I. THE RIVER TURNED BLACK WITH INK. The Bookseller's Story, Ending Much Too Soon / Anthony Shadid
A Man in Love with Knowledge / Mousa al-Naseri
For al-Mutanabbi Street / Naomi Shihab Nye
The Last Word / Deena Metzger
The Grief of Birds / Sam Hamod
Al-Mutanabbi Street / Lutfiya al-Dulaimi
Occident to Orient / Zaid Shlah
Ways to Count the Dead / Persis M. Karim
Al-Mutanabbi Street / Ayub Nuri
Qasida, My Father Spoke at Funerals, Ways to Raise the Dead / Marian Haddad
Girls in Red on Page One / Sarah Browning
Al-Mutanabbi Street / Eileen Grace O'Malley Callahan
Abridged Qasida for al-Mutanabbi Street / Roger Sedarat
Al-Mutanabbi Street / Elline Lipkin
Fragment, in Praise of the Book / Meena Alexander
An Ordinary Bookseller / Esther Kamkar
What Prayer / Robert Perry
Marianne Moore in Baghdad / Gloria Collins
The al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing / Brian Turner
In Perpetuity / Gloria Frym
Against the Weather (for al-Mutanabbi Street) / Owen Hill
Dead Trees / Yassin "The Narcicyst" Alsalman
Elegy for al-Mutanabbi Street / José Luis Gutiérrez
The Letter Has Arrived / Sargon Boulus
Al-Mutanabbi Street / Peter Money
Voices Surround & Fade: The Hooded One / Peter Money
A Letter to al-Mutanabbi / Sinan Antoon
Escape from al-Mutanabbi Street / Muhammad al-Hamrani
into the lizard's eyes / Lilvia Soto
After Rumi / Janet Sternburg
To Salah al-Hamdani, November, 2008 / Sam Hamill
Thirty Days after Thirty Years / Salah al-Hamdani
Excerpt from Blue / Gail Sher
A half-burned page on al-Mutanabbi Street / Dunya Mikhail
My Days Lack Happiness and I Want You / Irada al-Jabbouri
Ashes / Niamh macFhionnlaoich
The Color She Wears / Erica Goss
No Man's Land / Daisy Zamora
On al-Mutanabbi Street / George Evans
The Friend / Steve Dickison
The River Turned Black with Ink / Maysoon Pachachi
II. KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHT. Matter and Spirit on al-Mutanabbi Street / Summer Brenner
Untitled / Rijin Sahakian
Rain Song / Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
The Poet / Jane Hirshfield
"Close to God" / Jack Marshall
A Book in the Hand / Susan Moon
Revolutionary Letter #77 Awkward Song on the Eve of War / Diane di Prima
Al-Mutanabbi Street / Evelyn So
Ethics of Care: The Retreat of al-Mutanabbi / Nahrain al-Mousawi
A Secret Question / Ko Un
The Road to al-Mutanabbi Street / Joe Lamb
Untitled / Katrina Rodabaugh
For I Am a Stranger / Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Untitled / Mohammed Hayawi
Excerpt from Five Hymns to Pain / Nazik al-Malaika
Al-Mutanabbi Street / Raya Asee
Attention / Saadi Youssef
Destinies / Gazar Hantoosh
A Book of Remedies / Mark Abley
On the Booksellers' Street of Baghdad / Majid Naficy
Crossroads / Lewis Buzbee
Remembering al-Mutanabbi / Thomas Christensen
On Ashurbanipal's Library / Amy Gerstler.
III. GATHERING THE SILENCES. In the Valley of Love / Genny Lim
Night in Hamdan / Saadi Youssef
Burning / Judith Lyn Sutton
Luis and Celso on al-Mutanabbi Street / Josh Kun
Lullaby / Dana Teen Lomax
I Recall al-Sayyab / Mahmoud Darwish
Country of Large Rivers / Etel Adnan
The Murderer / Bushra al-Bustani
GHAZAL: Dar al-Harb / Marilyn Hacker
A Home of an al-Mutanabbi Street / Richard Harrison
Proof of Kindness / Fady Joudah
Hearing of Alia Muhammed Baker's Stroke / Philip Metres
Prayer for the Living / Hayan Charara
Interpenetrate / Annie Finch
Curves in the Dark / Deema K. Shehabi
The Booksellers of Pansodan / Kenneth Wong
The Proper Purgation / Elmaz Abinader
In the Country of the Dead / Habib Tengour
Adolescence of Burnt Hands / Khaled Mattawa
From Tales of a Severed Head / Rachida Madani
What Every Driver Must Know / Alise Alousi
Letter to My Childhood Friend, the Baghdad Car Bomber / Fran Bourassa
Chrysalis / Jabez W. Churchhill
Al-Mutanabbi Street: Foot Notes after the Fire / Daniela Bouneva Elza
Psalms and Ashes / Linda Norton
Black and Red / Fred Norman
Nazik al-Malaika / Fred Norman
Al-Mutanabbi / Bonnie Nish
The Twisted / Janet Rodney
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve / Adrienne Rich
The Blues Sat Down on al-Mutanabbi Street / Cornelius Eady
March 9, 2007 Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad / Julie Bruck
The Secret Carpentry / Kwame Dawes
Baghdad Callsby / Terese Svoboda
They Didn't Ask: What's After Death / Mahmoud Darwish
The Airport of Language / Amir el-Chidiac
April Stork / Saadi Youssef
Solos on the Ouds / Saada Youssef
See Them Coming / Sholeh Wolpé
Until the Glaciers Melt / Sholeh Wolpé
Tonight / Nathalie Handal
One (for al-Mutanabbi Street) / Beau Beausoleil
The Timeless Legacy of al-Mutanabbi Street / Azar Nafisi
The Sudden Cessation of Electricity / Dima Hilal
Market Forces Runon / Tony Kranz
Freedom to Walk / Jordan Elgrably
The Last Supper / Ibrahim Nasrallah
The Celebration / Ibrahim Nasrallah
A Special Invitation / Ibrahim Nasrallah
Circle of Prey / Rick London
Its First Smell / Sarah Menefee
Automatize / Roberto Harrison
Verses for Everyday Use / Fadhil al-Azzawi
Paper Elegy / Amaranth Borsuk
311 and Counting / Lamees al-Ethari
A Very Short Letter / Shaymaʹ al-Saqr
The Street of the Poet / Jim Natal.