Table of Contents

• Plato's Puppets

  Tessa Mellas

• At the Shepherd's

  Farnoosh Moshiri

• A Portrait of Wildness

  Emily Raboteau

• The Confession of Adelaide the Great

  Debbie Urbanski

• What to Do After

  Anthony Viola

• Beaching It

  Steven Wingate, Gulf Coast Contest Winner, 2006

• Letter to Mexico

  Eula Biss

• Of Places Wasted by Speed

  Carlos Cunha, Gulf Coast Contest Winner, 2006

• The Long Corridor

  David McGlynn

• My American Fantasy

  Iraj Isaac Rahmim

• Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Mormon

  Aaron Sanders

• Eight from One Hundred Histories

  Aurelie Sheehan

• How to Lose Your Mothers

  Stephanie Walker

• Primogeniture

  Julie Agoos

• Ghost Story

  Julie Agoos

• little french town

  Jeannette Allée

• The Garden

  Catherine Barnett

• The Glossies

  Catherine Barnett

• Red Sugar

  Jan Beatty

• Stray

  Jan Beatty

• The Leopard Transport

  Jessica Bozek

• The Sea as a Losing Season

  Stephen Burt

• Title & Deed

  Stephen Burt

• A Love Supreme

  Gabrielle Calvocoressi

• Prayer in the Name of Saint Thomas Hearns

  Gabrielle Calvocoressi

• One-Way Squirrel

  Jeff Chang

• The Definition of Deer

  Jeff Chang

• Union

  Victoria Chang

• California Plate II

  Victoria Chang

• The Boat with a Boy's Heart

  Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton

• [But, as in anyone's body]

  Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

• [Lime trees spark in the well]

  Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

• [Rumor suits the wind]

  Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

• [Wind falling along the horizon]

  Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

• Indian Summer at the Retro Diner

  Elaine Equi

• Echo

  Elaine Equi

• Lucifer's Panties at Lowe's Garden Center

  Anna Journey

• Autobiography as Endless Calico

  Anna Journey

• I Have a Thing to Say about Happiness

  Christopher Kang

• The Night We Called It a Day

  Christopher Kang

• Note to Reader

  Christopher Kang

• Miss Estrogen

  Laura Kasischke

• Twilight

  Laura Kasischke

• May

  Laura Kasischke

• Poem Ending with Lines from Jarrell

  Laura Kasischke

• Torturing the Dog

  Stephanie Lenox

• Molt

  Genine Lentine

• Proposal Rock

  Jesse Lichtenstein

• Keeping Time

  Joel Long

• Elegy for a Boy in a Tree in Flames

  Clay Matthews

• Dandelions

  Regina McMorris

• Crowning

  Karyna McGlynn

• Nagasaki

  Tyler Caroline Mills, Gulf Coast Contest Winner, 2006

• What Is Left

  Tyler Caroline Mills, Gulf Coast Contest Winner, 2006

• Thing

  Kirk Nesset

• The Window at Arles

  Meghan O'Rourke

• Late Mastery

  Meghan O'Rourke

• Pentimento

  Meghan O'Rourke

• The First Caveman Poet Reminisces from His Library in Front of a Roaring Fire While His Wife's Away

  Alexis Orgera:

• The Walls of Our Sphere

  Nate Pritts

• Nota Bene

  Eric Rawson

• The Terrible Whispers of Our Elders

  Eric Rawson

• Because of You, Wallace Stevens

  Andrew Michael Roberts

• Verdigris

  Megan Roberts

• White Nightgown

  Megan Roberts

• Fifth Season

  F. Daniel Rzicznek

• Nobody Was Killed by the Blasts in the Night

  Tomaž Šalamun

• Raymond Roussel's Swan

  Tomaž Šalamun

• Epilogue

  Tomaž Šalamun

• Xenia, 1974

  Maggie Smith

• Sounds coming through Empty Sky

  Terry Ann Thaxton

• Fathers and Daughters

  Susan Wood

• Chance

  Susan Wood