Prayer / Carolyne Wright. How I learned to sweep / Julia Alvarez -- Down on my knees ; The hurricane sisters work regardless / Ginger Andrews -- Romantic / Margaret Atwood -- Kitchens: 1959 ; Poetry despises your attempts at domesticity / Julianna Baggott -- In waking words ; The prodigal daughter / Dorothy Barresi -- Modern love ; Pittsburgh poem / Jan Beatty -- Dictionary for the new century ; What they did by lamplight / Kimberly Blaeser -- Sewing / Marianne Boruch -- Cooking catalogue / Jill Breckenridge -- Desert flowers ; Part of a larger country / Jeanne Bryner -- Five-year plan / Victoria Chang -- The floral apron / Marilyn Chin -- A man in my bed like cracker crumbs / Sandra Cisneros -- quilting / Lucille Clifton -- Mother, a young wife learns to sew ; New house / Geraldine Connolly -- Grating parmesan / Barbara Crooker -- Broom / Deborah Digges -- The size of a bed sheet / Amy Dryansky -- The ugly step sister / Denise Duhamel -- Good woman ; Sweeping heaven / Heid Erdrich -- Peonies / Susan Firer -- After the miscarriage ; Sweet hour / Diane Gilliam Fisher -- Upper peninsula landscape with aunts / Pamela Gemin -- Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo -- Feeding frenzy ; Thursday afternoon: life is sweet / Holly Iglesias -- Cayenne / Angela Jacson -- Domestic humiliation ; Kitchen ; Plenty / Allison Joseph -- What I learned from my mother ; When our women go crazy / Julia Kasdorf -- Dinner ; Housekeeping in a dream ; The visibility of spirits / Laura Kasischke -- Moving furniture / Josie Kearns -- How my mother-in-law instructed me in slaughter ; Maid / Sarah Kennedy -- Ham and the moon / Jesse Lee Kercheval -- Giving the house away / Julie King -- Brick ; Covered dish / Kristin Kovacic -- Clothesline / Laurie Kutchins -- Spots / Estella Lauter -- The idea of housework ; Reetika arranges my closet / Dorianne Laux -- May mowing clover / Lisa Lewis -- Vegetable love / Diane Lockward -- God scrubs the tub ; God vacuums the pool ; God packs lunches ; Lemons / Gail Martin -- What lies beneath / Shara McCallum -- Home remedy / Paula McLain -- Third stair, seventh stair, landing / Jane Mead -- Some women marry houses / Sarah Messer -- Convolvulus Tricolor / Leslie Adrienne Miller -- The days of my mother / Laurel Mills -- At thirty / Kyoko Mori -- Bread / Sharon Olds -- the shekhinah as mute / Alicia Suskin Ostriker -- Grief comes in smallest ways ; Sunday baking / Gailmarie Pahmeier -- The soup / Peggy Penn -- Cooking lesson / Zarina Mullan Plath -- All the soups / Martha Rhodes -- Song of the cook ; What I want to make for you / Natasha SajeĢ -- Duties and vocations ; Wintering / Jane Satterfield -- Furious cooking / Maureen Seaton -- In the kitchen dancing to Kitty Wells / Heather Sellers -- One quick quiz / Paula Sergi -- Purpose / Diane Seuss -- Entropy ; The sinking / Faith Shearin -- Immaculate lives ; A poet in the house ; The sky-blue dress / Cathy Song -- Plum crazy / Kate Sontag -- Household muse / Joyce Sutphen -- Housekeeping / Virginia Chase Sutton -- Coming home / Elizabeth Tibbetts -- Hospital corners ; Western Holly Stove / Alison Townsend -- Date nut bread ; Day's end ; The dinner guest / Ann Townsend -- Domestic work, 1937 ; Housekeeping / Natasha Trethewey -- The history of women / Leslie Ullman -- Canning cellar, early sixties / Judith Vollmer -- Back to catfish -- The lady on the cover of Family Circle ; Starting from scratch / Ingrid Wendt -- Quilt / Valerie Wohlfeld -- Prayer / Carolyne Wright.
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