Ebook: The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages

2003: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Everything ravaged, everything burned / Wells Tower -- The limit / Christian Wiman -- The lace maker / Carl Dennis -- Scordatura / Mark Ray Lewis -- How to meditate / Brenda Miller -- The sensual world / Louise Gluck -- Lunch at the Blacksmith / Cornelia Nixon -- To be honest / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- The past / Chris Forhan -- The Mandelbrot set / Janet Burroway -- Camp Cedar Crest / Alexander Theroux -- From the psalter / Jennifer Atkinson -- Casualidades / Carolyn Alessio -- Solatium / Philip D. Beidler -- The church of omnivorous light / Robert Wrigley -- House of stone and song / Margaret Gibson -- The pass / Steve Almond -- Line / John Hales -- The beauties of nature / Mary Jo Bang -- Ode to the air traffic controller / Joshua Beckman -- The lives of strangers / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Traveling with my mother / Katherine Taylor -- Prayer against the experts and their ways / Paul Maliszewski -- The part of the bee's body embedded in the flesh / Carol Frost -- I demand to know where you're taking me / Dan Chaon -- Ginkgo tree / Tom Crawford -- The master of Delft / Aleksandr Kushner -- Cock robin / Miranda Field -- Amazing grace / Bradford Morrow -- Heat waves in winter distance / James Galvin -- The road to Rome, and back again / Michael Palma -- The least you need to know about radio / Ben Marcus -- Cord / Linda Gregerson -- On the nature of human romantic interaction / Karl Iagnemma -- Night train / Ted Genoways. Fields of mercy / Ladette Randolph -- The woman who hated Valentine's Day / Susan Hahn -- The worst degree of unforgivable / Nicholas Montemarano -- The hickeys on Sally Palermo's neck : some thoughts on beauty and the creative life / Andrea Hollander Budy -- Two variations on a theme by Stevens / Sarah Manguso -- Pilgrims / Julie Orringer -- Red berries / Jane Hirshfield -- Where the dog is buried / Gary Gildner -- Book / Robert Pinsky -- Candace counts soup / Nancy Lord -- (My lot to spin the purple : that the tabernacle should be made) / D.A. Powell -- Sister Carrie at 101 / Joseph Epstein -- He writes to the soul / Christopher Howell -- Dangerous discoveries / Melanie Rae Thon -- In the cafe / Grace Schulman -- Yangban / Junse Kim -- from The lightning field / Carol Moldaw -- Jinx / Aimee Bender -- Autumn in the yard we planted / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- The instructor / Joyce Carol Oates -- Cloud atlas / Donald Platt -- Landscape with bees / David Young -- Cabeza / Monique De Varennes -- For a Chinese poet writing through the night up on the edge of Mt. Pollux / Dara Wier -- Autochthonic song / Rebecca Seiferle -- Sonnet / Karen Volkman -- Heron / William Wenthe -- Off Island / Michael Parker -- Killing salmon / Matt Yurdana -- A working boy's Whitman / George Evans -- The weight / Richard Bausch -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions since 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- Contributors' notes -- Index.;1992-93: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- The Columbus School for Girls / Liza Wieland -- Mine own John Berryman / Philip Levine -- From the meadow / Peter Everwine -- Red lipstick / Yolanda Barnes -- Blood brother / Ayla Nutku Bachman -- On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner -- Apple rind / Carol Frost -- Reading with the poets / Stanley Plumly -- Whitewing / Janet Peery -- My best solder / Ha Jin -- Prolegomena / Ken Bernard -- Parents / Robert Wrigley -- Inscriptions / Eavan Boland -- Ray / Hayden Carruth -- Simplicities/ William H. Gass -- Rubber life / Francine Prose -- Insomnia / Timothy Geiger -- Wheatfield under clouded sky / Campbell McGrath -- The telegraph relay station / Norman Lavers -- A day at the St. Regis with Dame Edith / Perdita Schaffner -- Circumstances / Richard jackson -- Four days : earthquake / Fary Young -- Freeway bypass (detail from map) / Fred Pfeil -- Hush hush / Steven Barthelme -- Mannequins / Laurie Sheck -- To a wren on calcary / Larry Levis -- Against decoration / Mary Karr -- A note on the type / Alexander Theroux -- Vespers : parousia / Louise Gluc̈k -- Grid / Mark Jarman -- Border watch / Gretchen Legler -- Four stories / Lydia Davis -- Oh, by the way / Ed Ochester -- My father's body / William Matthews -- Acts of kindness / Mary Michael Wagner -- Christa / Sigrid Nunez -- But bird / Paul Zimmer -- To the muse / Carol Muske -- War / Molly Giles -- Critterworld / Steve Watkins -- Quick eats / Charles Simic -- Worldly beauty / T.R. Hummer -- Bodies / Susan Moon -- A clarion for the quincentenary / Eliot Weinberger -- When I was saved / Andrew Hudgins -- Good heavens / Pattiann Rogers -- Like hands on a cave wall / Karen Minton -- Look on the bright side / Dagoberto Gilb -- Snow figure / David Baker -- Lost fugue for Chet / Lynda Hull -- I would call it derangement / Gerald Stern -- The wrestler's heart / Gary Soto -- The other League of Nations / Alberto Alvaro Rios -- Twelve o'clock / Carolyn Kizer -- Train whistles in the wind and rain / Henry Carlie -- Kerflooey / Sharon Sheehe Stark -- The loom / R.A. Sasaki -- The pull / Sharon Olds -- Black and blue / Charles Wright -- Glimpses : Raymond Carver / Sam Halpert, James Linville -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions (1976-1992) -- Contributors' notes -- Contributing small presses -- Index.;1981-82: Lost time accident / Gayle Baney Whittier -- Cantina music / Derek Walcott -- Death in the glitter palace / David Hellerstein -- Lagoon / Joseph Brodsky -- Waiting in line / William Stafford -- Return / Carolyn Forche{u00B4} -- Flocculus / David Ohle -- What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver -- On the contemporary hunger for wonders / Theodore Roszak -- Leda / Marilyn Krysl -- Tomb of Ste{u00B4}phan Mallarme{u00B4} / Charles Simic -- Weldon Kees in Mexico, 1965 / David Wojahn -- In glory land / Julia Thacker -- Coyote holds a full house in his hand / Leslie Silko -- Selections from My Life / Lyn Hejinian -- Dominion / Barry Targan -- Archives of Eden / George Steiner -- Floor / C.K. Williams -- World breaking apart / Louise Gluck -- Widow's yard / Isabella Gardner -- In the land of plenty / Susan Engberg -- Arthur Bond / William Goyen -- Why I love country music / Elizabeth Ann Tallent -- Interweavings : reflections on the role of dream in the making of poems / Denise Levertov -- Scatsquall in spring / Judith Moffett -- At the far end of a long wharf / Thomas Lux -- Fionn in the valley / Benedict Kiely -- A Romantic interlude from Recollections of my life with Diaghilev / Eleanora Antinova -- Experiment and traditional forms in contemporary literature / Douglas Messerli -- Girl talk / Denise Cassens -- Sadness of brothers / Galway Kinnell -- Dead fish / Daniel Halpern -- Motel in Troy, N.Y. / Josephine Jacobsen -- Four ways of computing midnight / Francis Phelan -- On the Metropol almanac / Russian samizdat -- Hunger / Jack Gilbert -- Blame / Elizabeth Spires -- When I was a child / S. Nourbese -- New York City in 1979 / Kathy Acker -- Eclipse / David Long -- Literature and lucre : a meditation / Leslie Fiedler -- River again and again / Linda Gregg -- For Elizabeth Bishop / Sandra McPherson -- After the interrogation / Lawrence Kearney -- Woden's day / Jean Stafford -- Ode / Philip Schultz -- Three studies for a head of John the Baptist / Chana Bloch -- Gentlemen in the U-boats / Sharon Olds -- General and the small town / Chen Shixu -- Dying / Robert Pinsky -- Silo letter in the dead of a warm winter / Michael McFee -- This day / Robert Creeley.;1985-86: Introduction / George Plimpton -- Quantum Jumps / Tim O'Brien -- Hemingway's wound, and its consequences for American literature / Malcolm Cowley -- Fundamental project of technology / Galway Kinnell -- Hot ice / Stuart Dybek -- Sundays / Ellen Wilbur -- Exodus / Carolyn Kizer -- Sorrow and rapture / Maura Stanton -- The art of seeing with one's own eyes / Sharon Doubiago -- Turning out / Gayle Whittier -- The elect / Peter Cooley -- Shooting / August Klenzaher -- Dinosaurs of the Hollywood Delta / Gerald Costanzo -- Whiskey, whiskey, gin, gin, gin / Gordon Weaver -- The secret lion / Alberto Alvaro Rios -- The circumcision rites of the Toronto Stock Exchange / Crad Kilodney -- Big brother is you, watching / Mark Crispin Miller -- Child's grave, Hale County, Alabama / Jim Simmerman -- The librarian of Alexandria / Barry Goldensohn -- The consolation of touch / Bin Ramke -- The Hector Quesadilla story / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Agriculture / William Kittredge -- Cranes / Anneke Campbell -- Cloud painter / Jane Flanders -- Birthday star atlas / Charles Simic -- Heaven and earth / Antonio Benitez-Rojo -- The Easter we lived in Detroit / Janet Kauffman -- Ledge / Sandra McPherson -- Kodiak widow / Sheila Nickerson -- Dog fight / Charles Bukowski -- from The great pretender / James Atlas -- Heart leaves / Bo Ball -- Dickinson / Martha Collins -- A Setting / Donald Revell -- Grassmere / Amy Clampitt -- Greenbaum, O'Reilly & Stephens / Kenneth Gangemi -- Under another name / Doris Lessing -- Rain country / John Haines -- Where we are / Stephen Dobyns -- from The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band blues / Lorenzo Wilson Milam -- Hot day on the Gold Coast / Bob Shacochis -- Pier / D.G. Berry -- The meal / Suzanne E. Berger -- Why I'm in favor of a nuclear freeze / Christopher Buckley -- Sarah Cole : a type of love story / Russell Banks -- Mute / Wesley McNair -- The objects of immortality / Pattiann Rogers -- For Starr Atkinson, who designed books / Jared Carter -- Bohemia revisited : Malcolm Cowley, Jack Kerouac and On the road / Adam Gussow -- A poem with no ending / Philip Levine -- Death's midwives / Margareta Ekstrom -- Season's greetings / Leonard Nathan -- Vesper sparrows / Deborah Digges -- Wilderness / Vern Rutsala -- Rondo / Linda Gregg -- To future Eleanors / Eleanor Ross Taylor -- Outstanding writers -- Outstanding small presses -- Index to the Pushcart Prize series -- Contributors' notes.;2004: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Election eve / Evan Connell -- F.P. / Myra Jehlen -- Sidereal desire / Eleanor Wilner -- A jeweler's eye for flaw / Christie Hodgen -- Ecclesiastes / Khaled Mattawa -- The dystopianist, thinking of his rival is interrupted by a knock on the door / Jonathan Lethem -- Gate C22 / Ellen Bass -- A measure of acceptance / Floyd Skloot -- The girl in the back seat returns to Pittsburgh / Julia Kasdorf -- He ain't Jesus / Malinda McCollum -- Shrike tree / Lucia Perillo -- At five in the afternoon / George Steiner -- Baby / Janet Sylvester -- Near-extinct birds of the Central Cordillera / Ben Fountain III -- Commerce / Michael Waters -- The high road / Joan Silber -- Song of the Little Zion Baptist Church / Bruce Smith -- Idlewild / Paul West -- Cain's legacy / Richard Jackson -- Losing my religion / Tracy Mayor -- When I died / Mark Irwin. Mines / Susan Straight -- Little text / Betty Adcock -- Lost cities / Rachel Cohen -- These / Jennifer Barber -- Before long / Valerie Laken -- Ikaria (the night watchers) / Kira Henehan -- Three girls / Joyce Carol Oates -- Is / Bruce Beasley -- Morning glory Harley / Terese Svoboda -- Dedication / Andrew Feld -- Sauteing the platygast / Dean Paschal -- Adept / Dana Levin -- What it is / Joan Connor -- Bonfires / Rosanna Warren -- Literary devices / Richard Powers -- Richard Nixon's 1972 Christmas bombing campaign as gospel / Quan Barry -- John Muir's Alaskan rhapsody / Edward Hoagland -- The dragon / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Why the sky turns red when the sun goes down / Ryan Harty -- Poem for the wheat penny (1909-1958) / Judith Hall -- Egg / Shelley Jackson -- Roy Orbison's last three notes / BJ Ward. Children of God / Eric Puchner -- Like water / Elizabeth Spires -- Bi bi hua / M. Elaine Mar -- Queen City, skins / R.T. Smith -- Kavita through glass / Emily Ishem Raboteau -- Cicada / Dan Chiasson -- Irish mountain / Pinckney Benedict -- Beautiful Nero / Kevin Prufer -- The return of the dark children / Robert Coover -- Primer of words / David Baker -- The lonely doll / Antonya Nelson -- Aubade / Eugene Gloria -- Pretty / Margaret Luongo -- Five landscapes / Cole Swensen -- Likely lake / Mary Robison -- Quarter past blue / Robert Thomas -- Afterwards / Jane Brox -- Poem to some of my recent purchases / Dorothy Barresi -- Special metion -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize editions since 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- Contributors' notes -- Index.;1982-83:Tattoo / Barbara Thompson -- Standing by words / Wendell Berry -- The Southern Cross / Charles Wright -- Christ preaching at the Henley Regatta / Guy Davenport -- Helping T.S. Eliot write better / Cynthia Ozick -- Europa / Derek Walcott -- Dear Jeffers / William Pitt Root -- Mexicans begin jogging / Gary Soto -- Death and Lebanon / Barbara Bedway -- Poetry in a discouraging time / Christopher Clausen -- From my window / C.K. Williams -- My father's martial art / Seephen Shu Nign Liu -- Without end / Elizabeth Thomas.;Presents a collection of short stories, essays, and poems from throughout the year, culled from small presses and literary journals.;2002: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- The cavemen in the hedges / Stacey Richter -- Narrow road to the deep north / Gary Amdahl -- Gratitude / Robert Cording -- About Tere who was in Palomas / Dagoberto Gilb -- Tomorrow's bird / Ian Frazier -- At horticulture park / Marianne Boruch -- Returning to Providence / David Plante -- Suitcase song / Albert Goldbarth -- An official reply / Ha Jim -- Grief / Pamela Painter -- My night with Philip Larkin / Rachel Loden -- The ashes of August / Kim Barnes -- Inventory / Eamon Grennan -- Semper paratus / Alyson Hagy -- Kinds of sleep / Kevin Prufer -- The secrets of bats / Jess Row -- A short history of the shadow / Charles Wright -- Hippies / Denis Johnson -- Creeley cursing in church / Rick Campbell -- The big-breasted pilgrim / Ann Beattie -- Three crows / Carol Potter -- The bad seed : a guide / Nicola Mason -- Beetles / Steve Kowit -- Khwaja Khadir / David James Duncan -- It is hard not to love the world / Jim Moore -- The mourning door / Elizabeth Graver -- In transit / John Hollander -- O lost / Thomas Wolfe -- The turning / Jeannette Barnes -- Reflections of an uncertain Jew / Andre{u00B4} Aciman -- The poet's voice / Michael S. Harper -- Melba Kuperschmid returns / Peter M. Orner -- Memory / Anthony Hecht -- Alcyone / Talvikki Ansel -- The fireman / Rick Bass -- Bike ride with older boys / Laura Kasischke. Self and attributes / Susan Wheeler -- The thief of Tay Ninh / Kevin Bowen -- Limen / Natasha Trethewey -- Labor / Madison Smartt Bell -- Splinter / Jeff Dolven -- Bit-o-honey / Bernard Cooper -- The story of the door / David Huddle -- By a swimming pool outside Syracusa / Billy Collins -- Death as a fictitious event / Bert O. States -- Going / Daniel Hoffman -- Part of the story / Stephen Dobyns -- Pain thinks of the beautiful table / Laurie Lamon -- The price of eggs in China / Don Lee -- Memoir / Louise Gluc̈k -- Seven types of ambiguity / Dan Chaon -- I am Mrs. Lorca / Rafael Campo -- Beethoven, Monet, technology and us / Burton Raffel -- Yellow fever / Barbara Hamby -- Grafting / Mariko Nagai -- Recitation / Scott Cairns -- A little learning / Sharon Dilworth -- Archaeology / Margaret Gibson -- Blood sport / Thomas Lynch -- In praise of coldness / Jane Hirshfield -- Things not seen in a rear-view mirror / Debra Marquart -- The palace at 4:00 A.M. / Debora Greger -- Miles / Richard Burgin -- Inheritance / Kwame Dawes -- The names / Carole Maso -- Her garden / Donald Hall -- Funktionslust / Melissa Pritchard -- To the tune of a small, repeatable, and passing kindness / Carl Phillips -- The moor / Russell Banks -- The children of this land / Wole Soyinka -- Fugue / Elizabeth Alexander -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Puchcart Prize since 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- Contributors' notes -- Index.;2009: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Man and wife / Katie Chase -- Blessing of the animals / Brenda Miller -- White egrets / Derek Walcott -- Retreat / Wells Tower -- Methodical / Bob Hicok -- North of ordinary / John Rolfe Gardiner -- American income / Afaa Michael Weaver -- Bendithion / Harrison Solow -- Love in the orangery / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Across the universe / Andrew McCuaig -- Olive trees / Louis Gluc̈k -- The heir / Jack Livings -- Fathers / Joseph Millar -- North of / Marie Bertino -- What they're doing / Dan Albergotti -- Shadow boxing / Jeremy Collins -- Airport Economy Inn / Tom Sleigh -- Tabriz / Elizabeth Tallent -- Posthumous man / David Baker -- Rickshaw runner / Naomi J. Williams -- Chances Are, Lafayette, Indiana / Sarah Green -- Love bade me welcome / Christian Wiman -- Saturday night / Eleanor Wilner -- Progressive dinner / John Barth -- Love or something / Chris Forhan -- Window of possibility / Anthony Doerr -- Blindness / Ciaran Berry -- Uncle / Suzanne Rivecca -- Dream / Paul Hostovsky -- Eleven ways to consider air / Brandon R. Schrand -- You have flown to the dangerous country / Elizabeth Spires -- Elder jinks / Edith Pearlman -- Door psalm / Heidi Hart -- Mormons in heat / Don Waters -- Ritual / Susan Mitchell -- Essay on what is want / John D'Agata -- Just now / Peter Campion -- Bang bang in a boy voice / Akhim Yuseff Cabey -- Devotion : redshift / Bruce Smith -- Prowlers / Jack Driscoll -- Lichen / Robert Wrigley -- Reasons for and advantages of breathing / Lydia Peelle -- No other paradise / Kurt Brown -- Errands in the forest / William deBuys -- Returning home in the MG just before dawn / Gerry LaFemina -- The epicurean / Louis B. Jones -- The owl / Susan Stewart -- Zanzibar / Beena Kamlani -- The water-brooks / Mary Kinzie -- The voice of the past / Floyd Skloot -- A Berryman concordance against this silence / Elena Karina Byrne -- Cultivation / Shannon Cain -- Rain / Keith Althaus -- Ave Maria / Micaela Morrissette -- I didn't sleep / Marvin Bell -- The Russian / Ethan Coen -- Poem in the manner of Coleridge / Matthew Rohrer -- Scarecrow / Betsy Boyd -- Ghosts / Charles Baxter -- Audubon diptych / Matt Donovan -- Old Macdonald had a farmer's market / Bill McKibben -- Angel with big book / Kathryn Maris -- My accidental jihad / Krista Bremer.;1989-90: Introduction / Tess Gallagher -- Island / Alistair MacLeod -- A snapping turtle in June / Franklin Burroughs -- Against silence / Marilyn Hacker -- The safety patrol / Michael Martone -- The importance of plot / Diane Johnson -- For you / Jim Moore -- Miss Venezuela / Barbara Wilson -- Playing chess with Arthur Koestler / Julian Barnes -- 43. / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- After the stations of the cross / Peter Tysver -- Furious versions / Li-Young Lee -- The summer of the hats / Sigrid Nunez -- At a motel / Brenda Hillman -- Westland / Charles Baxter -- The love of travellers / Angela Jackson -- Five stories / Lydia Davis -- Only one sky / Sam Hamill -- Nice mountain / Gerald Stern -- Housework / Kristina McGrath -- Song / Robert Creeley -- Mutatis Mutamdis / Sheila Schwartz -- Strand : Evidences of books and bookstore / Thomas Meagher -- On the Goẗa Canal, 1986 / Joan Swift -- Better tomorrow / Robert Minkoff -- Celestial music / Louise Gluc̈k -- Tangier 1975 / Paul Bowles -- Incident at Imuris / Alberto Rios -- Garbage / Ron Tanner -- James Jesus Angleton (1917-1987) / Eliot Weinberger -- Witness / DeWitt Henry -- Interpretation of a poem by Frost / Thylias Moss -- Party / Joyce Carol Oates -- Explanations / Judson Mitcham -- Coupon for blood / Sandy Huss -- Learning to eat soup / Edward Hoagland -- Bill's story / Mark Doty -- "By love possessed" / Lorna Goodison -- Imagining the ocean / Jennifer Atkinson -- Freeze / David Jauss -- Sequence / Lynn Nelson -- The rain of terror / Frank Manley -- The family is all there is / Pattiann Rogers -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions (1976-1989) -- Contributing small presses -- Index -- Contributors' notes.;1998: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Courting a monk / Katherine Min -- Demonology / Rick Moody -- Elegy ending in the sound of a skipping rope / Larry Lewis -- The beauty treatment / Stacey Richter -- Ode to meaning / Robert Pinsky -- Grounded / Claire Davis -- The balloon / Mary Ruefle -- Preacher / Steve Yarbrough -- Stonehenge / Albert Goldbarth -- Women dreaming of Jerusalem / Rachel Kadish -- Atomic bride / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Give the millionaire a drink / Mike Newirth -- What the water knows / Sam Hamill -- Jessica, the hound & the casket trade / Thomas Lynch -- Living with stripes / Kay Ryan -- Oxygen / Ron Carlson -- Blacklegs / Brigit Kelly -- Not the plaster casters / Janice Eidus -- What the animals teach us / Chard de Niord -- New York days, 1958-1964 / Charles Simic -- Karma Lollipop / Albert Saijo -- Out of the woods / Josip Novakovich -- Missing it / Dan Brown -- The twelve plagues / Gerald Shapiro -- Matine{u00B4}e idylls / Molly Bendall -- We have time / Paul L. Allman -- Door / Dana Levin -- Knowing your place / Sylvia Watanabe -- Executive suite / Michael Heffernan -- Carp / Jessica Roeder -- No turn on red / Richard Jackson -- The kiss / Pamela Painter -- Troubadour / David St. John -- For the relief of unbearable urges / Nathan Englander -- Davy Cricket / David Hayward -- Umbilicus / James Alan McPherson -- That half is almost gone / Marilyn Chin -- The forest / Andrea Barrett -- Fragments from the burnt notebooks of O. Fleming / Frank Polite -- Civilization / Tomʹas Filer -- Oysters and other workers / Turner Cassity -- The wings / Kristin King -- For the young men who died of AIDS / Julia Vinograd -- Rhyming action / Charles Baxter -- The lipstick tree / Kiana Davenport -- Souls / Dannie Abse -- Dentaphilia / Julia Slavin -- L.A. dream #2 / Maureen Seaton -- Native daughter / Lee Smith -- Breathing lessons / Rane Arroyo -- Two accidents : reflections on chance and creativity / Lewis Hyde -- On the failure named Bosnia / P.H. Liotta -- The famous torn and restored lit cigarette trick / Elizabeth Gilbert -- Invierno / Junot Diaz -- Sparrow / Reginald Gibbons -- Return of the Boyceville flash / Gordon Weaver -- Old Woodrat's sticky house / Gary Snyder -- Jamming traffic / Rita Ariyoshi -- Van Leeuwenhoek : 1675 / Linda Bierds -- The appropriation of cultures / Percival Everett -- Some information about 23 years of existence / Jeff Clark -- The secret names of whores / Donald Rawley -- Body parts (1968) / Bin Ramke -- Killer whales / Susan Daitch -- El Perifʹerico, or sleep / Joshua Clover -- Zenobia / Gina Berriault -- The man who wouldn't plant willow trees / A.E. Stallings -- At least thirteen ways of looking at look / Gordon Lish -- g The nude detective, a complaint / Dorothy Barresi -- Gooseberry marsh / Gretchen Legler -- Vous etes plus beaux que vous ne pensiez / Kenneth Koch -- Jaget / Anne Carson -- Scar Vegas / Tom Paine -- The coat / Flannery O'Connor -- Special mention -- Contributors' notes -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize since 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- Index.;2005: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Immortality / Yiyun Li -- Beetle orgy / Benjamin Scott Grossberg -- Noikokyrio / Alison Cadbury -- Brother death, sister life / Donald Platt -- Fast Sunday / Sue Standing -- Wonder: red beans and ricely / Sydney Lea -- Dues / Dale Peck -- Waiting for the Messiah / Chana Bloch -- Dog song / Ann Pancake -- Someone naked and adorable / David Kirby -- Raging waters / Brenda Miller -- Quelquechose / Dana Levin -- I am not your mother / Alice Mattison -- Chair / Donna Mattison -- Physics and grief / Patricia Monaghan -- Landscape with hungry gulls / Lance Larsen -- The Irish martyr / Russell Working -- Scattering my mother's ashes on the family plot at Hickman, Kentucky / Doug Anderson -- The hurt man / Wendell Berry -- My brother, Antonio, the baker / Philip Levine -- The speed of memory / Brad K. Younkin. Horseflies / Robert Wrigley -- The core / Jack Herlihy -- God's penis / Jeffrey Harrison -- Death in Naples / Mary Gordon -- from The face / David St. John -- Bullet in my neck / Gerald Stern -- When Dean Young talks about wine / Tony Hoagland -- God lives in St. Petersburg / Tom Bissell -- Untitled / Catherine Barnett -- The real Eleanor Rigby / Alice Fulton -- Ectoplimaniessence / Hayden Carruth -- Fantastic voyage / Emily Fox Gordon -- Anyways / Suzanne Cleary -- Claire / Steven Barthelme -- Tour daufuskie / Terrance Hayes -- The poison that purifies you / Elizabeth Kadetsky -- Elegy for the saint of letting small fish go / Eliot Khalil Wilson -- Shunned / Meredith Hall -- Walking after dinner / Patricia Staton -- Gina's death / Charles Baxter -- To tell the literal truth / Steven Kowit -- The apology / Brock Clarke. Can't you hear the wind howl? / Frank X. Gaspar -- The squeeze / Barbara Hurd -- There / Eamon Grennan -- Virtuoso mio / Karen Palmer -- Chinese foot chart / Kay Ryan -- Geographers at Mardi Gras / Andrei Codrescu -- The flayed man / Nadine Meyer -- Juan the cell phone salesman / Deb Olin Unferth -- To the surgeon Kevin Lin / W.S. Merwin -- Avian nights / Sherman Alexie -- Roman erotic poetry / Albert Goldbarth -- Triptych / Dick Allen -- Lost victories / William T. Vollmann -- Hedonism / David Baker -- Reading in his wake / Pamela Painter -- The Greek ships / Robert Bly -- from Urban renewal / Major Jackson -- Special Mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize editions since 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- Contributors' notes -- Index.;1990-91:Introduction / Russell Banks -- The day I met Buddy Holly / Kim Herzinger -- On the Zeedijk / Richard Watson -- A letter / Albert Goldbarth -- Typical / Padgett Powell -- Rust / Josip Novakovich -- Vital signs / Natalie Kusz -- Armageddon : Private Gabriel Calvin Wojahn, 1900-1918 / David Wojahn -- My mother and Mitch / Clarence Major -- The cave / Michael Collier -- I'm having trouble with my relationship / Leonard Michaels -- Astronauts / Wally Lamb -- Through and through / Joseph Geha -- Austerity in Vermont / T.R. Hummer -- Heaven / David Lehman -- Field of fire / Will Baker -- The center of the story / Lydia Davis -- Hospice / Lydia Hull -- A motiveless malignancy / Barry Callaghan -- Zoe / Molly Best Tinsley -- What I wanted most of all / Daniel Hayes -- Hopkins and Whitman / Lynne McMahon -- Rush hour / Laurie Sheck -- Above the tree line / Kathy Mangan -- Installations / Robin Hemley -- Snuff dippers / Shay Youngblood -- On the life and death of Stan Laurel's son / Walter Pavlich -- Hide-and-go-seek / Judith Kitchen -- The middle of nowhere / Kent Nelson -- Crazy life / Lou Mathews -- Miller Canyon trail no. 106 / Michael Bowden -- Believer's flood / Richard Currey -- Murphy's angel / Thomas E. Kennedy -- For Anna Mae Aquash whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars / Joy Harjo -- What the blue jay said / Frankie Paino -- More room / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Francis : brother of the universe / Rodney Hale Jones -- Dying in Massachusetts / Donald W. Baker -- Listening / David Mura -- At the I.G.A. : Franklin, New Hampshire / Jane Kenyon -- With Pat Boone in the pentlands / Ken Chowder -- Castrato / Kenneth Rosen -- Miles weeping / Michael Waters -- Aliens / Sharman Apt Russell -- Because / Christopher Merrill -- Cambrian night / James Solheim -- Post-Larkin triste / Mary Karr -- What is beyond us / Karen Fish -- Broken hearts / Sarah Glasscock -- The David of Michelangelo / Dennis Vannatta -- Captivity : the minks / Toi Derricotte -- Apologues of winter light / Christopher Buckley -- Wejumpka / Rick Bass -- Ascension on Fire Island / Henri Cole -- A vacant lot / Gibbons Ruark -- My lord bag of rice / Carol Bly -- For the missing in action / John Balaban -- Dust (Ars Poetica) / Allen Grossman -- The battle of Manila / Laura Kalpakian -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions (1976-1990) -- Contributing small presses -- Index -- Contributors' notes.;1984-85: Hiding / Susan Minot -- Self/landscape/grid / Terrence des Pres -- Ground zero / William Stafford -- Ground zero / Sharon Doubiago -- As the president spoke / Ted Kooser -- Lot's wife / Celia Gilbert -- Consolation / Daniel Berrigan -- Duckwalking / Joe Ashby Porter -- The mystery of the caves / Michael Waters -- Winter flight / John Engels -- Totems / Thomas McGrath -- from: A minor apocalypse / Tadeusz Konwicki -- Caviar / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- The power of toads / Pattiann Rogers -- Peacock display / David Wagoner -- Fish fucking / Michael Blumenthal -- Recovering / William Goyen -- Oh, Jseph, I'm so tired / Richard Yates -- The cigarette boat / Barbara Milton -- Making poetry a continuum : selected correspondence / Richard Ebert and William Carlos Williams -- The trickle down theory of happintess / Philip Appleman -- Tenebrae / Saul Yurkievich -- The unbroken diamond : nightletter to the Mumahadeen / William Pitt Root -- Crossing / Barbara Thompson -- The gala cocktail party / Gilbert Sorrentino -- Over the mountain / Gail Godwin -- The explosion / Susan Mitchell -- Tumor / Richard Blessing -- The gift / Li-Young Lee -- The soroca girls / Curzio Malaparte -- A winter's tale / Clark Brown -- Careful / Raymond Carver -- Poetry and ambition / Donald Hall -- Emotion recollected in tranquillity / Jonathan Penner -- Oranges / Gary Soto -- Lavonder / Thomas Russell -- A history of speach / Rodney Jones -- The form and function of the novel / Albert Goldbarth -- L.A. child / Pamela Brandt -- Cambodian diary / Edmund Keeley -- Gise Pedersen sets me straight on a matter of natural history / Michael Finley -- The annunciation / Christopher Jane Corkery -- Ukiyo-E / Siv Cedering -- Paul Goodman and the grand community / Hayden Carruth -- Claire's Lover's church / Teri Ruch -- High adventuresof indeterminacy / Joan Retallack -- Copies / Mary Morris -- Asilomarian lecture (the dirmal life of the inhabitats) / Beth Tashery Shannon -- Trying to name what doesn't change / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Coming of age on the Harlem / Joan Nurray -- Physical universe / Louis Simpson -- John Cheever: the novelist's life as a drama / Malcom Cowley.;2007: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Refresh refresh / Benjamin Percy -- Laundry / Maureen Stanton -- The innocent / Jean Nordhaus -- Cocktail hour / Kate Braverman -- Double abecedarian: 1963 / Julie Larios -- Voices / John Clayton -- Facing altars: poetry and prayer / Mary Karr -- Hwy 1 / Brian Turner -- If a stranger approaches you about carrying a foreign object with you onto a plane / Laura Kasichke -- Hard rain / Tony Hoagland -- Extraordinary rendition / Maxine Kumin -- The Frank Orison / Scott Geiger -- A short history of my breath / Kristin Kovacic -- Moonsnail / Cleopatra Mathis -- The lion's mouth / Ben Fountain -- A history of the American west / Kevin Prufer -- Elegy (with advertisement) struggling to find its hero / Mark Irwin -- Dogged / Risteard O'Keitinn -- A day in May: Los Angeles, 1960 / Philip Levine -- A thought, for example, is a form / Mary Ann Samyn -- Persephone the wanderer / Louise Gluc̈k -- The odds it would be you / Alice Mattison -- Dead boys club / Reginald Shepherd -- Salvation / Stephen Dunn -- Refund / Karen E. Bender -- Vexing praxis/Hocus nexus / Mark Halliday -- Radio crackling, radio gone / Lisa Olstein -- Bye-bye Larry / Katherine Karlin -- Mastering the art of French cooking / E.J. Levy -- Self portrait in ink / Bruce Beasley -- The role of a lifetime / Floyd Skloot -- What fundamentalists need for their salvation / David James Duncan -- The land of pain / Stacey Richter -- Restoration / Sally Keith -- Home on the rain / Jonathan Carroll -- Clocks / Pam Durban -- Myth / Natasha Trethewey -- The 167th Psalm of Elvis / Tony Barnstone -- Taj Mahal / Linsey Abrams -- Nude descending / Dzvinia Orlowsky -- Halley's Comet / Laura Krughoff -- The medicine man / Kevin Moffett -- Cool things / Brian Doyle -- Stay / David Schuman -- The fires / Philip White -- The way of ignorance / Wendell Berry -- Hearing news from the Temple Mount in Salt Lake City / Jacqueline Osherow -- Vacation / Richard Burgin -- The eternal immigrant / Sharmila Voorakkara -- Dar He / R.T. Smith -- Formation / Kim Chinquee -- Some terpsichore / Elizabeth McCracken -- Lament for a stone / W.S. Merwin -- Gassed / Steve Gehrke -- Escape from hog heaven / Dina Ben-Lev -- Fight / Michael Czyzniejewski -- Sparrow trapped in the airport / Averill Curdy -- Chart / Kay Ryan -- Shelter / Nami Mun -- Goldfish: a diptych / Susan Terris -- Zion / Donald Revell -- Why Bugsy Siegel was a friend of mine / James Lee Burke -- Portrait of her mother as the 19th Century / Keith Ratzlaff.;1997: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Proper gypsies / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Love in the morning / Andre Dubus -- The cry / J. Allyn Rosser -- Crib / Kay Ryan -- The slaughterhouse / Karen Halvorsen Schreck -- Duke and Ellis / David Treuer -- First sex / Richard Tayson -- Bruce Springsteen and the story of us / Hope Edelman -- One story / Dean Young -- Daily affirmations / Erin McGraw -- Japan / Billy Collins -- Dark age : why Johnny can't dissent / Tom Frank -- Two girls / Suzanne Gardinier -- Venexia I / Charles Wright. A man-to-be / Ha Jin -- What comes from the ground / Wendy Dutton -- Scorn / Carol Frost -- The last white man in Brooklyn / Michael Stephens -- Facing into it / Eleanor Wilner -- Take it or leave it / Robert Dana -- Fanatics / Alan Shapiro -- Basic algebra / Richard Jackson -- Camo, dope & videotape / Harold Jaffe -- From Basra to Bethlehem / Tom Paine -- Big Ruthie imagines sex without pain / S.L. Wisenberg -- Descending / Dave Smith -- Crabcake / James Alan McPherson -- A rented house in the country / James Reiss -- Uttar Pradesh / August Kleinzahler -- Neanderthal tongues / Ranbir Sidhu -- Jerry's kid / Robert Schirmer -- Happiness : a manifesto / Marilyn Chin -- Time and space / Ira Sadoff -- The secret nature of the mechanical rabbit / Pinckney Benedict -- The revisionist / Helen Schulman. Lost / Peter Gordon -- Spring snow / Arthur Sze -- Cows, arrogance, the natures of things / Trudy Dittmar -- Floor study / Martha Collins -- Grievances and griefs by Robert Frost / Daniel Stern -- Young man on Sixth Avenue / Mark Halliday -- Winter in Los Angeles / Tom McNeal -- Fetish / Loretta Collins -- The Catskills remembered / Vivian Gornick -- Stone flight / Eamon Grennan -- The slip / Rachel Hadas -- The weather in history / Daniel Meltzer -- A relation of various accidents observable in some animals included in vacuo / William Monahan -- Christmas tree / James Merrill -- Looking in a deeper lair : a tribute to Wallace Stegner / Barry Lopez -- Aliens / Kim Addonizio -- Mercy / Sharon Solwitz -- The dissolution of the world / Caroline A. Langston -- Brown dog angel / Andrea Jeyaveeran -- A wood near Athens / Thom Gunn. Disorder and early sorrow / George Packer -- The button box / Grace Schulman -- The shortest night / W.S. Merwin -- Mad / Jewel Mogan -- The tale of a kite / Steve Stern -- Baby maker / Karla J. Kuban -- The bridge / Daniel Orozco -- The news / Ruth Stone -- Note folded thirteen ways / Richard Garcia -- Love songs for the SS / Michael Kaniecki -- A dog was crying to-night in Wicklow also / Seamus Heaney -- One moment on top of the earth / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The ghost of soul-making / Michael S. Harper -- Below Fourteenth Street / Gerald Stern -- Special mention -- Contributors' notes -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize sine 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- Index.;2001: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- The anointed / Kathleen Hill -- Toward humility / Bret Lott -- Ninguna Brahma / Amudha Rajendran -- Prairie / Salvatore Scibona -- New staves / Seamus Heaney -- How to make love to a man / Sharon Doubiago -- PU-239 / Ken Kalfus -- The streetcar : August 6, 1945 / William Heyen -- Gray / Fanny Howe -- Alpha images / Karl Elder -- The smallest man in the world / Bonnie Jo Campbell -- Elegy for my sister / Sherod Santos -- Cock fight / Marianna Cherry -- Qua qua qua / Heather McHugh -- Jasper, Texas, 1998 / Lucille Clifton. The canals of Mars / Gary Fincke -- Backward poem / Bob Hicok -- In the belly of the cat / Daniel S. Libman -- Weather update / Karri Lynn Harrison -- The possible world / Elizabeth McKenzie -- Recorded message / Philip Dacey -- Regeneration / Pauls Toutonghi -- My dead dad / David Kirby -- Other people's secrets / Patricia Hampl -- The impossibility of language / Beth Ann Fennelly -- Women's pantomime / Ben Marcus -- Ssshh / Sharon Olds -- I drive you from my heart / Jana Harris -- Berna's place / Jane McCafferty -- Hammering stones / William Wenthe -- I remember Toscanini / Michael Blumenthal -- Tusk / A.A. Srinivasan -- Inside Gertrude Stein / Lynn Emanuel -- Homesickness / Virginia Holman -- The spell / Jonathan David Jackson -- The sharpshooter / Joyce Carol Oates. V. (Psalm 37 at Auschwitz) / Jacqueline Osherow -- Commendable / Joan Silber -- Penumbria / Betty Adcock -- Half-answered prayers / Andrew Hudgins -- Folding the fox / Robert Gibb -- In Cuba I was a German shepherd / Ana Menendez -- Death's midwife has the smallest hands / Claire Bateman -- Against a certain kind of ardency / Charles Martin -- Love songs of fruit flies / E.S. Bumas -- Testament / Glenna Holloway -- Off the road or the perfect curve unfound / Glen Chamberlain Barrett -- Paradise Cove / Stephen Yenser -- Mates / Edith Pearlman -- Her literal one / Albert Goldbarth -- Bad judgment / Cathleen Calbert -- The man with the paper eyes / Bay Anapol -- Six apologies, Lord / Olena Kalytiak Davis -- The doll / Eudora Welty -- A primer for the small weird loves / Richard Siken -- Twilight of the apple growers / Jane Brox -- Biblical also-rans / Charles Harper Webb. When it's you / Fred Leebron -- The dove's neck / Gerald Stern -- The end of the tunnel / Nancy McCabe -- From the Vegas cantos / Greg Rappleye -- The ordinary son / Ron Carlson -- The workforce / James Tate -- Two prayers / Paul Maliszewski -- Synopsis : the songs of the jolly flatboatmen / Paul Violi -- Medallion / Michael Hefferman -- Nogales and the bomb / Alberto Rios -- Seven roses / Frank X. Gaspar -- We take our children to Ireland / Lynne McMahon -- Your name here / John Ashbery -- When she is old and I am famous / Julie Orringer -- To grasp the nettle / Eamon Grennan -- Sestina : Bob / Jonah Winter -- Milton at the bat / Jeffrey Hammond -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize since 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- Contributors' notes -- Index.;2006: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Presently in ruins / Gregory Blake Smith -- The third thing / Donald Hall -- Bright world / Carl Phillips -- Hadrian's wall / Jim Shepard -- Promenade / Joshua Mehigan -- Joyas voladoras / Brian Doyle -- Her first elk / Rick Bass -- Secret names / David Mamet -- Walker Evans is a spy on the Lexington Avenue local / Valerie Sayers -- Songs from the black chair / Charles Barber -- The night Richard Pryor met mudbone / A. Van Jordan -- My unopened life / Tess Gallagher -- Boyfriends / Cynthia Weiner -- Child, dead, in the rose garden / E.L. Doctorow -- Best and only / Andrew Feld -- End of the line / Aimee Bender -- Portrait of the artist as an old man / Edward Hirsch -- After Herodotus / Tom Sleigh -- Wild plums in blossom / Ted Kooser. Ackerman in Eden / Donald Hays -- Christmas 1910 / Robert Olen Butler -- The death of Mayakovsky / Philip Levine -- Proverbs / Angie Estes -- Notes on uranium weapons and kitsch / George Gessert -- Hunters / John Fulton -- Rose of Sharon / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Shooting Kinesha / Daisy Fried -- Sabor a Mi / Alex Mindt -- Comfort / Ann Hood -- The famous writers school : lessons from Faulkner's house / Cynthia Shearer -- You people / Nance Van Winckel -- Pearlie tells what happened at school / Diane Gilliam Fisher -- Sad coincidence in the confessional mode with a borrowed movie trope / Lucia Perillo -- Heavenly creatures: for wandering children and their deliquent mother / Melanie Rae Thon -- The mechanics / Paul Zimmer -- Luciferin / Dean Young -- American speaking / David Rivard -- The widow joy / Rosellen Brown -- D/altered / James McKean -- Thorns, thistles / Daniel Anderson -- Mediterranean / Rosanna Warren -- Jesus wept / R.T. Smith -- Skin teeth / Neisha Tweed -- On the reality of the symbol / Geoffrey Hill -- Benediction: on being Boswell's Boswell / David Gessner -- The feeder / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Elevens / Stanley Plumly -- Samantha / Robert Boyers -- The darkness together / Steve Almond -- It is the nature of the wing / Frank Gaspar -- A haze on the hills / Pamela Stewart -- Chest x-ray / Amy Bartlett -- Manhattans / Frederick Busch -- Our spring catalog / Jack Pendarvis -- DNA / Linda Bierds -- Picture / Atsuro Riley -- Glaciology / Lia Purpura -- Glose / Marilyn Hacker -- Pursuit of the yellow house / Robin Behn -- The brothers / Lysley Tenorio -- The invention of streetlights / Cole Swensen.;1996: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Pity / Avner Mandelman -- Anna Liffey / Eavan Boland -- Magic / Art Homer -- The first day / Elizabeth Spires -- Wilma Bremer's funeral / Marie Sheppard Williams -- Something like happiness / Stephen Dunn -- The match / Maxine Kumin -- Theories of illusion / Maureen Seaton -- Last things / Debra Spark -- My friend / David St. John -- Super night / Charles Baxter -- The era of the Vari-Vue / Gary Fincke -- My father's Chinese wives / Sandra Tsing Loh -- The storm chasers / William Olsen -- The end of the world / Michael Collins -- Solo, New Orleans / Diann Blakely Shoaf -- Sex / Irma Wallen -- Eighteenth-century medical illustration : the infant in its little room / Ann Townsend -- The nearness of the world / Steven Huff -- Film noir : train trip out of Metropolis / Lynn Emanuel -- Videotape / Don DeLillo -- Seizure / Linda Bierds -- Bad / Frederick Busch -- The barbarians are coming / Marilyn Chin -- The swing of things / Jennifer C. Cornell -- History books / Thomas Lux -- The more I like flies / Reginald McKnight -- Anaconda / Dennis Sampson -- The undesirable table / Joyce Carol Oats -- Stillborn / Maribeth Fischer -- A history of paisley / Agha Shahid Ali -- Kingdom of the sun / Alice Schell -- Sung from a hospice / Cyrus Cassells -- The instinct for bliss / Melissa Pritchard -- Dante's inferno, canto XXXIV / Robert Pinsky -- Elizabeth Bishop / Frank Bidart -- Loss / Carl Dennis -- Closing out the visit / John Barth -- Will work for food / Stanley Plumly -- Mother-tongue / Nora Cobb Keller -- Conversations on the plurality of worlds / Molly Bendall -- When words became windows / Sven Birkerts -- Chinese food in the fifties / Alberto Rios -- The late style / James Robison -- Of royal issue / Brigit Peggen Kelly -- The women come and go / Cornelia Nixon -- Sadness, an improvisation / Donald Justice -- Updike and I / John Updike -- Evolution : a science fiction / Melinda Mueller -- Milk / Eileen Pollack -- A little thing like that / A.R. Ammons -- False water society / Ben Marcus -- In the pasture of dead horses / Julia Wendell -- A happy vacancy / Stephen Dobyns -- Elizabeth, listening / Sabina Grogan -- Six days : some rememberings / Grace Paley -- Phlox Diffusa / Sandra McPherson -- The ring of brightest angels around heaven / Rick Moody -- The deconstruction of Emily Dickinson / Galway Kinnell -- Charles the obscure / Charles Simic -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions since 1976 -- Contributors' notes -- Contributing small presses -- Index.;1993-94: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Marie / Edward P. Jones -- Wallace Stevens / Robert Hass -- In the land of the lotus eaters / Tony Hoagland -- Days of heaven / Rick Bass -- Tell me everything / Leonard Michaels -- Note I left for Gerald Stern in an office I borrowed, and he would next, at a summer writers conference / William Mattews -- Larabi's ox / Tony Ardizzone -- Carla's story / Peter Coyote -- Convicta at combusta / Joanna Scott -- Rough music / Deborah Digges -- Estivation / Susan Bergman -- Questions for Ecclesiastes / Mark Jarman -- A.M. : the hopeful monster / Alice Fulton -- A chick from my dream life / Karen E. Bender -- Green grow the grasses o / D.R. MacDonald -- To write of repeated patterns / Albert Goldbarth -- The first six seals / David Wojahn -- Guilt trip / David Lehman. Somebody / Rebecca McClanahan -- The writers' model / Molly Giles -- White hunter / Diane Johnson -- Deaf poem / Tess Gallagher -- Forrest in the trees / Dennis Loy Johnson -- The parakeet and the cat / Scott Bradfield -- Homage to the runner : bloody brain work / Marvin Bell -- Kala : Saturday night at the Pahala Theatre / Lois-Ann Yamanaka -- The watcher / Edward Hirsch -- The hunger artist by Franz Kafka : a story / Daniel Stern -- The sun, the rain / Marie Sheppard Williams -- Two cities : on the Iliad / Suzanne Gardinier -- Sleep apnea / Mark Cox -- Ginza Samba / Robert Pinsky -- Benjamin Claire, North Dakota tradesman, writes to the president of the United States / Barry Lopez -- Van / David Rattray -- Shelter / Bruce Weigl -- Change my evil ways / David Rivard. The ladder : Roger Vail's photo of a rockface in the Carrara (Italy) marble quarries / Dennis Schmitz -- The pilgrim virgin / Joseph Maiolo -- Christopher / Diane Glancy -- Complaint against the arsonist / Stanley Plumly -- Somewhere along the line / Antler -- The life of the body / Tobias Wolff -- Population / Mark Halliday -- The butcher / Michael Bendzela -- Coleman Valley Road / Gerald Stern -- Clumsy guys / Tomaz Salamun -- An island notebook / Alison Deming -- Monday her car wouldn't start / Barbara Selfridge -- French horn / Robin Behn -- In the John Dillinger museum / Susan Neville -- Choosing your names / Kothar Wa-Khasis -- Sycamore Canyon nocturne / Christopher Buckley -- Tomorrow, we'll dance in America / James Harms. Woman kills sweetheart with bowling ball / Laura Kasischke -- Same old big magic / Patricia Henley -- The dig / Lynn Emanuel -- The old testament / Philip Levine -- Wouldn't a title just make it worse? / Gordon Lish -- In the cloud chamber / Roger Weingarten -- "Nearer God, nearer realite" / Joellen Kwiatek -- Three protrusions / David Foster Wallace -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions (1976-1993) -- Contributors' notes -- Contributing small presses -- Index.;1987-88: Introduction / Frank Conroy -- Shamsky and other casualties / Robert Cohen -- Paper tigers / Eliot Weinberger -- Poland of death / Allen Grossman -- Oyster bar on the road to Mururua / George Starbuck -- Bela / Gerald Stern -- On the meaning of life / Irina Ratushinskaia -- Jack of diamonds / Elizabeth Spencer -- Against joie de vivre / Phillip Lopate -- Shrubs burned away / Donald Hall -- That they were at the beach : aeolotropic series / Leslie Scalapino -- The birthing / Patricia Henley -- Mr. Goldbaum / Gordon Lish -- Some snapshots from the Soviet Union / William H. Gass -- Le petit salvie{u00B4} / C.K. Williams -- The promise of light / Richard Jackson -- The underground / Thomas McGrath -- An embarrassment of ordinary riches / Martha Bergland -- The ghost of Sandburg's phizzog / Norbert Blei -- Against nature / Joyce Carol Oates -- Four from The Baudelaire series / Michael Palmer -- The alias : a survey / Albert Goldbarth -- Unwritten laws / Bill Tremblay -- Beautiful / C.E. Poverman -- Duppy get her / Opal Palmer Adisa -- The impact of translation / Seamus Heaney -- Querencia / Stephen Dobyns -- A crowded table / Devorah Major -- Simple questions / Lloyd Schwartz -- One of two / Rosellen Brown -- A red sweater / Fae Myenne Ng -- A tree, a streamlined fish, and a self-squared dragon : science as a form of culture / O.B. Hardison Jr. -- Short day / Philip Booth -- At a P.C. Sergeant's house / Susan Tichy -- The imagination of flowers / Lee Upton -- My mother's moon / Elizabeth Jolley -- Yukon / Carol Emshwiller -- The secret sharer / David Reid -- Walking in the 15th century / Daniel Halpern -- A sketch of the great dejection / Thom Gunn -- Lament for the makers / Robert Pinsky -- The place in flowers where pollen rests / Paul West -- Her secrets / John Berger -- World with a hard K / Jean McGarry -- Eve / Sandra McPherson -- His funny valentine / Louis Simpson -- Heliopathy / Susan Howe -- Persian lamb / Harold Jaffe -- The lover of horses / Tess Gallagher -- From The person / Lyn Hejinian -- Psalm and lament / Donald Justice -- Viewing the coast / Mark Strand -- The garden of earthly delights / Czeslaw Milosz -- Outstanding writers -- Outstanding small presses -- Index to the Pushcart Prize series -- Contributors' notes.;1999: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- As kingfishers catch fire / Colum McCann -- A Hemingway story / Andre Dubus -- The lectures on love / Edward Hirsch -- The Revenant / Edward Falco -- Grandmother, dead at 99 years and 10 months / William Matthews -- The turkey stories / Julie Showalter -- Thanksgiving / Marti{u00B4}n Espada -- Happiness / Bharati Mukherjee -- The book of the dead man #87 / Marvin Bell -- Splinters / Melvin Jules Bukiet -- There goes the Nobel Prize / Carol Muske -- Pornography / Angela Shaw -- The bill collector's vacation / Patricia Hampl -- Abundance / Carol Philips -- Timeshare / Jeffrey Eugenides -- Urban anthropology / Alec Wilkinson -- Invisible dreams / Toi Derricotte -- July / Beth Chimera -- The weather they were written in / Kathy Fagan -- The ninth, in E minor / Frederick Busch -- Junk / Gordon Cavenaile -- Zealous / Joshua Clover -- The Burial / Steven Dixon -- Mission poem / Tarin Towers -- Let's not talk politics, please / John J. Clayton -- The most responsible girl / Emily Fox Gordon -- Carpe diem : time piece / Marilyn Krysl -- Stupid girl / Louis Berney -- Vandals, horses / Alan Michael Parker -- Tea at the house / Meg Wolitzer -- Autumnal / Mark Irwin -- Bodysurfing / Richard Burgin -- Two journeys / Philip Levine -- Once a shoot of heaven / Beckian Fritz Goldberg -- Valor / Richard Bausch. Invocation / Marilyn Hacker -- Bad boy number seventeen / Lucia Perillo -- Histories of bodies / Mariko Nagai -- In the midst of sisters / Jane McCafferty -- Prayer / Grace Schulman -- Cybermorphic beat-up get-down subterranean homesick reality-sandwich blues / Lance Olsen -- O Eve / Rosemary C. Hildebrandt -- Faithless / Joyce Carol Oates -- Before the beginning : maybe God and a silk flower concubine perhaps / Pattiann Rogers -- Direct male / Risa Mickenberg -- Like God / Lynn Emanuel -- The first annual performance art festival at the Slaughter Rock battlefield / Thomas M. Disch -- Sad song / Laura Kasischke -- The seven sisters / Aurelie Sheehan -- The cup / Katrina Roberts -- Blowing shades / Stuart Dybek -- Earthly light / Marcia Southwick -- Mr. Agreeable / Kirk Nesset -- Eye shadows / Judith Taylor -- The order of things / Nancy Richard -- Meditation on an aphorism by Wallace Stevens : "A poem is a pheasant" / Jeffrey Harrison -- Los Angeles, the angels / James Harms -- Flower children / Maxine Swann -- Sewing without mother : a zuihitsu / Kimiko Hahn -- The old morgue / Francine Prose -- Mis-sayings / Mary Kuryla -- From Rosary / Barbara Tran -- Girls like you / Jennifer Moses -- Monologue of the falconer's wife / Colette Inez -- Ernie's ark / Monica Wood -- Lies / Martha Collins -- Peace plan : meditation on the 9 stages of "peacemaking" as tribute to Senator Claiborne Pell : 1997 / Michael S. Harper -- Descending / Mark Wisniewski -- Blue Kashmir, '74 / Carol Muske -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions since 1976 -- Contributors' notes -- Contributing small presses -- Index.;1991-92: "Holy fools" : introduction / Edward Hoagland -- Glossolalia / David Jauss -- Anonymity / Susan Bergman -- The cleaving / Li-Young Lee -- Bill Weisler / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Three propositions : hooey, dewey, and loony / Marvin Bell -- Little owl who lives in the orchard / Mary Oliver -- Night sweats / Gwen Head -- The gift / William Stafford -- Bocci / Rene{u00B4}e Manfredi -- Visitors / Katha Pollitt -- Sweet ruin / Tony Hoagland -- Against the text "art is immortal" / Alan Dugan -- The box / Susan Straight -- One thousand words on why you should not talk during a fire drill / Mark Halliday -- Mighty forms / Brenda Hillman -- Long, disconsolate lines / Jane Cooper -- The dream / William Matthews -- The hair / Joyce Carol Oates -- Writers and their songs / William Kennedy -- Strong pomegranate flowers and seeds of the mind / Linda Gregg -- When they leave / George Keithly -- Woman who weeps / Ellen Bryant Voight -- Nosotros / Janet Peery -- Books oft have such a charm : a memory / William J. Scheick -- Chinese fireworks banned in Hawaii / Eric Chock -- 1989, Gilette, our navy / David Romtvedt -- Jane Addams (September 6, 1860-May 21, 1935) / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The stuff men are made of / Felipe Alfau -- Maintenance / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Gift shop in Pecs / Len Roberts -- Sesame / Jack Marshall -- Seeing you / Jean Valentine -- Raisin faces / Helen Norris -- River girls / Jeanne Dixon -- Third Dungeness Spit apocalypse / Nelson Bentley -- Stories / F.L. Chandonnet -- Text / Melinda Davis -- Portable people / Paul West -- The dead body itself / Sharon Olds -- What they wanted / Stephen Dunn -- The limbo dancer / Josephine Jacobsen -- Past, future, elsewhere / Eileen Pollack -- Two stories / Diane Williams -- The Donald Barthelme blues / Charles Baxter -- Media / Howard Nemerov -- Lava / Adam Zagajewski -- Waiting for Mr. Kim / Carol Roh-Spaulding -- The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios / Yann Martel -- There are no ties at first base / Ted Cohen -- A call from Kotzebue / Ben Groff -- The pyroxenes / James Merrill -- White boot / Michael McClure -- Ravens at Deer Creek / Robert Wrigley -- Sun spots / Christopher Buckley -- One Way / Jess Mowry -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions (1976-1991) -- Contributing small presses -- Index -- Contributors' notes.;1994-95: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Honey in the carcase / Josip Novakovich -- A thousand Buddhas / Brenda Miller -- Suite for Emily / Lynda Hull -- The big ear / Robin Hemley -- Theng / Susan Onthank Mates -- Exodus / Robin Selman -- Bowen / Evan Connell -- Marabou / Joy Williams -- My mother's shoes / Robert Love Taylor -- Yarn wig / Lois-Ann Yamanaka -- Island of the raped women / Frances Driscoll -- The chamber / Stuart Dischell -- Riders to the sea / Maria Flook -- My father, dancing / Bliss Broyard -- Imhotep / Yusef Komunyakaa -- My students / Lisa Lewis -- The crying house / Linda Hogan -- Who do you love / Jean Thompson -- Skunk dreams / Louise Erdrich -- Over all / Thomas Rabbitt -- A portrait of the self as nation, 1990-1991 / Marilyn Chin -- Twice removed / Ralph Angel -- Age of reason / Jewel Mogan -- In broad daylight / Ha Jin -- My father's place / Kim R. Stafford -- Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Practicing death songs / Adrian C. Louis -- Watermelon tales / Khaled Mattawa -- Or̓ita on the road to Chimayo{u00B4} / Lisa Sandlin -- The line / Raymond Federman -- Fiction and the inner life of objects / Charles Baxter -- Inventing the Filipino / Fatima Lim-Wilson -- Journal of the thousand choices / Susan Wheeler -- The way if felt to be fallig / Kim Edwards -- Between the pool and the gardenias / Edwidge Danticat -- Eating the angel, conceiving the sun : toward a notion of poetic thought / Sherod Santos -- Nash / Jon Barnes -- The triumph of the Prague workers' councils / Eugene Stein -- Against sincerity / Louise Gluc̈k -- Capitalism / Mark Levine -- Lost brilliance / Rita Dove -- Moriches / Dean Schabner -- Good and bad / Lucia Berlin -- Alfred Chester : goodbye to Christendom / Edward Field -- Lilacs on Brattle Street / Gail Mazur -- Birmingham, 1962 / Diann Blakely Shoaf -- Mask series / Carol Snow -- Jacinta / Charles D'Ambrosio -- From Ava / Carole Maso -- Night singing / W.S. Merwin -- Salt / Linda Gregerson -- The walk / Chitra Divakaruni -- Paradise Park / Steven Millhauser -- Tracks and ties / Andre Dubus III -- Day of the two bodies / Jim Daniels -- Kicking the habit / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Countryside / Jane Miller -- Sybil / A. Manette Ansay -- The road from Damascus / George Williams -- Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph of Apollo (1988) / Mark Irwin -- Which letter? / Arthur Vogelsang -- Heroes, saints, and neighbors / Gillian Conoley -- Alma Mahler : a fiction / Rolaine Hochstein -- From Look ahead -- look south / C.S. Giscombe -- Oyez a ̀Beaumont / Vicki Hearne -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions since 1976 -- Contributors' notes -- Contributing small presses -- Index.;2010: Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Modulation / Richard Powers -- Midsummer / Louise Gluck -- Two hospice essays / Spencer Reece -- Why some girls love horses / Paisley Rekdal -- Our pointy boots / Brock Clarke -- Sunflower / Henri Cole -- I can't write a memoir of Czeslaw Milosz / Adam Zagajewski -- Frieda Pushnik / B. H. Fairchild -- Bonobo Momma / Joyce Carol Oates -- O, Elegant giant / Laura Kasischke -- Rain / Peter Everwine -- Return to Hayneville / Gregory Orr -- Tom & Jerry / Christie Hodgen -- Collector / Frank Bidart -- How to succeed in po biz / Kim Addonizio -- Daddy: 1933 / Geoffrey Brock -- Work and industry in the northern Midwest / Luther Magnussen -- A poetrics of Hiroshima / William Heyen -- The crying Indian / Ginger Strand -- Hare at Aldergrove / Paul Muldoon -- We had wondered what animal might arrive / Lydia Davis -- Cinderella / David Moolten -- The arms and legs of the lake / Mary Gaitskill -- Zinc lid / Ted Kooser -- Her own society / Brenda Wineapple -- Epithalamium / Bob Hicok -- Two studies in entropy / Sara Pritchard -- Not there / Maxine Scates -- Tied to history / Greil Marcus -- Metallurgy for dummies / James Richardson -- Edge boys / Charles McLeod -- The favorite / Alison Townsend -- Two experiments and a coda / Lia Purpura -- Devotion: fly / Bruce Smith -- What the world will look like when all the water leaves us / Laura van den Berg -- "This dream the world is having about itself" / Carolyne Wright -- The boneyard / Ben Quick -- I turn my silence over / Kary Wayson -- In Africa / Edward Hoagland -- The good news / David Yezzi -- The points of sail / Sven Birkerts -- For what the hell they needed it for / Joel Brouwer -- Stolpestad / Willaim Lychack -- The kayak and the Eiffel Tower / Fleda Brown -- Accident, mass. Ave. / Jill McDonough -- London & a friend / Paul Zimmer -- The homing device comprehended at last / Liz Waldner -- Ethan : a love story / J. C. Hallman -- God's truth is life / Christian Wiman -- Beautiful country / Robert Wrigley -- Put on the petty / Amos Magliocco -- Why the novel is necessary but sometimes hard to read / Marie Howe -- My first real home / Diane Williams -- Everything all at once / Austin Bunn -- 1814: the last frost fair / Rita Dvoe -- Time and distance overcome / Eula Biss -- Graduates of western military academy / George Bilgere -- Bijou / Mark Doty -- Soap and ambergris / Yousef Al-Mohaimeed -- The lost glove / Mark Halliday -- The sutra of maggots and blowflies / Sallie Tisdale -- Face / Idris Anderson -- Bird feed / Ashlee Adams.;1986-87: Introduction / Cynthia Ozick -- Lawns / Mona Simpson -- Not-knowing / Donald Barthelme -- Off Port Townsend, one month before the arrival of the U.S.S. Ohio / Henry Carlile -- The throne of the third heaven of the nations millennium general assembly / Denis Johnson -- Other lives / Francine Prose -- Lyrics for Puerto Rican salsa and three soneos by request / Ana Lydia Vega -- Communist / Richard Ford -- Property, patriotism and national defense / Wendell Berry -- Sunday at St. Christine's in Budapest and a fruitstand nearby / Antonio Cisneros -- Mid-plains tornado / Linda Bierds -- Eating together / Li-young Lee -- Jury selection / Lucia Perillo -- Tide of voices / Lynda Hull -- The flowers of Bermuda / D.R. MacDonald -- Rose / Andre Dubus -- Friends and fortunes / Linda Hogan -- In a Polish home for the aged (Chicago, 1983) / Edward Hirsch -- Morro Rock / Garrett Kaoru Hongo -- Delfina Flores and her niece Modesta / Herbert Morris -- Don't go to the barn / Tom Sleigh -- The island of Ven / Gina Berriault -- Leviathan / Tobias Wolff -- Today will be a quiet day / Amy Hempel -- Quarter to six / Dorianne Laux -- I send Mama home / Marilyn Waniek -- Plain song / Hayden Carruth -- Writing in the cold / Ted Solotaroff -- Elegy on Independence Day / Arthur Smith -- The biblical garden / John Drury -- Amaryllis / Daniel Halpern -- The paperboys / John Logan -- Somewhere geese are flying / Gary Gildner -- The merry chase / Gordon Lish -- In the country of last things / Paul Auster -- The victims / Richard Burgin -- X / Lee K. Abbott -- At the death of Kenneth Rexroth / Eliot Weinberger -- Turtle, swan / Mark Doty -- The foundry garden / Stanley Plumly -- It / Howard Moss -- Cooking / James Hathaway -- The poet at seventeen / Larry Levis -- Molly's dog / Alice Adams -- Something good for Ginnie / Mary Hood -- The noise the hairless make / Stevens Dobyns -- What are the days / Colette Inez -- The theme of the three caskets / William Matthews -- Maria Mitchell in the great beyond with Marilyn Monroe / Carole Oles -- Outstanding writers -- Outstanding small presses -- Index to the Pushcart Prize series -- Contributors' notes.