Linda Pastan:
"[Buffalo Bill's defunct]" by E. E. Cummings

Gerard Smyth:
"To One Dead" by Francis Ledwidge

Lisa Russ Spaar:
"Caliban," The Tempest, III, ii, 148-156, by William Shakespeare

Jynne Dilling Martin:
Four Selections from The Black Riders, by Stephen Crane

Seth Abramson:
"Lundi rue Christine" by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by Donald Revell

John Witte:
"Two Sewing" by Hazel Hall

Jane Mead:
"Badger" by John Clare

Martha Rhodes:
"Rondelet" by Anonymous

Eleanor Wilner:
from Death's Jest Book, III, i, by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Elise Partridge:
"Trouthe: Balade de Bon Conseyl" by Geoffrey Chaucer

Rusty Morrison:
"In the desert" from The Black Riders by Stephen Crane

Floyd Skloot:
"The Widow's Lament in Springtime" by William Carlos Williams

Sarah Kennedy:
"Whoso List to Hunt" by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder

Katie Ford:
"Poems for Blok" by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein

Dick Allen:
Three Short Poems by Po Chü-I, translated by Arthur Waley

Ron Smith:
"The Indian Burying Ground" by Philip Freneau

Caroline Knox:
"On a Sea-Storm nigh the Coast" by Richard Steere

Jim Daniels:
"Terence, this is stupid stuff" by A. E. Housman

Jon Pineda:
"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mark Doty:
"To His Books" by Henry Vaughan

Jill Bialosky:
"The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens

Cornelius Eady:
"On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley