The Owl, For All His Feathers—Aaron Fischer 
Selected by Sharon Dolin from the Advanced Poetry Workshop

Sequence—Dorothy Ball 
Selected by Sharon Dolin from the Advanced Poetry Workshop

Third-Street Promenade—Michael Homolka 
Selected by Jean Valentine from the Advanced Poetry Workshop

Cowboys—Laura Shearer 
Selected by Jean Valentine from the Advanced Poetry Workshop

In the Beginning, There Was My Father—Carroll Beauvais
Selected by Brenda Shaughnessy from the Advanced Poetry Workshop

At the Editor's Desk—David M. Katz
Selected by David Yezzi from the Poetry Seminar "On Prosody"

The Climb to the Lake—Shaune Bornholdt 
Selected by David Yezzi from the Poetry Seminar "On Prosody"

I Ate My Mother's Hair—Ruth Sabath Rosenthal 
Selected by Jeanne Marie Beaumont from the Poetry Workshop

Connection on the E Train—Lesley Thompson 
Selected by Jeanne Marie Beaumont from the Poetry Workshop