1. Semiotic shepherd: Frank O'Hara and the embodiment of urban pastoral community -- 2. Locus sodus: tracking time and place in John Ashbery's landscapes -- 3. Fictions dressed like water: Barbara Guest's aqueous imagery -- 4. New windows on New York: The figurative vision of James Schuyler and Jane Freilicher -- 5. Fun city: Kenneth Koch among schoolchildren -- 6. The place where your nature meets mine: Diane di Prima in the West -- 7. A world without gravity: Jim Carroll and Kathleen Norris in the Warhol Underground