Red, white, and blues : poets on the promise of America / edited by Virgil Suárez and Ryan G. Van Cleave.

A former WWII paratrooper dreams of suicide, 1977 / Marianne Burke
Envying the art of the cartographer / Edward Byrne
The attending / Fred Chappell
Forecast / Kelly Cherry
Prayer for a future beyond ideology and war / Kelly Cherry
While in the woods / Jan Clausen
A drifter's brand / Art Coelho
America / Forrest Cole
You and I / Dinah Elena Consuegra
Battle hymn / Rita D. Costello
Barbie and Ken maximize their options / Barbara Crooker
On a painting by a member of the northwest visionary school / Averill Curdy
In heaven / Robert Dana
Making fire / J. P. Dancing Bear
Up from the wreck conjuring Montana sonnet / Steve Davenport
Displaced person / Christopher Davis

The political life of palm trees / Sandra Del Valle
Roof over far away / Ana Doina
Buffalo dreams / Bart Edelman
The year I was diagnosed with a sacrilegious heart / Martin Espada
Charm for what looks like / Kathy Fagan
Asked for a happy memory of her father, she recalls Wrigley Field / Beth Ann Fennelly
The jelly bean policy / Jose Angel Figueroa
The Native American birds / Annie Finch
Trip to Delphi / Alice Friman
City of no reprieve / Willard Gellis
Pine Island / Reginald Gibbons
American exercises / Patricia Goedicke
Gallery / Albert Goldbarth
Recipe / Albert Goldbarth
After west / James Harms
Prayer for the everglades / Lola Haskins

Harryette Mullen lecture on the American dream / Terrance Hayes
Yom HaShoah in Florida / Rick Hilles
Shikata ga nai / Jodi L. Hottel
I learned about being tough from a stetson ad / Adam Houle
Blessing's precision / Christopher Howell
Toward a portrait of the undocumented / Javier Omar Huerta
Lost photograph / Luisa Igloria
Factory town on the 4th of July / Susan Jelus
Indian / Feroza Jussawalla
Instead of reading Marcus Aurelius / Claudia Keelan
Captain America at home / Jarret Keene
At the center, creator hourglass / Eliza Kelley
Daycare in a doublewide / Janet Norman Knox
Backyards of America / Leonard Kress
Peaceful sentiment / Judy Kronenfeld
Miss October / Rachel Loden

Dear America / Jeffrey McDaniel
Heirlooms / Walt McDonald
Memoir of the cosmopolite who stayed home / Ron McFarland
The battle of Johnny Freedom / Damon McLaughlin
Barbie's Ferrari / Lynne McMahon
Two songs for Hendrix / James McManus
Town meeting / Gary Matgolis
The road from Biloxi / Khaled Mattawa
Meteor / C. M. Mayo
Gentrification / Erika Meitner
Raspa / Orlando Ricardo Menes
Mississippi girls, plaited / Chelle Miko
Elegy for the unsaid / Simone Muench
Meditation on the great blue heron / Kay Murphy
To the muse / Carol Muske-Dukes
Homesteaders / Debra Nystrom
The Sears catalogue / Alan Michael Parker
Quilt complex / Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Trailer trash / Alison Pelegrin
An ordinary country girl / Dean Phelps
Twenty-first century, farewell / Todd James Pierce
Grand Canyon / Kenneth Pobo
Encounter / Marianne Poloskey
Why young men wore their hair long in the sixties / Jeff Poniewaz
A bag lady's body in the financial district / Arthur Powers
Historical site / Arthur Powers
Eagles at Dollywood / Stephen Roger Powers
Anthems / Irena Praitis
That which hovers / Lara Ramsey
July, 1949 / Ron Rash
Where we all went / G. Travis Regier
Americana / Paisley Rekdal
The memory of New England / Donald Revell
Nuestro Marine / Elaine Romero
To California where rhymes fail / Margaret Rozga

A retired postman recalls the old route / C. J. Sage
After heart-bypass surgery, another ritual for continuing struggle / Ralph Salisbury
Delaware / David G. W. Scott
Birdsong for September 11, 2001 / Vivian Shipley
Explaining current events to a one-year-old / Martha Silano
Sunflowers, Wyoming / Deborah Slicer
How it happened / Mark Smith-Soto
Mexicans begin jogging / Gary Soto
TV in black and white / Gary Soto
The assimilation / Barry Spacks
Why women become water / Annette Spaulding-Convy
Protest at Los Alamos, August 2000 / Judith Strasser
Terra incognita / Joyce Sutphen
Wishbone USA / Joyce Sutphen
Report from high school / Terese Svoboda

Behind the nationalist's flag / F. Richard Thomas
Appalachia novena / Kyle Thompson
How to thank God for your loneliness / Stephen Valentine
Back when / Nance Van Winckel
Let me remind you you are still under oath / Nance Van Winckel
The People's Republic / John A. Vanek
Uncle with landscape
Kansas, 1954 / Benjamin Vogt
Oracle / Gale Renee Walden
Sestina halted in a rain delay / Miles Garett Watson
Charleston / Afaa Michael Weaver
Why I'm different in Wyoming / Suellen Wedmore
Starting from scratch / Ingrid Wendt
Of history and hope / Miller Williams
Plain / Miller Williams
Criminal justice system / Rebecca Wolff
Revisionist history : magic kingdom / Robert Wynne.