Sweeping beauty : contemporary women poets do housework / edited by Pamela Gemin.

"The female seer will burn upon this pyre" / Elizabeth Alexander
How I learned to sweep / Julia Alvarez
Down on my knees ; The hurricane sisters work regardless / Ginger Andrews
Romantic / Margaret Atwood
Kitchens: 1959 ; Poetry despises your attempts at domesticity / Julianna Baggott
In waking words ; The prodigal daughter / Dorothy Barresi
Modern love ; Pittsburgh poem / Jan Beatty
Dictionary for the new century ; What they did by lamplight / Kimberly Blaeser
Sewing / Marianne Boruch
Cooking catalogue / Jill Breckenridge
Desert flowers ; Part of a larger country / Jeanne Bryner
Five-year plan / Victoria Chang
The floral apron / Marilyn Chin
A man in my bed like cracker crumbs / Sandra Cisneros
quilting / Lucille Clifton
Mother, a young wife learns to sew ; New house / Geraldine Connolly
Grating parmesan / Barbara Crooker
Broom / Deborah Digges
The size of a bed sheet / Amy Dryansky
The ugly step sister / Denise Duhamel
Good woman ; Sweeping heaven / Heid Erdrich
Peonies / Susan Firer
After the miscarriage ; Sweet hour / Diane Gilliam Fisher
Upper peninsula landscape with aunts / Pamela Gemin
Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo
Feeding frenzy ; Thursday afternoon: life is sweet / Holly Iglesias
Cayenne / Angela Jacson
Domestic humiliation ; Kitchen ; Plenty / Allison Joseph
What I learned from my mother ; When our women go crazy / Julia Kasdorf
Dinner ; Housekeeping in a dream ; The visibility of spirits / Laura Kasischke
Moving furniture / Josie Kearns
How my mother-in-law instructed me in slaughter ; Maid / Sarah Kennedy
Ham and the moon / Jesse Lee Kercheval
Giving the house away / Julie King
Brick ; Covered dish / Kristin Kovacic
Clothesline / Laurie Kutchins
Spots / Estella Lauter
The idea of housework ; Reetika arranges my closet / Dorianne Laux
May mowing clover / Lisa Lewis
Vegetable love / Diane Lockward
God scrubs the tub ; God vacuums the pool ; God packs lunches ; Lemons / Gail Martin
What lies beneath / Shara McCallum
Home remedy / Paula McLain
Third stair, seventh stair, landing / Jane Mead
Some women marry houses / Sarah Messer
Convolvulus Tricolor / Leslie Adrienne Miller
The days of my mother / Laurel Mills
At thirty / Kyoko Mori
Bread / Sharon Olds
the shekhinah as mute / Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Grief comes in smallest ways ; Sunday baking / Gailmarie Pahmeier
The soup / Peggy Penn
Cooking lesson / Zarina Mullan Plath
All the soups / Martha Rhodes
Song of the cook ; What I want to make for you / Natasha Sajé
Duties and vocations ; Wintering / Jane Satterfield
Furious cooking / Maureen Seaton
In the kitchen dancing to Kitty Wells / Heather Sellers
One quick quiz / Paula Sergi
Purpose / Diane Seuss
Entropy ; The sinking / Faith Shearin
Immaculate lives ; A poet in the house ; The sky-blue dress / Cathy Song
Plum crazy / Kate Sontag
Household muse / Joyce Sutphen
Housekeeping / Virginia Chase Sutton
Coming home / Elizabeth Tibbetts
Hospital corners ; Western Holly Stove / Alison Townsend
Date nut bread ; Day's end ; The dinner guest / Ann Townsend
Domestic work, 1937 ; Housekeeping / Natasha Trethewey
The history of women / Leslie Ullman
Canning cellar, early sixties / Judith Vollmer
Back to catfish
The lady on the cover of Family Circle ; Starting from scratch / Ingrid Wendt
Quilt / Valerie Wohlfeld
Prayer / Carolyne Wright.