Introduction / Ulrich Baer --
Circumference / Humera Afridi --
night of unity / Ammiel Alcalay --
Circum / Elena Alexander --
Aftermath; invisible city / Meena Alexander --
It shall be again / Jeffery Renard Allen --
The sky was so blue / Roberta Allen --
Womb shelter / Jonathan Ames --
A first kiss / Darren Aronofsky --
September 11, 2001, 4:00 P.M.; underground /
Gelato is gelato / Jennifer Belle / Prologue : the book of John / Jenifer Berman --
Report from Liberty Street / Charles Bernstein --
Perfect weather / Star Black --
New York, 12 September 2001 / Breyten Breytenbach --
from Manhattan rhapsody / Melvin Jules Bukiet --
Union Square / Peter Carey --
The quick and the poor / Lawrence Chua --
Holy smoke / Ira Cohen --
The same tune / Imraan Coovadia --
on the day of the dead / Edwidge Danticat --
Senseless / Alice Elliot Dark --
The therm / Eric Darton --
Grammar questions / Lydia Davis --
Echoes / Samuel R. Delany --
The ruin / Maggie Dubris --
Shorebirds Atlantic / Rinde Eckert --
Baby lust / Janice Eidus --
Man on the PATH / Masood Farivar --
"9/11 victim's identity discovered only through investigation led by hairdresser" / Carolyn Ferrell --
Conversation between Mr. X and Mr. Y / Richard Foreman --
I saw you walking / Deborah Garrison --
Neighbors / Amitav Ghosh --
The death of a painter / James Gibbons --
If I forget thee / Carol Gilligan --
True stories / Thea Goodman --
How I read since September 11th / Vivian Gornick --
I think I understand the various theories of rain / Tim Griffin --
Pitching September 11th / Lev Grossman --
from A few stout individuals / John Guare --
Mile high / Sean Gullette --
Notes from a New York diary / Jessica Hagedorn --
Boerum Hill Tanka / Kimiko Hahn --
The lives of rain / Nathalie Handal --
America everything has changed / Carey Harrison --
Dog walking / Joshua Henkin --
Finding the center / Tony Hiss --
The price of light and air / David Hollander --
We all saw it, or the view from home / A.M. Homes --
Fallacies of wonder / Richard Howard --
Still life with snow and hammer / Laird Hunt --
The world trade center / Siri Hustvedt --
The orders (from pariah) / John Keene --
Travel log / John Kelly --
Super 8 / Wayne Koestenbaum --
Unimaginable / Richard Kostelanetz --
24 September 2001, or Manhattan seen in a new light / Guy Lesser.
Entry of buildings / Jonathan Lethem --
Shopping (3:58 P.M. September 11) / Jocelyn Lieu --
Various slo-moving clouds are damaged / Tan Lin --
The grief technician / Sam Lipsyte --
Altering the world we thought would outlast us / Phillip Lopate --
The dumpster / Karen Malpede --
A rat's life / Charles McNulty --
Ode : the day after / Pablo Medina --
His friendship with fear / Ellen Miller --
Rio/Iguassu/Sao Paolo / Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky --
Time and King David / Mark Jay Mirsky --
Potato stories / Tova Mirvis --
Some place, no place / Albert Mobilio --
Earlier winter / Alex Molot --
The night marchers / Mary Morris --
Steeple-peeple / Tracie Morris --
Thought experiments / Anna Moschovakis --
Mister Equanimity / Richard Eoin Nash --
My son's views / Josip Novakovich --
After a bombing / Dennis Nurkse --
A history / Geoffrey O'Brien --
The pond / Larry O'Connor --
Last seen / Robert Polito --
A plague / Nelly Reifler --
Keeping vigil / Rose-Myriam Rejouis --
River / April Reynolds --
Christmas music / Roxana Robinson --
This was a test / Avital Ronell --
Upon seeing a shooting star on the lawn at Tanglewood two days after the World Trade Center disaster / Daniel Asa Rose --
Postcard / Joe Salvatore --
In the foreground / Grace Schulman --
Near November / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --
Now they are leaving / Dani Shapiro --
Instructions for surviving the unprecedented / Jenefer Shute --
The war at home; what to save for death / Hal Sirowitz --
Re : covers / Art Spiegelman --
Staffing / Catharine R. Stimpson --
Shakespeare & Punk / Liz Swados --
Save me from the pious and the vengeful / Lynne Tillman --
Skylines / David Trinidad --
Concert at St. Paul's chapel, Fulton St.; from the other end / Val Vinokurov --
The persistence of who we were / Chuck Wachtel --
from Howler / Mac Wellman --
A terror for terror / Owen West --
A trampoline in Wayne / Rachel Wetzsteon --
[The movie set on the horizon glows] / Susan Wheeler --
New York does not exist / Peter Wortsman --
The morning after that one / John Yau --
Two New York memoranda : October, 2001 / Christopher Yu.