Je suis ein Americano : the genius of American diction

Idiom, our funny valentine

Litany, game, and representation : charting the course from the old to the new poetry

Poetic housing : shifting parts and changing wholes

Facts and feelings : information, layering, and the composite poem

Vertigo, recognition, and passionate worldliness

"Regard the twists of the bugle/that yield one clear clarion" : the Dean Young effect

"I do this, I do that" : the strange legacy of New York school poetics

Unarrestable : the poetic development of Sharon Olds

Soul radio : Maria Howe, Jane Hirshfield, and Linda Gregg

The village troublemaker : Robert Bly and American poetry

Twenty poems that could save America.