Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / David Lehman -- Introduction / Paisley Rekdal -- "Saving the Children" / Julia Alvarez -- "Customer Loyalty Program" / Brandon Amico -- from "The Galleons" / Rick Barot -- "Invention of I" / Kaveh Bassiri -- "A Man Drops a Coat on the Sidewalk and Almost Falls into the Arms of Another" / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Nothing Beats a Fair" / Ryan Black -- "Bells" / Bruce Bond -- "Orange" / William Brewer -- "Tender" / Lucie Brock-Broido -- "Obit [Privacy-died]" / Victoria Chang -- "The Waking Life" / Heather Christle -- "Becoming a Forest" / Ama Codjoe -- "In Line to Vote on Our Future Climate" / Meg Day -- "All Through the War" / Timothy Donnelly -- "In Which the Devil Asks Me for My Name" / Hazem Fahmy -- "The Shore" / Vievee Francis -- "Little Death" / Rachel Galvin -- "To X (Written on This Device You Made)" / Julian Gewirtz -- "Birches Are the Gods' Favorite Tree" / Regan Good -- "Sex" / Christine Gosnay -- "It Cannot Be" / Jorie Graham -- "On Patmos, Kneeling in the Panagia" / Samuel Green -- "Big Gay Ass Poem" / BC Griffith -- "Good Mother" / Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- "The Conversion of Paul" / Jennifer Grotz -- "During the Middle Ages" / Camille Guthrie -- "Putting the Pieces Together" / Janice N. Harrington -- "Sunday at the Mall" / Tony Hoagland -- "Fifteen" / Kimberly Johnson -- "The Garden of Earthly Delights" / Troy Jollimore -- "In a Time of Peace" / Ilya Kaminsky -- "Sho" / Douglas Kearney -- "I Never Figured How to Get Free" / Donika Kelly -- "After," / Christopher Kempf -- "Bear" / Steven Kleinman -- "The Gift" / Jennifer L. Knox -- "The Jungle" / Yusef Komunyakaa -- "After a Transcript of the Final Voicemails of 9/11 Victims" / Nick Lantz -- "On Faith" / Shara Lessley -- "When I Feel a Whoop Comin' On" / Steven Leyva -- "Locomotion" / Cate Lycurgus -- "Qassida to the Statue of Sappho in Mytilini" / Khaled Mattawa -- "The Punishment of One Is the Love Song of Another" / Jennifer Militello -- "Night of the Living" / Susan Leslie Moore -- "A Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn" / John Murillo -- "Chasm" / Hieu Minh Nguyen -- "Hyacinth Aria" / Sharon Olds -- "Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice" / Matthew Olzmann -- "Climate Is Something Different" / Paul Otremba -- "The Seeds" / Cecily Parks -- "Something to Believe In" / Carl Phillips -- "At Night" / Stanley Plumly -- "Fox" / Jana Prikryl -- "Archaeology" / Kevin Prufer -- "A Partial History" / Ariana Reines -- "The Poorly Built House" / Max Ritvo -- "The Keeper Will Enter the Cage" / Clare Rossini -- "American Cockroach" / Robyn Schiff -- "Shainadas" / Brandon Som -- "Dysphonia" / Jon William Stout -- "Sprang" / Arthur Sze -- "The Prayer" / James Tate -- "Sitting Isohydric Meditation" / Brian Teare -- "I Am a Father Now" / Craig Morgan Teicher -- "She talk like this 'cause me Mum born elsewhere, say" / Lynne Thompson -- "The Stag" / Matthew Thorburn -- "Isfahan, 2010" / Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad -- "Recessional" / Corey Van Landingham -- "Samson, 1674" / Rosanna Warren -- "Machinery" / Robert Wrigley -- "Reading Not Reading" / Ryo Yamaguchi -- "The President's Telegram" / John Yau -- "Opioid, Alcohol, Despair" / Emily Yong -- "Study of Two Figures (Pasipha©±/Sado)" / Monica Youn -- "My Life" / Matthew Zapruder.