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Front matter

The man on the horse
William Virgil Davis

Poem
Jean Valentine

Map maker
Jay Barwell

Hands: The sculpture
Janice Dabney

We had seen a pig
Marvin Bell

Coincidence
Robert Pack

Trillium
Robert Pack

Lower hadlock pond
Ferris Kelly

Letter to Thomas Edison from John Burroughs
Daniel Mark Epstein

Innate intelligence
Gracie Mattern

Visiting
Susan Jones

This work
Jeff Schiff

After work
Jeff Schiff

Chesnuts
Jeff Schiff

Pose with father in the backyard
William Howell

Story
Deborah Pope

Crow
Deborah Pope

The underground river
David Robinson

Aerial observer
Kenneth Bivin

Friends
Steve Orlen

The sharpness of the edge
Rachel Landrum

Traveling by water
Sharyn November

Against weather
Sharyn November

Fishing the first light
Dan Stryk

On the sunny side of the street
Ronald Wallace

Distances
Jeanne Murray Walker

Figure of speech
Jami Wolf

Keeping light
Richard Behm

Seed packets
Nancy Sherman Lewis

The myrtle warbler
Judith Moffett

A miniature at the metropolitan
Myra Shapiro

Family names
James Paul

Patricians in hard times
Robert Lietz

Digging in
Marge Piercy

The weight
Marge Piercy

A man and his anger, together
Marge Piercy

A winter day, nothing I have known
David Baker

Ode to the "sombrero"
David Ellison

Hands
Chris Wheeler

Chas harvey
Leslie Adrienne Miller

Finding a small dead bird
Laurie Taylor

Sunday afternoon
Robert Gregory

If you're still awake at this hour
Robert Gregory

In memory
Robert Gregory

Wrong
Heather McHugh

Vanishing act
Karla M. Hammond

First rooms
Len Roberts

Reenacted for camera
David Breitkopf

The end of winter
Larry Moffi

Introduction to interviews
Richard Jackson

On the horizon of time (Robert Penn Warren)
Robert Penn Warren

Distilled from thin air (Marvin Bell)
Marvin Bell

The hallowing of the everday (Jean Valentine)
Jean Valentine

Re-naming the present (David St. John)
David St. John

Double vision (Daniel Epstein)
Daniel Epstein

Shaping our choices (Marge Piercy)
Marge Piercy

Scanning our myths (Judith Moffett)
Judith Moffett

On the margins of dreams (Fred Chappell)
Fred Chappell

Softly
Jurgen Fuchs

6/17/1978
Jurgen Fuchs

Legend
Gunther Bruno Fuchs

The bedroom
Yves Bonnefoy

The windows
Stephane Mallarmé

The archaic torso of apollo
Rainer Maria Rilke

How to iron a shirt
Alicia Dujovne Ortiz

Yellow spring
Juan Ramon Jimenez

The microscope
Slavko Mihalic

Mano
Anon.

Ancient winter
Angelo Maria Ripellino

China shop
Angelo Maria Ripellino

The boy from liege
Louise de Vilmorin

Untitled
Anna Akhmatova

October prayer
Robert Pack

Feeding the birds
Robert Pack

Duck-blind
David Wagoner

An address to Weyerhaeuser, the tree-growing company
David Wagoner

Moeurs anciennes
John Peck

Considerations
Dan Gemmer

Island of lost souls
Lawrence Raab

Apples for Paul Suttman, sculptor
Anthony Hecht

The leg
Maxine Kumin

The old woman
Constance Urdang

On a skull carved in crystal
John Haines

The line
Sharon Olds

Reclaiming the moon
William Meredith

A collection of rocks
Ronald Wallace

First prison
Charles Simic

Traveling shows
A. R. Ammons

All summer long
Carol Frost

The summit: MontDesu
John Hollander

The militance of the photograph in the passbook of a Bantu under detention
Michael S. Harper

Showshoeing
Stuart Dybeck

Bloodline
Dan Masterson

Hunger for stories
William Stafford

A story for a child
Cynthia MacDonald

A small story
Richard Frost

Wedding-ring
Denise Levertov

For the aunts
Carol Oles

The downward snow
Paul Ramsey

A way of saying Michael in the night
Herbert Morris

Wind subsides on the earth river
Fred Chappell

On the sawmill
Paul Mariani

Colorless green ideas
Dara Wier

The boat
Donald Finkel

Endings: Free adaptations of Anna Akhamatova
Stephen Berg

Lost word
Jean Burden

Coincidence
Carol Muske

The crow who tried to imitate the eagle
Jean de la Fontaine

The domain of the marvelous prey (Charles Simic)
Charles Simic

The path of saying (Stanley Plumly)
Stanley Plumly