Best poems of 1966 : Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, 1967 : : a compilation of original poetry published in magazines of the English-speaking world in 1966.

The permanence of witches / Michael Van Walleghen
By St. Thomas Water / Charles Causley
Love poem / Norman Friedman
The animals at the fair / Betty Adcock
The promise / Carroll Arnett
Told in the seed / Sanora Babb
Changing a diaper on Chuckanut Drive ; The lesson / Beth Bentley
Sea bitch / Sam Bradley
Paradise street / Harry Brown
Aviso / Sharon Lee Brown
Why don't you talk to me / Alistair Campbell
Concerning necessity / Hayden Carruth
School at four o' clock / Charles Causley
Boy / John Ciardi
Commemorating Michael Collins / Padraic Colum
For the children of Terezin ; The album / Stanley Cooperman
Report back / John Cotton
Notes for a wedding anniversary / James Crenner
The sheep-child / James Dickey
Viper's bugloss / Ruth Fox
Diver / Maurice Gibbons
A bird sings to establish frontiers / Jack Gilbert
Irreconcilables / Arthur Gregor
The old queen / Suzanne Gross
At Shoreham / Harry Guest
The snow-leopard / Charles Higham
Mozart in Thetford / William Hollis
Nightfall / Ted Hughes
At the dancing school of the Sisters Schwarz / Judson Jerome
The man who invented the wheel / Allen Kanfer
Beetle on the Shasta daylight / Shirley Kaufman
Piers invents a NIgerian news-bulletin / David Knight
Country house / Maxine Kumin
Ars poetica / Joan LaBombard
Homo erectus / William Latta
Cairns / Christopher Levenson
Life at war / Denise Levertov
Hands and the fisherman's wife / Laurence Lieberman
Trying for solitude / Jack Lindeman
Already late / Lou Lipsitz
The dwarf / Gerald Locklin
The shell / George MacBeth
Incident / Morton Marcus
Satyr / R.D. Mathews
God will be a little late this year / J.H. McCandless
A resurrection / Raeburn Miller
The trout / John Montague
Dark and dark / W.R. Morse
Scarecrow / Stanley Moss
The marriage of heaven and earth / Howard Nemerov
I, Icarus / Alden Nowlan
A castle on the Danube / Mary Oliver
The burial of ashes / Robert Peters
No identity / William Plomer
The haunted armchair / Peter Redgrove
Hapax / Kenneth Rexroth
Aberfan : under the arc lights / Keidrych Rhys
The knot / Adrienne Rich
Pain for a daughter ; Your face on a dog's neck / Anne Sexton
Imperfect sympathies / Clarice Short
Flatfish / Jon Silkin
Children / Kay Smith
The loon's necklace / Alex Spalding
The late visitor / Ann Stanford
Letter from a friend in exile / Felix Stefanile
Waiting / Warren Stevenson
Tree service / Adrien Stoutenburg
Causes / Mona Van Duyn
The burglar ; Sleeping by a river ; Speech from a comedy ; The shooting of John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theatre, July 22, 1934 / David Wagoner
After fever ; Apocalypse on the jetty ; Birthday song / Ted Walker
Blow west wind / Robert Penn Warren
Digging the past ; To a shell / Vernon Watkins
Amagansett Beach revisited / John Hall Wheelock
The movement of boys / Joan White
The hawk / Harold Witt.