Robert Arroyo, Jr., Lucifer Speaks of Self-Realization
Robert Avery, Why There Were Flowers When You Came Back
Lana Hechtman Ayers, To the Art Teacher
O. Ayes, On the 3rd Night of Feeding
Raquel Bailey, Haiku
Janet Baker, Ariadne on Naxos
Barry Ballard, Outside the Herd
Carol Bardoff, Fat Clock
Joan E. Bauer, Dream of Wholeness
Michelle Bitting, Sweet Pea: Knee-Hi Mix
Doug Bolling, Ice Breaking Up on Pond
Alan Britt, November 30, 2001
Claudia Burbank, The Executioner’s Confession
W. E. Butts, The Calling
Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Saints
Susan H. Case, Sanjûrô, as Played by Toshirô Mifune, Occupies the Body of a Yard Guy
Rob Cook, Market Research Interviewer
Nina Corwin, Right Tool, Right Time
Matt Dennison, Witness
Ruth E. Foley, Summer Poem for a Sailor
Rebecca Foust, After the Hurricane
Jeffrey Franklin, Apple Pie for Breakfast
Gail Giewont, A Life in Jigsaw
Amber-Lorien Gilbert, The Lake, When Barbara Kingsolver and I broke the law
Marvin Glasser, A Guide for Living
Cleo Griffith, Another Inspiration from a Swan
Christine Hamm, In the Airplane
Laura Hirneisen, The Bluebird on Self-Loathing
Curtis Honeycutt, Word Voodoo
Una Nichols Hynum, On the Playing Field
Richard Kenefic, You Are Here
Lillian Baker Kennedy, Dear John
Sandra Kohler, Graffiti
Lyn Lifshin, For Months She Came At Night, A Strange Presence
Jeffrey Little, Dogon A.D. & The Hard Blues, Witches & Devils
Joanne Lowery, Accessory
Sarah Luczaj, what more can i ask for
Brian Lutz, Night of Broken Stars
Marilyn McCabe, About the Type

*Nominated for Pushcart Prize

M. B. McLatchey, Snow Globe, Arcadia
Sarah Maclay, The Moment of Anything
David T. Manning, An Outdoor Wedding
Ken Markee, Hauling
Holaday Mason, The Man she Found on the Beach
Frank Matagrano, Nothing Was Out of Reach*
David Meischen, The Shapes of Hats, Sunday Afternoon with Seurat
Philip Memmer, Vertigo
Nicholas Messenger, The Arrow
Jesse Millner, The Angels of Laguna, On the Saturday Afternoon After the Rapture*
Judith H. Montgomery, Caul*
Abby E. Murray, The Hussy
Judith Pacht, Bird
Carla Panciera, A Bird in Period Three British Literature*
Lynn Pedersen, How to Move Away
Adam Penna, Monks and Migrant Workers, The God I Like Must Be False Because I Like Him
James Profitt, “Notes on the Notes & Letters You Send Me”
Doug Ramspeck, Sumac Prophecy, Ghost Memory
Vicki Reitenauer, Message to Her Other Man, Figure and Ground*
Margaret A. Robinson, Nietzche Nugget, Levertov’s Types
F. Daniel Rzicznek, Thicket, Lightyear
Dennis Saleh, “Die Frau Im Mond”
Penelope Scambly Schott, Landscape with Grandson
Edythe Haendel Schwartz, Closed Out by Scale
David Shumate, Lucifer, The Bedouins of Paris*
Sarah Sloat, April 4
Erin Elizabeth Smith, February
Richard Spilman, Primum Mobile
Dianne Stepp, Mental Status Exam
Kim  Waller, Imagine an Art, When Did It Happen
Ann Walters, "Dr. Zhoudou's Cabinet of Hypnosis and Broken Hearts"
Christian Ward, Smoke and Silence
Ivy Warwick, Wheat
Nancy White, Travel
Cyril Wong, Aftermath
Jody A. Zorgdrager, If Not, Small Visitation
Frederick Zydek, Living on Fire