The Pittsburgh book of contemporary American poetry / Ed Ochester & Peter Oresick, editors.

Claribel Alegria
Documentary
The American Way of Life
Debra Allbery
Produce
Carnies
Assembler
Offering
Maggie Anderson
Country Wisdoms
The Invention of Pittsburgh
Spitting in the Leaves
Closed Mill
Robin Becker
My Father's Heart
In Pompano Beach, Florida
Incarnate
The Accident
The Story I Like to Tell
The Bath
Siv Cedering
Grandmother
Miss Pimberton Of
Peaches
Almagest, Last Letter to Zakarias
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Emplumada
Meeting Mescalito at Oak Hill Cemetery
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races
Nancy Vieira Couto
Living in the La Brea Tar Pits
Lizzie
You Bet Your Life
Tea Party
You Have Shown Me a Strange Image, and We Are Strange Prisoners
Kate Daniels
Ethiopia
Bus Ride
Not Singing
Toi Derricotte
Blackbottom
Boy at the Paterson Falls
In an Urban School
St. Peter Claver
The Struggle
The Friendship
Allen Ginsberg
Sharon Doubiago
Excerpt from South America Mi Hija
Descent: La Violencia
Someone waiting for me among the violins
Demeter and Persephone
Love, love, do not come near the border
Stuart Dybek
Maroon
My Father's Fights
Cherry
Brass Knuckles
Bastille Day on 25th St
My Neighborhood
Jane Flanders
The House That Fear Built: Warsaw, 1943
The Handbell Choir
Other Lives of the Romantics
Twirling
Big Cars
Gary Gildner
First Practice
Digging for Indians
Nails
They Have Turned the Church Where I Ate God
The High-Class Bananas
Elton Glaser
Cheap Replicas of the Eiffel Tower
Blues for the Night Owl
Coroner
Confluences at San Francisco
Revelation: The Movie
David Huddle
Town History, 1917
Holes Commence Falling
My Daddy, Whenever He Went Some Place
Almost Going
Delivering the Times, 1952-1955
Gregory's House
Miss Florence Jackson
Lawrence Joseph
Then
Do What You Can
Curriculum Vitae
In the Age of Postcapitalism
That's All
Julia Kasdorf
Vesta's Father
When Our Women Go Crazy
Dying with Amish Uncles
Leftover Blessings
Uncle
Mennonites
What I Learned from My Mother
Etheridge Knight
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
He Sees Through Stone
The Idea of Ancestry
The Warden Said to Me the Other Day
Feeling Fucked Up
Welcome Back, Mr. Knight: Love of My Life
Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine
Rehabilitation & Treatment in the Prisons of America
Bill Knott
Ant Dodger
Two Vietnam Poems: 1966
Shorts/Excerpts
Sonnet
At the Crossroads
Funny Poem
Death
Feeding the Sun
Ted Kooser
Flying at Night
At the Office Early
Selecting a Reader
Self-Portrait at Thirty-Nine
The Very Old
At the End of the Weekend
How to Make Rhubarb Wine
A Widow
Shooting a Farmhouse
Year's End
Larry Levis
The Widening Spell of the Leaves
The Poem You Asked For
Irene Mckinney
Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report
Deep Mining
Sunday Morning, 1950
Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia
Chrysanthemums
Rapt
The Dance
Peter Meinke
"This is a poem to my son Peter"
Supermarket
The Death of the Pilot Whales
The Poet, Trying to Surprise God
Sonnet on the Death of the Man Who Invented Plastic Roses
Helen
Carol Muske
The Wish Foundation
The Eulogy
Intensive Care
Pediatrics
Wyndmere, Windemere
August, Los Angeles, Lullaby
Leonard Nathan
Body Count
At the Well
Letter
Breathing Exercises
Hole
The Election
Coup
So?
Sharon Olds
Satan Says
Quake Theory
Indictment of Senior Officers
The Sisters of Sexual Treasure
Station
The Language of the Brag
Seventh Birthday of the First Child
The Unjustly Punished Child
The Mother
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
In the Twenty-Fifth Year of Marriage, It Goes On
I Brood About Some Concepts, for Example
A Meditation in Seven Days
Greg Pape
Indian Ruins Along Rio de Flag
Storm Pattern
Street Music
The Minotaur Next Door
Dinner on the Miami River
In Line at the Supermarket
Birds of Detroit
Kathleen Peirce
Near Burning
The Alcoholic's Son at Ten
Quilts
Farmers
Need Increasing Itself by Rounds
David Rivard
How It Will Always Seem
1966
Fall River
Torque
Firestone
One Too Many Mornings
Liz Rosenberg
A Suburban Childhood
The Story of My Life
The Longing for Eternal Life
Thanksgiving
The Accident
Maxine Scates
Angel's Flight
Working
Floor Plans
Angel
1956
Going to Mass After Fifteen Years
Richard Shelton
Job the Father
Letter to a Dead Father
The Stones
The Bus to Veracruz
Betsy Sholl
Thinking of You, Hiroshima
The Distinct Call of the Alligator
A Girl Named Spring
The Hospital State
A Small Patch of Ice
Soup Kitchen
Peggy Shumaker
The Waitress's Kid
The Circle of Totems
First Winter: Joy
Bush Navigator: The Last Morning of Hands
The Inupiat Christmas Pageant
Jeffrey Skinner
For Stuart Porter, Who Asked for a Poem That Would Not Depress Him Further
Earth Angel
Late Afternoon, Late in the Twentieth Century
Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear
Silk Robe
Restoration
The Starling Migration
Gary Soto
Telephoning God
The Morning They Shot Tony Lopez, Barber and Pusher Who Went Too Far, 1958
The Elements of San Joaquin
Field Poem
Hoeing
Harvest
Summer
History
Leslie Ullman
Running
Dreams by No One's Daughter
Living Near the Plaza of Thieves
Constance Urdang
Old Wives' Tales
The Muse Is Always the Other Woman
Back Far Enough, Down Deep Enough
All Around Us
My Father's Death
This Poem
At Frank 'n' Helen's
Returning to the Port of Authority: A Picaresque
Ronald Wallace
The Facts of Life
Sestina for the House
Thirteen
State Poetry Day
Building an Outhouse
Basketball
The Makings of Happiness
Nightline: An Interview with the General
Belle Waring
Reprieve on the Stoop
Baby Random
Breeze in Translation
When a Beautiful Woman Gets on the Jutiapa Bus
The Tip
Nothing Happened
Refuge at the One Step Down
Our Lady of the Laundromat
Michael S. Weaver
The Missing Patriarch
Beginnings
The Dogs
My Father's First Baseball Game
The Message on Cape Cod
My Father's Geography
Robley Wilson
The Mechanical Cow
Say Girls in Shoe Ads: "I go for a man who's tall!"
Envoi
The Rejoicing That Attends the Murder of Famous Men
Sparrow Hills
The Military-Industrial Complex
David Wojahn
"Satin Doll"
Excerpts from "Mystery Train: A Sequence"
Homage: Light from the Hall
Buddy Holly Watching Rebel Without a Cause, Lubbock, Texas, 1956
Matins: James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the South, 1958
Custom Job: Hank Williams, Jr., and the Death Car, 1958
Tattoo, Corazon: Ritchie Valens, 1959
Fab Four Tour Deutschland: Hamburg, 1961
Woody Guthrie Visited by Bob Dylan: Brooklyn State Hospital, New York, 1961
The Trashmen Shaking Hands with Hubert Humphrey at the Opening of Apache Plaza Shopping Center, Suburban Minneapolis, August 1963
"Mystery Train": Janis Joplin Leaves Port Arthur for Points West, 1964
At Graceland with a Six Year Old, 1985
Colorizing: Turner Broadcasting Enterprises, Computer Graphics Division, Burbank, California, 1987
The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987
Paul Zimmer
Zimmer in Grade School
Zimmer's Head Thudding Against the Blackboard
The Day Zimmer Lost Religion
The Eisenhower Years
Zimmer Drunk and Alone, Dreaming of Old Football Games
The Duke Ellington Dream
Zimmer Imagines Heaven
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