• Mina Loy's "Parturition"
• Foreword - Alicia Ostriker
• Introductions - Catherine Wagner and Rebecca Wolff
• Night-pieces for A Child - Adrienne Rich
• from the Church - Jean Valentine
• The Locked Ward: O.T. - Jean Valentine
• Single Mother, 1966 - Jean Valentine
• Abortion Child - Jean Valentine
• Her dream: the child - Jean Valentine
• Dearest - Jean Valentine
• At the Door - Jean Valentine
• You Are Not One in a Sequence - Jean Valentine
• Maria Gravida, Mary Expectant - Jean Valentine
• from Natural Birth - Toi Derricotte
• The Fat Baby - Caroline Knox
• Therse Lavasseur - Caroline Knox
• from The Mother/Child Papers - Alicia Ostriker
• from Zombie Notes - Maureen Owen
• Bedtime - Maureen Owen
• from Letters to the Letters S and F - Maureen Owen
• from Hearts in Space - Maureen Owen
• from The No-Travels Journal - Maureen Owen
• Topography - Maureen Owen
• Giving Birth - Wanda Coleman
• 'Tis Morning Makes Mother A Killer - Wanda Coleman
• child of air and light not speaking - Kathleen Fraser
• Q - Fanny Howe
• The Nursery - Fanny Howe
• Conclusively - Fanny Howe
• A downpour - Martha Ronk
• Now it's up to the world
• "'You know how I am,' he said, 'when it is getting late'" - Martha Ronk
• from Spinoza in Her Youth - Norma Cole
• Dear Dark Continent - Alice Notley
• Three Strolls - Alice Notley
• 3 Postpartum Exercises - Alice Notley
• Splashes of Yellow - Alice Notley
• Walk, Walk, Walk - Alice Notley
• But He Says I Misunderstood - Alice Notley
• from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby - Alice Notley
• January - Alice Notley
• from Waltzing Matilda "12/2/80" - Alice Notley
• The World's 21 Greatest Animals: A Play - Alice Notley
• The Howling Saint T-Shirt - Alice Notley
• Midwinter Day, Section 2 - Bernadette Mayer
• Two Days After Joanna Had Two Stitches - Bernadette Mayer
• Marie Makes Fun of Me at the Shore - Bernadette Mayer
• Chocolate Sonnet - Bernadette Mayer
• A Birth - Maxin Chernoff
• Sotto Voce - Maxine Chernoff
• Identity Principle - Maxine Chernoff
• from Have You A Daughter? - Maxine Chernoff
• from The Angel of History - Carolyn Forche
• Curfew - Carolyn Forche
• Fiction - Rae Armantrout
• Attention - Rae Armantrout
• Crossing - Rae Armantrout
• A Story - Rae Armantrout
• Bases - Rae Armantrout
• Merely by Wilderness - Molly Peacock
• ChrisEaster - Molly Peacock
• On the Street - Molly Peacock
• The Ghost - Molly Peacock
• N/est - Ann Lauterbach
• Time Problem - Brenda Hillman
• Assent - Anne Waldman
• Poem - Anne Waldman
• Hermeneutical - Anne Waldman
• Baby's Pantoum - Anne Waldman
• The Moment the Two Worlds Meet - Sharon Olds
• New Mother - Sharon Olds
• The Clasp - Sharon Olds
• The Talk - Sharon Olds
• The One Girl at the Boys' Party - Sharon Olds
• The Language of the Brag - Sharon Olds
• First Weeks - Sharon Olds
• Rose - Rachel Blau Duplessis
• from Writing - Rachel Blau Duplessis
• Draft #2: She - Rachel Blau Duplessis
• Utica Station - Kimiko Hahn
• The Shower - Kimiko Hahn
• The Variable Field - Kimiko Hahn
• Everybody Was His Mother - Carla Harryman
• in temples - Akilah Oliver
• murdering - Akilah Oliver
• in Aporia - Akilah Oliver
• Provolone Baby - Thylias Moss
• A Catcher for an Atomic Bouquet - Thylias Moss
• Those Men at Redbones - Thylias Moss
• Gossamer and Thinner - Thylias Moss
• One for all Newborns - Thylias Moss
• What No One Could Have Told Them - C.D. Wright
• Detail from What No One Could Have Told Them - C.D. Wright
• Why Leave You So Soon Gone - C.D. Wright
• Personal Insurance - Mairead Byrne
• Downtown Crossing - Mairead Byrne
• The Handy EveryMother Zone-Out Capacitor - Mairead Byrne
• Circus - Mairead Byrne
• A Bonnet Gospel - Jean Donnelly
• The Four Year Old Girl - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
• I Love Morning - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
• Over Dark Arches - Annie Finch
• Churching - Annie Finch
• from Dr. B's Poof and Dare - Gillian Conoley
• (Erasures of Dr. Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care) - Gillian Conoley
• from I'm Not Effective In Fact I Use Uncalculated Rhythm Method - Karena Youtz
• Attache Case - Margaret Christakos
• Son - Margaret Christakos
• A Charm for Sleep - Pam Rehm
• Indebted - Pam Rehm
• Toccata with Child - Claudia Keelan
• To the New World - Claudia Keelan
• After Giving Birth, I Recall the Madonna and Child - Julianna Baggott
• Vigil - Elizabeth Robinson
• Coast - Elizabeth Robinson
• Hammock - Elizabeth Robinson
• Celestial Militia - Larissa Szporluk
• Mare Nubium - Larissa Szporluk
• Mare Fecunditatis - Larissa Szporluk
• Doppelganger - Larissa Szporluk
• Vivarium - Miranda Field
• What Birds Feel, Fish Feel, I Don't Know - Miranda Field
• The Milk the Hidden Ground the Armor Struggle on the Grass - Miranda Field
• Animal/Vegetable Fable - Miranda Field
• Boy Pouring Water - Miranda Field
• Citronella - Miranda Field
• Red Radio Flyer - Kimberly Lyons
• Astroland - Kimberly Lyons
• Miscarriage in Five Acts - Deborah Landau
• Mothering During Wartime - Caroline Maso
• Family Mommy - Sharon Harris
• A Conception - Kathleen Ossip
• Nursling - Kathleen Ossip
• Babyland - Kathlen Ossip
• from Wrought - Julie Carr
• Iliadic Familias (with Insertions from Homer) - Julie Carr
• Mother Poem - Julie Carr
• Here Happy Is No Part of Love - Rachel Zucker
• from First Sea - Laynie Browne
• Female Codon - Zhang Er
• Lecture on the Mother Image - Zhang Er
• from Abidjan Notebooks - Leslie Bumstead
• Lyana Sick and Next to Her - Olena Kaltiak-Davis
• "House" is Being Cleaned - Olena Kalytiak-Davis
• Look at Lesbia Now! - Olena Kaltiak-Davis
• In Praise of My Children - Olena Kaltiak-Davis
• from No Guns, No Durian - Susan M. Schultz
• Amniocentesis - Nicole Cooley
• Pregnant at the Archive - Nicole Cooley
• Cesarean - Nicole Cooley
• What Little Girls Are Made Of - Martha Silano
• Elegy for the Footie Pajamas - Beth Ann Fennelly
• Bite Me - Beth Ann Fennelly
• The Gods Tell Me, You Will Forget All This - Beth Ann Fennelly
• Wore a Hemp Hate Ate Grapes - Hoa Nguyen
• "By Goods We Destroy Good" - Hoa Nguyen
• The Earth Is in Me - Hoa Nguyen
• Up Nursing - Hoa Nguyen
• Eurasiacan - Hoa Nguyen
• Nonviolence - Marie Howe
• Courage - Marie Howe
• The false transfressive evangelista - Elizabeth Treadwell
• creche - Elizabeth Treadewell
• Scrawl - Lee Ann Brown
• 8th Month Couplets - Lee Ann Brown
• Up in Arms - Lee Ann Brown
• Music Plays All by Itself - Lee Ann Brown
• Tatami Mommy - Lee Ann Brown
• Miranda Lee Arrives in Alamos - Lee Ann Brown
• New Home to Pollen Path - Lee Ann Brown
• Anything - Lee Ann Brown
• Name of the Game - Lee Ann Brown
• Aesthetic Symbiotic - Caroline Crumpacker
• Small Fictive Devices: Family - Caroline Crumpacker
• Viewer Discretion and Young Child - Caroline Crumpacker
• A Man Can Still Dream of Cigarettes - Jenny Browne
• The Season When Some People Will Say - Jenny Browne
• from utter - Susana Gardner
• Steady, Steady - Jennifer Michael Hecht
• from Plot - Claudia Rankine
• Evening Without Swallows - Lisa Fishman
• Song for Mr. Singer - Lisa Fishman
• Coming Apart Between the Hours - Arielle Greenberg
• Reenactment - Arielle Greenberg
• G is for Glassblower. Gestated. Gravid. Ugly - Arielle Greenberg
• St. Liberata and the Alien Hordes - Lara Glenum
• Message to the Department of the Interior - Lara Glenum
• The Eggs of my Amnesia - Lara Glenum
• The Golden Wires Signing in the Veins - Lara Glenum
• Fertility - Lara Glenum
• Magnificat - Lara Glenum
• Nursery - Susan Holbrook
• Hatch - Christine Hume
• Lullaby - Christine Hume
• from the Body Clock - Eleni Sikelianos
• Wherein a Surrogate is Determined Prime - Danielle Pafunda
• Wherein a Surrogate Fails to Admit - Danielle Pafunda
• Wherein a Surrogate's Amelioration - Danielle Pafunda
• Wherein a Surrogate Assumes the Role - Danielle Pafunda
• Wherein a Surrogate's Fruition 2 - Danielle Pafunda
• Nature Study - Camille Guthrie
• Let Me Not Wander - Camille Guthrie
• Meaning What - Camille Guthrie
• BBC - Camille Guthrie
• In the Night Hospital - Camille Guthrie
• from Knot - Stacy Doris
• Late Onset Particle Capitalism - Amy Sara Carroll
• Let Down - Amy Sara Carroll
• Thrombotic - Amy Sara Carroll
• Ovulation - Amy Sara Carroll
• crystal virtues - Betsy Fagin
• satisfied and tickled - Betsy Fagin
• I Hear America Swimming - Sasha Steensen
• The Stranger at the Gates - Sasha Steensen
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments