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")

A Bouquet of Poems, Part 2