Foreword 000
Introduction 000
Wherein We Begin Life on the Road 1
James Harms - Morgantown, West Virginia 000
Landscape as the Latest Diet (Southern California) 000
David Citino - Columbus, Ohio 000
Through a Glass, Darkly 000
Martha Collins - Oberlin, Ohio 000
Linda Gregerson - Ann Arbor, Michigan 000
Richard Tillinghast - Ann Arbor, Michigan 000
Wake Me in South Galway 000
Winnie Cooper 000
Orlando Ricardo Menes - South Bend, Indiana 000
Mark Strand - Chicago, Illinois 000
A Morning 000
Karen Volkman - Chicago, Illinois 000
Lisa Samuels - Milwaukee, Wisconsin 000
Marvin Bell - Iowa City, Iowa 000
Port Townsend, Washington, Waterside 000
Dust, Corn, and Popcorn People 000
Michael Dennis Browne - Minneapolis, Minnesota 000
from At the Cabin 000
David Allan Evans - Brookings, South Dakota 000
David Romtvedt - Buffalo, Wyoming 000
With Caitlin, Age 8, Building a Qhuinzee for a Winter Night 000
The West 000
Sandra Alcosser - Lolo, Montana 000
Mare Frigoris 000
Robert Wrigley - Moscow, Idaho 000
Ordinary Magic 000
Nance Van Winckel - Liberty Lake, Washington 000
Awaiting the Return Ferry 000
Christopher Howell - Spokane, Washington 000
Wherein the Author Ruminates on RV Life 000
Mark Halperin - Ellensburg, Washington 000
Accident 000
Jana Harris - Sultan, Washington 000
Mr. Elija Welch, First Planting 000
Sam Hamill - Port Townsend, Washington 000
The Day I Did Winnie Cooper Wrong 000
Barbara Drake - Yamhill, Oregon 000
from The Man from the Past Visits the Present 000
Floyd Skloot - Amity, Oregon 000
A Warming Trend 000
Suddenly in California 000
Ralph Angel - South Pasadena, California 000
Carol Muske-Dukes - Los Angeles, California 000
Twin Cities 000
David St. John - Venice, California 000
Dijon 000
Sharon Bryan - San Diego, California 000
Death Valley 000
Donald Revell & Claudia Keelan - Las Vegas, Nevada 000
A Parish in the Bronx 000
Alberto Rios - Chandler, Arizona 000
Richard Shelton - Tucson, Arizona 000
Local Knowledge 000
Jane Miller - Tucson, Arizona 000
#15 from A Palace of Pearls 000
New Year 000
William Wenthe - Lubbock, Texas 000
Alien 000
Naomi Shihab Nye - San Antonio, Texas 000
Pause 000
Peter Cooley - Jefferson, Louisiana 000
Miller Williams - Fayetteville, Arkansas 000
RV Life 2 000
Beth Ann Fennelly - Oxford, Mississippi 000
from The Kudzu Chronicles 000
Natasha Trethewey - Decatur, Georgia 000
South 000
Denise Duhamel - Hollywood, Florida 000
Valentines, Hollywood Beach 000
Campbell McGrath - Miami Beach, Florida 000
Terrance Hayes - Columbia, South Carolina 000
Threshold 000
Alan Shapiro - Chapel Hill, North Carolina 000
Bower 000
Nikki Giovanni - Blacksburg, Virginia 000
Charles Wright - Charlottesville, Virginia 000
High Country Spring 000
Choosing 000
Rita Dove - Charlottesville, Virginia 000
The House on Bishop Street 000
Henry Taylor - Bethesda, Maryland 000
Harvest 000
Dave Smith - Baltimore, Maryland 000
Gaines Mill Battlefield 000
Nicole Cooley - Glen Ridge, New Jersey 000
Unfinished Sketch: Green Sandbox Winter Sky 000
David Lehman - New York, New York 000
April 9 000
The City So Nice They Named It Twice 000
Lucie Brock-Broido - New York, New York 000
Michael S. Harper - Providence, Rhode Island 000
C. D. Wright - Barrington, Rhode Island 000
from The Ozark Odes 000
Mark Wunderlich - Provincetown, Massachusetts 000
Elevation 000
James Cummins - Cincinnati, Ohio 000
Spring Comes to Hamilton Avenue 000
Frederick Smock - Louisville, Kentucky 000
Heron 000
Mark Jarman - Nashville, Tennessee 000
Nashville Moon 000
Carl Phillips - St. Louis, Missouri 000
Driveway 000
Scott Cairns - Columbia, Missouri 000
Mud Trail 000
Elizabeth Dodd - Manhattan, Kansas 000
Sonnet, Almost 000
Jonathan Holden - Manhattan, Kansas 000
Pigs 000
Bin Ramke - Denver, Colorado 000
Kenneth Brewer - Logan, Utah 000
Paisley Rekdal - Salt Lake City, Utah 000
Ode 000
Wherein the Author Considers the End 000
Endpiece 000
Gas Giant 000