1. HERBERT LEIBOWITZ - Babe Ruth Syndrome
2. THOM GUNN - The Lesson of The Spoils (Basil Bunting)
3. EVELYN REILLY - Afloat (John Ashbery)
4. ALICE FULTON - My Last TV Campaign (poem)
5. MARIANNE BORUCH - Plath's Bees (essay)
6. DAVID BARBER - The Masked Muse (Deborah Larsen, Brendan Galvin, Pamela Alexander, Andrew Hudgins)
7. JORIE GRAHAM - Materialism (poem)
8. WILLIAM HARMON - Kitty Hawk to Cape Hatteras (Hart Crane)
9. JOHN TRANTER - Ariadne On Lesbos (poem)
10. THOMAS M. DISCH - Onegin's Children: Poems in the Form of a Novel (David Budbill, Mark Jarman, Charlotte Mandel, Les Murray, Frederick Pollack)
11. MARJORIE PERLOFF - How Russian Is It (Lyn Hejinian)
12. HAYDEN CARRUTH - Narrative Anyone? (Vincent Ferrini, Leo Connellan)
13. BEN DOWNING - Big City, Long Poem (Vikram Seth, Brenda Marie Osbey, Frank Menchaca)
14. ALBERT GOLDBARTH - Discards (poem)
15. SUZANNE GARDINIER - The Door to the Street (Pablo Neruda)
16. CATHARINE R. STIMPSON - Demeter in South America (Sharon Doubiago)
17. TURNER CASSITY - Down There with E.A.R.: Amaranth (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
18. PETER VIERECK - Anti-Form or Neo: A Curse on Both Houses (essay) Continuities & Countercontinuities (poem)
19. MICHAEL COLLINS - On the Track of the Universal: Middle Passage and America (Robert Hayden)
20. SVEN BIRKERTS - Making Blind Birds Sing (Derek Walcott)
21. RUTH L. SCHWARTZ - History (poem)
22. MARY B. CAMPBELL - Disaster, or The Scream of Juno's Peacock (Peter Michelson, David Matlin, Peter Dale Scott)
23. MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE - Mizu (poem)
24. WILLARD SPIEGELMAN - Poem As Quest (Peyton Houston, John Matthias, Frank Bidart)
25. RACHELE HADAS - The World, The Flesh, and Something Diverting to Read (Daryl Hine)
26. DAVID YEZZI - Short Takes, Long Poems (Richard Emil Braun, Robert Peters)
27. WILLIAM LOGAN - Keats in India (poem)

Also includes poems by DAVID GORDON, STEVE MCCAFFERY, JAMES MCMANUS, PAUL WEST and RONALD JOHNSON