Date: 2002

"Spiders swing through my heart."

— Wright, Charles (b. 1935)

Date: 2003

"Two days into leaving, / the river's outer frond flushes worms imagined in the fire / onto the embankment of rust, / mud deep when imagination became an asterisk in the mind."

— Bitsui, Sherwin (b. 1975)

Date: 2003

"How to hold it all at once, / except by passion's climb, / its rising tides & breathless, / hawk's-eye view?"

— Spaar, Lisa Russ

Date: 2003

"Believe the fallen leaf / from one world floats there, / in another, tawny star on the black water, / the soul's cradle, / even when he must pause / to rest his racing heart, / & cannot see it?"

— Spaar, Lisa Russ

Date: 2003

"The mind is a hotel with a thousand rooms."

— Dinh, Linh (b. 1963)

Date: 2004

"Shine on me baby, because it's raining in my heart."

— Smith, Elliott (1969-2003)

Date: 2004

"O woman, with a mind Picasso / could have painted, giving you many cheeks, / each one turned a different way."

— Sholl, Betsy

Date: 2004

"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."

— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)

Date: January 25, 2005

"I'm staring out into that vacuum again / From the back porch of my mind / The only thing that's alive, I'm all there is."

— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)

Date: January 25, 2005

"And each morning she wakes / With a dream to describe / Something lovely that bloomed / In her beautiful mind."

— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)