The Pushcart prize 2003 XXVII: best of the small presses

Introduction / Bill Henderson

Everything ravaged, everything burned / Wells Tower

The limit / Christian Wiman

The lace maker / Carl Dennis

Scordatura / Mark Ray Lewis

How to meditate / Brenda Miller

the sensual world / Louise Gluck

Lunch at the Blacksmith / Cornelia Nixon

To be honest / Jeffrey A. Lockwood

The past / Chris Forhan

The Mandelbrot set / Janet Burroway

Camp Cedar Crest / Alexander Theroux

From the psalter / Jennifer Atkinson

Casualidades / Carolyn Alessio

Solatium

Philip D. Beidler

The church of omnivorous light / Robert Wrigley

House of stone and song / Margaret Gibson

The pass / Steve Almond

Line / John Hales

The beauties of nature / Mary Jo Bang

Ode to the air traffic controller / Joshua Beckman

The lives of strangers / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Traveling with my mother / Katherine Taylor

Prayer against the experts and their ways / Paul Maliszewski

The part of the bee's body embedded in the flesh / Carol Frost

I demand to know where you're taking me / Dan Chaon

Ginkgo tree / Tom Crawford

The master of Delft / Aleksandr Kushner

Cock robin / Miranda Field

Amazing grace / Bradford Morrow

Heat waves in winter distance / James Galvin

The road to Rome, and back again / Michael Palma

The least you need to know about radio / Ben Marcus

Cord / Linda Gregerson

On the nature of human romantic interaction / Karl Iagnemma

Night train / Ted Genoways.

Fields of mercy/ Ladette Randolph

The woman who hated Valentine's Day / Susan Hahn

the worst degree of unforgivable / Nicholas Montemarano

The hickeys on Sally Palermo's neck: some thoughts on beauty and the creative life / Andrea Hollander Budy

Two variations on a theme by Stevens / Sarah Manguso

Pilgrims / Julie Orringer

Red berries / Jane Hirshfield

Where the dog is buried / Gary Gildner

Book / Robert Pinsky

Candace counts soup / Nancy Lord

(My lot to spin the purple: that the tabernacle should be made) / D.A. Powell

Sister Carrie at 101 / Joseph Epstein

He writes to the soul / Christopher Howell

Dangerous discoveries / Melanie Rae Thon

In the cafe / Grace Schulman

Yangban / Junse Kim

from The lightning field / Carol Moldaw

Jinx / Aimee Bender

Autumn in the yard we planted / Ellen Bryant Voigt

The instructor / Joyce Carol Oates

Cloud atlas / Donald Platt

Landscape with bees / David Young

Cabeza / Monique De Varennes

For a Chinese poet writing through the night up on the edge of Mt. Pollux / Dara Wier

Autochthonic song / Rebecca Seiferle

Sonnet / Karen Volkman

Heron / William Wenthe

Off Island / Michael Parker

Killing salmon / Matt Yurdana

A working boy's Whitman / George Evans

The weight / Richard Bausch.