“Winter Scene” copyright © 1965 by A. R. Ammons, from Collected Poems 1951–1971 by A. R. Ammons. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“Night City Sunflower” by Tracy Jo Barnwell copyright © Tracy Jo Barnwell, originally published in the Missouri Review. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Fish” from The Complete Poems 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
Horoscope for Valentine’s Day 2008 copyright © Rob Brezsny. Used by permission of the author.
“No Matter What, After All, and That Beautiful Word So” by Hayden Carruth, from Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight toward the Distant Islands, copyright © 1989 by Hayden Carruth. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” copyright © 1935, 1963, 1991 by the Trustees from the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1978 by George James Firmage, from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
“In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound, from Personae, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Sunflower” from Tantalus in Love: Poems by Alan Shapiro. Copyright © 2005 by Alan Shapiro. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
“Little Lion Face” from The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson. Copyright © 1991, 2003 by The Literary Estate of May Swenson. Reprinted with permission by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
“How Everything Happens (Based on a Study of the Wave)” by May Swenson. Best efforts have been made to attain reprint permission for this work.
“Photograph from September 11” from Monologue of a Dog, copyright © 2002 by Wislawa Szymborska, English translation by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, reprinted by permission of the publisher.
“Yield Everything, Force Nothing” by Jean Valentine from Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2004). © 2004 by Jean Valentine and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.