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• xi • Introduction (The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales) • essay by Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson
• 3 • Landscape: In the Forest • poem by Sandra M. Gilbert
• 4 • Voices from the Forest • poem by Lisel Mueller
• 10 • Afraid to Look Afraid to Look Away • poem by Kathleen Jesme
• 12 • Asleep in the Forest • poem by Andrea Hollander Budy
• 14 • Gretel • poem by Mary Jo Bang
• 15 • Black Fairy Tale • poem by Elizabeth Spires
• 17 • Further Adventures • poem by Elaine Equi
• 18 • The Twelve Dancing Princesses • poem by Sandra M. Gilbert
• 19 • The Sleeping Kingdom • poem by Donald Finkel
• 21 • Briar Rose • poem by Debora Greger
• 23 • Instructions • (2000) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 26 • Hotel Grimm • poem by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
• 27 • Lost in the Forest • poem by Amy Gerstler
• 28 • Fairy Tales • poem by Henry Sloss
• 31 • Fairy Tale • poem by Ellen Bryant Voigt
• 32 • The Twelve Dancing Princesses • (1971) • poem by Anne Sexton
• 36 • The Maiden Without Hands • poem by Martha Carlson-Bradley
• 37 • The White Snake • poem by Martha Carlson-Bradley
• 38 • The Sister of the Swans • poem by Janet McAdams
• 40 • An Embroidery (I) • poem by Denise Levertov
• 42 • Cinderella's Story • poem by Mona Van Duyn
• 44 • The Frog Prince • poem by Joyce Thomas
• 46 • The Stepmother Arrives • poem by Patricia Carlin
• 51 • Babe in the Woods • poem by Moyra Donaldson
• 52 • The Robber Bridegroom • poem by Allen Tate
• 53 • What Bugs Bunny Said to Red Riding Hood • poem by Tim Seibles
• 55 • The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood" • poem by Agha Shahid Ali
• 56 • Grandmother • (1999) • poem by Laurence Snydal
• 57 • Gretel, Lost • poem by Jean Monahan
• 58 • Hansel Tells Gretel of the Witch • poem by Regie Cabico
• 60 • Gretel, from a Sudden Clearing • poem by Marie Howe
• 62 • Witch Words • poem by Valery Nash
• 63 • The Witch • poem by Sara Henderson Hay
• 64 • The Fisherman's Wife • poem by Maura Stanton
• 65 • The Sleeper 1 and 2 • poem by Sara Henderson Hay
• 66 • The Gift • poem by Jean Monahan
• 68 • Sleeping Beauty Has Words • poem by Claudia Carlson
• 69 • The Bear • (1982) • poem by Ann Stanford
• 71 • Snow White and Rose Red • poem by Debora Greger
• 73 • Rapunzel • poem by David Trinidad
• 74 • Rapunzel Shorn • poem by Lisa Russ Spaar
• 75 • The Prince • poem by Gwen Strauss [as by Gwen Straus]
• 77 • Ashputtel • poem by Penelope Shuttle
• 78 • Straw Into Gold • poem by Bruce Bennett
• 79 • Her Shadow • poem by Gwen Strauss [as by Gwen Straus]
• 81 • Snow White in Exile • poem by Sue Thomas [as by Susan Thomas]
• 82 • Dwarves • poem by Martin Mooney
• 84 • Fervor • poem by Kimiko Hahn
• 87 • A Spell for Sleeping • (1958) • poem by Alastair Reid
• 88 • from The Sleeping Beauty • poem by Hayden Carruth
• 91 • The Glass Coffin • poem by Sue Owen
• 92 • Sleeping Beauty's Dreams • poem by Denise Duhamel
• 93 • The Frog Prince • (1985) • poem by Stevie Smith
• 95 • Fractured Fairy Tale • poem by Susan Wheeler
• 96 • The Sleeping Princess • poem by Ann Stanford
• 97 • sleeping beauty • poem by Lucille Clifton
• 98 • Beauty Sleeping Now • poem by Anna Rabinowitz
• 99 • Jealousy • poem by Sharon Dolin
• 100 • Fable • poem by Muriel Rukeyser
• 101 • Immortality • poem by Lisel Mueller
• 105 • The Objects in Fairy Tales • poem by Elaine Equi
• 108 • Snow White: The Mirror • poem by Alice Friman
• 109 • Snow White Turns 39 • (1996) • poem by Anne Sheldon
• 110 • The Poisoned Apple • poem by Sue Owen
• 111 • Rampion • poem by Natasha Sajé
• 112 • Rapunzel's Clock • poem by Lisa Russ Spaar
• 113 • The Glass Slipper • poem by Jane Shore
• 115 • The Twelve Dancing Princesses • poem by Margaret Rockwell
• 116 • Masquerade • poem by Barbara Crooker
• 117 • Cinderella's Life at the Castle • poem by Russell Edson
• 121 • Little Red-Cap • (2000) • poem by Carol Ann Duffy
• 123 • Rapunzel • poem by Alice Friman
• 124 • The Skeptical Prince • poem by Bruce Bennett
• 125 • Rumplestiltskin Keeps Mum • poem by Claudia Carlson
• 126 • Kissing the Toad • (1985) • poem by Galway Kinnell
• 127 • How to Change a Frog Into a Prince • poem by Anna Denise
• 128 • Where's Wolf? • poem by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
• 129 • Hans My Hedgehog • poem by Martha Carlson-Bradley
• 131 • Cinderella • poem by Gwen Strauss [as by Gwen Straus]
• 132 • The Robber Bridegroom • poem by Margaret Atwood
• 133 • The Goosegirl • poem by Maura Stanton
• 134 • Rapunzel • poem by Brenda Hillman
• 135 • The Fisherman's Wife • poem by Ingrid Wendt
• 137 • Sex and Politics in Fairyland • poem by Wanda Coleman
• 139 • Fairy Tale • poem by Aliki Barnstone
• 141 • Rapunzel • (1985) • poem by Olga Broumas
• 143 • Song for Rapunzel • poem by Essex Hemphill
• 147 • Cinderella Dream at Ten • poem by Ingrid Wendt
• 149 • Cinderella • poem by Enid Dame
• 151 • The Two Gretels • (1985) • poem by Robin Morgan
• 152 • One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes • poem by Martha Carlson-Bradley
• 154 • Brother and Sister • (1995) • poem by Terri Windling
• 155 • Cinderella • (1985) • poem by Olga Broumas
• 157 • Gretel • poem by Andrea Hollander Budy
• 158 • Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale • (2000) • poem by Jane Yolen
• 159 • Rose Red • poem by Erin Belieu
• 160 • The Stepsister's Story • (1995) • poem by Emma Bull
• 162 • Girl Without Hands • (1995) • poem by Margaret Atwood
• 164 • Rampion • poem by Nicole Cooley
• 165 • To the Nixie of the Mill-Pond • poem by Annie Finch
• 167 • Little Red Riding Hood • (1977) • poem by Olga Broumas
• 169 • Lessons from a Mirror • poem by Thylias Moss
• 170 • The Wicked Witch • poem by Carol Jane Bangs
• 172 • Against Cinderella • poem by Julia Alvarez
• 175 • The Sleeping Beauty: Variation of the Prince • (1985) • poem by Randall Jarrell
• 177 • The True Story of Snow White • poem by Bruce Bennett
• 178 • Anaconda Mining Makes the Seven Dwarfs an Offer • poem by Mike Carlin
• 179 • HM Customs & Excise • poem by Rachel Loden
• 180 • Juvenile Court • poem by Sara Henderson Hay
• 181 • The Social Worker Finds Hansel and Gretel Difficult to Place • poem by Enid Dame
• 182 • On a Nineteenth Century Color Lithograph of Red Riding Hood by the Artist J. H. • poem by Alice Wirth Gray
• 187 • The Peasant Girl • poem by David Trinidad
• 189 • The Ugly Stepsister • poem by Denise Duhamel
• 191 • Grave Fairytale • poem by Dorothy Hewett
• 193 • Rapunzel: A Modern Tale • poem by Maria Terrone
• 194 • Scorched Cinderella • poem by Amy Gerstler
• 195 • The Girl with No Hands • poem by Rigoberto González
• 197 • Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins • poem by R. S. Gwynn
• 199 • Snow White and the Man Sent to Fetch Her Heart • poem by Alice Wirth Gray
• 201 • Snow White • poem by Andrea Hollander Budy
• 202 • Hazel Tells LaVerne • (2001) • poem by Katharyn Howd Machan
• 203 • Sleeping Beauty • poem by Donald Finkel
• 204 • Achtung, My Princess, Good Night • poem by Barbara Hamby
• 207 • Ever After • poem by Debora Greger
• 209 • Kissing the Frog • poem by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
• 210 • Cinderella • (1985) • poem by Randall Jarrell
• 212 • Cinderella and Lazarus, Part II • poem by Dorothy Barresi
• 213 • Twenty Years After • poem by Marlene Joyce Pearson
• 214 • Gretel in Darkness • (1969) • poem by
  Louise Glück^?Louise Glueck
• 215 • Hansel's Game • poem by Agha Shahid Ali
• 217 • Snow White Over & Over • poem by Lee Upton
• 218 • Snow White: The Prince • poem by Alice Friman
• 219 • From the Journals of the Frog Prince • (1985) • poem by Susan Mitchell
• 221 • The Prince Who Woke Briar Rose • poem by Anne Sheldon
• 223 • Queen Charming Writes Again • poem by Pamela White Hadas
• 227 • Gretel • poem by Ron Koertge [as by Ronald Koertge]
• 228 • An Interview with Red Riding Hood, No Longer Little • poem by Agha Shahid Ali
• 230 • The Archaeology of a Marriage • (1985) • poem by Maxine W. Kumin [as by Maxine Kumin]
• 235 • Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm • poem by Gregory Orr
• 236 • The Old Story • poem by Emily Hiestand
• 237 • Daughters with Toad • poem by Mark DeFoe
• 238 • Dock • poem by Martha Ronk
• 239 • A Fairy Tale • poem by Amy Lowell
• 241 • Fundevogel • poem by Meg Kearney
• 243 • A Happy Ending for the Lost Children • poem by Charles Martin
• 245 • Nocturne with Witch, Oven and Two Little Figures • poem by Peter Cooley
• 247 • Snow White • poem by Nicole Cooley
• 249 • Conversation with My Father • poem by Elline Lipkin
• 250 • Transfiguration Begins at Home • poem by Estha Weiner
• 251 • Castrato • poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
• 252 • Poem About Straw • poem by James Nolan
• 253 • The Wolf in the Bed • poem by Rachel Hadas
• 254 • The Sleeping Beauty • poem by Rachel Hadas
• 256 • This Is a Convalescent Home, Not the Fairy Tale Cottage and Always the Good Father • poem by Marlene Joyce Pearson
• 257 • Like Gretel • poem by Jeff Walt
• 258 • Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny • (1976) • poem by Lisel Mueller
• 260 •
  Kinder- und Hausmärchen^?Kinder- und Hausmaerchen
  • poem by Diane Thiel