| Author | Title |
| Doug Anderson | Sixty-One |
| Werner Aspenstrom | Who Is Not a Child |
| John Balaban | Eliseo’s Cabin, Taos Pueblo |
| Meg Barden | Reaching Eighty |
| Elinor Benedict | Bamboo |
| George Bilgere | Unwise Purchases |
| Chana Bloch | The Sixth Age |
| Philip Booth | Pairs |
| Jonathan Bracker | Wait-Time Is Currently about Twelve Minutes |
| John Brandi | [thinking of retirement] |
| Bill Brown | Waking |
| Charles Cantrell | Retirement Matters |
| Hayden Carruth | At Seventy-Five: Rereading an Old Book |
| Grace Cavalieri | In the Pinecrest Rest Home |
| Thomas Centolella | Some Little Happiness |
| Robin Chapman | The Inspector of Snowstorms |
| Kelly Cherry | God and Goddess |
| Lucille Clifton | climbing |
| Stephanie Kaplan Cohen | A Visitation |
| Ruth Daigon | To the Woman Who Left Her Old Age to Someone Older than She Will Ever Be |
| Martha L. Deed | Rest Cure |
| Marcia Denius | On His Early Retirement |
| Mary L. Downs | Flu Clinic at the Retirement Center |
| Stephen Dunn | The Carpenter’s Song |
| Susan Elbe | Brooding over the Body |
| R. Virgil Ellis | Heading towards Forty |
| Diane Glancy | No Clomping Straightfoward Narrative: There Is an Abstraction in Aging Only Abstraction Can Relay |
| Sam Hamill | The Orchid Flower |
| Jim Hanlen | Retirement |
| Albert Huffstickler | The Work Place |
| Benjamin Husted | Last Minute Instructions |
| Mark Irwin | Mansion of Happiness |
| Ruth Harriet Jacobs | Assorted Hobbies |
| Jesse Lee Kercheval | Ham and the Moon |
| Carolyn Kizer | Parents’ Pantoum |
| klipschutz | Office |
| Ted Kooser | Applesauce |
| Ellen Kort | One by One |
| Maxine Kumin | Women and Horses |
| Denise Levertov | Living Alone (III) |
| Sandra Lindow | The Physicist’s Warning |
| Arlene L. Mandell | All Dressed Up |
| Lenore Mayhew | Almost Eighty |
| Jeri McCormick | Bureaucrat Tells How |
| Wesley McNair | Old Guys |
| Ann McNeal | Walking Out |
| Robin O. Metz | Father of the Bride |
| Johnes K. Moore | Deadwood |
| Richard Moore | On Coming to Nothing |
| Ruth Moose | The Crossing |
| Edith Nash | Marriage |
| Nguyen Binh Khiem | Retirement |
| Naomi Shihab Nye | Open House |
| Ed Ochester | Anna Bachtle |
| Alicia Ostriker | Fifty |
| Grace Paley | Here |
| Rebecca Parfitt | After the Ultrasound |
| Molly Peacock | Drawing for Absolute Beginners |
| Roger Pfingston | Retired |
| Ronald Pies | The Neurology Professor Retires |
| Robert Pinsky | The Cold |
| Carol Potter | Comfort Zone |
| Hilda Raz | Letter of Transmittal |
| Ishmael Reed | The South Berkeley Branch Closes |
| Francine Ringold | Luke Like Life |
| Alberto Rios | The Conversation of Old Husbands |
| Elisavietta Ritchie | Report from the Stratosphere |
| Claudette Mork Sigg | Barre Exercises |
| William Stafford | You Reading This Be Ready |
| Gerald Stern | This Was a Wonderful Night |
| Judith Strasser | Now I’m Retired, I Have Time |
| Bruce Taylor | Wednesday the Hole |
| Marilyn L. Taylor | Aunt Eudora’s Harlequin Romance |
| Donna Wahlert | A Three-Year-Old Visits |
| Ronald Wallace | Blessings |
On Retirement: 75 Poems was published by University of Iowa Press in March 2007. It is available from your favorite bookseller, or directly from University of Iowa Press
For additional information, please e-mail Judith Strasser