What will suffice : contemporary American poets on the art of poetry / edited by Christopher Buckley and Christopher Merrill.

Ghazal / Agha Shahid Ali
Ars poetica / Tom Andrews
What is poetry? / John Ashbery
Dreaming at the Rexall Drug / Robin Becker
Book of the dead man (#10) / Marvin Bell
Hairdresser / Molly Bendall
Gaiety of form / Robert Bly
Against the muse / Michelle Boisseau
See Spot run / Earl S. Braggs
Ars poetica / Christopher Buckley
Big money / Ralph Burns
Impossible indispensability of the ars poetica / Hayden Carruth
here yet be dragons / Lucille Clifton
Letter from my mother in Spanish / Judith Ortiz Cofer
River / Mark Cox
Westering / Mary Crow
In the gardens of fabulous desire / Robert Dana
Ars poetica / Kate Daniels
Fish tank / Glover Davis
Redwing blackbirds / Fred Dings
Ars poetica / Rita Dove
Of politics, & art / Norman Dubie
How it is / Peter Everwine
Music for death / Carol Frost
Art class / James Galvin
Credo / Brewster Ghiselin
Subjectivity / Jorie Graham
Life of literature / Linda Gregg
Ox cart man / Donald Hall
Descendent / Judith Hall
Arse poetica / Sam Hamill
Osprey / C.G. Hanzlicek
Spring drawing 2 / Robert Hass
Secreto de mis brazos ; Secret of my arms / Juan Filipe Herrera
Chain of species / Emily Hiestand
Little furnace / Brenda Hillman
Sortes virgilianae / Edward Hirsch
Justice without passion / Jane Hirshfield
Stay with me / Garrett Hongo
House on 15th S.W. / Richard Hugo
Cubism, Barcelona / Lynda Hull
Ohio abstract : Hart Crane / T.R. Hummer
On language / Mark Irwin
For a long time I have wanted to write a happy poem / Richard Jackson
Potato planting / Jean Janzen
What only poetry can do / Mark Jarman
Faith / Judy Jensen
Bridge / Rodney Jones
Ars poetica / Claudia Keelan
Safe subjects / Yusef Komunyakaa
Ars poetica : a found poem / Maxine Kumin
Poem / Ann Lauterbach
Accident / Sydney Lea
Ars poetica / Carol Lem
Simple truth / Philip Levine
Poem you asked for / Larry Levis
Poesia / Victor Martinez
Sad stories told in bars : the "Reader's digest" version / William Matthews
Tapestries / Colleen J. McElroy
Ars poetica : or: who lives in the ivory tower / Thomas McGrath
What he thought / Heather McHugh
Toward Eve / Lynne McMahon
Two men trading dance movements at Tabby's Blues Box and Heritage Hall, Baton Rouge / Sandra McPherson
Air / W.S. Merwin
To the muse / Carol Muske
Pulling in the nets / Chad Oness
Stan Laurel tutors a would be comedian / Walter Pavlich
Roots of pessimism in model rocketry, the fallacy of its premise / Lucia Maria Perillo
Consenting / Donald Revell
Teodoro Luna's two kisses / Alberto Rios
And continuing / David Rivard
Shoveling white the snow keeps falling / Len Roberts
And language can't find me / Margarita Luna Robles
Reaching the audience / Pattiann Rogers
On not being able to write / Marieve Rugo
To enter that rhythm where the self is lost / Muriel Rujeyser
For a blow up doll found in a canal / Dixie Salazar
Unconscious / Dennis Saleh
Sometimes mysteriously / Luis Omar Salinas
Abandoned railway station / Sherod Santos
Because the eye is a flower whose root is the hand / Dennis Schmitz
Lip's lounge / Peter Sears
Nature, one might say / Eve Shelnutt
Problems with the story / Naomi Shihab Nye
Prodigy / Charles Simic
Ars poetica / Maura Simon
Braly Street / Gary Soto
Diving for Atlantis / Roberta Spear
Woman on the dump / Elizabeth Spires
Old writer's welcome to the new / William Stafford
Another insane devotion / Gerald Stern
Gin / David St. John
Word silence / Chase Twichell
Stickball till dawn / Jon Veinberg
Ars poetica / Ann Vnucak
Song and story / Ellen Bryant Voigt
With words / Diane Wakoski
Impossible / Bruce Weigl
Human form / David Wojahn
Ars poetica / Charles Wright
Ars poetica : some recent criticism / James Wright
Poetry / Robert Wrigley
Seven days : an ars poetica / Gary Young.