After Raphael / Lucie Brock-Broido -- Another night in the ruins / Galway Kinnell -- An anthem / Sonia Sanchez -- The black heralds / Cesar Vallejo -- Curse / Frank Bidart -- I, I, I / Hayden Carruth -- Mastectomy / Alicia Ostriker -- One of the smallest / Gerald Stern -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Russian letter / John Yau -- Sentimental education / Mary Ruefle -- Walk your body down / J. T. Barbarese -- The war correspondent / Ciaran Carson -- What the poets could have been / Julianna Baggott -- Witness / Liz Waldner.