Pushcart prize XXXI, 2007: best of the small presses

Introduction / Bill Henderson

Refresh refresh / Benjamin Percy

Laundry / Maureen Stanton

The innocent / Jean Nordhaus

Cocktail hour / Kate Braverman

Double abecedarian: 1963 / Julie Larios

Voices / John Clayton

Facing altars: poetry and prayer / Mary Karr

Hwy 1 / Brian Turner

If a stranger approaches you about carrying a foreign object with you onto a plane / Laura Kasichke

Hard rain / Tony Hoagland

Extraordinary rendition / Maxine Kumin

The Frank Orison / Scott Geiger

A short history of my breath / Kristin Kovacic

Moonsnail / Cleopatra Mathis

The lion's mouth / Ben Fountain

A history of the American west / Kevin Prufer

Elegy (with advertisement) struggling to find its hero / Mark Irwin

Dogged / Risteard O'Keitinn

A day in May: Los Angeles, 1960 / Philip Levine

A thought, for example, is a form / Mary Ann Samyn

Persephone the wanderer / Louise Glück

The odds it would be you / Alice Mattison

Dead boys club / Reginald Shepherd

Salvation / Stephen Dunn

Refund / Karen E. Bender

Vexing praxis/Hocus nexus / Mark Halliday

Radio crackling, radio gone / Lisa Olstein

Bye-bye Larry / Katherine Karlin

Mastering the art of French cooking / E.J. Levy

Self portrait in ink / Bruce Beasley

The role of a lifetime / Floyd Skloot

What fundamentalists need for their salvation / David James Duncan

The land of pain / Stacey Richter

Restoration / Sally Keith

Home on the rain / Jonathan Carroll

Clocks / Pam Durban

Myth / Natasha Trethewey

The 167th Psalm of Elvis / Tony Barnstone

Taj Mahal / Linsey Abrams

Nude descending / Dzvinia Orlowsky

Halley's Comet / Laura Krughoff

The medicine man / Kevin Moffett

Cool things / Brian Doyle

Stay / David Schuman

The fires / Philip White

The way of ignorance / Wendell Berry

Hearing news from the Temple Mount in Salt Lake City / Jacqueline Osherow

Vacation / Richard Burgin

The eternal immigrant / Sharmila Voorakkara

Dar He / R.T. Smith

Formation / Kim Chinquee

Some terpsichore / Elizabeth McCracken

Lament for a stone / W.S. Merwin

Gassed / Steve Gehrke

Escape from hog heaven / Dina Ben-Lev

Fight / Michael Czyzniejewski

Sparrow trapped in the airport / Averill Curdy

Chart / Kay Ryan

Shelter / Nami Mun

Goldfish: a diptych / Susan Terris

Zion / Donald Revell

Why Bugsy Siegel was a friend of mine / James Lee Burke

Portrait of her mother as the 19th Century / Keith Ratzlaff.