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• 1 • Not an Introduction (Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin) • essay by Lisa M. Bradley and Rose Lemberg [as by Lisa M. Bradley and R. B. Lemberg]
• 7 • Dear Ursula • poem by Edmond Y. Chang
• 9 • Where Are You? • poem by Jo Walton
• 10 • Wind Writes the Water • poem by Roger Dutcher
• 11 • Distance Interval • poem by M. J. Cunniff
• 12 • In Latin, foris • poem by Christopher Phelps
• 13 • The Forrester's Stratagem • poem by Neile Graham
• 15 • Redwood Houses • poem by Amelia Gorman
• 16 • Galloping Hooves • poem by Tricia Knoll
• 17 • Kudzu • poem by Stephanie Burt
• 18 • Pacifica/Evergreen • poem by Hal Y. Zhang
• 19 • The Other Lives • poem by Sonya Taaffe
• 20 • Of Winter and Other Seasons • poem by Kiya Nicoll
• 21 • "Might as well say I'm the words she read" • poem by Betsy Aoki
• 22 • Poet Stumbles Upon the Ten Thousand Things • poem by Brandon O'Brien
• 25 • Speculative Fiction • poem by Linden K. McMahon
• 26 • Sound Science • (2020) • poem by Hal Y. Zhang
• 27 • Upward Toward the Light • poem by Rachel Swirsky
• 28 • Physics 6 • poem by Ursula Whitcher
• 29 • Dream Logic • poem by Ada Hoffmann
• 33 • The Trees Are Waiting • poem by Gita Ralleigh
• 34 • We Dream the Future in Our Songs • poem by Eva Papasoulioti
• 35 • Atmospheric Invasion • poem by Kim Goldberg
• 36 • The Keystone Out of Your Arch • poem by Sonya Taaffe
• 37 • Tolk • poem by So Mayer
• 39 • On the Long Road Back • poem by Aimee Ogden
• 41 • The Day Before the Revolution • poem by Izzy Wasserstein
• 45 • Icarus • poem by Thoraiya Dyer
• 46 • From the Ansible, a Voice • poem by Charles Payseur
• 48 • The Topography of Ambition • poem by Wendy Howe
• 49 • Frost Ascending • poem by Kendra Preston Leonard
• 50 • Ossify • poem by Jennifer Mace
• 52 • Keepsake • poem by Adrienne J. Odasso [as by A. J. Odasso]
• 53 • Gebbeth • poem by A. Z. Louise
• 54 • A Headful of Hair • poem by Leah Bobet
• 55 • Evening (terza rima) • poem by Susannah Mandel
• 56 • And So If You Go Down, You Go Down Whole • poem by Jeannelle D'Isa
• 57 • Ode to Illness • poem by Gwynne Garfinkle
• 58 • The Place Where We Don't Touch (To Therem Harth rem ir Estravan, from Theirs to Thine) • poem by Xian Mao
• 59 • An Idea of Boundary • poem by Shweta Narayan
• 61 • Concern • poem by Brandon O'Brien
• 63 • The Brown Thing • poem by Sofia Samatar
• 69 • Subjunctivitis (or: a Stratagem of Mortality) • poem by Margarita Tenser
• 70 • The Scent of Green • poem by Sandra J. Lindow
• 71 • Dancing at the Edge • poem by Margaret Wack
• 72 • Until the Ships Came • poem by Nicole Field
• 76 • Song of the Guardians of the Rainbow • poem by Ana Tapia
• 77 • The Humanist Chaplain Watches Her Daughter Walking Through the Herb Garden • poem by T. D. Walker
• 79 • Couch Burning • poem by Tania Pryputniewicz
• 80 • My 1980 • poem by Stephanie Burt
• 81 • On Reading Le Guin • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• 82 • Earthsea • poem by Bernard Horn
• 83 • Time Is Being and Being Time • poem by Eva Papasoulioti
• 84 • Lessons from Mother • poem by Lynne Sargent
• 85 • A Metaphor of Sparrows • poem by Erin K. Wagner
• 89 • Journey • poem by Lyta Gold
• 91 • Dragon Haiku • poem by Mary Vlooswyk
• 92 • The Ineffable • poem by Valeria Rodríguez
• 93 • Cat's Canticle • (2014) • poem by David Sklar
• 94 • Reincarnate • poem by Kate Boyes
• 95 • Spring • poem by Nisi Shawl
• 96 • Note to Ursula Le Guin from J. T. Stewart in Seatle • poem by J. T. Stewart
• 98 • Oregon: Local News • poem by Tricia Knoll
• 99 • There Must Be Darkness • poem by Catherine Rockwood
• 101 • The Poetry of Ursula K. Le Guin: A Retrospective • essay by Rose Lemberg [as by R. B. Lemberg]