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• First Light 
  Jim Powell Dec. 31, 2002
  
• Crows in Evening Glow 
  Henri Cole Dec. 23, 2002
  
• The Small-Town Voice of God 
  Michael Chitwood Dec. 17, 2002
  
• Postscript 
  Cate Marvin Dec. 10, 2002
  
• Nail Broth 
  David Barber Dec. 3, 2002
  
• Ortlieb's Uptown Taproom 
  W.S. Di Piero Nov. 26, 2002
  
• November 18 
  David Lehman Nov. 19, 2002
  
• Lake 
  Rosanna Warren Nov. 12, 2002
  
• Runaway 1728 Advertisement for the Recovery of an Indian Servant
  Jill McDonough Nov. 5, 2002
  
• Prelude to Lying About My Ex-Husband 
  Laurie Blauner Oct. 29, 2002
  
• Dickhead 
  Michael Ryan Oct. 22, 2002
  
• Lullaby in Steerage 
  David Barber Oct. 15, 2002
  
• Original Face 
  Henri Cole Oct. 8, 2002
  
• Still Life With Moving Figure 
  James Richardson Oct. 1, 2002
  
• Piazza Pilo 
  Rosanna Warren Sept. 24, 2002
  
• Prayer Meeting 
  W.S. Di Piero Sept. 17, 2002
  
• The City 
  Paul Breslin Sept. 10, 2002
  
• Flush 
  Cate Marvin Sept. 3, 2002
  
• The Polish Biographical Dictionary in a Library in Houston 
  Adam Zagajewski Aug. 27, 2002
  
• This Inwardness, This Ice 
  Christian Wiman Aug. 20, 2002
  
• Lay Back the Darkness 
  Edward Hirsch Aug. 13, 2002
  
• Wasps in August 
  Andrew Hudgins Aug. 6, 2002
  
• The Queen of Tragedy                             —after Catullus
  Carol Muske-Dukes July 30, 2002
  
• Traffic of Creations                                                Riddles about the flesh.
  David Gewanter July 23, 2002
  
• Waiting for Lumber 
  Mark Turpin July 16, 2002
  
• Out With the Monarch, the Vole, and the Toad 
  Patricia Clark July 9, 2002
  
• Sunrise Over Cassis 
  Adam Zagajewski July 2, 2002
  
• Temperament 
  Jim Powell June 25, 2002
  
• Yahrzeit Candle 
  Edward Hirsch June 18, 2002
  
• Rhymes for a Watertower 
  Christian Wiman June 11, 2002
  
• The Machine 
  Carol Muske-Dukes June 4, 2002
  
• Amaryllis after Rilke
  Mark Wunderlich May 28, 2002
  
• Elegy 
  Elise Partridge May 21, 2002
  
• Mountain Lion        for John Peck
  Barry Goldensohn May 14, 2002
  
• Landscape With Décolletage 
  Paul Guest May 7, 2002
  
• Bialystock, or Lvov 
  C.K. Williams April 30, 2002
  
• When He Fell 
  Carol Muske-Dukes April 23, 2002
  
• The Famous Poet Lives Secretly Next Door 
  Bryan Narendorf April 16, 2002
  
• Sierra Gentians 
  Jim Powell April 9, 2002
  
• Cell 7: The Mocking of Christ from San Marco Suite               —after Fra Angelico
  Angie Estes April 2, 2002
  
• Speech 
  Wesley McNair March 26, 2002
  
• Mother's Day Ghazal 
  Gail Mazur March 19, 2002
  
• O My People 
  James Reiss March 12, 2002
  
• The Little Whip 
  Joyce Carol Oates March 5, 2002
  
• Magic Glass 
  Ellen Bryant Voigt Feb. 26, 2002
  
• Day of Needs 
  Jennifer Clarvoe Feb. 19, 2002
  
• Finish This 
  Mark Cox Feb. 12, 2002
  
• Last Letter 
  Ellen Bryant Voigt Feb. 5, 2002
  
• Crosswalk 
  Tom Sleigh Jan. 25, 2002
  
• Grass and Water 
  Gerald Stern Jan. 22, 2002
  
• Slap Me Five 
  James Reiss Jan. 15, 2002
  
• Views of Schubert 
  Lorrie Goldensohn Jan. 8, 2002