Preface / Introduction: Playing in a Field of Words / What is Poetry and Lyrical Prose? A Word About the Writing Process -- Edna Kovacs -- Exploring the Senses -- Naomi Shihab Nye/Francine E. Walls -- Dream Place -- Student work -- Imagination Hat -- Jim Heynen/first grade students -- Shrinking for Details -- Elisa Weger/Edna Kovacs/Minako Nishimori -- Sounds of Poetry -- Kim Stafford/fourth grade students -- Acrostics -- Alissa Silver/first grade students -- African Drum Song -- Obo Addy -- Alliteration -- Victor Hoffer -- Andahisian Cante Jondo -- "Deep Song" -- Frederico Garcia Lorca -- Ballad -- Goethe, translated by Wilma M. Erwin -- Biography/Sharing Cultures -- Sister Helena Brand/Emily Dickinson -- Jammin' on the Blues -- Langston/Hughes/Curtis Robertson -- Czech Calendar Poetry -- Karel Toman, translated by Jirina Fuchs -- Calligramme -- Apollinaire/Emiko Seo, Japan -- Cinquain -- Sally Prince/students -- Rhymed Couplets -- Alexander Pope/Kathy Savelieff/Sierra Steenson -- Cowboy & Cowgirl Poetry -- Vern Mortensen/Nyle Henderson/Joanie Loehr -- Dadaist Poetry -- William Wiles/Sarah Lamers -- Epistle -- Ezra Pound/third grade students -- Fugue -- Diane Wakoski/Marina/Regina Sevshek/Alex Benson/Mrs. Ortega -- Ghazal -- LYNX/American & international college students/Ghalib/William Stafford -- Haiku -- Basho/Issa/Mark Kurisu/first grade students -- Holocaust Poetry -- Manuel Roth/Elie Wiesel and Liberators -- I Was the Last Person on Earth ... Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction, Mystery -- Tracy Lovenstein/summer camp students -- Journal Writing -- Beryl Hammonds -- Korean Hyannga -- Master Ch'ungdam/Chong Si Won/Takako Ishida -- Limericks -- Grade school students/Geno O'Neil/Brooke Kinney -- Linked Verse -- Korean monks, 15th Century/college of nursing students/adult creative writing students -- Iu-Mien Proverbs -- David T. Lee -- Native American Spells, Chants, and Prayers -- Michelle Tsosie Naranjo/Kwakiutl Song/elementary school students -- Openings and Closings: Multicultural -- Steve Sanfield -- Organic Poetry -- Judith Barrington/Elizabeth Woody/Ursula K. Le Guin/Heidi Shortell -- Pastoral, also Bucolic, Eclogue, Idyl -- William Carlos Williams/Yehuda Amichai -- Public Art Poetry/Photowriting -- Kovacs photos -- Quatrains/Rubaiyat -- Rumi, translated by John Moyne/Coleman Barks/Andrew Harvey -- Raga/Writing with Music -- David Tame -- Rap Poetry -- Lanita Duke -- Crafting Sonnets -- Michael Bugeja/Shakespeare/Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The 3 Ts: Tempo, Texture, Tone Color -- Mary Tall Mountain/Anna Kiss/Jaan Kaplinski -- Using Hand Gestures in Hawaiian Dance to Create Poetry -- Kapualokeokalaniakea Dalire -- Villanelle -- Roethke/Michele Glazer -- Voices in Poetry: Exploring Persona(s) -- Odysseus Elytis Waka/Tanka (Saigyo) -- Waka/Tanka: A Traditional Japanese Form -- Saigyo -- Welsh Englyn -- Rolphe Humphries -- Xanadu to Timbuktu: Place Names -- Jaan Kaplinski, with Intro by Sam Hamill/Hiroko Yamada/Edna Kovacs -- Yarning a 99-Word Short Story -- Edna Kovacs/Naomi Cole -- Your Holidays In Poetry -- Loreena McKennitt/Marge Piercy -- Zen Poetry -- Peter Levitt -- Zoo Poetry -- Selected 1993 Portland Zoo Poem winners.