The Pushcart prize 2001 XXV: best of the small presses

Introduction / Bill Henderson

The anointed / Kathleen Hill

Toward humility / Bret Lott

Ninguna Brahma / Amudha Rajendran

Prairie / Salvatore Scibona

New staves / Seamus Heaney

How to make love to a man / Sharon Doubiago

PU-239 / Ken Kalfus

The streetcar: August 6, 1945 / William Heyen

Gray / Fanny Howe

Alpha images / Karl Elder

The smallest man in the world / Bonnie Jo Campbell

Elegy for my sister / Sherod Santos

Cock fight / Marianna Cherry

Qua qua qua / Heather McHugh

Jasper, Texas, 1998 / Lucille Clifton.

The canals of Mars / Gary Fincke

Backwqrd poem / Bob Hicok

In the belly of the cat / Daniel S. Libman

Weather update / Karri Lynn Harrison

The possible world / Elizabeth McKenzie

Recorded message / Philip Dacey

Regeneration / Pauls Toutonghi

My dead dad / David Kirby

Other people's secrets / Patricia Hampl

The impossibility of language / Beth Ann Fennelly

Women's pantomime / Ben Marcus

Ssshh / Sharon Olds

I drive you from my heart / Jana Harris

Berna's place / Jane McCafferty

Hammering stones / William Wenthe

I remember Toscanini / Michael Blumenthal

Tusk / A.A. Srinivasan

Inside Gertrude Stein / Lynn Emanuel

Homesickness / Virginia Holman

The spell / Jonathan David Jackson

The sharpshooter / Joyce Carol Oates.

V. (Psalm 37 at Auschwitz) / Jacqueline Osherow

Commendable / Joan Silber

Penumbria / Betty Adcock

Half-answered prayers / Andrew Hudgins

Folding the fox / Robert Gibb

In Cuba I was a German shepherd / Ana Menendez

Death's midwife has the smallest hands / Claire Bateman

Against a certain kind of ardency / Charles Martin

Love songs of fruit flies / E.S. Bumas

Testament / Glenna Holloway

Off the road or the perfect curve unfound / Glen Chamberlain Barrett

Paradise Cove / Stephen Yenser

Mates / Edith Pearlman

Her literal one / Albert Goldbarth

Bad judgment / Cathleen Calbert

The man with the paper eyes / Bay Anapol

Six apologies, Lord / Olena Kalytiak Davis

The doll / Eudora Welty

A primer for the small weird loves / Richard Siken

Twilight of the apple growers / Jane Brox

Biblical also-rans / Charles Harper Webb.

When it's you / Fred Leebron

The dove's neck / Gerald Stern

The end of the tunnel / Nancy McCabe

From the Vegas cantos / Greg Rappleye

The ordinary son / Ron Carlson

The workforce / James Tate

Two prayers / Paul Maliszewski

Synopsis: the songs of the jolly flatboatmen / Paul Violi

Medallion / Michael Hefferman

Nogales and the bomb / Alberto Rios

Seven roses / Frank X. Gaspar

We take our children to Ireland / Lynne McMahon

Your name here / John Ashbery

When she is old and I am famous / Julie Orringer

To grasp the nettle / Eamon Grennan

Sestina: Bob / Jonah Winter

Milton at the bat / Jeffrey Hammond.