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Tables of Contents for Stand Up Poetry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Stand Up Poetry: An Update
Charles Harper Webb
xv
Kim Addonizio
For Desire
1
1
What the Dead Fear
2
1
Jack Anderson
Going to Norway
3
2
Ginger Andrews
The Housewife
5
1
O That Summer
6
1
Evidently, She Says
7
1
Prayer
8
1
John Balaban
At 4:00 A.M. Asleep
9
1
Words for My Daughter
9
3
Dorothy Barresi
Bad Joke
12
2
Glass Dress
14
2
Dinah Berland
Blazon
16
1
Laurel Ann Bogen
I Eat Lunch with a Schizophrenic
17
1
Pygmy Headhunters and Killer Apes, My Lover and Me
18
1
Havana
19
3
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
English Flavors
22
1
Catherine Bowman
No Sorry
23
2
Demographics
25
2
Kurt Brown
Money As Water
27
1
Return of the Prodigals
28
2
Stephanie Brown
Chapter One
30
2
Allegory of the Supermarket
32
2
Agape
34
2
Michael Dennis Browne
His Toys
36
1
Knock Knock
36
1
Christopher Buckley
Sleep Walk
37
2
Charles Bukowski
the tragedy of the leaves
39
1
trouble with spain
40
2
Richard Cecil
Some Terms in Real Estate Defined
42
2
Maxine Chernoff
Miss Congeniality
44
1
The Dead Letter Office
44
1
Toothache
45
1
Vanity, Wisconsin
45
1
How Lies Grow
46
1
Lucille Clifton
white lady
47
1
wishes for sons
48
1
Wanda Coleman
I Live for My Car
49
1
Chuck Man
50
1
Billy Collins
Embrace
51
1
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House
52
1
The History Teacher
53
1
Litany
54
1
Nightclub
55
2
Mark Cox
Things My Grandfather Must Have Said
57
2
The Garglers
59
1
Style
60
1
Philip Dacey
Form Rejection Letter
61
2
Coke
63
2
Squeak
65
2
The Rules
67
1
Jim Daniels
The Hoagie Scam
68
2
Blessing the House
70
2
Stephen Dobyns
Pony Express
72
1
Confession
73
1
How to Like It
74
2
Denise Duhamel
Ego
76
1
I'm Dealing with My Pain
77
1
Why, on a Bad Day, I Can Relate to the Manatee
78
1
Buddhist Barbie
79
1
Stephen Dunn
On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
80
2
At the Smithville Methodist Church
82
2
The Shame Place
84
1
Russell Edson
The Retirement of the Elephant
85
1
The Automobile
86
1
Counting Sheep
87
1
The Categories
87
1
Good Son Jim
88
1
Ape
89
1
Elephant Tears
90
1
The Crumble-Knees
91
1
Lynn Emanuel
The White Dress
92
1
The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am a Poet
93
3
B. H. Fairchild
Body and Soul
96
3
Edward Field
The Bride of Frankenstein
99
2
The Dirty Floor
101
1
Open Sesame
102
1
Graffiti
102
1
Elliot Fried
Marvel Mystery Oil
103
1
Why I Want to Be the Next Poet Laureate
104
1
Wordsworth's Socks
105
1
Chain Mail
106
1
Cynthia Gallaher
Deb at the Ham Slicer
107
2
Richard Garcia
Why I Left the Church
109
1
Chickens Everywhere
110
1
Vernon
111
1
Mi Mama, the Playgirl
112
1
Amy Gerstler
Dear Boy George
113
1
Slowly I Open My Eyes (gangster soliloquy)
114
1
An Unexpected Adventure
115
1
John Gilgun
Ars Poetica
116
2
Lisa Glatt
Talking about Boys
118
1
The World in My Mother's Hair
119
1
Leash
120
1
Albert Goldbarth
Life is Happy
121
1
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye
122
1
Jack Grapes
My Rodeo
123
1
Listen
124
3
I Like My Own Poems
127
2
Mark Halliday
The Case against Mist
129
2
Credentials
131
1
My Moral Life
132
2
Barbara Hamby
Invention
134
2
Mr. Pillow
136
2
Beriberi
138
2
Deborah Harding
The Intelligence Quotient
140
1
Jana Harris
Don't Cheapen Yourself
141
2
Beneath the Pole of Proud Raven
143
3
Eloise Klein Healy
The Pope at 7:00 P.M.
146
2
Toltecs
148
1
Advice Like That
149
1
Terry Hertzler
just squeeze
150
1
Bob Hicok
Memory
151
1
Man of the House
152
1
Edward Hirsch
Song against Natural Selection
153
1
For the Sleepwalkers
154
1
Tony Hoagland
Oh Mercy
155
1
My Country
156
1
Lawrence
157
2
The Collaboration
159
2
Paul Hoover
The Kiss
161
1
Rodney Jones
Sweep
162
2
Allison Joseph
Traitor
164
3
Good Humor
167
2
Soul Train
169
2
Jesse Lee Kercheval
The Children's Book of Knowledge
171
1
Your Wife, a Widow, Waits for You
172
1
Things That Have Escaped Me
173
3
Elizabeth Kerlikowske
Acceptance Speech
176
3
David Kirby
I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay
179
2
Amazed by Chekhov
181
1
The Dance of Husbands in Bathrobes
182
1
Nosebleed, Gold Digger, KGB, Henry James, Handshake
183
2
Ron Koertge
Coloring
185
1
All Suffering Comes from Attachment
186
1
What She Wanted
187
1
Foolish Earthlings
188
1
The Seven Dwarfs, Each on His Deathbed, Remember Snow White
189
2
Dear Superman
191
1
Steve Kowit
Lurid Confessions
192
1
I Attend a Poetry Reading
193
1
Hell
194
1
A Trick
195
2
Dorianne Laux
The Laundromat
197
1
Dust
198
1
Fast Gas
199
1
2 A.M.
200
2
Lisa Lewis
Tracy and Joe
202
2
Gerald Locklin
Beer
204
2
Tap Dancing Lessons
206
1
The Leader of the Pack
207
1
Learning to See Crooked
208
1
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''?
209
1
Suzanne Lummis
Letter to My Assailant
210
2
Fish I Remember
212
1
Why Life is Worth Living
213
2
Thomas Lux
The People of the Other Village
215
1
Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child
216
1
So You Put the Dog to Sleep
217
1
Men with Small Heads
218
1
``I Love You Sweatheart''
219
1
Jeffrey McDaniel
Uncle Eggplant
220
1
The Bad Pilgrim Room
220
1
The Quiet World
221
1
Play it Again, Salmonella
222
1
Katharyn Howd Machan
Hazel Tells LaVerne
223
1
Bill Mohr
In Line at Pancho's Tacos
224
1
Why the Heart Never Develops Cancer
225
1
Fred Moramarco
Fortune Cookies
226
2
Novel
228
2
Jack Myers
Perfect Recall
230
2
Lightweight
232
1
Jake Addresses the World from the Garden
233
1
Sandra Nelson
The Anti-Foucault Poem
234
2
Dan Nielsen
My Philosophy
236
1
Saturday Morning Ultimatum
236
1
A Paranoid Egotist
236
1
Ed Ochester
Working at the Wholesale Curtain Showroom
237
1
Thanksgiving
238
1
Pocahontas
239
1
Greg Pape
In Line at the Supermarket
240
2
Lawrence Raab
The Bad Muse
242
1
The Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window
243
1
Pattiann Rogers
Justification of the Horned Lizard
244
2
The Dead Never Fight against Anything
246
2
Geocentric
248
1
Stephanie Sallaska
To Raise the Blind on Purpose
249
1
Maureen Seaton
Fiddleheads
250
2
Furious Cooking
252
2
Betsy Sholl
Monkey House
254
2
Four Crows at Dusk
256
2
Joan Jobe Smith
Honeybee upon the Tundra
258
2
A Philodendron Named Joan
260
2
What I Learned from the Movies
262
2
Maura Stanton
Drugstore Trolls
264
1
Revolt
265
1
Austin Straus
All-Purpose Apology Poem
266
2
James Tate
I Am a Finn
268
1
Aunt Sophie's Morning
269
1
How the Pope is Chosen
270
2
Judith Taylor
Remedy for Backache
272
1
Natural Woman
272
1
Mistakes
273
1
Instructions to Her Next Husband
273
1
Natasha Trethewey
Naola Beauty Academy, New Orleans, 1945
274
1
History Lesson
275
1
David Trinidad
Yvette Mimieux in Hit Lady
276
1
Double Trouble
277
2
William Trowbridge
What We Could Do
279
1
O Paradise
280
1
Curtain Call
281
1
Fred Voss
Termination
282
1
The Stud
283
1
Sun Worshiper
284
1
Ronald Wallace
At the St. Louis Institute of Music
285
1
A Hot Property
286
1
In a Pig's Eye
287
1
Constipation
288
1
Chocolate Waters
The Singer
289
1
Charles Harper Webb
Marrying
290
1
Biblical Also-Rans
291
2
Amplified Dog
293
2
Don Weinstock
You Don't Want to Hear a Poem, Do You?
295
1
Terry Wolverton
Black Slip
296
2
Dean Young
The Business of Love is Cruelty
298
2
Chapped Lips
300
1
Rafael Zepeda
The Wreckers
301
2
The Philosophical Emancipation
303
1
Al Zolynas
Living with Others
304
1
The Way He'd Like It
305
1
The Same Air
306
2
Pastorale for Spring
308
1
Acknowledgments
309
10
Title Index
319
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