Alicia Ostriker:
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

Julie Sheehan:
"The Author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet

Paisley Rekdal:
"Epistle to Miss Blount, On Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation"
by Alexander Pope

Richard Tillinghast:
"Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son" by Sir Walter Ralegh

Nathaniel Perry:
"Nature" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Arthur Vogelsang:
"I Am " by John Clare

Lynn Melnick :
"I'll Come When Thou Art Saddest" by Emily Brontë

Randall Mann :
"The House on the Hill" by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Maureen N. McLane:
Two versions of Child Ballad No. 26: "The Three Ravens" and "The Twa Corbies"Anonymous (17th Century)

Terrance Hayes:
"Young Love" by William Carlos Williams

Cynthia Zarin:
"Donal Óg" by Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory

Hadara Bar-Nadav:
"Storm Ending" by Jean Toomer

Arthur Smith:
"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Melanie McCabe:
670 ("One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—") by Emily Dickinson

Carrie Fountain:
"Meeting and Passing" by Robert Frost

Mark Irwin:
"Place" by W.S. Merwin

Debra Allbery:
132 ("Just lost, when I was saved!") by Emily Dickinson

Tom Healy:
Psalm 139 (King James Version)

Susan Wheeler:
"Die Beiden" ("Both of Them") by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Santee Frazier:
"To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works" by Phillis Wheatley

Timothy Donnelly:
"The Author's Abstract of Melancholy," by Robert Burton