Over sixty poets featured in this one volume.THE SELECTED POETS / LOCATIONS / POEMSAdam Benavides, Columbus, WI, Ode to Midnight in MilanAnne Wesley, Lubbock, TX, Womanhood and MeditationBarbara Kreader Skalinder, Evanston, IL, Nebraska RefrainBeatriz Badikian-Gartler, Chicago, IL, Packing for the future: and This is for the womanBrendan Thomas, Yorkville, IL, Tawny ThinCamille Rose Castillo, West Haven, UT, Beyond The Looking GlassCasey Derengowski, San Marcos, CA, The Class ReunionCathleen Schandelmeier, Chicago, IL, and Simon Phillips, London, England, A collaboration for Chicago Calling, SUBWAY VACATIONCharlotte Digregorio, Winnetka, IL, DriftingChris Reid, Chicago, IL, Visitation on the South Side and girl crushCordell M Miles Jr., Hammond, IN, My Means: Cynthia Pfeiffer Stell, Oak Lawn, IL, broke: Deborah Nodler Rosen, Glencoe, IL, THE STREET WRITES A POEMDelores Tolliver, Chicago, IL, "Cause My Daddy's Gone"Dennis A. Rivera, Guayaquil, Ecuador, ERIC LOWERDiane Anjoue, Wood Dale, IL, AlbatrossDiann Martin, Wilmette IL, Waiting for your driver's license to be mailed backDon Ward, Raleigh, NC, The GetawayDonna Pecore, Chicago, IL, Transitory Mash-UpEllen Savage, Highland Park, IL, Going To the Poetry ReadingGail Goepfert, Palatine, IL, Among the TimbersGeorge Korolog, Woodside, CA, Imagining HeavenGlenn Ford, Chicago, IL, THE ILL ONEIsa Mambetsariev, Chicago, IL, Love in a letterIsmael Mohammed El-Tayuddin, Chicago, IL, The 1st Ruku of HajjItala Langmar, Kenilworth, IL, To a Kind StrangerJacqueline Harris, North Chicago, IL, Thank God for Who I am NotJames Graham, Wilmette, IL, EdgeJames L. Merriner, Evanston, IL, Postcards from HellJasminum McMullen, Oak Park, IL, The Abandoned HouseJennifer Dotson, Highland Park, IL, SecretJenny Santellano, Glenview, IL, LassoedJim Davis, Chicago, IL, On MethodJoAnne Blackwelder, Ocean City, NJ, Evening*Justin Peterson, Chicago, IL, Streetlamps MatterKathy Derengowski, San Marcos CA, GeishaLaurie Blum, Chicago, IL, Where Love Should BeLinda Leedy Schneider, Grand Rapids, MI, Oak LeavesLois Barr, Riverwoods, IL, Biopoesis and We all shrink. Louise Mathewson, Eden Prairie, MN, The Power of a SmileLynn Veach Sadler, Sanford, NC, To Know a BattlefieldMarcia J. Pradzinski, Skokie, IL, The Scent of Chicken and nest of daysMariah Phillips, Monee, IL, A lonely, jobless, hopeless college graduate's ode to her blanket and Positive ThinkingMarian Kaplun Shapiro, Lexington, MA, Finding You and Spring SunlightMarianne Schaefer, Chicago, IL, SOUTH OF THE BORDERMarissa Brawn, Chicago, IL, Your Half of the BedMary Chapman, Orlando, FL, Crescent MoonMary Jo Balistreri, Waukesha, WI, Sunset Over the Mill PondMary Langer Thompson, Apple Valley, CA, Contemplating My CastMayi D. Ojisua, Chicago, IL, SensesMichael Schwartz, Sugar Grove, IL, ABSTRACT ASTERISKSNancy J. Heggem, Palatine, IL, SnapshotNeal Whitman, Pacific Grove, CA, An Idyllic Time Warp, or ... and Truth Be ToldNorman Nanstiel, Des Plaines, IL, Impressions of a Still, Still NightPamela Larson, Arlington Heights, IL, RedPeter Rodenby, St. Johns Chapel, Durham, UK, Yesterday I think I saw the last butterfly of summerRebecca Mullen, Evanston, IL, guild and gunRenae Ogle, Yuma, Arizona, VomitRenée Szostek, Scotts, MI, DreamingSheila A. Donovan, Chicago, IL, I WISH I WAS A PENCILStella Vinitchi Radulescu, Chicago, IL, War FaceTerrance Raymond Carlton, Oak Park, IL, "N.E.R.D."Veronica Valeanu, buzau, buzau, Romania, memory and battery