Stand Up poetry : an expanded anthology /
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- Charles Harper Webb
- Stand Up Poetry: An Update
- Kim Addonizio
- For Desire
- What the Dead Fear
- Jack Anderson
- Going to Norway
- Ginger Andrews
- The Housewife
- O That Summer
- Evidently, She Says
- Prayer
- John Balaban
- At 4:00 A.M. Asleep
- Words for My Daughter
- Dorothy Barresi
- Bad Joke
- Glass Dress
- Dinah Berland
- Blazon
- Laurel Ann Bogen
- I Eat Lunch with a Schizophrenic
- Pygmy Headhunters and Killer Apes, My Lover and Me
- Havana
- Laure-Anne Bosselaar
- English Flavors
- Catherine Bowman
- No Sorry
- Demographics
- Kurt Brown
- Money As Water
- Return of the Prodigals
- Stephanie Brown
- Chapter One
- Allegory of the Supermarket
- Agape
- Michael Dennis Browne
- His Toys
- Knock Knock
- Christopher Buckley
- Sleep Walk
- Charles Bukowski
- the tragedy of the leaves
- trouble with spain
- Richard Cecil
- Some Terms in Real Estate Defined
- Maxine Chernoff
- Miss Congeniality
- The Dead Letter Office
- Toothache
- Vanity, Wisconsin
- How Lies Grow
- Lucille Clifton
- white lady
- wishes for sons
- Wanda Coleman
- I Live for My Car
- Chuck Man
- Billy Collins
- Embrace
- Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House
- The History Teacher
- Litany
- Nightclub
- Mark Cox
- Things My Grandfather Must Have Said
- The Garglers
- Style
- Philip Dacey
- Form Rejection Letter
- Coke
- Squeak
- The Rules
- Jim Daniels
- The Hoagie Scam
- Blessing the House
- Stephen Dobyns
- Pony Express
- Confession
- How to Like It
- Denise Duhamel
- Ego
- I'm Dealing with My Pain
- Why, on a Bad Day, I Can Relate to the Manatee
- Buddhist Barbie
- Stephen Dunn
- On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
- At the Smithville Methodist Church
- The Shame Place
- Russell Edson
- The Retirement of the Elephant
- The Automobile
- Counting Sheep
- The Categories
- Good Son Jim
- Ape
- Elephant Tears
- The Crumble-Knees
- Lynn Emanuel
- The White Dress
- The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am a Poet
- B. H. Fairchild
- Body and Soul
- Edward Field
- The Bride of Frankenstein
- The Dirty Floor
- Open Sesame
- Graffiti
- Elliot Fried
- Marvel Mystery Oil
- Why I Want to Be the Next Poet Laureate
- Wordsworth's Socks
- Chain Mail
- Cynthia Gallaher
- Deb at the Ham Slicer
- Richard Garcia
- Why I Left the Church
- Chickens Everywhere
- Vernon
- Mi Mama, the Playgirl
- Amy Gerstler
- Dear Boy George
- Slowly I Open My Eyes (gangster soliloquy)
- An Unexpected Adventure
- John Gilgun
- Ars Poetica
- Lisa Glatt
- Talking about Boys
- The World in My Mother's Hair
- Leash
- Albert Goldbarth
- Life Is Happy
- The Sciences Sing a Lullabye
- Jack Grapes
- My Rodeo
- Listen
- I Like My Own Poems
- Mark Halliday
- The Case against Mist
- Credentials
- My Moral Life
- Barbara Hamby
- Invention
- Mr. Pillow
- Beriberi
- Deborah Harding
- The Intelligence Quotient
- Jana Harris
- Don't Cheapen Yourself
- Beneath the Pole of Proud Raven
- Eloise Klein Healy
- The Pope at 7:00 P.M.
- Toltecs
- Advice Like That
- Terry Hertzler
- just squeeze
- Bob Hicok
- Memory
- Man of the House
- Edward Hirsch
- Song against Natural Selection
- For the Sleepwalkers
- Tony Hoagland
- Oh Mercy
- My Country
- Lawrence
- The Collaboration
- Paul Hoover
- The Kiss
- Rodney Jones
- Sweep
- Allison Joseph
- Traitor
- Good Humor
- Soul Train
- Jesse Lee Kercheval
- The Children's Book of Knowledge
- Your Wife, a Widow, Waits for You
- Things That Have Escaped Me
- Elizabeth Kerlikowske
- Acceptance Speech
- David Kirby
- I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay
- Amazed by Chekhov
- The Dance of Husbands in Bathrobes
- Nosebleed, Gold Digger, KGB, Henry James, Handshake
- Ron Koertge
- Coloring
- All Suffering Comes from Attachment
- What She Wanted
- Foolish Earthlings
- The Seven Dwarfs, Each on His Deathbed, Remember Snow White
- Dear Superman
- Steve Kowit
- Lurid Confessions
- I Attend a Poetry Reading
- Hell
- A Trick
- Dorianne Laux
- The Laundromat
- Dust
- Fast Gas
- 2 A.M.
- Lisa Lewis
- Tracy and Joe
- Gerald Locklin
- Beer
- Tap Dancing Lessons
- The Leader of the Pack
- Learning to See Crooked
- Do you remember the scene in The Godfather where James Caan says, "Now make sure that the gun gets stashed in the rest room
- I don't want my kid brother walking out of there with nothing but his dick in his hand"?
- Suzanne Lummis
- Letter to My Assailant
- Fish I Remember
- Why Life Is Worth Living
- Thomas Lux
- The People of the Other Village
- Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child
- So You Put the Dog to Sleep
- Men with Small Heads
- "I Love You Sweatheart"
- Jeffrey McDaniel
- Uncle Eggplant
- The Bad Pilgrim Room
- The Quiet World
- Play It Again, Salmonella
- Katharyn Howd Machan
- Hazel Tells LaVerne
- Bill Mohr
- In Line at Pancho's Tacos
- Why the Heart Never Develops Cancer
- Fred Moramarco
- Fortune Cookies
- Novel
- Jack Myers
- Perfect Recall
- Lightweight
- Jake Addresses the World from the Garden
- Sandra Nelson
- The Anti-Foucault Poem
- Dan Nielsen
- My Philosophy
- Saturday Morning Ultimatum
- A Paranoid Egotist
- Ed Ochester
- Working at the Wholesale Curtain Showroom
- Thanksgiving
- Pocahontas
- Greg Pape
- In Line at the Supermarket
- Lawrence Raab
- The Bad Muse
- The Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window
- Pattiann Rogers
- Justification of the Horned Lizard
- The Dead Never Fight against Anything
- Geocentric
- Stephanie Sallaska
- To Raise the Blind on Purpose
- Maureen Seaton
- Fiddleheads
- Furious Cooking
- Betsy Sholl
- Monkey House
- Four Crows at Dusk
- Joan Jobe Smith
- Honeybee upon the Tundra
- A Philodendron Named Joan
- What I Learned from the Movies
- Maura Stanton
- Drugstore Trolls
- Revolt
- Austin Straus
- All-Purpose Apology Poem
- James Tate
- I Am a Finn
- Aunt Sophie's Morning
- How the Pope Is Chosen
- Judith Taylor
- Remedy for Backache
- Natural Woman
- Mistakes
- Instructions to Her Next Husband
- Natasha Trethewey
- Naola Beauty Academy, New Orleans, 1945
- History Lesson
- David Trinidad
- Yvette Mimieux in Hit Lady
- Double Trouble
- William Trowbridge
- What We Could Do
- O Paradise
- Curtain Call
- Fred Voss
- Termination
- The Stud
- Sun Worshiper
- Ronald Wallace
- At the St. Louis Institute of Music
- A Hot Property
- In a Pig's Eye
- Constipation
- Chocolate Waters
- The Singer
- Charles Harper Webb
- Marrying
- Biblical Also-Rans
- Amplified Dog
- Don Weinstock
- You Don't Want to Hear a Poem, Do You?
- Terry Wolverton
- Black Slip
- Dean Young
- The Business of Love Is Cruelty
- Chapped Lips
- Rafael Zepeda
- The Wreckers
- The Philosophical Emancipation
- Al Zolynas
- Living with Others
- The Way He'd Like It
- The Same Air
- Pastorale for Spring.