Introduction
MARK BIBBINS
Whitman on the Beach
Bluebeard
Geometry Class
Mud
Counting
OLGA BROUMAS
From Caritas
1.Erik
Satie
2.With
the clear
Etymology
Tryst
The Masseuse
Landscape with Next of Kin
CHERYL BURKE
Lizzie
Motor Oil Queen
REGIE CABICO
Check One
Mango Poem
Gameboy
Antonio Banderas in His Underwear
Art in Architecture
RAFAEL CAMPO
Belonging
From Song for My Lover
VI. Our
Country of Origin
XI. A
Medical Student Learns Love and Death
From Ten Patients, And Another
IV. Kelly
VII.
Manuel
XI. Jane
Doe #2
What the Body Told
CYRUS CASSELLS
New Song of Solomon
A Courtesy, a Trenchant Grace
Marathon
Beautiful Signor
JUSTIN CHIN
Why a Boy
Cocksucker's Blues
Undetectable
Ex-boyfriends Named Michael
CHRYSTOS
I Suck
I Bought a New Red
You Know I Like to Be
I Bring You Greetings: How
The Okeydoekey Tribe
CHERYL CLARKE
Palm Leaf of Mary Magdalene
Stuck
Passing
Make-up
Vicki and Daphne
A Poet's Death
JEFFERY CONWAY
Marlo Thomas in Seven Parts and Epilogue
Modern English
Hangover
Weight Belt
DENNIS COOPER
After School, Street Football, Eighth Grade
Teen Idols
David Cassidy Then
From Some Adventures of John Kennedy Jr.
In School
10 Dead Friends
Poem for George Miles
Dreamt Up
ALFRED CORN
To Hermes
Kimchee in Worcester (mass.)
A Marriage in the Nineties
Long-distance Call to Gregg, Who Lived with AIDS as Long as He Could
MARK DOTY
My Tattoo
Homo Will Not Inherit
Lilacs in NYC
From Atlantis
3. Michael's
Dream
6. New
Dog
BEATRIX GATES
Triptych
ELENA GEORGIOU
A Week in the Life of the Ethnically Indeterminate
The Space Between
Talkin' Trash
Intimate Mixture
From Where I Stand
ROBERT GLUCK
Invaders from Mars
Pasolini
Burroughs
From The Visit
2. Odd
to close
10. A
famous monk
11. This
image
MELINDA GOODMAN
Cobwebs
February Ice Years
Lullabye for a Butch
New Comers
Open Poem
MARILYN HACKER
Going Back to the River
The Boy
Invocation
Year's End
Squares and Courtyards
ELOISE KLEIN HEALY
Changing What We Mean
Changing the Oil
Louganis
What It Was Like the Night Cary Grant Died
From Los Angeles Looking South
MELANIE HOPE
Sixth Grade
Bare Floors
Only Days
INRI
Sacrifice
MICHAEL KLEIN
The Range of It
The Tides
Letters from the Front
Guardian Life
Scenes for an Elegy
WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
Tea Dance
From Erotic Collectibles
1977
1980
1992
JOAN LARKIN
Housework
Origins
Beatings
Good-bye
Inventory
My Body
Legacy
Cold River
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MICHAEL LASSELL
Kissing Ramon
How to Watch Your Brother Die
Brady Street, San Francisco
Sunset Stripping: Visiting LA
Three Poems
1.For
Anthony
2.Photo
3.Ramon
Going to Europe
TIMOTHY LIU
Vox Angelica
Mama
The Size of It
Reading Whitman in a Toilet Stall
Strange Fruit
JAIME MANRIQUE
Tarzan
My Night with Federico Garcia Lorca
(as told by Edouard Roditi)
Baudelaire's Spleen
Barcelona Days
J.D. McClatchy
My Mammogram
Late Night Ode
First Steps
HONOR MOORE
Poem for the End
A Window at Key West
Edward
Girl in a Fur-Trimmed Dress
EILEEN MYLES
An American Poem
Maxfield Parrish
Merk
Sleepless
School of Fish
LETTA NEELY
Multiple Assaults
Rhonda, Age 15, Emergency Room
8 Ways of Looking at Pussy
ACHY OBEJAS
Lifes
The Public Place
Dancing in Paradise
Sunday
GERRY GOMEZ PEARLBERG
Think Back
Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette
Sailor
Loop-the-Loop in Prospect Park (1905)
Dog Star
ROBERT E. PENN
Morning Songs
Hand
CARL PHILLIPS
Cotillion
The Kill
As from a Quiver of Arrows
In the Blood, Winnowing
Undressing for Li Po
D.A. POWELL
[triptych]
[studs and rings: favors of the piercing party]
[always returning: holidays and burials, not every week]
[my father and me making dresses: together]
[you're thin again handsome: in our last]
[the minotaur at supper: spare the noritake and the spode]
MINNIE BRUCE PRATT
Elbows
Poem for My Sons
Crime Against Nature
Red String
The Other Side
MARIANA ROMO-CARMONA
Crows
Signs
Fish
Daylight
RUTH L. SCHWARTZ
Possible
Flamenco Guitar
Can Pigeons Be Heroes?
Edgewater Park
ROBYN SELMAN
21 East 10th, 2BR, WBF, EIK
Exodus
REGINALD SHEPHERD
The Gods at Three A.M.
Narcissus Learning the Words to This Song
Three A.M. Eternal
Eros in His Striped Blue Shirt
That Man
LINDA SMUKLER
Days Inn
Trash
Sign
Marry
Home in Three Days, Don't Wash
CHERYL BOYCE TAYLOR
Forever Arima
'Round Irving High School
Plenty Time Pass Fast, Fas Dey So
RICHARD TAYSON
First Sex
Nightsweats
Phone Sex
DAVID TRINIDAD
Things to Do in Valley of the Dolls (The Movie)
Answer Song
From Eighteen to Twenty-One
I. He
said his name
III.
More than anything
V. Tom
used spit
VII.
As one young guy
Moonstones
(Doll Not Included)
For Joe Brainard
TERRY WOLVERTON
The Dead Stepfather
Tubes
Black Slip
In China
MARK WUNDERLICH
Take Good Care of Yourself
Given in Person Only
The Trick
Aubade
Continent's Edge
East Seventh Street
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