Claribel AlegrÃa. Documentary --
The American Way of Life --
Debra Allbery. Produce --
Maggie Anderson. Country Wisdoms --
The Invention of Pittsburgh --
Spitting in the Leaves --
Robin Becker. My Father's Heart --
In Pompano Beach, Florida --
The Story I Like to Tell --
Siv Cedering. Grandmother --
Almagest, Last Letter to Zakarias --
Lorna Dee Cervantes. Emplumada --
Meeting Mescalito at Oak Hill Cemetery --
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway --
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races --
Nancy Vieira Couto. Living in the La Brea Tar Pits --
You Have Shown Me a Strange Image, and We Are Strange Prisoners --
Kate Daniels. Ethiopia --
Toi Derricotte. Blackbottom --
Boy at the Paterson Falls --
Sharon Doubiago. Excerpt from South America Mi Hija --
Someone waiting for me among the violins --
Demeter and Persephone --
Love, love, do not come near the border --
Bastille Day on 25th St --
Jane Flanders. The House That Fear Built: Warsaw, 1943 --
Other Lives of the Romantics --
Gary Gildner. First Practice --
They Have Turned the Church Where I Ate God --
The High-Class Bananas --
Elton Glaser. Cheap Replicas of the Eiffel Tower --
Blues for the Night Owl --
Confluences at San Francisco --
David Huddle. Town History, 1917 --
Holes Commence Falling --
My Daddy, Whenever He Went Some Place --
Delivering the Times, 1952-1955 --
In the Age of Postcapitalism --
Julia Kasdorf. Vesta's Father --
When Our Women Go Crazy --
Dying with Amish Uncles --
What I Learned from My Mother --
Etheridge Knight. Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane --
The Warden Said to Me the Other Day --
Welcome Back, Mr. Knight: Love of My Life --
Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine --
Rehabilitation & Treatment in the Prisons of America --
Bill Knott. Ant Dodger --
Two Vietnam Poems: 1966 --
Ted Kooser. Flying at Night --
Self-Portrait at Thirty-Nine --
At the End of the Weekend --
How to Make Rhubarb Wine --
Larry Levis. The Widening Spell of the Leaves --
The Poem You Asked For --
Irene McKinney. Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report --
Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia --
Peter Meinke. "This is a poem to my son Peter" --
The Death of the Pilot Whales --
The Poet, Trying to Surprise God --
Sonnet on the Death of the Man Who Invented Plastic Roses --
Carol Muske. The Wish Foundation --
August, Los Angeles, Lullaby --
Leonard Nathan. Body Count --
Sharon Olds. Satan Says --
Indictment of Senior Officers --
The Sisters of Sexual Treasure --
The Language of the Brag --
Seventh Birthday of the First Child --
The Unjustly Punished Child --
Alicia Suskin Ostriker. In the Twenty-Fifth Year of Marriage, It Goes On --
I Brood About Some Concepts, for Example --
A Meditation in Seven Days --
Greg Pape. Indian Ruins Along Rio de Flag --
The Minotaur Next Door --
Dinner on the Miami River --
In Line at the Supermarket --
Kathleen Peirce. Near Burning --
The Alcoholic's Son at Ten --
Need Increasing Itself by Rounds --
David Rivard. How It Will Always Seem --
Liz Rosenberg. A Suburban Childhood --
The Longing for Eternal Life --
Maxine Scates. Angel's Flight --
Going to Mass After Fifteen Years --
Richard Shelton. Job the Father --
Letter to a Dead Father --
Betsy Sholl. Thinking of You, Hiroshima --
The Distinct Call of the Alligator --
Peggy Shumaker. The Waitress's Kid --
Bush Navigator: The Last Morning of Hands --
The Inupiat Christmas Pageant --
Jeffrey Skinner. For Stuart Porter, Who Asked for a Poem That Would Not Depress Him Further --
Late Afternoon, Late in the Twentieth Century --
Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear --
The Starling Migration --
Gary Soto. Telephoning God --
The Morning They Shot Tony Lopez, Barber and Pusher Who Went Too Far, 1958 --
The Elements of San Joaquin --
Leslie Ullman. Running --
Dreams by No One's Daughter --
Living Near the Plaza of Thieves --
Constance Urdang. Old Wives' Tales --
The Muse Is Always the Other Woman --
Back Far Enough, Down Deep Enough --
Returning to the Port of Authority: A Picaresque --
Ronald Wallace. The Facts of Life --
The Makings of Happiness --
Nightline: An Interview with the General --
Belle Waring. Reprieve on the Stoop --
When a Beautiful Woman Gets on the Jutiapa Bus --
Refuge at the One Step Down --
Our Lady of the Laundromat --
Michael S. Weaver. The Missing Patriarch --
My Father's First Baseball Game --
The Message on Cape Cod --
Robley Wilson. The Mechanical Cow --
Say Girls in Shoe Ads: "I go for a man who's tall!" --
The Rejoicing That Attends the Murder of Famous Men --
The Military-Industrial Complex --
David Wojahn. "Satin Doll" --
Excerpts from "Mystery Train: A Sequence" --
Homage: Light from the Hall --
Buddy Holly Watching Rebel Without a Cause, Lubbock, Texas, 1956 --
Matins: James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the South, 1958 --
Custom Job: Hank Williams, Jr., and the Death Car, 1958 --
Tattoo, Corazon: Ritchie Valens, 1959 --
Fab Four Tour Deutschland: Hamburg, 1961 --
Woody Guthrie Visited by Bob Dylan: Brooklyn State Hospital, New York, 1961 --
The Trashmen Shaking Hands with Hubert Humphrey at the Opening of Apache Plaza Shopping Center, Suburban Minneapolis, August 1963 --
"Mystery Train": Janis Joplin Leaves Port Arthur for Points West, 1964 --
At Graceland with a Six Year Old, 1985 --
Colorizing: Turner Broadcasting Enterprises, Computer Graphics Division, Burbank, California, 1987 --
The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987 --
Paul Zimmer. Zimmer in Grade School --
Zimmer's Head Thudding Against the Blackboard --
The Day Zimmer Lost Religion --
Zimmer Drunk and Alone, Dreaming of Old Football Games --
The Duke Ellington Dream --
Zimmer Imagines Heaven --
Chronological Series List 1968-1992 --
Complete Series List 1968-1992 --
Pitt Poetry Series Sponsored Awards and Prizes.