Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Chinua Achebe 1
6. Susannah Appelbaum 7
7. John Ashbery 9
8. Shalom Auslander 15
9. Scott Ian Barry 19
10. Barbara Bash 21
11. Helen Benedict and Stephen O’Connor 23
12. Gwendolyn Bounds 29
13. Jon Bowermaster 31
14. John Bowers 37
15. Wesley Brown 43
16. Akiko Busch 49
17. Kris Carr 51
18. Benjamin Cheever 53
19. Da Chen and Sunny 59
20. Laura Shaine Cunningham 65
21. John Darnton 69
22. Cornelius Eady and Sarah Micklem 75
23. Nick Flynn 81
24. Martha Frankel 87
25. Alison Gaylin 89
26. Frank D. Gilroy, Tony Gilroy, and Dan Gilroy 91
27. Jonathan Gould 97
28. Mikhail Horowitz 101
29. Marie Howe 103
30. Marilyn Johnson 109
31. Robert Kelly 111
32. Lucy Knisley 115
33. Casey Kurtti 117
34. James Lasdun 119
35. Naton Leslie 123
36. Ann M. Martin 125
37. Jana Martin 129
38. Valerie Martin and John Cullen 131
39. Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt, and Alphie McCourt 137
40. Daniel Mendelsohn 143
41. Bradford Morrow 147
42. Ron Nyswaner 151
43. Susan Orlean 155
44. Leila Philip 161
45. Daniel Pinkwater 163
46. Julie Powell 167
47. Nicole Quinn 173
48. David Rees 175
49. Susan Richards 177
50. Charley Rosen 179
51. Edwin Sanchez 183
52. Ed Sanders 185
53. Esmeralda Santiago 191
54. Gene Santoro 197
55. John Sayles 201
56. Edward Schwarzschild 207
57. Pete Seeger 209
58. Danny Shanahan 215
59. John Patrick Shanley 217
60. Russell Shorto 223
61. Zachary Sklar 227
62. Sparrow 233
63. Nova Ren Suma 235
64. Hudson Talbott 237
65. Abigail Thomas 239
66. Corinne Trang 245
67. Janine Pommy Vega 249
68. Linda Villarosa 255
69. Nancy Willard 257
70. Daniel Wolff 261
71. Rebecca Wolff 263
72. Kim Wozencraft 267
73. Acknowledgments 269