Bullets into bells: poets & citizens respond to gun violence

Foreword / Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Captain Mark Kelly

Introduction: The velocity of language / Colum McCann

Jordan / Nick Arnold ; Response from Lucy McBath ; Morning shooting / Jimmy Santiago Baca ; Response from Antonius Wiriadjaja ; I could ask, but I think they use tweezers / Aziza Barnes ; Response from Judi Richardson ; When I think of Tamir Rice while driving / Reginald Dwayne ; Response from Samaria Rice ; One pulse-one poem / Richard Blanco ; Response from Ladd Everitt ; How my mother dies / Tara Bray ; Response from Dennis Henigan ; Bullet points / Jericho Brown ; Response from Michael Skolnik ; 22 / Brian Clements ; Response from Po Kim Murray ; Boy shooting at a statue / Billy Collins ; Response from Nicole Hockley ; Natural causes / Kyle Dragan ; Response from Daniel Webster ; Wednesday Poem / Joel Dias-Porter ; Response from Kiki Leyba ; Catching copper / Natalie Diaz ; Response from rev. Henry Brown ; In two seconds / Mark Doty ; Response from Pastor Micheal McBride ; Meditation at fifty yards, moving target / Rita Dove ; response from Marie Delus ; Gun Poem / Cornelius Eady ; Response from Ronnie Mosley ; Heal the cracks in the bell of the world / Martiǹ Espada ; Response from David and Francine Wheeler ; Aubade with lemon and sage / Tarfia Faizullah ; Response from Sharbari Ahmed ; A poem for pulse / Jameson Fitzpatrick ; Response from Kevin Hertzog ; My mother contemplating her gun / Nick Flynn ; Response from Ashlyn Melton ; Gunning for it / Rebecca Morgan Frank ; Response from Lt. Brian Thiem ; The bullet, in its hunger / Ross Gay ; Response from Dr. William V. Begg III ; II Gunshots / Vanessa German ; Response from Camiella Williams ; Dancing / Robert Hass ; Response from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody WIlliams ; Poem by Poem / Juan Felipe Herrera ; Response from Rev. Sharon Risher ; Throwing a life line / Bob Hicok ; Response from Collin Goddard ; The family sells the family gun / Brenda Hillman ; Response from Jennifer Mascia ; Those who cannot art / Jane Hirshield ; Response from US senator Chris Murphy, Conneticut ; Gatorland / Leanne Howe ; Response from Amanda Gailey ; Ferguson / Major Jackson ; Response from Amber Goodwin ; The talking Day / Micheal Klein ; Response from Monte Frank ; Shotguns / Yusef Komunykaa ; Response from DeAndra Yates ; Instructions for shopping / Dana Levin ; Response from Kate Ranta ; The leash / Ada Lim'on ; Response from Caren Teves ; Kablooey is the sound you'll hear / Debra Marquart ; Response from Jacob and Darchel Mohler ; The gun joke / Jamaal May ; Response from Dan Gross ; Afraid ; Response from Kim Parker Russell ; Ballad (American, 21 st century) / Wayne Miller ; Response from Lee Keylock ; Gun control: A triptych / Carol Muske- Dukes ; Response from Donna Dees-Thomas ; In the dark / Jack Myers ; Response from Khary Penebaker ; To Jamyla bolden of Ferguson, Missouri / Naomi Shihab Nye ; Resonse from Missouri State Rep. Stacey Newman ; Letter beginning with two lines by Czestaw Mitosz / Mathew Olzmann ; Response from Shannon Watts ; When a child hears gunshots / Meghan Privitello ; Response from Abbey Clements ; Self-portrait in Charelston, Orlando / Dean Rader ; Response from Joe Quint ; Maggot therapy / Roger Reeves ; Response from Yvonne Crasso ; The first child marty rat Illinois Elementary / Liz Rosenburg ; Response from Patricia Maisch ; The bullet was a girl / Danez Smith ; Response from Rev. Micheal L. Pfleger ; Undertaker / Patricia Smith ; Response from Pamela Bosley ; All the dead boys look at me / Christopher Soto ; Response from John Grauwiler ; Memory with handgun and tetherball / Tess taylor ; Response from Renan Salgado ; Repeater / Alexandra Teague ; Response from Iran Nazario ; Articulation / Natasha Trethewey ; Response from Eddie Weingart ; Always and Forever / Ocean Vyong ; Response from Clai Lasher-Sommers ; Something it's taken thirty years to write / Afa.