"The female seer will burn upon this pyre" / Elizabeth Alexander --
How I learned to sweep / Julia Alvarez --
Down on my knees ; The hurricane sisters work regardless / Ginger Andrews --
Romantic / Margaret Atwood --
Kitchens: 1959 ; Poetry despises your attempts at domesticity / Julianna Baggott --
In waking words ; The prodigal daughter / Dorothy Barresi --
Modern love ; Pittsburgh poem / Jan Beatty --
Dictionary for the new century ; What they did by lamplight / Kimberly Blaeser --
Sewing / Marianne Boruch --
Cooking catalogue / Jill Breckenridge --
Desert flowers ; Part of a larger country / Jeanne Bryner --
Five-year plan / Victoria Chang --
The floral apron / Marilyn Chin --
A man in my bed like cracker crumbs / Sandra Cisneros --
quilting / Lucille Clifton --
Mother, a young wife learns to sew ; New house / Geraldine Connolly --
Grating parmesan / Barbara Crooker --
Broom / Deborah Digges --
The size of a bed sheet / Amy Dryansky --
The ugly step sister / Denise Duhamel --
Good woman ; Sweeping heaven / Heid Erdrich --
After the miscarriage ; Sweet hour / Diane Gilliam Fisher --
Upper peninsula landscape with aunts / Pamela Gemin --
Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo --
Feeding frenzy ; Thursday afternoon: life is sweet / Holly Iglesias --
Cayenne / Angela Jacson --
Domestic humiliation ; Kitchen ; Plenty / Allison Joseph --
What I learned from my mother ; When our women go crazy / Julia Kasdorf --
Dinner ; Housekeeping in a dream ; The visibility of spirits / Laura Kasischke --
Moving furniture / Josie Kearns --
How my mother-in-law instructed me in slaughter ; Maid / Sarah Kennedy --
Ham and the moon / Jesse Lee Kercheval --
Giving the house away / Julie King --
Brick ; Covered dish / Kristin Kovacic --
Clothesline / Laurie Kutchins --
Spots / Estella Lauter --
The idea of housework ; Reetika arranges my closet / Dorianne Laux --
May mowing clover / Lisa Lewis --
Vegetable love / Diane Lockward --
God scrubs the tub ; God vacuums the pool ; God packs lunches ; Lemons / Gail Martin --
What lies beneath / Shara McCallum --
Home remedy / Paula McLain --
Third stair, seventh stair, landing / Jane Mead --
Some women marry houses / Sarah Messer --
Convolvulus Tricolor / Leslie Adrienne Miller --
The days of my mother / Laurel Mills --
At thirty / Kyoko Mori --
the shekhinah as mute / Alicia Suskin Ostriker --
Grief comes in smallest ways ; Sunday baking / Gailmarie Pahmeier --
Cooking lesson / Zarina Mullan Plath --
All the soups / Martha Rhodes --
Song of the cook ; What I want to make for you / Natasha Saj̈еe --
Duties and vocations ; Wintering / Jane Satterfield --
Furious cooking / Maureen Seaton --
In the kitchen dancing to Kitty Wells / Heather Sellers --
One quick quiz / Paula Sergi --
Entropy ; The sinking / Faith Shearin --
Immaculate lives ; A poet in the house ; The sky-blue dress / Cathy Song --
Plum crazy / Kate Sontag --
Household muse / Joyce Sutphen --
Housekeeping / Virginia Chase Sutton --
Coming home / Elizabeth Tibbetts --
Hospital corners ; Western Holly Stove / Alison Townsend --
Date nut bread ; Day's end ; The dinner guest / Ann Townsend --
Domestic work, 1937 ; Housekeeping / Natasha Trethewey --
The history of women / Leslie Ullman --
Canning cellar, early sixties / Judith Vollmer --
The lady on the cover of Family Circle ; Starting from scratch / Ingrid Wendt --
Quilt / Valerie Wohlfeld --
Prayer / Carolyne Wright.