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• 3 • Introduction: An Uncommonplace Theory • essay by Judith B. Kerman [as by Judith Kerman]
• 4 • Introduction: Thoughts on the Fantastic in Poetry • essay by Don Riggs
• 9 • The Cat Improvement Company • (1988) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 10 • Blue Tiger • (1996) • poem by Gene Doty
• 11 • Why the Sphinx? • poem by Marilyn Jurich
• 12 • Monster • poem by Robert Lima
• 13 • Geotheanum • poem by Patrick O'Leary
• 15 • Will • (1992) • poem by Jane Yolen
• 19 • Release the Name • (1994) • poem by Gene Doty
• 20 • Prayer • (1997) • poem by Sydney Duncan
• 21 • Song for My Daughter • (1989) • poem by Patricia Harkins-Pierre
• 22 • Threat • poem by Marilyn Jurich
• 24 • Investigating the Body • poem by Judith B. Kerman [as by Judith Kerman]
• 26 • People with X-Ray Vision • poem by Don Riggs
• 31 • Clarion • poem by Sydney Duncan
• 32 • Fire, Ice • (1994) • poem by Joe Haldeman
• 39 • Cicadas • poem by David Lunde
• 40 • Vampire Villanelle • (1990) • poem by David Lunde
• 43 • Daughters II: Sestina • (1977) • poem by Judith B. Kerman [as by Judith Kerman]
• 45 • Dream • poem by Don Riggs
• 45 • When You're First Learning to Write • poem by Don Riggs
• 51 • My Mother Lives Off Glass • poem by Patricia Harkins-Pierre
• 52 • My Vegetable Love • poem by Donna Hooley
• 53 • Plane Surfaces • poem by Judith B. Kerman [as by Judith Kerman]
• 54 • Setting Course for the Heliopause • poem by Jeanne Larsen
• 55 • Following Her Divorce • (1995) • poem by Rick Wilber
• 59 • They Are Angels • (1991) • poem by Gene Doty
• 62 • Pavane • (1999) • poem by Sydney Duncan
• 64 • Peacock River Child • (1995) • poem by Sydney Duncan
• 66 • Reading the Eye Chart • poem by Marilyn Jurich
• 67 • Constellation: She Regards an Unmapped Sky • poem by Jeanne Larsen
• 68 • You Know If You Were Interested I'd Tell You • poem by Don Riggs
• 69 • When Raven Sang • (1994) • poem by Jane Yolen
• 73 • Astronomies • (1997) • poem by Sydney Duncan
• 74 • Tachyonic Toss #1 • poem by Marilyn Jurich
• 76 • April Argument with the Astronomer • poem by Jeanne Larsen
• 78 • The Astronomer Seen By Sunlight • poem by Jeanne Larsen
• 79 • Limits • (1986) • poem by David Lunde
• 83 • Alphabet of Ameliorating Hope • (1992) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss
• 85 • What Did the Policeman Say? • (1995) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 86 • Spillover • poem by Patricia Harkins-Pierre
• 87 • Clown • poem by Judith B. Kerman [as by Judith Kerman]
• 91 • The Seamstress of Flowers • poem by Marilyn Jurich
• 93 • Demodocus • poem by Don Riggs
• 95 • The Tale of Julian and Torane • poem by Daniel Timmons
• 98 • Homer • (1997) • poem by Rick Wilber
• 100 • Marchen • (1994) • poem by Jane Yolen
• 101 • Once Upon a Time, She Said • (1987) • poem by Jane Yolen
• 105 • Pilot, Pilot • (1994) • poem by David Lunde
• 107 • The Last Car • poem by Patrick O'Leary
• 108 • The Yugoslavian Poetry Maker • poem by Patrick O'Leary
• 109 • Hot on the Trail of the Magnum Opus • poem by Don Riggs
• 111 • Money Is That Intangible We Are • poem by Don Riggs
• 112 • Metaphysics at the Planetarium • (1995) • poem by Rick Wilber
• 115 • Alluvium • poem by Sydney Duncan
• 116 • Deep Sea Diver • poem by Judith B. Kerman [as by Judith Kerman]
• 119 • The Face of the Hare • poem by David Lunde
• 120 • Nightfishing • (1982) • poem by David Lunde
• 121 • Orkney Lament • (1994) • poem by Jane Yolen