• PHILIP LEVINE - Never Before • MICHAEL RYAN - When I Was Conceived
• RICHARD FROST - First Haircut
• PETER COOLEY - Poem on the First Day of School
• BRUCE BERGER - Waterfall
• CARLOS REYES - Bridges
• LEN ROBERTS - Window of Our Soul
• KAREN SWENSON - The Ice-Cream Sandwich
• VERN RUTSALA - Sunday Morning Walk
• MARK HALLIDAY - First
• M.L. WILLIAMS - First Kill
• GERALD STERN - Suzanne
• BROWNING PORTER - First Time Going to School All by Myself
• DEBRA KANG DEAN - Hail
• JENNIFFER GROTZ - First Glasses
• RICARDO PAU-LLOSA - Frutas
• ANNE-MARIE OOMEN - Peaches
• TONY GLOEGGLER - Foreplay
• ROBIN BECKER - Riding Lesson
• MATTHEW ROHRER - Winged Snake Found on a Path
• JEFFREY McDANIEL - The First One
• DAVID KELLER - Joining the Circus
• JOAN ALESHIRE - Fingers in the Bread
• PETER MAKUCK - Story of Sound
• MICHAEL WATERS - Horse
• TONY GLOEGGER - Fowler Street
• PETER E. MURPHY - Learning to Swim at Poverty Beach
• MARK COX - Treasure
• JOHN LOGAN - The Picnic
• BARON WORMSER - First Love, Sixteen Years Old
• LARRY LEVIS - The Cry
• TIM SEIBLES - First Kiss
• KIM ADDONIZIO - First Kiss
• SILVIA CURBELO - Fall
• PETER E. MURPHY - Sequence
• SUSAN BROWNE - First Drink
• KURT BROWNE - First Time at the Wheel
• CHARLES HARPER WEBB - Ooh My Soul
• JAMES LOGENBACH - Orphic Night
• CAROL MOLDAW - The Widening
• MEG KEARNEY - First Blow-Job
• JOEL BROUWER - Development
• RICHARD FROST - Fifteen
• ADAM HALBUR - 4-H
• BARON WORMSER - The Single Urge
• ALAN MICHAEL PARKER - The Eclipse
• ERIKA MEITNER - All the Pools in Queens
• MILES A. COON - Trade Show
• STEVEN HUFF - The First Time I Heard Elvis
• DEBORAH DeNICOLA - My Father's First Fight
• PATRICK PHILLIPS - The Doe
• SOPHIE CABOT BLACK - The Hunt
• RON EGTZ - Into First
• A. VAN JORDAN - Orientation: Wittenberg University
• KIMIKO HAHN - Firsts in No Particular Order
• JASON SHINDER - New Year
• MATTHEW ZAPRUDER - Thank You for Being You
• GRAY JOCABIK - The Sphere
• ERIC JOHNSON - Chelsea
• ELLEN BAS - God and the G-Spot
• JOSEPH MILLAR - Poem for a New Girlfriend
• STEVEN HUFF - Sperm Count
• THOMAS LUX - Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child
• MEG KEARNEY - Goodnight, Goodbye
• KATRINA ROBERTS - Cantat, viii.
• D. NURSKE - The Birth Room
• JEFFREY HARRISON - Arrival
• ANNE MARIE MACARI - New York, 1927
• BETH ANN FENNELLY - Latching On, Falling Off
• NICHOLAS SAMARAS - First Nightmare Waking •DEENA LINETT - Cathedral
• J. ALLYN ROSSER - First Empathy
• D. NURSKE - August Horizon
• KATE JOHNSON - Query
• MARK COX - At the Crematorium, My Son Asks Why We're All Wearing Black
• BARBARA HURD - My Son's Wedding, My Daughter's
• ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY - First Night in the New House
• ELLEN DORÉ WATSON - First Date in Twenty-Five Years
• PETER COOLEY - Poem on My Birthday
• AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER - Evidence of Life
• DORIANNE LAUX - Each Sound
• ROGER FANNING - The Middle Age
• KENNETH ROSEN - The Kildan Women
• JENIFER GROTZ - Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man
• CHRISTINE CASSON - To the South
• ARTHUR SZE - La Bajada
• ELLEN DORÉ WATSON - First Sight
• DANIEL TOBIN - Bridge View
• PETER WOOD - First Job Viper
• DAVID DODD LEE - First Turtle
• COLETTE INEZ - Taking Calls in Freeport, NY
• EDWARD HIRSCH - Second Story Warehouse
• ERIKA MEITNER - Job
• DOUGLAS GOETSCH - First Time Reading Freud
• NORMAN STOCK - The First Time I Robbed Tiffany's
• GRACE SCHULMAN - First Nights
• MICHAEL RYAN - First Exercise
• Peter Sears - Good Morning Coffee Makes Vivid of the Vague; Suddnely You Have Hands and Eyes and Legs!
• KENNETH ROSEN - Of Marilyn, and Marijuana
• THOM WARD - Poem Without a Freight Train or a Pocket Watch
• CARTER REVARD - Swinging Low
• STEPHEN DUNN - Blind Date with the Muse
• MARVIN BELL - First Poem
• ESTHA WEINER - When my poem appeared
• ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY - First Books
• ENID SHOMER - First Sunset at Outler's Ranch
• TANIA ROCHELL - Feeding the Worms
• DAVID KELLER - After the First Snow
• MICHAEL WATERS - First Lesson: Winter Trees
• VIEVEE FRANCIS - The First Stone
• WENDY WILDER LARSEN - After
• JOE-ANNE McLAUGHLIN - Introducing New Year's SOULUTIONS, From Saint Terri's Inc.
• VIRGIL SUÅREZ - H. Chic
• ENID SHOMER - My Mother's Body
• KAREN McCOSKER - Tinnitus
• DZVINIA ORLOWSKY - Losing My Hair
• JASON SHINDER - Changing
• TSEVERIN FRASER - Elevator
• RYAN VAN CLEAVE - Confession
• BENJAMIN PALOFF - My Corpses
• JIM SCHLEY - Inquest, By Hand
• About the Editor
• Biographical Notes
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