Alabama poets : a contemporary anthology / edited by Ralph Hammond.

Night Animal / John Allison
Gardening / John Allison
Breathing / John Allison
Weep That Wisdom Comes Too Late / Inez Andersen
What Time Is It, God? / Inez Andersen
"... Go Gentle Into That Good Night" / Inez Andersen
Poems Like This / Gerald Barrax
All My Live Ones / Gerald Barrax
Eagle. Tiger. Whale / Gerald Barrax
Homage to a Subversive / John Beecher
Jefferson Davis Inaugural / John Beecher
If I Forget Thee, O Birmingham! / John Beecher
Undesirables / John Beecher
Our Friend, the Photographer of Our Wedding / John Bensko
The Craft of the Lame / John Bensko
The True Story / John Bensko
Reunion / Richard G. Beyer
The Silent Harbor / Richard G. Beyer
Below Freezing / Margaret Key Biggs
Three Words in Green / Margaret Key Biggs
Summer, That Massive Blue / Steven Ford Brown
Things Are Being Built / Steven Ford Brown
from Love Embrace of the the World: Frida Kahlo Triptych: The Accident (September 17, 1925) / Steven Ford Brown
Estate Sale / Lynne Butler
A Story / Lynne Butler
Hearts and Flowers / Lynne Butler
Moving North from A Gynecology / Ann Deagon
from A Gynecology: There Is No Balm in Birmingham / Ann Deagon
from A Gynecology: Customs of the Esquimaux Women / Ann Deagon
How She Runs / Ann Deagon
The Off Season / Ann Deagon
Drifters / Dwight Eddins
The Pilgrimage / Dwight Eddins
Appalachian Sabbath / Dwight Eddins
Westward / Dwight Eddins
Oxford / Dwight Eddins
I, Joan, to Charles VII / William Young Elliott
Van Gogh: "Starry Night" / Maurice Gandy
Going Home / Anne George
Picking Tomatoes on Sand Mountain / Anne George
Aunt Nettie at the Well / Anne George
The Bass Fisherman / Charles Ghigna
Divers / Charles Ghigna
When Howard Became Jesus / Charles Ghigna
Best Man / Charles Ghigna
At Jo's Funeral / Robert Gibbons
Evening and May / Robert Gibbons
Earl / Andrew Glaze
Dog Dancing / Andrew Glaze
Nijinsky / Andrew Glaze
Timehorse / Andrew Glaze
Dear Mother: A Letter / Theodore Haddin
October Light / Theodore Haddin
Appearance and Reality / Theodore Haddin
Dandelion / Theodore Haddin
Clearing for Road / Theodore Haddin
Hearts Broken by Language / Ralph Hammond
Along the Curling Creek / Ralph Hammond
The Death of Rain / Ralph Hammond
Weeping in the Wind / Ralph Hammond
Reminiscence / Sara Henderson Hay
Fairy Godmother / Sara Henderson Hay
The Formula / Sara Henderson Hay
Wind-borne / Blair Hobbs
A Lesson in Fortitude / Blair Hobbs
Saints and Strangers / Andrew Hudgins
Julia Tutwiler State Prison for Women / Andrew Hudgins
Loose Change / Andrew Hudgins
Consider / Andrew Hudgins
Magnolias / Andrew Hudgins
Dirt / Rodney Jones
The First Birth / Rodney Jones
Meditation on Birney Mountain / Rodney Jones
Remembering Fire / Rodney Jones
Outside the Shadows / Marjorie Lees Linn
Threads from Silence / Marjorie Lees Linn
Nocturne for Autumn / Rick Lott
Lucy Audubon Speaks to the Night / Rick Lott
The Gardener / Rick Lott
The Man Who Loved Distance / Rick Lott
Two Views of Howard's Chapel / Susan Luther
Intermezzo / John McMoy III
Tableau: 1968 / John McMoy III
Leaving Home / James Mersmann
The Gift / James Mersmann
Singing of Black / James Mersmann
Shiloh Cemetery / William Miller
Old Faith / William Miller
Haynie's Well / William Miller
Could Such a Giant Live Here? / Carl P. Morton
Our Lady of Compassion / Carl P. Morton
Portrait of Mother and Sorrowing Child / Helen Norris
Window / Helen Norris
Summerscape / Helen Norris
Do Beasts Hear Music ... / Helen Norris
Alabama Is a State of Mind / Alan Perlis
Showing Off / Alan Perlis
Scattered Stones / Morton D. Prouty, Jr.
When April Turned Her Left Cheek Toward the North / Morton D. Prouty, Jr.
Staying on Alone / Thomas Rabbitt
The Monday Before Thanksgiving / Thomas Rabbitt
For Those Who Will Live Forever / Thomas Rabbitt
Tortoise / Thomas Rabbitt
September 1, 1983 / Thomas Rabbitt
The Way In / Margaret Renkl
In Grace / Margaret Renkl
The Swarming / Margaret Renkl
Mother Taught Me I Was Beautiful / Bonnie Roberts
How Aliens Survive on This Planet / Bonnie Roberts
Take Me Down That Row One More Time, Green-Eyed Boy / Bonnie Roberts
Haiku Sequence / Charles B. Rodning
Prayer / Dennis Sampson
Sadness, That's the Word / Dennis Sampson
The Secret Tree / Dennis Sampson
The Turtle / Dennis Sampson
From a Black Feminist Conference Reflections on Margaret Walker: Poet / Sonia Sanchez
words / Sonia Sanchez
On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa / Sonia Sanchez
under a soprano sky / Sonia Sanchez
A Poem for Jesse / Sonia Sanchez
Haiku / Sonia Sanchez
The Waiting Room / Sue Scalf
Absolution / Sue Scalf
Autobiography from Down the Hall / Charles Scott
My Brother's Maze / Charles Scott
Mushrooms / Charles Scott
Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama / Jim Simmerman
Almost Dancing / Jim Simmerman
Fetch / Jim Simmerman
To You in Particular / Jim Simmerman
Black Angel / Jim Simmerman
The Light of the World / Louie Skipper
"I Shall Pretend to Be Sleeping" / Vivian Smallwood
And Finding No Mouse There / Vivian Smallwood
Adam at the Gates / Vivian Smallwood
North of Spruce Pine / R. T. Smith
Retreat / R. T. Smith
Carnival Wheels / R. T. Smith
Harpwing / R. T. Smith
Jubilee / R. T. Smith
River of Earth / James Still
Spring / James Still
Wolfpen Creek / James Still
Year of the Pigeons / James Still
Heritage / James Still
Varieties of Religious Experience / Patricia Storace
Translations from the American / Patricia Storace
Song of Salt and Pepper / Patricia Storace
The Public Library Stairs / Patricia Storace
First Love / Patricia Storace
Mortal Taste / Julie Suk
Growing Into Hard Times / Julie Suk
Waiting for the Story-Teller / Julie Suk
Waking the Stars / Julie Suk
How to Enter the River / Jeanie Thompson
At the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge / Jeanie Thompson
Second Hand Dealer / Sue Walker
Beneath the Appearance of Green: Van Gogh, Saint Remy, and Beyond / Sue Walker
Inside McCullers's Sad Cafe / Sue Walker
The Socrates Monkey Seen Dancing in Midair, Midst Sun, Moon, Stars, and Field Flowers / Eugene Walter
Felix / Eugene Walter
My Brothers Make a Lantern / Scott Ward
Hunting in Twilight / Scott Ward
The Gull / Scott Ward
Armor / John Warwick
The Crab / John Warwick
For My Father, Who Never Thundered / John Warwick
Awakening in the Language of Pelicans / Richard Weaver
Flight of the Hummingbird / Richard Weaver
Horn Island / Richard Weaver
the sea and a woman's hands / A. J. Wright
a pier of ghosts / A. J. Wright
air born over mars hill / A. J. Wright
the final train to america / A. J. Wright.