In praise of fertile land : an anthology of poetry, parable, and story / edited by Claudia Mauro.

People of the Earth
You make the earth good by your work / Gary Nabhan
The Gardener / Ellen Kort
The Man born to farming
One man on a tractor far away / Walter Wangerin, Jr.
Matmiya / Mary Tallmountain
Swansonville / Mary Lou Sanelli
No tool or rope or pail / Bob Arnold
Haiku / Issa
Soaking up the sun / Tom Hennen
My father and the figtree / Naomi Shihab Nye
Earth dweller / William Stafford
Rice Lesson / Fred Kirschenmann
Returning from Italy / Denise Calvetti Michaels
Ancestral messengers / composition 13 / Ntozake Shange
Soybeans / Thomas Alan Orr
Dream dust / Langston Hughes
The Transfiguration of bread/ Paul Gruchow
Follower / Seamus Heaney
Fern hill / Dylan Thomas
Letter from McCarty's farm / Ellen Kort.

Work that is real
To be of use / Marge Piercy
Planting onions / Jane Flanders
Manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front / Wendell Berry
Putting in the seed / Robert frost
The Seed cutters / Seamus Heaney
"What crops the region may bear ..." / Virgil
The Meadow / Peter Fallon
Tarry Flynn / Patrick Kavanaugh
After apple picking / Robert Frost
Chores / Maxine Kumin
Ox cart man / Donald Hall
Those mornings / Robert Kinsley
An Ox looks at man / Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Surrender / Mary Rose O'Reilly
Girl on a tractor / Joyce Sutphen
Names of horses / Donald Hall
Why I make the best barrels / Eliza Garsa
The Seven of pentacles / Marge Piercy
Primary lessons in political economy / Amitava Kumar
Butterflies / Patricia Grace
Kneeling here, I feel good / Marge Piercy
Worms of mystery / Elise Greiner
Worms / LaDonna Wilson
Apotheosis of the kitchen goddess II / Teresa Noelle Roberts
Making torillas / Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Potatoes / Linda Hogan
A Recipe for a garden / Henry Phillips.

For the love of earth
A Blessing
Corn mother / Penobscot
Reliefs / Octavio Paz
Grow / George Clark
Two rain songs (Papago) / Winged Serpent
Mother Nature / Sylvie Krekow
Starting with little things / William Stafford
An Insider's view of the garden / Maxine Kumin
Yes / E.E. Cummings
Cuttings / Theodore Roethke
Weaving the morning / João Cabral de Melo Neto
O taste and see / Denise Levertov
Gathering the wild figs
Vizcaina, Gomera / Emilia Paredes
To have the whole air! / Theodore Roethke
Too lazy to be ambitious / Ryōkan
Earth, isn't this what you want / Rainier Maria Rilke
The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
The Peace of wild things
Groundhog day / Lynn Ungar
(O sweet spntaneous) / E.E. Cummings
Spring song / Lucille Clifton
Kids write for the Earth
In the fileds / Kyle Fukuhara
Apples / Ebone J́ones
Gushing with color / Adrian Rautureau
Peas conference / Sam Baird
A Raindrop / Camilla Gardiner
Fruit / Alex Raubvogel
In the winter / Gill Biesold-McGee
In the spring / Gill Biesold-McGee
Remember / Joy Harjo.