Mustafa Abu Sneineh's "Nablus Street" (translated by Katharine Halls)

Steve Scafidi's "By the Garden"

Kim Addonizio's "Solace"

Rebecca Elson's "Myth"

W.S. Merwin's "Ash"

Matthew Nienow's "For What It's Worth"

Kiki Petrosino's "To Think of Italy While Climbing the Saunders-Monticello Trail"

Philip Levine's "Today and Two Thousand Years from Now"

Nomi Stone's "Waiting for Happiness"

Etheridge Knight's "The Sun Came"

Marie Howe's "Hurry"

Maurice Manning's "XXXV" (from "Bucolics")