Kim Addonizio: “Beginning with His Body and Ending in a Small Town” and “Intimacy” are reprinted from Tell Me by permission of Boa Editions, Ltd., ©2000 Kim Addonizio. “Ex-Boyfriends” is reprinted from What Is This Thing Called Love by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., ©2004 Kim Addonizio.
Ai: “Finished,” “Penis Envy,” and “Reunions with a Ghost” are reprinted from Vice by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., ©1999 Ai.
Angela Ball: “Annulment” and “What to Wear for Divorce” are reprinted from Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2007 Angela Ball.
Stephen Berg: “The Chair” is reprinted from Oblivion by permission of the University of Illinois Press, ©1995 Stephen Berg. “Listener” is reprinted from X= by permission of the University of Illinois Press, ©2002 Stephen Berg.
Gerald Costanzo: “Bournehurst-on-the-Canal,” “Excavating the Ruins of Miami Beach,” and “The Story” are reprinted from Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard by permission of Boa Editions, Ltd., ©1992 Gerald Costanzo.
Peter Covino: “Cross-Country” is reprinted from Cut Off the Ears of Winter by permission of New Issues Poetry & Prose, ©2005 Peter Covino. “Straight Boyfriend” appears courtesy of the author, ©2001 Peter Covino.
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Amy Gerstler: “Approach” appears courtesy of the author, ©1990 Amy Gerstler. “Fuck You Poem #45” is reprinted from Ghost Girl by permission of Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (U.S.A.), Inc., ©2004 Amy Gerstler. “Dusk” appears courtesy of the author, ©2008 Amy Gerstler.
Jack Gilbert: “All the Way from There to Here” and “Walking Home Across the Island” appear courtesy of the author, ©1982 Jack Gilbert.
Linda Gregg: “Dancer Holding Still” and “Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live” are reprinted from The Sacraments of Desire by permission of Graywolf Press, ©1992 Linda Gregg. “Lessening” and “The Night Before Leaving” are reprinted from Too Bright to See & Alma: Poems by permission of Graywolf Press, ©2001 Linda Gregg.
Beth Gylys: “Song of an X” and “Through the Glass” are reprinted from Bodies That Hum by permission of Silverfish Review Press, ©1999 Beth Gylys.
Mark Halliday: “Divorce Dream” is reprinted from Selfwolf by permission of the University of Chicago Press, ©1999 Mark Halliday. “Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts,” “Separated Father,” and “Heavy Trash” are reprinted from Jab by permission of the University of Chicago Press, ©2002 Mark Halliday.
James Harms: “So Long Lonely Avenue” is reprinted from Modern Ocean by permission of Carnegie Mellon University Press, ©1992 James Harms.
Robert Hass: “Privilege of Being” is reprinted from Human Wishes by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, ©1999 Robert Hass.
Bob Hicok: “5:14 from Chicago,” “Half-life,” and “The sporting life” appear courtesy of the author, ©2006 Bob Hicok.
Edward Hirsch: “Charades” and “Green Couch” appear courtesy of the author, ©2007 Edward Hirsch.
Tony Hoagland: “Sweet Ruin” is reprinted from Sweet Ruin by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, ©1992 Tony Hoagland. “Adam and Eve” and “Self-Improvement” are reprinted from Donkey Gospel by permission of Graywolf Press, ©1998 Tony Hoagland.
Cynthia Huntington: “Curse Four: Orders for the End of Time” and “Deep River Motor Inn” are reprinted from The Radiant by permission of Four Way Books, ©2003 Cynthia Huntington. “Intimations of Infidelity” appears courtesy of the author, ©2009 Cynthia Huntington.
Denis Johnson: “You” and “Sway” appear courtesy of the author, ©1994 Denis Johnson. “After Mayakovsky” and “Talking Richard Wilson Blues, by Richard Clay Wilson” are reprinted from The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected & New by permission of HarperPerennial, ©1996 Denis Johnson.
Robert Kelly: “I want to tell you why husbands stop loving wives” is reprinted from Under Words by permission of Black Sparrow Press, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., ©1983 Robert Kelly.
Yusef Komunyakaa: “After Summer Fell Apart” is reprinted from Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems by permission of Wesleyan University Press, ©2001 Yusef Komunyakaa.
Maxine Kumin: “At the End of the Affair” and “Tell Me, Black Heart” appear courtesy of the author, ©1970 Maxine Kumin.
David Lehman: “The Gift” and “When a Woman Loves a Man” are reprinted from When a Woman Loves a Man by permission of Scribner, ©2005 David Lehman.
Donna Masini: “Longing” and “Slowly” are reprinted from Turning to Fiction by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., ©2004 Donna Masini.
Jane Miller: “More or Less a Sorrow” is reprinted from August Zero by permission of Copper Canyon Press, ©1993 Jane Miller.
Steve Orlen: “The End of the Affair” and “A Man Alone” appear courtesy of the author, ©2008 Steve Orlen.
Kevin Prufer: “Divorce” and “Terrible Love” are reprinted from Finger Bone by permission of Carnegie Mellon University Press, ©1998 Kevin Prufer.
Martha Rhodes: “After” appears courtesy of the author, ©2008 Martha Rhodes.
J. Allyn Rosser: “Equitable Distribution” and “Post-thalamion” appear courtesy of the author, ©1991. “Lover Release Agreement” is reprinted from Misery Prefigured by permission of Southern Illinois University Press, ©2001 J. Allyn Rosser.
Michael Ryan: “The Pure Loneliness” and “Spider Plant” are reprinted from New & Selected Poems by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, ©2004 Michael Ryan.
Ravi Shankar: “Home Together” and “A May-December Romance” are reprinted from Instrumentality by permission of Cherry Grove Collections, ©2004 Ravi Shankar.
Alan Shapiro: “Blue Vase” is reprinted from Happy Hour by permission of the University of Chicago Press, ©1987 Alan Shapiro. “Ex-Wife: Homesickness” and “Ex-Wife: Infatuation” are reprinted from Mixed Company by permission of the University of Chicago Press, ©1996 Alan Shapiro. “Ghost” is reprinted from The Dead Alive and Busy by permission of the University of Chicago Press, ©2000 Alan Shapiro.
Richard Shelton: “Landscape with a Woman” is reprinted from Selected Poems: 1969-1981 by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1982 Richard Shelton.
Patricia Smith: “Breakdown,” “Goodbye,” “Just That Empty,” and “Minneapolis” appear courtesy of the author, ©2009 Patricia Smith.
Mark Strand: “Giving Myself Up” appears courtesy of the author, ©1992 Mark Strand.
James Tate: “Coda” and “Why I Will Not Get Out of Bed” are reprinted from Selected Poems by permission of Wesleyan University Press, ©1991 James Tate.