Close calls with nonsense : how to read, and perhaps enjoy, very new poetry
Rae Armantrout : where every eye's a guard
Lightsource, aperture, face : C.D. Wright and photography
Donald Revell : dream sermons
Laura Kasischke : the one I love needs sunblock
Liz Waldner : how I got from dictionary to here
Juan Felipe Herrera : undocumentary
August Kleinzahler : cool among shadows and cellophane
Allan Peterson and Terrance Hayes : believe your naysayers
Mary Leader and H.L. Hix : envisioning pain
Here is the door marked Heaven : D.A. Powell
My name is Henri : contemporary poets discover John Berryman
James K. Baxter : I do not expect you to like it
Les Murray : from the planet Dungog
Denise Riley : already knotted in
John Tranter : write another party
Thom Gunn : kinesthetic aesthetics
John Ashbery : everything must go
Richard Wilbur : not unlike you
Robert Creeley : counting the days
James Merrill : becoming literature
A.R. Ammons : marvelous devising
Stanley Kunitz : out of glacial time
Frank O'Hara : hi, Louise!
Lorine Niedecker : raking leaves in New Madrid
William Carlos Williams : they grow everywhere
Without evidence : remarks on reading contemporary poetry and on reading about it.