Preface by Michael Wiegers
Introduction by Alberto Ríos
"You, Reader, as I Imagine You" by Chase Twichell
"All of Us All of Us" by Marianne Boruch
"Rain Light" by W.S. Merwin
"The Current Isolationism" by Camille Rankine
"Anxiety" by Olav Hauge; Robert Hedin, trans.
"Prayer" by Sarah Ruhl
"Unpacking a Globe" by Arthur Sze
"What Issa Heard" by David Budbill
"won't you celebrate with me" by Lucille Clifton
"letter from my heart to my brain" by Rachel McKibbens
"Who I Write For" by Vicente Aleixandre; Lewis Hyde, trans.
from 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
"There is a Light in Me" by Anna Swir
"Duplex" by Jericho Brown
from Lao-tzu's Taoteching by Lao-tzu; Red Pine (Bill Porter), trans.
"Fingers" by Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah, trans.
"Urgent Care" by Dana Levin
"Concerning Necessity" by Hayden Carruth
"A Physics of Sudden Light" by Alberto Ríos
"Obscurity and Lockdown" by C.D. Wright
"Poema 18" by Pablo Neruda, Forrest Gander, trans.
from Soft Targets by Deborah Landau
"Often I Imagine the Earth" by Dan Gerber
"Visitor" by Brenda Shaugnessy
"Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong
"'Not many of them, it's true'" by Gregory Orr
"The World Has Need of You" by Ellen Bass
"Meditation on Transmission" by Dean Rader
"Nobody Riding the Roads Today" by June Jordan
"Goshen" by Ruth Stone
from "A Poetics of Space" by Lisa Olstein
from Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays by James Richardson
"Country Scene" by Hô Xuân Huong; John Balaban, trans.
"In Praise of Noise" by James Arthur
"Masks" by Laura Kasischke
"Even all night long" by Jean Valentine
"On Visiting the Site of a Slave Massacre in Opelousas" by Roger Reeves
from "I Am a Miner. The Lights Burn Blue." by Victoria Chang
"Right Hand" by Ted Kooser
"Love in the Time of Swine Flu" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
"For the First Crow with West Nile Virus to Arrive in Our State" by Lucia Perillo
"Under construction" by Bob Hicok
"Waking after the Surgery" by Leila Chatti
"mer • cy" by Alison Rollins
"Geo-Bestiary: 34" by Jim Harrison
"Ceasing to Be" by Matthew Zapruder
"Spring" by Jenny George
"Rest." by Richard Jones
"Everybody Has a Fatal Disease" by Heather McHugh
"Not This" by Olena Kalytiak Davis
"Slow Song for Mark Rothko" by John Taggart
"Find the Poets" by Tishani Doshi