1. Joan Larkin – “Jew in Paris”
2. Ed Roberson – “Face”
3. Joshua Harmon – “Landscape”
4. Anis Shivani – “Gentilly Precincts, Feliciana Parish, Circa 2005”
5. Nolan Chessman – “Inherent”
6. Christopher Burawa – “The Mind Flows a River that Murders Someone”
7. Marissa Spalding – “Sitting in the Belly of a Swan”
8. Chris Green – “New Year Moon Cakes”
9. Angela Mullenhour – “There Are Far Too Many Spaces (Night Driving)”
10. Eve Packer – “ice-share”
11. Margaret Brady – “Letters from Home”
12. Louise Thomas – “Untitled”
13. Erica Fielder – “Fond”
14. Shane McCrae – “Divorce Song”
15. Ian Harris – “Last of the Last”
16. Nance van Wickel – “The Room’s French Window Fluttered Open & Closed,”
17. Patty Seyburn – “Spanish for Dream”
18. Timothy Liu – “An Assignation”
19. Timothy Liu – “Who Puts Us Out to Pasture”
20. Kristy Bown – “letter to my art deco lover”
21. Tess Gallagher – “I Asked That a Prayer”
22. Tess Gallagher – “Eternal”
23. Tess Gallagher – “Eating with One Chopstick
24. Marlon Unas Esguerra – “Yellow Tag Sale”
25. Amanda Auchter – “Dead Letter Recovery”
26. Clay Matthews – “Late Eighties Elegy”
27. Marguerite L. Harrold – “Close to Her” *(1-27 from Columbia Poetry Review 19)
28. Stephen Dunn – “Slant”
29. Anna Evans – “Things I Believe in Become Harder to Remember”
30. Hayden Carruth – “I, I, I” (sent to me in a letter from BJ Ward)
31. Arlene Ang – “The Fictionalization of Nigel”
32. Quenting B. Huff – “Feminism and Fonda”
33. KL Monahan – “After Black Forest Cake, an Abortion and a Cup of Coffee”
34. Emily Kruse – “the crawl of a husbands issue”
35. Maurice Oliver – “Two Versions (in the fourth person)”
36. Anna Evans – “Cheek” *(31-36 from Wicked Alice)
37. Peg Lauber – “Six National Guardsmen Blown Up Together”
38. Maxine Kumin – “After Love”
39. Ron Padgett – “Hug”
40. Paul Bussan – “Who Was That Man?”
41. Percy Bysshe Shelley – “To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling”
42. April Linder – “Learning to Float”
43. Jeffrey Harrison – “Green Canoe” *(37-43 from the Writer’s Almanac)
44. Jason Lee Brown – “Daily Routines” (I can’t quite remember why I included this under poetry)
45. Kayoko Wakamatsu – “Floodland “
46. Kayoko Wakamatsu – “Puck”
47. Jeannette Allee – “Dinette “
48. Jeannette Allee – “Hillbillions” *(45-48 from the Iowa Review 2006: 35.3)
49. Jane Hirshfield – “The Envoy” (from her book Given Sugar, Given Salt)
50. Joan Larkin – “Goodbye”
51. Joan Larkin – “In the Duchess”
52. Joan Larkin – “Inventory”
53. Joan Larkin – “Sonnet Positive”
54. Joan Larkin – “Afterlife”
55. Joan Larkin – “Want” *(50-55 from various websites)
56. Jane Hirshfield – “Mathematics”
57. Jane Hirshfield – “Red Berries” *(56-57 from Given Sugar, Given Salt)
58. Michael Blumenthal – “Days We Would Rather Know”
59. Amy Sargent – “On Having a Choice”
60. Alicia Rabins – “Poem for an Ex-Boyfriend”
61. Alicia Rabins – “Christine” *(59-61 from Apple Valley Review 2006: 1.2)
62. Geoffrey Nutter – “The Poets Who Will All Go To Sleep”
63. Stefania Heim – “Necessary Parentheses”
64. Jill Osier – “Fuel” *(62-64 from The Literary Review 2006: 49.2)
65. Lauren K. Alleyne – “Ash Wednesday”
66. Lauren K. Alleyne – “Fear and Trembling”
67. Lauren K. Alleyne – “Veneration”
68. Maureen Alsop – “Apparition Wren”
69. Maureen Alsop – “Dovecote Ephemera” *(65-69 from 2River View 2006: 10.4)
70. Anne Stevenson – “The Engima”
71. Anne Stevenson – “Orcop”
72. Anne Stevenson – “Stone Milk”
73. D.A. Powell – “meditating on the meaning of the line ‘clams on the halfshell and rollerskates’ in the song ‘good times’ by chic”
74. D.A. Powell – “corydon & alexis”
75. D.A. Powell – “corydon & alexis redux” *(70-75 from Poetry Sept 2006: 188.5)
76. Karen Neuberg – “Praxis”
77. Karen Neuberg – “Story” *(76-77 from Toasted Cheese 6.3)
78. Tony Hoagland – “Lucky”
79. Tony Hoagland – “Jet”
80. Tony Hoagland – “Grammar”
81. Sherill Alesiak – “Arizona to Nevada: Crossing the Line”
82. Sherill Alesiak – “Hanging Clothes”
83. Jill Bergkamp – “Rebekah’s Blessing”
84. Jill Bergkamp – “Lot’s Daughters”
85. Timothy Bradford – “Ghazal”
86. Timothy Bradford – “Zoology”
87. Wendy Taylor Carlisle – “Rare and Commonplace Flowers”
88. Wendy Taylor Carlisle – “Stillness” (*81-88 from 2 River View 11.1)
89. Caroline Bergvall – “Ride”
90. Jules Boykoff – “Attention, Attention: This is a Customer Announcement”
91. Jackie Clark – “Appropriating Reference”
92. Paul Gibbons – “On Changing This Title…”
93. Corey Mesler – “Writing Myself” (from CrossConnect 24)
94. Doug Stone – “Death By Cat Haiku”
95. Doug Stone – “Waiting Haiku”
96. Doug Stone – “Who the Hell?! Haiku”
97. Doug Stone – “blood chant”
98. Doug Stone – “she knows”
99. Bob Bradshaw – “Nude Model”
100. Bob Bradshaw – “Wolf Man”
101. Bob Bradshaw – “Entering Manhood”
102. Carl Palmer – “Left Unsaid”
103. Carl Palmer – “Cordially Yours”
104. Michael Meyehoff – “What I Should Have Said”
105. Michael Meyehoff – “First Poem of the Day”
106. Michael Meyehoff – “In Defense of Poetry”
107. Michael Meyehoff – “A Good Deal” (from Verse Libre Quarterly Spring 2006)
108. Rhonda Broatch – “Three Before the Fall”
109. Barry Silesky – “Eruption”
110. Barry Silesky – “The Cup” (from DMQ Review Fall 2006)
111. Rudyard Kipling – “If”
Thank you for having a couple of my poems in your 2006 list. I was told by a friend that googled “carl palmer, poetry”.
After reading your profile, seeing your love for kittens…
Calico Sentinel
the seedless dandelion tuft
arriving on nonexistent breeze
settles softly upon fluffy feline tail
observed by the one male kitten
in the family of four
who quickly pounces upon his prey
immediately swatted sideways
he dives for obscure safety
among his litter sisters
stares out menacingly
at the unruffled tuft
still smugly riding mother’s tail
weighing the consequence
of another of mother’s slaps
for his certain repeat attack
Maybe you might add this one to your list, too.
Thank you for having a couple of my poems in your 2006 list. I was told by a friend that googled “carl palmer, poetry”.
After reading your profile, seeing your love for kittens…
Calico Sentinel
the seedless dandelion tuft
arriving on nonexistent breeze
settles softly upon fluffy feline tail
observed by the one male kitten
in the family of four
who quickly pounces upon his prey
immediately swatted sideways
he dives for obscure safety
among his litter sisters
stares out menacingly
at the unruffled tuft
still smugly riding mother’s tail
weighing the consequence
of another of mother’s slaps
for his certain repeat attack
Maybe you might add this one to your list, too.
I'm honored to be in your list.
Cheers,
Ronda Broatch