Foreword: The Whole World, a Garden, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Gardening in Public, Tess Taylor
A Small Needful Fact, Ross Gay

Planting & Sprouting
Becoming New & New Becoming, Ashley M. Jones
From Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer, Wendell Berry
Photosynthesis, Ashley M. Jones
Greenbriar Lane, Diana Marie Delgado
Gardening, Cole Swensen
Three Sunflower Seeds, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Spring (a conversation), Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Planting Inkberry Hollies During the Pandemic, Lauren Moseley
Trapeze, Elise Paschen
What Regenerates in a Household, Laura Villareal
Earth, Cleopatra Mathis
Autumn Blooming Cherry, Andy Eaton
Foreday in the Morning, Jericho Brown

Weeding & Wilding
In Praise of Strong Seedlings, Jane Hirshfield
Weed, Lia Purpura
Stained Glass, Jack Johnson
Deep Lane, Mark Doty
from Tending, Jenny Xie
Golden Poppy, Dana Levin
Considering the Snail, Thom Gunn
Feeding the Worms, Danusha Lameris
Spring Planting, Victoria Chang
The Contract, Jane Hirshfield
Now the Artichokes, Tess Taylor
Thistle, Maw Shein Win
Fennel, Thom Gunn
Dear Damselfly, Brynn Saito

Growing & Tending
Tendrils of Life & Community, Ann Fisher-Wirth
Trying, Ada Limon
from Separation Anxiety, Janice Lee
Haecceitas, Ann Fisher-Wirth
Palm Sunday, Mariana Goycoechea
Photosynthesis: (Chinaka Hodge Hosts a Block Party), Alan Chazaro
Mara Mara, Garden Child, Claudia Monpere
Song of the Gourd, C.D. Wright
Gift, Czeslaw Milosz
Poem Beginning with a Line from Wordsworth, Brian Simoneau
In the Dark, Cynthia Roth
Closing In, Jason Myers
Touch Me, Stanley Kunitz

Being & Waiting
Reaching Past the Human, Brenda Hillman
Levitation, Robert Haas
Love Poem with Horticulture and Anxiety, Stephanie Burt
Loveliest of Trees, A.E. Housman
Mississippi Invocation, Ann Fisher-Wirth
Quickening, Jacqueline Kolosov
All else is pale echo, dear, Chiyuma Elliott
from Just Tell Them No, Forrest Gander
To the Grackle, Kirun Kapur
Oasis, Arthur Sze
Pocket Garden in the City, David Baker
The Practice of Talking to Plants, Brenda Hillman
Insects with Long Childhoods, Hannah Fries
Gardeners' World, or What I Did During the Plague, Cynthia White

Grieving & Release
Grief & Sustenance, Danusha Lameris
Working in the Garden, I Think of My Son, Danusha Lameris
After Her Funeral, I Became an Environmentalist, Ilya Kaminsky
After All, Anna V. Q. Ross
Invasive, Ada Limon
Metaphor of America as This Homegrown Painted Lady Chrysalis, Camille T. Dungy
Palestine Vine, Naomi Shihab Nye
The Tulips of Tehran, Sholeh Wolpe
Unending, Susan Nguyen
Aloe, Mary Jo Salter
My Mother Is a Garden, Ruben Quesada
from Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
Laurelhurst, David Biespiel

Harvest & Feeding
Of Food & Physical Hours, Ellen Bass
Apricot, Deborah Slicer
Speed and Perfection, Jane Hirshfield
Black Cherries, W. S. Merwin
More, James Crews
Abundant Blessings, James Crews
Ode to the First Peach, Ellen Bass
Fruit, Katie Peterson
After the Farmers Market, I Make a Salade Nicoise, Keetje Kuipers
Sous-Chef, Ellen Bass
Interview with the Pear Tree, Genine Lentine
August, Federico Garcia Lorca
To Autumn, John Keats
Green Tomatoes in Fire Season, Tess Taylor
cutting greens, Lucille Clifton
Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic? Garrett Hongo
Tasting Home, Garrett Hongo
Garlic, Matt Rader
Carrot, Leah Naomi Green
Turnip Ode, Tess Taylor

Wintering & Turning Again
Holding the Season in Our Hands, January Gill O'Neil
Mind Is Snow, Patty Crane
Season Due, Rosanna Warren
In the Community Garden, Mark Doty
Daffodils, Michelle Gillett
Sunday, Patty Crane
November, Remembering Voltaire, Jane Hirshfield
On the Twelfth of March, Cleopatra Mathis
Wild Oregano, January Gill O'Neil
The Garden, Sophie Cabot Black
Moon Garden, Derek Sheffield
To Every Thing There Is a Season, Ecclesiastes 3.1-8
Ghost Eden, Erika Meitner

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