Bullets into bells: poets & citizens respond to gun violence

Foreword / Conresswoman 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 Wiriadajaja --
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 Betts --
Response from Samaria Rice --
One pulse --
One poem / Richard Blanco --
Response from Ladd Everitt --
How my mother died / 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 Dargan --
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 Michael 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 / Martin Espada --
Response from David and Francine Wheeler --
Aubade with lemon and sage / Tarfia Faizullah --
Response of 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 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 time / Bob Hicok --
Response from Colin Goddard --
The family sells the family gun / Brenda Hillman --
Response from Jennifer Mascia --
Those who cannot act / Jane Hirshfield --
Response from US Senator Chris Murphy, Connecticut --
Gatorland / Leanne Howe --
Response from Amanda Gailey --
Ferguson / Major Jackson --
Response from Amber Goodwin --
The talking day / Michael Klein --
Response from Monte Frank --
Shotguns / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Response from DeAndra Yates --
Instructions for stopping / Dana Levin --
Response from Kate Ranta --
The leash / Ada Limon --
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 / Jill Mcdonough --
Response from Kim Parker Russell --
Ballad (American, 21st Century) / Wayne Miller --
Response from Lee Keylock --
Gun control
 a triptych / Carol Muske-Dukes --
Response from Donna Dees-Thomases --
In the dark / Jack Myers --
Response from Khary Penebaker --
To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Response from Missouri State Rep. Stacey Newman --
Letting beginning with two lines by Czestaw Milosz / Matthew Olzmann --
Response from Shannon Watts --
[When a child hears gunshots] / Meghan Privitello --
Response from Abbey Clements --
Self-portrait in Charleston, Orlando / Dean Rader --
Response from Joe Quint --
Maggot therapy / Roger Reeves --
Response from Yvonne Crasso --
The first child martyr at Illinois Elementary / Liz Rosenberg --
Response from Patrica Maisch --
the bullet was the girl / Danez Smith --
Response from Rev. Michael L. Pfleger --
Undertaker / Patrica Smith --
Response from Pamela Bosley --
All the dead boys look like 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 & forever / Ocean Vuong --
Response from Clai Lasher-Sommers --
Something it\'s taken thirty years to write / Afaa Michael Weaver --
Response from Dr. Leana S. Wen --
Kalashnikov Candelabrum / Robert Wrigley --
Response from Jessica Pollack Mindich.