Contents
Foreword
Preface
Jamaal May: There Are Birds Here
David Baker: Hungry
Gail Mazur: I’m a Stranger Here Myself
Katrina Vandenberg: My Summer Next Door to the Serial Killer
Ladan Osman: Tonight
Gary Jackson: Watch
Dora Malech: Neighborhood Watch
Sarah Einstein: Shelter
Amy Yelin: The House on Congress Street
Jonathan Escoffery: The Invincible
James Miranda: Occupants
Rita Dove: Daystar
Wayne Miller: House near the Airport
Leila Chatti: Aubade in the Old Apartment
Lloyd Schwartz: House Hunting
Geri Lipschultz: Writing the Kingdom on Skates
Christine Schutt: Religion
Brad Aaron Modlin: The Summer of the Commune, and Some of the Summers before That
Marco Wilkinson: Some Rules for Foraging (excerpt)
Ross Gay: To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian
D. R. McClure: The Neighborhood Hawk
Becca J. R. Lachman: Some Kind of Sisyphus
Phoebe Wayne: Intimate Selenium
Sarah Layden: The Woman Who Was a House
Seth Stewart: Exteriors
Andrena Zawinski: Vanquished
Douglas Currier: Old
Edward Hirsch: How to Get Back to Chester
Donald Platt: Name & Address
David Rivard: Late?
Katie Peterson: Animals
Robert Pinsky: The Street
Carolina Ebeid: Reading Celan in a Subway Station
Linda Bamber: Fire Island
Jenny Johnson: Gay Marriage Poem
Nicole Callihan: Marriage
Sean M. Conrey: Forest Ridge Farms Nocturne
Jaswinder Bolina: Pornograph, with Americana
Leora Fridman: Doorstep
Katie Berta: Upon Hearing about the Student Arrested at the Gun Shop
David Blair: Free Variation on “Saturday Night in the Village”
Peter Campion: The Population
Betsy Brown: Neighborhood
Gretchen Marquette: Song for the Festival
Matthew Siegel: The Heater Repair Woman
Aaron Devine: Blizzard Poem
Rebecca Morgan Frank: City Morning
Josephine Yu: Middle Class Love Song
Dana Roeser: Announcement: The Theme of Tonight’s Party Has Been Changed
Lauren Camp: My Neighbors: I Know Them
Kip Robisch: Fireflies
Amina Gautier: As I Wander
Jarod Roselló: The Neighbor
Katherine Hollander: Thanksgiving: Livingston, New Jersey
Steve Brykman: You Know How It Is
Eson Kim: Meteor Dreams
Dinty W. Moore: Racism in America: The Official Report
Tomás Q. Morín: American Valentine
Jennifer De Leon: A Map of the World
Jill McDonough: Path to Nowhere
Claire Eder: Not Trash Day
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs: A Small Guest
C. E. Fort: Arrest Dance, Oakland, CA
Nomi Stone: War Game, America
Daniel B. Johnson: Steel Valley Songbook, Volume I
Sarah Green: Assembly
Danielle Jones: Sometimes You Know before You Know
Sarah C. Harwell: God Speaks through the Seals
David Young: Heidelberg Beach, October
Mark Halliday: Winchendon
Richard Hoffman: Neighbors
Sonya Larson: The Kindest
Brian Trapp: My City in Two Dog Parks (excerpt)
Fred Marchant: Camp and Locust
Liz Stephens: Bête Noire Ranch
Rebecca Lindenberg: The Real West
Tara Lynn Masih: The Summer of Whooping Cough
Dylan Krieger : the war of all against all
Sarah Minor: Into the Limen: Where an Old Squirrel Goes to Die
Connie Voisine: Neighbor
Lynne Viti: Cottage Industry
Tom Sleigh: Valediction
Marie Howe: What the Living Do
Joy Harjo: Perhaps the World Ends Here
Neighborhood Talks: Opening the Discussion
Acknowledgments
Credits
Contributors
Author Index
Title Index