Breaking the jaws of silence : sixty American poets speak to the world / edited by Sholeh Wolpé.

Call and answer / Robert Bly
Lady freedom among us / Rita Dove
Your beauty is overwhelming / Naomi Shihab Nye
Green / Yusef Komunyakaa
On reading a biography of George Washington / Eloise Klein Healy
End of the war, 1949 / Willis Barnstone
Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942 / Garrett Hongo
Night in blue / Brian Turner
This place is here / Annie Finch
Tienanmen, the aftermath / Marilyn Chin
In mystic / Joy Harjo
All Hallows Eve / Christopher Merrill
History lesson / Natasha Trethewey
An essay on liberation / David St. John
November 11 / Kim Addonizio
Parable of the Jew without a name / Tony Barnstone
Tahrir / Marilyn Hacker
Unrest / Kimiko Hahn
Summer of '09 / Andrew Hudgins
Reading about Rwanda / Charles Harper Webb
The freeways considered as earth gods / Dana Gioia
The squash man / Stuart Dischell
The bridge of intellectuals / Richard Katrovas
Dialogue (of the imagination's fear) / Jorie Graham
Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday ("Live in the body, long as you will, Madiba") / Michael S. Harper
War is never right / Nikki Giovanni
Athena looks on / David Mason
Jerusalem : Easter, Passover / Stanley Moss
Boy shooting at a statue / Billy Collins
Angels / William Heyen
To Salah al Hamdani, November, 2008 / Sam Hamill
After the fact / Mary Jo Bang
The book of the dead man (The vote) / Marvin Bell
The museum of stones / Carolyn Forché
Rules governing the exchange of prisoners / David Wagoner
Language acquisition : no and yes / Alicia Ostriker
On election day / Charles Bernstein
Shoo / Carol Frost
Second thoughts / Robert Wrigley
Becoming Milton / Coleman Barks
World cup / Tom Sleigh
In prison / Jean Valentine
Now / James Ragan
On the ordination of a Zen monk / Norman Dubie
Extraordinary rendition / Maxine Kumin
Staff Sgt. Metz / Dorianne Laux
Ex-embassy / Carol Muske-Dukes
August 6, and again on August 9 / Maxine Hong Kingston
The allusion of seduction / Quincy Troupe
Dear Prudence / Juan Felipe Herrera
Asphodel / Gerald Stern
Dark thirty / Barbara Ras
Teacup manifesto / Molly Peacock
Fatwa / Sharon Doubiago
What's fair is fair / Ralph Angel
Poverty / Christopher Buckley
The gatekeeper's children / Philip Levine
More poetry / Carl Dennis
The people of the other village / Thomas Lux
Wait / Galway Kinnell.