#1: Love Song (“Love Poem” by J. Frederick Nims)
#2: Hope I Die Before I Get Old (“old age” by e e cummings)
#3: Because the Night (“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost)
#4: All Lies and Jest (“The Boxer” by Paul Simon)
#5: Of the Body, of the Mother, of the Mind (“The Question of my Mother” by Robin Ekiss)
#6: Intelligent Design (” Colosseum” by Katie Ford)
#7: By the Sea (“The End of March” by Elizabeth Bishop)
#8: Modern Minstrel (“Red Right Ankle” by Collin Melloy)
#9: Prose by Any Other Name ( Jane Hirshfield – “Waking the Morning Dreamless after a Long Sleep”
#10: (sigh) (various lines from the AWP conference)
#11: Good Advice – (“Dance Stupider” by Hannah Stephenson)
#12: The Unspoken Feeling- Jack Gilbert
#13: A Different Kind of Music – Patrick Rosal
#14: Dedications -”Dedications” -Adrienne Rich
#15: Telling It True – “What Makes Me Happy” – Douglas Goetsch
#16: Giving Thanks - “Thanks” W.S. Merwin
#17: ”Famous” Naomi Shihab Nye
#18: Nepotism – “The Apiary” by Rachel Bunting