The State of the Preface Address
Tom Thompson on Wordsworth and Common Speech

Serious Art That's Funny
Matthew Rohrer on Humor in Poetry

"Tell All the Truth but tell it slant"
Cate Marvin on First-Person Usage in Poetry

The Very Act of Telling
Aaron Smith on Sharon Olds and Writing Narrative Poetry

Make It New
Dana Levin on Originality and the Younger Poet

A (Slightly Qualified) Defense of MFA Programs
Arielle Greenberg on Six Benefits of Graduate School

Beyond the Manifesto: Language Poetry
Srikanth Reddy on Lyn Hejinian's The Language of Inquiry

Going for Motherlode
Miranda Field on Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born

In Praise of Abstraction
Ravi Shankar on Moving Beyond Concrete Imagery

Survival in Two Worlds at Once
Tracy K. Smith on Federico Garcia Lorca and Duende

Got Punked
Chad Davidson on Rebellious Verse

"Next Year's Words"
Geoffrey G. O'Brien on T. S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

Some Reflections on Eliot's "Reflections on Vers Libre"
Rachel Wetzsteon on Verse and Free Verse

The Fallacy of Prose Poetry
Sarah Manguso on an Extension of Eliot's "Reflections on Vers Libre"

The Raw and the Cooked
Tina Cane on Robert Lowell and the Beats

Conversing With the World
Rachel Galvin on The Poet in Society

A Match Made in Poetry
Timothy Donnelly on Yvor Winters vs. Hart Crane

Confessionalography: A GNAT (Grossly Non-Academic Talk)
Rachel Zucker on "I" in Poetry: Fiction or Nonfiction

The Politics of Meter
Catherine Wagner on Traditional Forms

On Poetry and the Reallocation of Concentration
Beth Ann Fennelly on Learning to Forget

"Okay I'll Call You/ Yes Call Me"
Stephen Burt on Frank O'Hara's "Personism"

"A Drama of Truth"
Brian Teare on Robert Duncan and Tradition

Mutable Boundaries
Karen Volkman on Prose Poetry

Richard Hugo's Constructivist Moment
Joshua Corey on The Triggering Town

Entering to Win
Robert Casper on Poetry Contests

The Peril of Poetry Reading
David Groff on Public or Private Poetry

Can Poets Teach
Joan Houlihan on Poets Teaching Poetry

Back Down to Earth
Richard Tayson on Walt Whitman's Preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass

Making It Sweet Again
Cort Day on Manifestos by Charles Olson, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Bernstein

Into the Maze
Mónica de la Torre on OULIPO

Scrapple from the Apple
Sean Singer on Jazz