How a poem puts skin on a mystery; Philip Levine, "Making Light of It" --
How a poem shapes memory; Deborah Digges, "Stealing Lilacs in the Cemetery" --
How a poem articulates a feeling; C.K. Williams, "Love: Beginnings" --
How a poem crystalizes an image; Yusef Komunyakaa, "Yellowjackets" --
How a poem makes meaning with music; Elise Partridge, "Domestic Interior:Child Watching Mother" --
How a poem snapshots a moment of drama; Tiphanie Yanique, "My brother comes to me" --
How a poem seduces us with outlandishness; Diane Seuss, "Free beer" --
How a poem cooks up dark insight; Philip Metres, "Recipe from the Abbasid" --
How a poem pushes us away and beckons us closer; Marilyn Dumont, "How to Make Pemmican" --
How a poem wrestles with its inheritance; Rahat Kurd, "Ghazal: In the Persian" --
How a poem lives between languages; Natalia Toledo, trans. Clare Sullivan, "Flower that drops its petals" --
How a poem invites us to praise; Ross Gay, "Ode to Drinking Water from My Hands" --
How a poem answers some questions but not others; Amber McMillan, "The Light I've Seen in Your Hair I Have Found in My Own Hands" --
How a poem clarifies its blur; Jeff Latosik, "Aubade Photoshop" --
How a poem changes as we read; Ali Blythe, "Shattered" --
How a poem will (not) save us; Raoul Fernandes, "Life with Tigers" --
How a poem loves a misunderstanding; Richard Siken, "Dots Everywhere" --
How a poem mistrusts its idols; Cassidy McFadzean, "You Be the Skipper, I'll Be the Sea" --
How a poem doesn't dish; Damian Rogers, "Ode to a Rolling Blackout" --
How a poem impersonates a tomato; Oliver Bendorf, "Queer Facts about Vegetables" --
How a poem seeks new models; Shannon Maguire, "[The most visible ants are]" --
How a poem makes itself out of unusual materials; Madhur Anand, "Especially in a Time" --
How a poem chooses the apocalypse behind curtain #3; Jennifer L. Know, "The New Let's Make a Deal" --
How a poem assembles a smashed record the obstacles; Donna Stonecipher, "Model City [4]" --
How a poem tried to connect us to the neighbourhood; Bren Simmer, "[Night of nesting dolls]" --
How a poem evokes wonder; Sarah Holland-Batt, "Botany" --
How a poem reaches for transcendence; Eric Pankey,"Ash" --
How a poem mourns; Don Paterson, "Mercies" --
How a poem confronts the limitations of our empathy; Soraya Peerbaye, "Trials" --
How a poem Tries to get into it; Rowan Ricardo Phillips, "Little Song" --
How a poem chattily wonders about life's purpose; Ulrikka S. Gernes, "On H.C. Anderson Boulevard During Rush Hour" --
How a poem transform a stroll into a ceremony; Joy Harjo, "Walk" --
How a poem imperfectly reconciles complexity; Liz Howard, "A Wake" --
How a poem Haunts; Norman Dubie, "Lines for Little Mila.
