Introduction / Emily Hiestand
\Nature Poetry / Meg Kearney
\Manifesto / Peter E. Murphy
\Looking Out to Sea Again on the Uptown Express / Sanford Fraser
\Urban Poem / Douglas Goetsch
\New York City / Michael Castro
\City Animals / Chase Twichell
\Still-Life / Maurice Kenny
\Office Geraniums / Laura Newbern
\Letter Home from Brooklyn / Enid Shomer
\Disguised / Martha Rhodes
\The Dogs of New York / Lee Meitzen Grue
\Evolution on 38th Street / Jack Brannon
\Survivors / Sterling Plumpp
\Times Square Water Music / Amy Clampitt
\Water: City Wildlife and Greenery / Alfred Corn
\Peregrine / Barton Sutter
\Coming Home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine
\A Child in the City / Lucien Stryk
\Volcanic Ash / Peter Sears
\Glass Canyons / David Romtvedt
\Dragon-Watching in St. Louis / Carter Revard
\San Francisco Sunrise / Diane Ackerman
\Night in San Francisco / Carolyn Miller
\Night Song of the Los Angeles Basin / Gary Snyder
\city life / Alvin Greenberg
\Courtyard Noises from the North, Twenty-fourth Precinct / Colette Inez
\The Witch-Hazel Wood / Emily Hiestand
\Another Spring on Olmstead Street / Len Roberts
\On Commonwealth Avenue and Brattle Street / Diana Der-Hovanessian
\My Grandfather Always Promised Us / Liam Rector
\Part of What I Mean / Frank X. Gaspar
\Swifts at Evening / Jeffrey Harrison
\Hands in the Wind / Ted Kooser
\Arizona Nocturne / Carlos Reyes
\Dead Armadillos / Gail White
\Census of Animal Bodies: Driving Home / Madeline DeFrees
\San Jacinto Plaza / Ray Gonzalez
\The Earth Movers / Christopher Cokinos
\Interchange / Ted Kooser
\Closer to Home / Floyd Skloot
\Silver-Paced / Bruce Berger
\Under the Williamsburg Bridge / Galway Kinnell
\A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend / Richard Garcia
\Melancholy / David Keller
\Goldfish in the Charles River / Lewis Hyde
\Along the Charles / Kenneth Rosen
\Swans on the River Ayr / Mary Oliver
\The City Out of the Boy / Jeffrey Skinner
\I Think That I Shall Never See ... / Jim Heynen
\Easter Afternoon / Rachel Hadas
\Los Angeles after the Rain / Dana Gioia
\Screen Porch / Frederick Marchant
\Midsummer / Nicholas Christopher
\Hurricane / John Balaban
\September City / Gerald Hausman
\Landscapes with Set-Screws / X. J. Kennedy
\Taking the Soundings on Third Avenue / David Kherdian
\Man on a Fire Escape / Edward Hirsch
\These Green-Going-to-Yellow / Marvin Bell
\wintering over at the end of the century / Alvin Greenberg
\Possibility / Charles Coe
\Hoarfrost and Fog / Barton Sutter
\Winter Storm / Lucien Stryk
\January, Anchorage / Linda McCarriston
\Nocturne / Ellen Bryant Voigt
\Going Home Madly / Brooke Wiese
\Small Moon on the Shoulder of New York / George Keithley
\The Estes' Backyard / Pamela Stewart
\Bad Birds / William Trowbridge
\Unnatural Light / Peter Meinke
\Dieback / Elizabeth Dodd
\Wilderness / Vern Rutsala
\The Neighbor's Elm / Robert Ayres
\The Tree / Frank X. Gaspar
\A Death in Larkspur Canyon / Richard Garcia
\The Conifer King / Michael Bugeja
\On High Street / Andrea Hollander Budy
\Bronx Park / Richard Foerster
\Washington Park / Gerald Costanzo
\Tilden Park / Alison Hawthorne Deming
\From the Outland / Peter Davison
\Provisional / Reginald Shepherd
\Watching Ants Play Soccer in Central Park / Anthony Piccione
\Park Elms / Charles Ghigna
\The Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Timothy Liu
\The Affect of Elms / Reginald Gibbons
\The Elephant in Winter / Michael Van Walleghen
\Seriema Song / Albert Goldbarth
\In the Aviary / Gerald Costanzo
\The Sleep of Beasts / Peter Cooley
\Maintaining the Species / Deborah Burnham
\The Taxidermist at the Zoo / Ruth Anderson Barnett
\The First Trimester / Campbell McGrath
\My Cockroach Lover / Martin Espada
\Potato Bug / Charles Harper Webb
\On Transportation / Benjamin Paloff
\Monarchs of Parque Tranquilidad / Robin Becker
\The Cabbage Butterfly / Henri Cole
\Video Store Parking Lot / Mark DeFoe
\Benediction / Stuart Dybek
\Brave Sparrow / Michael Collier
\Peregrine Falcon, New York City / Robert Cording
\Kendall Gulls / Ricardo Pau-Llosa
\The Owl and the Lightning / Martin Espada
\Arrival / Debra Kang Dean
\Another Lo-Cal Elegy / Stephen Yenser
\Snowy Egret / Bruce Weigl
\The Birds That Woke Us: An Urban Pastoral / Jeffrey Harrison
\Regret for the Mourning Doves Who Failed to Mate / Bruce Weigl
\Turkeys in August / Gray Jacobik
\A Guide to Urban Birds / David B. Axelrod
\Old Dog / Michael L. Johnson
\The Baying / James Bertolino
\Duluth, Minnesota / Connie Wanek
\Coming Across It / Walt McDonald
\Christmas Shopping / Carter Revard
\The Minks / Toi Derricotte
\The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. / Larry Levis
\Buffalo Poem #1 / Geary Hobson
\The End of Civilization as We Know It / Colleen J. McElroy.