Introduction -- America -- On The Road: -- In a train / Robert Bly -- Locomotion / Philip Bryant -- Small towns are passing / Wesley McNair -- From a bus window in Central Ohio, just before a thunder shower / James Wright -- On the road, between Toledo & Cincinnati, late June / Sebastian Matthews -- Over Ohio / Michael Blumenthal -- Sacred / Stephen Dunn -- Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River / Robert Bly -- Campbellsburg / Reid Bush -- Homesteader / John Haag -- Moment / CG Hanzlicek -- Flying lesson / Julia Kasdorf -- Toward the Verrazano / Stephen Dunn -- Night journey / Theodore Roethke -- Folsom Prison blues / Johnny Cash -- Bums at breakfast / David Wagoner -- Cottonwoods / Phebe Hanson -- Driving through the Poconos, Route 80, 1:30 am, snow / William Matthews -- Driving at night / Sheila Packa -- Top down / Fred Weil Jr -- Fifteen / William Stafford -- Hard river / James Finnegan -- Driving west in 1970 / Robert Bly -- Mambo Cadillac / Barbara Hamby -- Warm Summer: -- On the back porch / Dorianne Laux -- Summer kitchen / Donald Hall -- Warm summer in San Francisco / Carolyn Miller -- Reverence / Julie Cadwallader-Staub -- Produce / Debra Allbery -- Insider's view of the garden / Maxine Kumin -- Tahoe in August / Robert Hass -- Summer in a small town / Linda Gregg -- Church of the backyard / Chris Forhan -- Girl Scout picnic, 1954 / June Beisch -- City of Tonawanda softball championship / Sarah Freligh -- Baseball / John Updike -- Ordinary / Kirsten Dierking -- Last things I'll remember / Joyce Sutphen -- Strange new cottage in Berkeley / Allen Ginsberg -- So this is Nebraska / Ted Kooser -- Place Where We Were Naked: -- Gradualism / Kenneth Rexroth -- Belle Isle, 1949 / Philip Levine -- Skinny-dipping after work at the drive-in / Debra Nystrom -- Jubilee / Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- Tennis ball / Donald Hall -- Manhattan / Edward Denham -- Last Gods / Galway Kinnell -- Breaking silence-for my son / Patricia Fargnoli -- Late / Jim Harrison -- City Life: -- New York notes / Harvey Shapiro -- Mannahatta / Walt Whitman -- New York / Edward Field -- Staying at Ed's place / May Swenson -- My daughters in New York / James Reiss -- At the Algonquin / Howard Moss -- Last Bohemians / Edward Field -- At the museum of modern art / May Swenson -- Bridal shower / George Bilgere -- What the dark-eyed angel knows / Eleanor Lerman -- Riding the "A" / May Swenson -- Goodbye, New York / Deborah Garrison -- For Bartleby / Malena Morling -- Moondog / Susan Donnelly -- Home by now / Meg Kearney -- Black umbrellas / Rick Agran -- New lifestyle / James Tate -- Motor City tirade / Dawn McDuffie -- Beale Street blues / WC Handy -- Motown, arsenal of democracy / Marge Piercy -- Fishing on the Susquehanna in July / Billy Collins -- Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1939 / Charles Bukowski -- L A / Terry Stevenson -- Interiors / Stephen Dunn -- Reading, PA / John Updike -- Elm City / Reed Whittemore -- Profile of the night heron / Annie Pierson Wiese -- Retired ballerinas, Central Park West / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Old neighbors / Katha Pollitt -- 2 X 2 X 2: -- Once I pass'd through a populous city / Walt Whitman -- Gate C22 / Ellen Bass -- Escape from Paradise, Iowa / Kathryn Kysar -- Every day, the pregnant teenagers / Cortney Davis -- Girl in Milwaukee and a girl in Brooklyn / Matt Cook -- Day I made my father proud / Michael Moran -- Spring rain / Kenneth Rexroth -- Sleeping next to the man on the plane / Ellen Bass -- Starfish / Eleanor Lerman -- Summer night, riverside / Sara Teasdale -- Wedding vow / Sharon Olds -- John Green takes his Warner, New Hampshire, neighbor to a Red Sox game / Maxine Kumin -- Mount Kearsarge shines / Donald Hall -- Arc / Amy M Clark -- Why I have a crush on you, UPS man / Alice N Persons -- My love for all things warm and breathing / William Kloefkorn -- San Antonio / Naomi Shihab Nye -- They sit together on the porch / Wendell Berry -- As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods / Walt Whitman -- Only years / Kenneth Rexroth -- Comforting Immensity: -- Light by the barn / William Stafford -- One home / William Stafford -- To make a prairie / Emily Dickinson -- Silence in North Dakota / Bill Holm -- At the un-national monument along the Canadian border / William Stafford -- Farmhouses, Iowa / Baron Wormser -- Dishwater / Ted Kooser -- Some directions for the December touring of West-Central Nebraska / William Kloefkorn -- Tornado weather / Vincent Wixon -- Wife explains why she likes country / Barbara Ras -- Small excursion / Mona Van Duyn -- Midwest / Stephen Dunn -- In Texas / May Sarton -- Squatting / Robert Morgan -- Farley, Iowa / Christopher Wiseman -- From here to there / Brad Leithauser -- Crossing Kansas by train / Donald Justice -- Crossing Central Illinois / Alvin Greenberg -- Island cities / John Updike -- Home town / William Stafford -- Highway hypothesis / Maxine Kumin -- Flying at night / Ted Kooser -- Sort Of Rapture: -- Above Pate Valley / Gary Snyder -- V / Wendell Berry -- Word (The) / Maxine Kumin -- Evening is tranquil, and dawn is a thousand miles away / Charles Wright -- Riding out at evening / Linda McCarriston -- Winter: tonight: sunset / David Budbill -- In the bus / Grace Paley -- Critic / CK Williams -- Late Spring / Jim Harrison -- Things I know, things I don't / David Huddle -- VCCA fellows visit the Holiness Baptist Church, Amherst, Virginia / Barbara Crooker -- Resort, part IX / Patricia Hampl -- Game (The) / Marie Howe -- Burning the ditches / Jim Harrison -- For all / Gary Snyder -- Thoreau and the toads / David Wagoner -- Bridge (The) / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Autumn waiting / Tom Hennen -- This morning / Raymond Carver --
20 / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Eddie Priest's barbershop & notary / Kevin Young
Un Bel Di / Gerald Locklin
Beans and franks / Donald Hall
At the town dump / Jane Kenyon
I ride Greyhound / Ellie Schoenfeld
Coffee cup cafe / Linda M Hasselstrom
Ineffable (The) / George Bilgere
People who eat in coffee shops / Edward Field
Ode to hardware stores / Barbara Hamby
I heard you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ / Walt Whitman
On the day of Jayne Mansfield's death / Nancy Vieira Couto
To Mecca with love / James Tracy
Minor league rainout, Iowa / Mark J Mitchell
Court of the two sisters / Phillip Lopate
I went into the Maverick Bar / Gary Snyder
American triptych / Jane Kenyon
Bright sun after heavy snow / Jane Kenyon
Snowbound city (The) / John Haines
Snow, aldo / Kate DiCamillo
Winter afternoon / Grace Paley
Outside of Richmond, Virginia, Sunday / Deborah Slicer
Snowstorm (The) / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pair of barn owls, hunting (A) / David Wagoner
When I first saw snow / Gregory Djanikian
I want to say / Natalie Goldberg
Upon discovering my entire solution / Dobby Gibson
Snow-flakes / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Where I live / Maxine Kumin
Unfortunate location / Louis Jenkins
Sunday dinner / Dan Masterson
Eight-doing the dishes / Jeanne Lohmann
Porches II / Virginia Hamilton Adair
Fat of the land / Ronald Wallace
Plastic beatitude / Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Brothers and sisters / Jim Harrison
227 Waverly Place / WS Merwin
To his piano / Howard Nemerov
Letter home / Ellen Steinbaum
Crickets in the dark / Tom Hennen
25th high school reunion / Linda Pastan
Zen of mucking out / Maxine Kumin
Notes from the delivery room / Linda Pastan
Complaint / William Carlos Williams
Big wind / Theodore Roethke
People who take care / Nancy Henry
Only what I can do / Julene Tripp Weaver
Wild geese / Charles Goodrich
One for my dame / Anne Sexton
Driving nails / Gary L Lark
Men throwing bricks / Michael Chitwood
Small pleasures / Greg Pape
Feeding time / Maxine Kumin
Butchering the crippled heifer / Linda M Hasselstrom
Meat / August Kleinzahler
Bad old days (The) / Kenneth Rexroth
Home on the range (A) / Anonymous
Accountability / William Stafford
Missoula in a dusty light / John Haines
Bronco busting, event #1 / May Swenson
Saturday matinee (The) / Jon Bowerman
Morning news in the Bighorn Mountains / William Notter
Piano dreams / Marcia F Brown
In Chandler country / Dana Gioia
Studs Terkel / Gary Johnson
Live at the Village Vanguard / Sebastian Matthews
Minor Seventh / Jeffrey Bean
My father laughing in the Chicago theater / David Wagoner
Ballet blanc / Katha Pollitt
Skokie theatre (The) / Edward Hirsch
Junior high school band concert (The) / David Wagoner
Dance suite: hip hop / WD Snodgrass
Movie-going / John Hollander
This night only / Kenneth Rexroth
Cape Cod / George Santayana
San Francisco remembered / Philip Schultz
Place for no story (The) / Robinson Jeffers
Large starfish (The) / Robert Bly
Looking west from Laguna Beach at night / Charles Wright
By the Pacific / Jessica Joyce
Long Island sound / Emma Lazarus
Carmel point / Robinson Jeffers
Florida beach (The) / Constance Fenimore Woolson
Never Expected To Be There:
Driving with Uncle Bailey / David Lee Garrison
Execution / Edward Hirsch
Meadowbrook Nursing Home / Alice N Persons
Spring and all 1923 / William Carlos Williams
At Summerford's Nursing Home / Rodney Jones
His stillness / Sharon Olds
Still life in landscape / Sharon Olds
Slave auction (The) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
There's been a death, in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson
Hookers, the madmen and the doomed (The) / Charles Bukowski
Edward C Peterson tree (The) / Charlie Langdon
Safe in their alabaster chambers / Emily Dickinson
Grandma's grave / Freya Manfred
It was a normal day except I fell / Julie Sheehan
Sweet Annie Divine / Corey Mesler
Dedication for a plot of ground / William Carlos Williams
On the road to Woodlawn / Theodore Roethke
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