| 1 | William Stafford | Travelling Through the Dark |
| Mary Oliver | Sleeping in the Forest | |
| William Stafford | Ways to Say Wind | |
| William Stafford | With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach | |
| 2 | Margaret Atwood | You Are Happy |
| Kenneth Rexroth | The Heart of Herakles | |
| Robert Bly | A Late Spring Day in my Life | |
| Maxine Kumin | Morning Swim | |
| 3 | William Carlos Williams | To Elsie (from Spring and All) |
| 4 | Sharon Olds | May, 1968 |
| 4B. | Sharon Olds | The Forms |
| Sharon Olds | Bread | |
| Sharon Olds | Sex Without Love | |
| Sharon Olds | First Sex | |
| 4C. | Sharon Olds | His Father's Cadaver |
| 5 | Sharon Olds | The Missing Boy |
| Carolyn Forche | The Colonel | |
| 6 | Judy Grahn | Ella, In a Square Apron... |
| Sharon Olds | Pajamas | |
| Miguel Hernandez | Your Heart?--It is a Frozen Orange | |
| Cesar Vallejo | To My Brother Miguel | |
| 7.-7B | Marjorie Agosin | The Dance |
| 7B | Gerald Stern | The Dancing |
| 7C | Gabriela Mistral | To See Him Again |
| 7D | Ernesto Cardenal | The Parrots |
| Bertolt Brecht | The Burning of the Books | |
| Carl Rakosi | No One Talks About This | |
| Roque Dalton | OAS | |
| 8 | Bill Knott | Sudden Death Strikes Jet Set |
| Etheridge Knight | Hard Rock Returns... | |
| 9 | James Wright | Hook |
| James Wright | Willy Lyons | |
| 9A. | Nicanor Parra | Acacias |
| Kenneth Rexroth | Your Birthday in the California Mts. | |
| Raymond Carver | After-Glow | |
| Jack Gilbert | Michiko Dead | |
| Alan Ginsberg | from Kaddish | |
| 9B. | Li-Young Lee | The Weight of Sweetness |
| Ken Weisner | The Accompanist | |
| Ken Weisner | The Hats My Father Wore | |
| 9C | Li-Young Lee | The Gift |
| Stanley Kunitz | The Portrait | |
| 9D. | Marjorie Agosin | My Mother's Eyes |
| 9E. | Michael Ondaatje | Sweet Like a Crow |
| 9F. | Marilyn Chin | The Floral Apron |
| Alberto Rios | Nani | |
| Gary Soto | Black Hair | |
| 9G. | Getting at Metaphor | Roger Mitchell (exercise) |
| 10 | Anon. Egyptian (Merwin) | Death is Before Me Today |
| Various Authors | Haiku | |
| Charles Wright | Snow | |
| Carl Sandburg | Fog | |
| Crow Indian | Crazy Dog Events | |
| 10B. | Shinkichi Takahashi | from Afterimages |
| 10C. | Haiku Exercises | Basho |
| 10D. | Nanao Sakaki | from Break the Mirror |
| 10E,F,G | Kenneth Rexroth, trans. | 100 Poems from the Japanese |
| 11 | Sharon Olds | My Father's Breasts |
| Hart Crane | My Grandmother's Love Letters | |
| William Carlos Williams | Smell! | |
| Robert Creeley | The Rain | |
| 11A. | Carolyn Forche | Reunion |
| Thomas Lux | I Think You're Wonderful | |
| Dorianne Laux | The Tooth Fairy | |
| 12 | David Young | Poem for Wrists |
| Marge Piercy | I Still Feel You | |
| Charles Simic | Fear | |
| Charles Simic | Solitude | |
| Robert Frost | Desert Places | |
| Robert Bly | Watering the Horse | |
| 13 | Denise Levertov | The Breathing |
| Denise Levertov | Losing Track | |
| Sharon Olds | Possessed | |
| 14 | Charles Simic | Artichokes |
| Charles Simic | Bestiary for the Fingers.... | |
| 15 | Charles Simic | Breasts |
| Greg Kuzma | Hands | |
| 16 | Kathleen Fraser | Poem in which My Legs Are Accepted |
| 16B. | Gary Snyder | Hay is For Horses |
| Mary Tall Mountain | The Hands of Mary Joe | |
| Sandra McPherson | His Body | |
| 17 | Cesar Vallejo | The Anger that Breaks a Man... |
| Shirley Kaufman | Mothers, Daughters | |
| 18 | Eva Platero | My Country |
| Yosef Komunyakaa | Facing It | |
| William Stafford | At the Un-National Monument.... | |
| Jose Emilio Pacheco | High Treason | |
| 18A. | Paul Eluard | from Liberty |
| 19 | Pablo Neruda | Walking Around |
| Joseph Brodsky | The Verbs | |
| 20 | James Wright | The Jewel |
| Kabir (Bly version) | The Clay Jug | |
| 21 | Sharon Olds | New Mother |
| Sharon Olds | Grandmother Love Poem | |
| 22 | Bill Knott | My Mother's List of Names |
| David Young | The Jaywalker | |
| 23 | Donald Justice | First Death |
| 24 | Donald Justice | Sestina: Here in Katmandu |
| Donald Justice | Sonnet: The Poet at Seven | |
| Theodore Roethke | The Waking | |
| 25 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | The Windhover | |
| Donald Justice | Thinking about the Past | |
| Dylan Thomas | Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | |
| 26 | Robert Haas | The Yellow Bicycle |
| Bill Faber | Alan Watts | |
| 27 | Robert Bly | Six Winter Privacy Poems |
| Robert Bly | Three Kinds of Pleasures | |
| 28 | Charles Baudelaire | The Stranger |
| Charles Baudelaire | Get Drunk! | |
| Ken Weisner | I Recently Slept for Eighteen Hours | |
| 29 | Russell Edson | Ape |
| Russell Edson | A Performance at Hog Theater | |
| Russell Edson | Antimatter | |
| 29B. | Fred Moramarco | Something must have been bugging... |
| Vincent Draper | The Gift I Never Got | |
| Corinne Hales | Power | |
| 30 | James Tate | It's Not the Heat... |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | Archaic Torso of Apollo | |
| 30A. | Rita Dove | Lady Freedom Among Us |
| Rita Dove | Flash Cards | |
| 30B. | Rafael Alberti | Going Back Through Color |
| 30C. | Rafael Alberti | Song of the Luckless Angel |
| Rafael Alberti | The Good Angel | |
| 31 | William Carlos Williams | Pictures from Brueghel |
| Bruce Weigl | Painting on a T'ang Dynasty.... | |
| 31B. | Federico Garcia Lorca | Sleepwalking Ballad |
| 31C. | Gunter Eich | Inventory |
| Federico Garcia Lorca | Variations | |
| 32 | Sharon Olds | Photograph of the Girl |
| Sharon Olds | Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 | |
| 33 | Sharon Olds | Portrait of a child |
| Sharon Olds | The Issues | |
| 34 | John Bowie | Ode to Lucille Ball |
| John Bowie | Ode to King Kong | |
| 34B. | Ronald Koertge | I Went to the Movies Hoping... |
| Dorianne Laux | The Tooth Fairy | |
| 35 | Princeton Encyclopedia | Definitions of Forms |
| 36 | Donald Justice | Hands |
| Donald Justice | Men at Forty | |
| 37 | Ken Weisner | Inner Dog |
| Ken Weisner | Rainbow | |
| 37B. | William Carlos Williams | Perfection |
| Linda Gregg | Praising Spring | |
| Allen Ginsberg | I do not know who is hoarding... | |
| Gerald Stern | Behaving Like a Jew | |
| Al Zolynas | Cat Puke and Flies Poem | |
| 37C. | C.K. Williams | My Fly |
| 38 | Donald Justice | The Assassination |
| Donald Justice | Twenty Questions | |
| Ken Weisner | Firefly Sestina | |
| 39 | Lucille Clifton | Homage to My Hips |
| Lucille Clifton | Homage to My Hair | |
| Sylvia Plath | Poppies in July | |
| 39 B. | Francisco Alarcon | Hair |
| Francisco Alarcon | My Bed | |
| Francisco Alarcon | My Hands | |
| Francisco Alarcon | Body in Flames | |
| Francisco Alarcon | Lo del Corazon | |
| 39 C. | Francisco Alarcon | I Used to Be Much Much Darker |
| Francisco Alarcon | Letter to America | |
| 40 | Frank O'Hara | The Day Lady Died |
| Theodore Roethke | Elegy for Jane | |
| Theodore Roethke | My Papa's Waltz | |
| Galway Kinnell | Last Gods | |
| 41 | Galway Kinnell | Blackberry Eating |
| Galway Kinnell | After Making Love We Hear Footsteps | |
| 42 | Bill Knott | Poem |
| Galway Kinnell | Saint Francis and the Sow | |
| 42B. | Walt Whitman | from Song of Myself |
| Allen Ginsberg | from Howl | |
| Jack Marshall | Forced Entry | |
| Kaylin Haught | God Says Yes to Me | |
| 42C. | Robinson Jeffers | journal entry |
| Walt Whitman | journal entry | |
| 42D | Walt Whitman | from Song of Myself |
| 42E | Claribel Alegria | Documentary |
| Joy Harjo | Remember | |
| 43 | Bill Knott | Poem Written to a Poet |
| Bill Knott | Poem to Poetry | |
| Bill Knott | After the Burial | |
| Bill Knott | Sunset and Noon: Marjory P. | |
| 44 | Gary Snyder | Water |
| Gary Snyder | Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain... | |
| James Wright | Lying in a Hammock... | |
| James Wright | The Jewel | |
| Bill Knott | Widow's Winter | |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | I Live My Life | |
| 45 | Ken Weisner | Shoulders |
| Ken Weisner | Passion | |
| 46 | Andre Breton | from Free Union |
| 47 | William Carlos Williams | The Sea-Elephant |
| 48 | William Carlos Williams | Young Sycamore |
| 48A | Pable Neruda | "I have four dogs..." |
| William Blake | The Tyger | |
| Mary Oliver | The Fish | |
| 48B | Ted Hughes | The Thought Fox |
| Marge Piercy | The Cats of Greece | |
| Mary Oliver | Mussels | |
| 49 | Gerald Stern | Lucky Life |
| 50 | Sylvia Plath | The Applicant |
| 51 | Ken Weisner | The Falling |
| Ken Weisner | Above Tree-Line | |
| Ken Weisner | Peace | |
| 52 | Creek Indian (trans Merwin) | From a notarized deposition... |
| Federico Garcia Lorca | Duende | |
| Wallace Stevens | Proverbs | |
| Gary Snyder | from A Controversy of Poets | |
| 53 | W.S. Merwin, trans. | Asian Figures |
| 54 | Joab Cabral de Melo Neto | Weaving the Morning |
| Anonymous | Inuit Song | |
| Juan Ramon Jimenez (Bly) | I Am Not I | |
| Anonymous (Chippewa) | Sometimes I Go About Pitying Myself | |
| 55 | Charles Baudelaire (Kunitz) | To the Reader |
| 56 | Philip Levine | How Much Can It Hurt? |
| 56A | Robert Penn Warren | Loss, of Perhaps Love.... |
| D.H. Lawrence | There Are No Gods | |
| 56B, C | Anonymous | Riddles |
| 57 | Anonymous | Anglo-Saxon Riddles |
| 58 | Charles Simic | Watermelons |
| Charles Simic | The Spoon | |
| Charles Simic | Fork | |
| Charles Simic | Invention of the Knife | |
| Toshihiko Izutso | untitled | |
| 59.&60 | Anonymous (Caxlana, Amazon) | The Creation of the Moon |
| 59B | Frank O’Hara | A True Account of Talking to the Sun.... |
| Frank O’Hara | Autobiographia Literaria | |
| 60 | Anonymous (Cherokee) | The Killer |
| 61 | Anonymous (adapt. Meade) | Amergin and Cessair |
| 61B | Lisel Mueller | Night Song |
| 61C | Octavio Paz | Between What I See and What I Say.... |
| 62 | Anonymous (African) | A Poison Arrow |
| Rainier Maria Rilke | Third Duino Elegy | |
| 63-65. | Rainier Maria Rilke | Third Elegy (continued) |
| 66 | Rainier Maria Rilke | Third Elegy (conclusion) |
| Bruce Weigl | The Last Lie | |
| 67 | Pablo Neruda (trans. R. Bly) | Ode To My Socks |
| Stephen Spender | I Think Continually of Those | |
| 67B. | W.S. Merwin | Place |
| 68 | Pablo Neruda (Bly) | Ode To Salt |
| 69 | Pablo Neruda (Bly) | Ode to the Watermelon |
| 70 | Pablo Neruda (Bly) | Body of a Woman |
| Pablo Neruda (Bly) | The Art of Poetry | |
| 71 | Vasko Popa (Pennington) | Echo |
| Vasko Popa (Pennington) | A Wise Triangle | |
| Vasko Popa (Pennington) | The Yawn of Yawns | |
| Tadeusz Rozewicz | The Survivor | |
| 72 | Zbigniew Herbert | Biology Teacher |
| Zbigniew Herbert (Milosz) | Our Fear | |
| Cesar Vallejo (Bly) | The Black Riders | |
| 73 | Miroslav Holub (Theiner) | The Fly |
| Miroslav Holub (Milner) | Brief Thoughts On Floods | |
| Miroslav Holub ( Milner) | Brief Thoughts On Cracks | |
| 74 | James Wright | The Flying Eagles of Troop 62 |
| 74B. | Lyn Hejenian | from My Life |
| 75 | Rod McKuen | Thoughts on Capital Punishment |
| William Stafford | On the Writing of Poetry | |
| 76-77. | Ken Weisner | Memoire |
| 78 | Gary Snyder | True Night |
| Gary Snyder | Dusty Braces | |
| 78B. | Peter Blair | Furnace Greens |
| 79-80. | Handbook of Poetic Forms | Renga |
| 81 | Sara de Ibanez | Island in the Earth |
| Sara de Ibanez | Island in the Light | |
| 82 | Greg Keith | The Age of Light |
| Dana Gioia | California Hills in August | |
| 82A | Greg Keith | To: Shintaro Ishihara.... |
| Adrienne Rich | from Contradictions: Tracking Poems | |
| 83 | Jayne Relaford Brown | Emily Dickinson Attends... |
| 84 | Ken | Food for Thought (notes on poetry) |