A hypothetical anthology of poetry I like:

Elizabeth Skurnick—Wild Kingdom ... 1-2

Mary Ruefle—Sweet Morning...3

Bob Hicock—Limited resources...4-5

Bob Hicock—Ringing the bell curve...6

Jaimee Kuperman—I Think Words Louder...7-8

Gretchen Mattox—Can You Help Me...9

Gretchen Mattox—Ralph’s, Lake and Lincoln, Late Night...10

Louise Mathias—Wingspan...11

Jonathan Pugh—Gallant...12

Jonathan Pugh—Who…13

Thomas Swiss—Closed for the Season...14

Patrick Lawler—Jacque Cousteau After Becoming a Fish Visits Melville Who Has Become the Sea15

Patrick Lawler—Blake Watches Mr. Milton’s Angels Burning in Madame Curie’s Hair…16

Patrick Lawler—H.D. Imagist and Edward Lorenz Discover a Butterfly in Brazil...17-18

Michael Burkard—Untitled…19

Samantha Hunt—As the Invisible Man Though Less Visible…20-21

Forrest Hamer—The Point of the Story…22

Pablo Medina—Purpose and Extravagance…23

Pablo Medina—Rearview…24

Cynie Cory—This Hard Earned Sleep…25

Donna Munro—There’s Nothing So Bad Living Can’t Fix It…26

Donna Munro—Trepidar…27-28

Donna Munro—Broken Guitar…29

Ted Kooser—A Death…30

Ted Kooser—Satellite Dish…31

Karen Whalley—Under the Sign of Fire...32

Karen Whalley—A Different Language…33

Kevin Clark—The Crossing…34-35

Christopher Kennedy—Fancy Dinosaur…36

Christopher Kennedy—Narcissus…37

Christopher Kennedy—Proverbial Zero…38

Herbert Scott—The Woman Who Loves Old Men…39

Herbert Scott—The Other Life…40

Herbert Scott—Julius Caesar Appears on a Late-Night Talk Show…41

Cynthia Cruz—Eleven…42-43

Cynthia Cruz—California…44-45

Cynthia Cruz—Molotov…46-47

Jack Gilbert—Married…48

Wang Ping—Of Flesh & Spirit…49-50

Paul Beatty—Aa Bb Cc…Xx Yy and Zzing…51

Naomi Shihab Nye—Wedding Cake...52

Albert Goldbarth—How Easy It Is…53-54

Carrie Allen McCray—Anemone…55

Russell Edson—On the Eating of Mice…56

Russell Edson—Counting Sheep...57

Russell Edson—The Fall…58

Denise Duhamel—Hippie Barbie…59

Denise Duhamel—Barbie Joins a Twelve Step Program...60-61

Denise Duhamel—Buddhist Barbie…62

Yusef Komunyakaa—Anodyne…63

Yusef Komunyakaa—Venus’s-Flytraps…64-65

Hal Sirowitz—Two Visits in One Day…66

Hal Sirowitz—Word Power…67

Dobby Gibson—Gone Before…68-69

Brian Turner—Here, Bullet...70

Steve Scafidi—To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire…71-72

Steve Scafidi—Ode to the Perineum…73-74

Amaud Jamaul Johnson—Burlesque…75

Ilya Kaminsky—We Lived Happily During the War…76

Ross Gay—How to Fall in Love With Your Father…77

John Poch—Jorie Graham…78-79

Stacy Lynn Brown—Down South, all it takes / to be a church…79-80

Matthea Harvey—The Future of Terror / 11…81

Camille T. Dungy—black spoon…82

Patrick Donnelly—Prayer at the Opera…83

Anthony Walton—Dissidence…84

Dan Albergotti—Bad Language…85

Aimee Nezhukumatathil—Small Murders…86

Patrick Rosal—Uncommon Denominators…87-88

Camille T. Dungy—The Preachers Eat Out…89

Sarah Gambito—Scene: a Loom…90

April Ossmann—Infidelity…91

Hermine Pinson—Dolores’ Blues…92-93

Dana Levin—Ars Poetica…94

Jon Pineda—My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task…95

Sharon Olds—Greed and Aggression…96

Sharon Olds—Typography…97

Brenda Coultas—An Early Alphabet…98

Brenda Coultas—A Stick…99

Brenda Coultas—Black Boxes…100

Beckian Fritz Goldberg—Beached…101

Laura Kasischke—Pharmacy…102

Laura Kasischke—The Key to the Tower…103-104

Laurel Hunt—In which no one drowns…105-106

Allan Peterson—As I Understand It…107

Allan Peterson—Long Distance…108

Allan Peterson—Bird Houses by Mail…109

David Dodd Lee—Dry Creek Bed…110

David Dodd Lee—The Mailbox on Parkview…111-112

David Dodd Lee—April…113

Charmi Keranen—The Great American Interchange…114

Charmi Keranen—Deer-Dusk Of An Evening…115

Nancy Botkin—Doors Closing…116-117

Nancy Botkin—Geometry…118

Nancy Botkin—Funeral…119

Clayton Michaels—the art of sweeping things under the rug…120

Clayton Michaels—Untitled #19…121

Clayton Michaels—chokecherry…122-123

Tom Healy—Alarm…124

Frederick Seidel—From a High Floor…125

Ashley Capps—Reading an Ex-Lover’s First Novel…126

Malena Mörling—Late at Night…127

Li-Young Lee—Become Becoming…128

Julie Moulds—Late Summer Litany…129

Martha Ronk—With interstitial vacuities, a network of light…130

Larissa Szporluk—Crocodilia…131

Christine Hamm—The Mule Deer...132

Mark Wisniewski—Every Night…133-134

Jay Hopler—Approaching the Tower…135

Eric Duenez—Cop on Dope…136-137

Paula Cisewski—Ode to Tethers...138

Michael O’Brien—Some of the Days…139

Michael Marberry—Accident…140

Heather Cousins—Mindfulness…141

James Galvin—January Thaw…142

James Galvin—Promises are for Liars…143

James Galvin—So Long…144

Martha Rhodes—Telling Mother about My Troubled Marriage…145

Jim Daniels—The Tenured Guy’s Trajectory…146-147

Jim Daniels—The Tenured Guy Handles the Evidence…148

Amy McNamara—Minor Third…149

Louise Glück—Epithalamium…150

Kathleen Martin Rowe—English Class…151

Mary Ann Samyn—Another Word for Small…152

Martha Silano—Love…153

Jesse Lee Kercheval—Straight Line…154

James Finnegan—More Sky…155

Carrie Oeding—Apology to Meditation…156

Carrie Oeding—Neighbor Curse…157

Carrie Oeding—A Refrain, Sung Once, To Herself…158

Kate Greenstreet—informant…159

Jim Daniels—Taking the Leap...160