee |
Saltine |
| Column 421 |
Linda Hogan |
The Sandhills |
| Column 420 |
Jeff Daniel Marion |
Playing to the River |
| Column 419 |
Ron Koertge |
Burning the Book |
| Column 418 |
Robert Morgan |
Living Tree |
| Column 417 |
Bruce Guernsey |
Back Road |
| Column 416 |
Robert Gibb |
Kites |
| Column 415 |
Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
Cement Backyard |
| Column 414 |
Jeffrey Harrison |
Mailboxes in Late Winter |
| Column 413 |
Mark Irwin |
Portraits |
| Column 412 |
Mark Sanders |
The Cranes, Texas January |
| Column 411 |
Richard M. Berlin |
Einstein’s Happiest Moment |
| Column 410 |
Eamon Grennan |
Up Against It |
| Column 409 |
Andrew Jones |
The Softest Word |
| Column 408 |
Terri Kirby Erickson |
Sponge Bath |
| Column 407 |
Casey Pycior |
Sledding in Wichita |
| Column 406 |
Barton Sutter |
A Little Shiver |
| Column 405 |
Ted Kooser |
Christmas Mail |
| Column 404 |
Jeffrey Harrison |
Nest |
| Column 403 |
Susan Kolodny |
Koi Pond, Oakland Museum |
| Column 402 |
Derek N. Otsuji |
Theater of Shadows |
| Column 401 |
Judith Slater |
Family Vacation |
| Column 400 |
Tim Nolan |
Thanksgiving |
| Column 399 |
Michael Walsh |
Barn Clothes |
| Column 398 |
David Hernandez |
At the Post Office |
| Column 397 |
Judith Harris |
My Mother Goes to Vote |
| Column 396 |
Nancy Price |
Trick or Treat |
| Column 395 |
Douglas S. Jones |
Centrifugal |
| Column 394 |
Wyatt Townley |
Finding the Scarf |
| Column 393 |
Geraldine Connolly |
Flathead Lake, October |
| Column 392 |
Daniel J. Langton |
School |
| Column 391 |
Kay Ryan |
Pinhole |
| Column 390 |
David St. John |
From a Bridge |
| Column 389 |
Minnie Bruce Pratt |
Temporary Job |
| Column 388 |
Judson Mitcham |
Writing |
| Column 387 |
Christine Stewart-Nuñez |
Breakfast for Supper |
| Column 386 |
Carol V. Davis |
Mockingbird II |
| Column 385 |
Jo McDougall |
Telling Time |
| Column 384 |
Patrick Phillips |
Elegy with Oil in the Bilge |
| Column 383 |
Judith Slater |
Zippo |
| Column 382 |
Jane Hirshfield |
The Promise |
| Column 381 |
Linda Parsons Marion |
Snapshot |
| Column 380 |
Shawn Pittard |
The Silver Fish |
| Column 379 |
Debra Wierenga |
Chiller Pansies |
| Column 378 |
Dorianne Laux |
Family Stories |
| Column 377 |
Julie Suk |
Loving the Hands |
| Column 376 |
Dan Gerber |
Marriage |
| Column 375 |
Mark Vinz |
Absences |
| Column 374 |
Kathryn Stripling Byer |
I still can’t get it right |
| Column 373 |
Jillena Rose |
Taos |
| Column 372 |
Wendy Videlock |
Disarmed |
| Column 371 |
Dana Gioia |
Pity the Beautiful |
| Column 370 |
Janet Eigner |
Isaac’s Blessing |
| Column 369 |
Laurel Blossom |
Red Balloon Rising |
| Column 368 |
Jared Harél |
Numbers |
| Column 367 |
Carol Light |
Prairie Sure |
| Column 366 |
Jeanne Wagner |
My mother was like the bees |
| Column 365 |
Carrie Shipers |
Love Poem for Ted Neeley In Jesus Christ Superstar |
| Column 364 |
Sarah A. Chavez |
In Childhood |
| Column 363 |
Penelope Scambly Schott |
Second Tour |
| Column 362 |
Sara Ries |
Fish Fry Daughter |
| Column 361 |
Anya Silver |
Leaving the Hospital |
| Column 360 |
Carol L. Gloor |
Moment |
| Column 359 |
Claudia Emerson |
Eight Ball |
| Column 358 |
Jaimee Kuperman |
The New Dentist |
| Column 357 |
Edward Hirsch |
I Was Never Able To Pray |
| Column 356 |
Candace Black |
Mr. D Shops At Fausto’s Food Palace |
| Column 355 |
William Trowbridge |
Rental Tux |
| Column 354 |
Lisel Mueller |
Sometimes, When the Light |
| Column 353 |
Anne Coray |
The Art of Being |
| Column 352 |
Mark Jarman |
After Disappointment |
| Column 351 |
Stanley Plumly |
Off A Side Road Near Staunton |
| Column 350 |
Denise Low |
Two Gates |
| Column 349 |
Catherine Tufariello |
The Cricket in the Sump |
| Column 348 |
Richard Levine |
Believe This |
| Column 347 |
Richard Newman |
Bless Their Hearts |
| Column 346 |
Molly Fisk |
Winter Sun |
| Column 345 |
David Black |
Sleepers |
| Column 344 |
Jorge Evans |
Overtime |
| Column 343 |
J. T. Ledbetter |
Crossing Shoal Creek |
| Column 342 |
Roy Scheele |
Woman Feeding Chickens |
| Column 341 |
Don Thompson |
October |
| Column 340 |
Judith Harris |
Mockingbird |
| Column 339 |
Daniel Nyikos |
Potato Soup |
| Column 338 |
Michael Ryan |
Girls’ Middle School Orchestra |
| Column 337 |
Leo Dangel |
Behind the Plow |
| Column 336 |
Ladan Osman |
Tonight |
| Column 335 |
Kay Mullen |
Bonsai at the Potter's Stall |
| Column 334 |
Dana Gioia |
Reunion |
| Column 333 |
Robert Cording |
Old Houses |
| Column 332 |
Linda Pastan |
Counting Backwards |
| Column 331 |
Kathleen M. McCann |
Lone Egret |
| Column 330 |
Robert Wrigley |
After a Rainstorm |
| Column 329 |
Roy Scheele |
Produce Wagon |
| Column 328 |
Angelo Giambra |
The Water Carriers |
| Column 327 |
Karin Gottshall |
More Lies |
| Column 326 |
April Lindner |
Our Lady of Perpetual Help |
| Column 325 |
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley |
One Day |
| Column 324 |
Barbara Schmitz |
Uniforms |
| Column 323 |
Joe Paddock |
One’s Ship Comes In |
| Column 322 |
Cathy Smith Bowers |
Peace Lilies |
| Column 321 |
Joe Mills |
How You Know |
| Column 320 |
Jehanne Dubrow |
Chernobyl Year |
| Column 319 |
Ava Schicke |
I am |
| Column 318 |
Christopher Todd Matthews |
Window Washer |
| Column 317 |
Judith Harris |
End of Market Day |
| Column 316 |
David St. John |
Peach Fires |
| Column 315 |
Michael McFee |
Spitwads |
| Column 314 |
Jane Varley |
Packing the Car for Our Western Camping Trip |
| Column 313 |
Peter Everwine |
Back from the Fields |
| Column 312 |
Ellery Akers |
The Word That Is a Prayer |
| Column 311 |
Peggy Shumaker |
Night Dive |
| Column 310 |
Marilyn L. Taylor |
Home Again, Home Again |
| Column 309 |
Joyce Sutphen |
The Aunts |
| Column 308 |
Connie Wanek |
Mysterious Neighbors |
| Column 307 |
Lois Beebe Hayna |
Brief Eden |
| Column 306 |
Nathaniel Perry |
Remaking a Neglected Orchard |
| Column 305 |
Tim Nolan |
Picasso |
| Column 304 |
Frannie Lindsay |
The Thrift Shop Dresses |
| Column 303 |
Bruce Guernsey |
For My Wife Cutting My Hair |
| Column 302 |
Grace Cavalieri |
Tomato Pies, 25 Cents |
| Column 301 |
T. Alan Broughton |
Great Blue Heron |
| Column 300 |
Molly Fisk |
Hunter's Moon |
| Column 299 |
Christopher Todd Matthews |
Eating Them As He Came |
| Column 298 |
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz |
At the Office Holiday Party |
| Column 297 |
George Bilgere |
Blank |
| Column 296 |
Stephen Behrendt |
Developing the Land |
| Column 295 |
David Allan Evans |
Girl Riding a Horse in a Field of Sunflowers |
| Column 294 |
Todd Davis |
Veil |
| Column 293 |
Joyce Sutphen |
The Exam |
| Column 292 |
Katie Cappello |
A Ghost Abandons the Haunted |
| Column 291 |
Mark Smith-Soto |
Night Watch |
| Column 290 |
Liz Rosenberg |
I Leave Her Weeping |
| Column 289 |
Michelle Y. Burke |
Nocturne |
| Column 288 |
James Doyle |
Love Story |
| Column 287 |
Robert Gibb |
For the Chipmunk in My Yard |
| Column 286 |
Chana Bloch |
Through a Glass |
| Column 285 |
Tara Bray |
Once |
| Column 284 |
Carl Little |
The Clearing |
| Column 283 |
Tony Gloeggler |
Five Years Later |
| Column 282 |
Edward Hirsch |
Early Sunday Morning |
| Column 281 |
Leo Dangel |
One September Afternoon |
| Column 280 |
Marilyn Kallet |
Fireflies |
| Column 279 |
Mary Meriam |
The Romance of Middle Age |
| Column 278 |
Peter Everwine |
Rain |
| Column 277 |
Thomas Reiter |
Rehab |
| Column 276 |
Donal Heffernan |
My Hometown |
| Column 275 |
Patricia Frolander |
Denial |
| Column 274 |
Alicia Ostriker |
The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog |
| Column 273 |
Michael Sowder |
Fishing, His Birthday |
| Column 272 |
Don Thompson |
Yard Work |
| Column 271 |
Ned Balbo |
Fire Victim |
| Column 270 |
Jan Mordenski |
Crochet |
| Column 269 |
Carolyn Miller |
The World as It is |
| Column 268 |
Peter Cooley |
The One Certain Thing |
| Column 267 |
Susan Meyers |
Mother, Washing Dishes |
| Column 266 |
Rachel Contreni Flynn |
The Yellow Bowl |
| Column 265 |
Jeff Daniel Marion |
78 RPM |
| Column 264 |
Wendy Videlock |
The Owl |
| Column 263 |
Jill Bialosky |
Music Is Time |
| Column 262 |
Michael Chitwood |
The Coffins |
| Column 261 |
Andrea Hollander |
Betrayal |
| Column 260 |
Dana Bisignani |
Bankruptcy Hearing |
| Column 259 |
Freya Manfred |
Green Pear Tree in September |
| Column 258 |
David Baker |
Old Man Throwing a Ball |
| Column 257 |
Gary Metras |
Lint |
| Column 256 |
Jeff Worley |
On Finding a Turtle Shell in Daniel Boone National Forest |
| Column 255 |
Wesley McNair |
For My Wife |
| Column 254 |
Lucille Lang Day |
Tooth Painter |
| Column 253 |
Ann Struthers |
Not Knowing Why |
| Column 252 |
Nancyrose Houston |
The Letter From Home |
| Column 251 |
Lyn Lifshin |
The Other Fathers |
| Column 250 |
Joette Giorgis |
(Untitled) |
| Column 249 |
Christine Stewart-Nuñez |
Convergence |
| Column 248 |
Tim Nolan |
At the Choral Concert |
| Column 247 |
Ben Vogt |
Grandpa Vogt’s—1959 |
| Column 246 |
Trish Crapo |
Back Then |
| Column 245 |
Susie Patlove |
Poor Patriarch |
| Column 244 |
George Bilgere |
Night Flight |
| Column 243 |
Marie Sheppard Williams |
Everybody |
| Column 242 |
Kathy Mangan |
The Whistle |
| Column 241 |
Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck |
Like Coins, November |
| Column 240 |
Philip Memmer |
The Paleontologist’s Blind Date |
| Column 239 |
David Lee Garrison |
Bach in the DC Subway |
| Column 238 |
Bruce Guernsey |
Yam |
| Column 237 |
Dore Kiesselbach |
Aubade |
| Column 236 |
Cecilia Woloch |
The Pick |
| Column 235 |
David Bottoms |
My Father’s Left Hand |
| Column 234 |
Michelle Bennett |
Western |
| Column 233 |
Diane Glancy |
Indian Summer |
| Column 232 |
Thomas R. Smith |
Baby Wrens’ Voices |
| Column 231 |
Sue Ellen Thompson |
Helping My Daughter Move into Her First Apartment |
| Column 230 |
Ron Koertge |
First Grade |
| Column 229 |
Mark Vinz |
Cautionary Tales |
| Column 228 |
Cecilia Woloch |
My Mother’s Pillow |
| Column 227 |
Jane Hirshfield |
Green-Striped Melons |
| Column 226 |
Ronald Wallace |
Sustenance |
| Column 225 |
Margaret Kaufman |
Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949 |
| Column 224 |
Jean Nordhaus |
I Was Always Leaving |
| Column 223 |
Alexandra Teague |
Language Lessons |
| Column 222 |
Coleman Barks |
Glad |
| Column 221 |
Todd Boss |
This Morning in a Morning Voice |
| Column 220 |
Joseph Stroud |
Night in Day |
| Column 219 |
Deborah Warren |
Marginalia |
| Column 218 |
Marie Howe |
Hurry |
| Column 217 |
Kevin Griffith |
Spinning |
| Column 216 |
Judy Loest |
Faith |
| Column 215 |
David Wojahn |
Walking to School, 1964 |
| Column 214 |
Susan Browne |
On Our Eleventh Anniversary |
| Column 213 |
Bill Holm |
Earbud |
| Column 212 |
Regan Huff |
Occurrence on Washburn Avenue |
| Column 211 |
Anne Marie Macari |
From the Plane |
| Column 210 |
Joseph O. Legaspi |
At the Bridal Shop |
| Column 209 |
Miller Williams |
Going Deaf |
| Column 208 |
Gerald Fleming |
Long Marriage |
| Column 207 |
Sebastian Matthews |
Barbershop Quartet, East Village Grille |
| Column 206 |
Matthew Vetter |
Wild Flowers |
| Column 205 |
George Bilgere |
Corned Beef and Cabbage |
| Column 204 |
Cecilia Woloch |
Anniversary |
| Column 203 |
Charles Harper Webb |
The Animals are Leaving |
| Column 202 |
David Wagoner |
The Cherry Tree |
| Column 201 |
Don Welch |
At 14 |
| Column 200 |
Chris Forhan |
What My Father Left Behind |
| Column 199 |
Anne Pierson Wiese |
Inscrutable Twist |
| Column 198 |
Zozan Hawez |
Self-Portrait |
| Column 197 |
Cornelius Eady |
A Small Moment |
| Column 196 |
José Angel Araguz |
Gloves |
| Column 195 |
Conrad Hilberry |
Christmas Night |
| Column 194 |
Russell Libby |
Applied Geometry |
| Column 193 |
Robert Haight |
How Is It That the Snow |
| Column 192 |
Pat Mora |
Fences |
| Column 191 |
Robert Wrigley |
Finding a Bible in an Abandoned Cabin |
| Column 190 |
Minnie Bruce Pratt |
Cutting Hair |
| Column 189 |
Gary Dop |
On Swearing |
| Column 188 |
Dick Allen |
The Accompanist |
| Column 187 |
Dan Lechay |
Ghost Villanelle |
| Column 186 |
James Lenfestey |
Daughter |
| Column 185 |
Robert Hedin |
The Old Liberators |
| Column 184 |
John Maloney |
After Work |
| Column 183 |
Judith Harris |
Gathering Leaves in Grade School |
| Column 182 |
Kaelum Poulson |
The Crow |
| Column 181 |
Stuart Kestenbaum |
Prayer for the Dead |
| Column 180 |
Emmett Tenorio Melendez |
My name came from . . . |
| Column 179 |
D. Nurkse |
Bushwick: Latex Flat |
| Column 178 |
Gary Dop |
Father, Child, Water |
| Column 177 |
Kristen Tracy |
Rain at the Zoo |
| Column 176 |
Frank Steele |
Sunflower |
| Column 175 |
Berwyn Moore |
Driving to Camp Lend-A-Hand |
| Column 174 |
Joelle Biele |
To Katharine: At Fourteen Months |
| Column 173 |
Patrick Phillips |
Piano |
| Column 172 |
Veronica Patterson |
Marry Me |
| Column 171 |
Ann Struthers |
Planting the Sand Cherry |
| Column 170 |
Samuel Green |
Night Dive |
| Column 169 |
Rick Campbell |
Heart |
| Column 168 |
Mary-Sherman Willis |
The Laughter of Women |
| Column 167 |
Sharmila Voorakkara |
For the Tattooed Man |
| Column 166 |
R. S. Gwynn |
Fried Beauty |
| Column 165 |
Robert Bly |
Seeing the Eclipse in Maine |
| Column 164 |
Ellen Bass |
Dead Butterfly |
| Column 163 |
Max Mendelsohn |
Ode to Marbles |
| Column 162 |
Richard Hoffman |
Summer Job |
| Column 161 |
Jonathan Holden |
Car Showroom |
| Column 160 |
Steven Orlen |
Three Teenage Girls: 1956 |
| Column 159 |
Allan Peterson |
The Inevitable |
| Column 158 |
Frank Steele |
Part of a Legacy |
| Column 157 |
Judith Harris |
In Your Absence |
| Column 156 |
David Tucker |
Today’s News |
| Column 155 |
Marianne Boruch |
Hospital |
| Column 154 |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
Yellowjackets |
| Column 153 |
Trish Dugger |
Spare Parts |
| Column 152 |
Carrie Shipers |
Medical History |
| Column 151 |
Steven Huff |
Safe |
| Column 150 |
Ed Ochester |
What the Frost Casts Up |
| Column 149 |
Linda Pastan |
The Quarrel |
| Column 148 |
Lee McCarthy |
Santa Paula |
| Column 147 |
William Kloefkorn |
"I stand alone at the foot " |
| Column 146 |
Marvin Bell |
Veterans of the Seventies |
| Column 145 |
Rynn Williams |
Insomnia |
| Column 144 |
Jackson Wheeler |
How Good Fortune Surprises Us |
| Column 143 |
Steven Orlen |
In the House of the Voice of Maria Callas |
| Column 142 |
Linda Gregg |
Elegance |
| Column 141 |
Thomas R. Smith |
Trust |
| Column 140 |
Steven Schneider |
Chanukah Lights Tonight |
| Column 139 |
Bruce Guernsey |
The Lady and the Tramp |
| Column 138 |
Deborah Cummins |
At a Certain Age |
| Column 137 |
Jessy Randall |
Superhero Pregnant Woman |
| Column 136 |
Todd Davis |
Sleep |
| Column 135 |
Ruth Moose |
The Crossing |
| Column 134 |
Kathleen Flenniken |
Old Woman With Protea Flowers, Kahalui Airport |
| Column 133 |
David Baker |
Afterwards |
| Column 132 |
Peter Pereira |
The Garden Buddha |
| Column 131 |
Jean Nordhaus |
A Dandelion for My Mother |
| Column 130 |
Anne Pierson Wiese |
Columbus Park |
| Column 129 |
Betty Adcock |
Louisiana Line |
| Column 128 |
Regina DeSalva |
Snip Your Hair |
| Column 127 |
Marianne Boruch |
Nest |
| Column 126 |
Karin Gottshall |
The Raspberry Room |
| Column 125 |
Barry Goldensohn |
Subway |
| Column 124 |
Patrick Phillips |
Matinee |
| Column 123 |
Joshua Weiner |
Found Letter |
| Column 122 |
Wesley McNair |
Hymn to the Comb-Over |
| Column 121 |
Mike White |
Wind |
| Column 120 |
Kim Noriega |
Heaven, 1963 |
| Column 119 |
Joseph Stanton |
Banana Trees |
| Column 118 |
Warren Woessner |
Alberto |
| Column 117 |
Nancy Botkin |
Geometry |
| Column 116 |
Roy Jacobstein |
Safari, Rift Valley |
| Column 115 |
Jeffrey Harrison |
Visitation |
| Column 114 |
Robert West |
Echo |
| Column 113 |
Freya Manfred |
Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle |
| Column 112 |
Elizabeth Hobbs |
Slow Dancing on the Highway:the Trip North |
| Column 111 |
Felecia Caton Garcia |
Drought |
| Column 110 |
Juliana Gray |
Summer Downpour on Campus |
| Column 109 |
Sue Ellen Thompson |
Wallpapering |
| Column 108 |
Kay Ryan |
Houdini |
| Column 107 |
Naomi Shihab Nye |
Supple Cord |
| Column 106 |
Judith Kitchen |
Catching the Moles |
| Column 105 |
Ruth Moose |
Laundry |
| Column 104 |
Marjorie Saiser |
Where They Lived |
| Column 103 |
Rick Snyder |
How Are You Doing? |
| Column 102 |
Jane Whitledge |
Morel Mushrooms |
| Column 101 |
Cynthia Rylant |
Wax Lips |
| Column 100 |
Wesley McNair |
The One I Think of Now |
| Column 099 |
Sharon Chmielarz |
New Water |
| Column 098 |
Robert Wrigley |
Kissing a Horse |
| Column 097 |
Mary Jo Salter |
Somebody Else’s Baby |
| Column 096 |
Andrea Hollander |
For Weeks After the Funeral |
| Column 095 |
John Haines |
Young Man |
| Column 094 |
Floyd Skloot |
Silent Music |
| Column 093 |
Tatiana Ziglar |
Common Janthina |
| Column 092 |
Linda Parsons Marion |
Home Fire |
| Column 091 |
Mark Vinz |
Driving Through |
| Column 090 |
Bill Holm |
Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe |
| Column 089 |
Sue Ellen Thompson |
No Children, No Pets |
| Column 088 |
Christopher Chambers |
My Father Holds the Door for Yoko Ono |
| Column 087 |
Tania Rochelle |
Raking |
| Column 086 |
Linda Pastan |
The Birds |
| Column 085 |
Lisel Mueller |
In November |
| Column 084 |
Connie Wanek |
Amaryllis |
| Column 083 |
Dale Ritterbusch |
Green Tea |
| Column 082 |
Jeff Vande Zande |
Clean |
| Column 081 |
Tess Gallagher |
Under Stars |
| Column 080 |
James McKean |
Elegy for an Old Boxer |
| Column 079 |
Alex Phillips |
Work Shy |
| Column 078 |
Bruce Guernsey |
Moss |
| Column 077 |
Li-Young Lee |
Early in the Morning |
| Column 076 |
Jeff Daniel Marion |
Reunion |
| Column 075 |
Lita Hooper |
Love Worn |
| Column 074 |
David Mason |
In the Mushroom Summer |
| Column 073 |
Roy Scheele |
Planting a Dogwood |
| Column 072 |
Jan Beatty |
My Father Teaches Me to Dream |
| Column 071 |
Albert Garcia |
August Morning |
| Column 069 |
Marsha Truman Cooper |
Ironing After Midnight |
| Column 068 |
Wendell Berry |
They Sit Together on the Porch |
| Column 067 |
Catherine Barnett |
Family Reunion |
| Column 066 |
Marie Howe |
The Copper Beech |
| Column 065 |
Keith Althaus |
Homecoming |
| Column 064 |
Lola Haskins |
Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country |
| Column 063 |
David Tucker |
The Dancer |
| Column 062 |
James McKean |
Bindweed |
| Column 061 |
Leslie Monsour |
The Education of a Poet |
| Column 060 |
Julia Kasdorf |
What I Learned From My Mother |
| Column 059 |
Amy Fleury |
At Twenty-Eight |
| Column 058 |
Pat Schneider |
There Is Another Way |
| Column 057 |
Richard Newman |
Coins |
| Column 056 |
Don Welch |
At the Edge of Town |
| Column 055 |
Jo McDougall |
What We Need |
| Column 054 |
Ruth L. Schwartz |
Tangerine |
| Column 053 |
Peter Pereira |
A Pot of Red Lentils |
| Column 052 |
Connie Wanek |
Radiator |
| Column 051 |
Jim Harrison |
Marching |
| Column 050 |
Grace Bauer |
Against Lawn |
| Column 049 |
Rodney Torreson |
On A Moonstruck Gravel Road |
| Column 048 |
Walter McDonald |
Some Boys are Born to Wander |
| Column 047 |
Robert Morgan |
Holy Cussing |
| Column 046 |
Robert King |
Geology |
| Column 045 |
Anne Caston |
Sunday Brunch at the Old Country Buffet |
| Column 044 |
David Baker |
Mongrel Heart |
| Column 043 |
Lola Haskins |
To Play Pianissimo |
| Column 042 |
David Bengtson |
What Calls Us |
| Column 041 |
Diane Thiel |
Family Album |
| Column 040 |
Alberto Ríos |
A Yellow Leaf |
| Column 039 |
Nancy McCleery |
December Notes |
| Column 038 |
Leslie Monsour |
Fifteen |
| Column 037 |
Shirley Buettner |
The Wind Chimes |
| Column 036 |
Judith Slater |
In The Black Rock Tavern |
| Column 035 |
J. Lorraine Brown |
Tintype on the Pond, 1925 |
| Column 034 |
Jim Daniels |
Dim |
| Column 033 |
Katy Giebenhain |
Glucose Self-Monitoring |
| Column 032 |
Kurt Brown |
Road Report |
| Column 031 |
Gloria g. Murray |
In My Mother’s House |
| Column 030 |
Naomi Shihab Nye |
Boy and Egg |
| Column 029 |
Debra Nystrom |
Cliff Swallows-Missouri Breaks |
| Column 028 |
Ron Rash |
Speckled Trout |
| Column 027 |
Angela Shaw |
Children in a Field |
| Column 026 |
Claudia Emerson |
Stable |
| Column 025 |
Rodney Torreson |
The Bethlehem Nursing Home |
| Column 024 |
Martin Walls |
Cicadas at the End of Summer |
| Column 023 |
Edwin Gladding Burrows |
Camping Out |
| Column 022 |
Jean L. Connor |
Of Some Renown |
| Column 021 |
Karin Gottshall |
The Ashes |
| Column 020 |
Jane Hirshfield |
The Woodpecker Keeps Returning |
| Column 019 |
Shirley Buettner |
Discovered |
| Column 018 |
Dan Gerber |
The Rain Poured Down |
| Column 016 |
Lisel Mueller |
Love Like Salt |
| Column 015 |
Janet McCann |
The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks |
| Column 014 |
Georgiana Cohen |
Old Woman in a Housecoat |
| Column 013 |
Kevin Griffith |
Turning Forty |
| Column 012 |
Andrei Guruianu |
Grandfather |
| Column 011 |
David Wagoner |
Peacock Display |
| Column 010 |
Marge Piercy |
More Than Enough |
| Column 009 |
James Doyle |
The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War |
| Column 008 |
Karma Larsen |
Moonflowers |
| Column 007 |
Leonard E. Nathan |
The Potato Eaters |
| Column 006 |
Barton Sutter |
Sober Song |
| Column 005 |
David Baker |
Neighbors in October |
| Column 004 |
Ruth Stone |
Another Feeling |
| Column 003 |
Marnie Walsh |
Bessie Dreaming Bear |
| Column 002 |
Jonathan Greene |
At the Grave |
| Column 001 |
David Allan Evans |
Neighbors |
