Includes poems by eighty-two poets with their biographical information. On the Pleasant Valley Road / Lucy Adkins -- Debut: late lines for a thirtieth birthday; Things that cannot be compared / Susan Aizenberg -- Bed fellows / Denise Banker -- Any particular joy / Carole Barnes-Montgomery -- Modern clothing; On finding a footnote to "truckin'" / Grace Bauer -- Hawk shadow, early May; The November hawk / Stephen Behrendt -- A cigarette with Loni / Brian Bengtson -- Strip joint; Shame / Ron Block -- Sea of faith; Valid photo identification required / John Brehm -- The night my father killed my dog / Robert Brooke -- Old wives' tales / Amy Knox Brown -- Dakota, 1933 / J.V. Brummels -- Neighbor; October / Shirley Buettner -- The Cement Evangelical Worship Center / Michael Catherwood -- The estate auction / James Cihlar -- My daughter picking mulberries; The zen of goats / Shelly Clark Geiser -- Asylum / Elizabeth Clark Wessel -- Pricksong / Marilyn Coffey -- Constellation / Paul Dickey -- Dawn watch / Marilyn Dorf -- Steamer trunk / Lorraine Duggin -- Killings / Pat Hemphill Emile -- Nebraska; Twenty-five years later, she learns her ex is dying / Kelly Madigan Erlandson -- My sister; The fisherman's wife / Becky Faber -- The vagrant hours / Charles Fort -- Bird poem / Tom Gannon -- Identification; Military secrets / Gaynell Gavin -- Great Uncle Louie; Snow on Far Mountain / S. C. Hahn -- Late winter: survival; Potato soup; We are on nine-mile prairie when / Twyla Hansen -- Naming the lakes / Neil Harrison -- Turkey vultures / Art Homer -- Thousands at his bidding post / Don Jones -- Connections: a toast; My love for all things warm and breathing / William Kloefkorn -- Army of one / Bruce Koborg -- At the cancer clinic; Etude; Selecting a reader; So this is Nebraska / Ted Kooser -- Windows / Greg Kosmicki -- Let there be an end to excuses; Sometimes; When we dead awaken / Greg Kuzma -- Meet me at the Happy Bar; Notes on landscape / Steve Langan -- Crickets; The theory of evolution / James Magorian -- Always back there; Seekers / Mordecai Marcus -- Big muddy; The old crow / Clif Mason -- The good news / Matt Mason -- The body / Janelle Masters -- My mother reading / David McCleery -- Girl talk / Nancy McCleery -- John Davis; John Early remembers the moment of his wife's death / R.F. McEwen Face to face / J.J. McKenna -- I chose the gyroscope because it was holy; I would trade places with your death; Walking along the Missouri River north of Omaha I find an Indian arrowhead / John McKernan -- Music appreciation 101 / Sarah McKinstry-Brown -- Silk shop on the Ganges / Sally Molini -- Unraveling / Charlene Neely -- Refusal to apologize for the way things are / Ernst Niemann -- Death and company / Terrance Oberst -- Listening to the voices of poets long dead; The waiting / Jan Petitt -- Meridians; Morning / Amy Plettner -- Pets; For Barbara, who brings a green stone in the shape of a triangle / Hilda Raz -- Strike on the stoop; Ten penny high / Jim Reese -- Tree / Robert Ross -- My father argued with my mother; Night flight; Paradise on the Niobrara / Marjorie Saiser -- Custody; Talking November weather, long distance; Death's door / Mark Sanders -- At the north edge of town / Roy Scheele -- When they go / Terry Lee Schifferns -- How to get to Plattsmouth; Supper / Barbara Schmitz -- Learning to love my belly / Karen Gettert Shoemaker -- Winter at Ram's Horn Mountain / Michael Skau -- Blessed by meteors and by the benevolent men of space / James Solheim -- Our lady of the rest stop; Wallpapering to Patsy Cline / Judith Sornberger -- The circle dance; Red barn / Mary K. Stillwell -- Sale barn / Terese Svoboda -- Recent angels / Kim Tedrow -- December 1: a liturgical year / Ruth Thone -- Cosmology; Fumigant / Jon Volkmer -- Holy, holy, holy; Have you reached the part about the lightning? / Sarah Voss -- Middle creek; Understory / Lynn Overholt Wake -- When she does not come home / Rex Walton -- On the death of Lura Walcott, wife of the famous paleontologist / Coreen Wees -- Funeral at Ansley; Nebraska; The keeper of miniature deer / Don Welch -- Progression / Kathleene West -- September 11th / Jan Chism Wright -- Enough driving; Man with green thumb / David Wyatt -- Remembrance / Rosemary Zumpfe -- A few words for my mortician; Father dancing; Mother at the piano / Fredrick Zydek. Greg Kosmicki and Mary K. Stillwell, editors.
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