Foreword / David Lehman

Introduction / Terence Winch

"The People's History of 1998" / Gbenga Adesina

"Incantation for a Lake" / Hussain Ahmed

"At the Gate" / Indran Amirthanayagam

"Tell Me Something Good" / Margaret Atwood

"Nicholson Baker and I" / Catherine Barnett

"Annunciation" / David Beaudouin

"Uncle Sadness" / Donald Berger

"Thoughts about Inheritance" / Camille Carter

"White Suit" / Grace Cavalieri

"What About This" / Christopher Chambers

"Triple Sonnet for Nomi Malone" / Dorothy Chan,

"Aubade" / Heather Christle

"Wishes for Black Women" / Lor Clincy

"Fable" / Andrea Cohen

"Thought a Rarity on Paper" / Billy Collins

"Book Blurb in the American Style" / Katie Condon

"A Letter from Rome" / Morri Creech

"Climate Anxiety" / Patricia Davis-Muffett

"The Ring" / Armen Davoudian

"To Our Indolent Cancer" / Greg Delanty

"The Travelers" / Abigail Dembo

"My Kafka Prose Poem" / Jose Hernandez Diaz

"Egrets, While War" / Tishani Doshi

"Poem in Which This Fathead 'Fat Ass' Admits It" / Denise Duhamel

"Lorca's Guitar" / Elaine Equi

"Two Thousand" / Gerald Fleming

"How to Change the Filter on the Developing Cell Matter in Your Womb" / Joanna Fuhrman

"Postcard" / Amy Gerstler

"Inheritance at Corresponding Periods of Life, at Corresponding Seasons of the Year, as Limited by Sex" / James Allen Hall,

"Amnesia" / Jeffrey Harrison

"A Sunset" / Robert Hass

"The call to worship" / Bob Hicok

"The Wind Whipped Tears into My Eyes" / Nazifa Islam

"Escape Artists" / Henry Israeli

"In the End of the Beginning of Our Lives" / Fatima Jafar

"The Heart" / Brionne Janae

"Two men too man to mourn" / Raphael Jenkins

"Miraculous" / Virginia Konchan

"Eileen" / Victoria Kornick

"Apostate Abecedarian" / Marianne Kunkel

"DC 1972" / Michael Lally

"Second Sight" / Danusha Laméris

"Five Postcards" / Hailey Leithauser

"Patronage" / Amit Majmudar

"Well Water" / Chris Mason

"Know Thyself" / Greg McBride

"What We Are For" / Jill McDonough

"Death Styles 5/6/2021: Terminator 2, Late Style" / Joyelle McSweeney

"The Bougainvillea Line" / Ange Mlinko

"A Neighborly Day in This Beautywood" / Nicholas Montemarano

"What About the Here and Now?" / Yehoshua November

"Health-Food Panties" / Sharon Olds

"November" / Michael Ondaatje

"Do You Believe in God?" / Pádraig Ó Tuama

"Godzilla Meets the Beast" / Jose Padua

"After Killers of the Flower Moon" / Elise Paschen

"Zero Bothers Given" / Alison Pelegrin

"Streak" / Donald Platt

"The Channel" / Jana Prikryl

"The Extinct World" / Elizabeth Robinson

"Nature Poem about Flowers" / Matthew Rohrer

"Cooperative" / Margaret Ross

"Uncle Peyote" / Javier Sandoval

"Nocturnal" / Emily Schulten

"I Am Sick of Reading Poems about Paintings by Vermeer" / Jane Shore

"When I Learn Catastrophically" / Martha Silano

"Trio" / Bruce Snider

"Two Watches" / Mosab Abu Toha

"Birthdays" / Tony Towle

"Blank Verse" / Cindy Tran

"Never Argue with the Movies" / David Trinidad

"The Story So Far" / Bernard Welt

"Sex Talk" / Lesley Wheeler

"The How and When of It" / Geoffrey Young

"Snapdragon" / Kevin Young.