Edited by Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson.

Contents:

1. Mapping the Ways
   • Landscape: In the Forest by Sandra M. Gilbert
   • Voices from the Forest by Lisel Mueller
   • Afraid to Look Afraid to Look Away by Kathleen Jesme
   • Asleep in the Forest by Andrea Hollander Budy
   • Gretel by Mary Jo Bang
   • Black Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Spires
   • Further Adventures by Elaine Equi
   • The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Sandra M. Gilbert
   • The Sleeping Kingdom by Donald Finkel
   • Briar Rose by Debora Gregor
   • Instructions by Neil Gaiman
   • Hotel Grimm by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
   • Lost in the Forest by Amy Gerstler
   • Fairy Tales by Henry Sloss
2. Spinning the Tales
   • Fairy Tale by Ellen Bryant Voigt
   • The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Anne Sexton
   • The Maiden Without Hands by Martha Carlson-Bradley
   • The White Snake by Martha Carlson-Bradley
   • The Sister of the Swans by Janet McAdams
   • An Embroidery (I) by Denise Levertov
   • Cinderella's Story by Mona Van Duyn
   • The Frog Prince by Joyce Thomas
   • The Stepmother Arrives by Patricia Carlin
3. Voices and Viewpoints
   • Babe in the Woods by Moyra Donaldson
   • The Robber Bridegroom by Allen Tate
   • What Bugs Bunny Said to Red Riding Hood by Tim Seibles
   • The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood" by Agha Shahid Ali
   • Grandmother by Laurence Snydal
   • Gretel, Lost by Jean Monahan
   • Hansel Tells Gretel of the Witch by Regie Cabico
   • Gretel, from a sudden clearing by Marie Howe
   • Witch Words by Valery Nash
   • The Witch by Sara Henderson Hay
   • The Fisherman's Wife by Maura Stanton
   • The Sleeper 1 and 2 by Sara Henderson Hay
   • The Gift by Jean Monahan
   • Sleeping Beauty Has Words by Claudia Carlson
   • The Bear by Ann Stanford
   • Snow White and Rose Red by Debora Gregor
   • Rapunzel by David Trinidad
   • Rapunsel Shorn by Lisa Russ Spaar
   • The Prince by Gwen Straus
   • Ashputtel by Penelope Shuttle
   • Straw Into Gold by Bruce Bennett
   • Her Shadow by Gwen Straus
   • Snow White in Exile by Susan Thomas
   • Dwarves by Martin Mooney
   • Fervor by Komiko Hahn
4. Spell Binding and Spell Breaking
   • A Spell for Sleeping by Alastair Reid
   • from The Sleeping Beauty by Hayden Carruth
   • The Glass Coffin by Sue Owen
   • Sleeping Beauty's Dreams by Denise Duhamel
   • The Frog Prince by Stevie Smith
   • Fractured Fairy Tale by Susan Wheeler
   • The Sleeping Princess by Ann Stanford
   • sleeping beauty by Lucille Clifton
   • Beauty Sleeping Now by Anna Rabinowitz
   • Jealousy by Sharon Dolin
   • Fable by Muriel Rukeyser
   • Immortality by Lisel Mueller
5. Magical Objects
   • The Objects in Fairy Tales by Elaine Equi
   • Snow White: The Mirror by Alice Friman
   • Snow White Turns 39 by Anne Sheldon
   • The Poisoned Apple by Sue Owen
   • Rampion by Natasha Saje
   • Rapunzel's Clock by Lisa Russ Spaar
   • The Glass Slipper by Jane Shore
   • The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Margaret Rockwell
   • Masquerade by Barbara Crooker
   • Cinderella's Life at the Castle by Russel Edson
6. Desire & Its Discontents
   • Little Red-Cap by Carol Ann Duffy
   • Rapunzel by Alice Friman
   • The Skeptical Prince by Bruce Bennett
   • Rumplestiltskin Keeps Mum by Claudia Carlson
   • Kissing the Toad by Galway Kinnell
   • How to Change a Frog Into a Prince by Anna Denise
   • Where's Wolf? by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
   • Hans My Hedgehog by Martha Carlson-Bradley
   • Cinderella by Gwen Straus
   • The Robber Bridegroom by Margaret Atwood
   • The Goosegirl by Maura Stanton
   • Rapunzel by Brenda Hillman
   • The Fisherman's Wife by Ingrid Wendt
   • Sex and Politics in Fairyland by Wanda Coleman
   • Fairy Tale by Aliki Barnstone
   • Rapunzel by Olga Broumas
   • Song for Rapunzel by Essex Hemphill
7. The Grimm Sisterhood
   • Cinderella Dream at Ten by Ingrid Wendt
   • Cinderella by Enid Dame
   • The Two Gretels by Robin Morgan
   • One-Eye, Two-Eye, Three-Eyes by Martha Carlson-Bradley
   • Brother and Sister by Terri Windling
   • Cinderella by Olga Broumas
   • Gretel by Andrea Hollander Budy
   • Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
   • Rose Red by Erin Belieu
   • The Stepsister's Story by Emma Bull
   • Girl Without Hands by Margaret Atwood
   • Rampion by Nicole Cooley
   • To the Nixie of the Mill-Pond by Annie Finch
   • Little Red Riding Hood by Olga Broumas
   • Lessons from a Mirror by Thylias Moss
   • The Wicked Witch by Carol Jones Bangs
   • Against Cinderella by Julia Alverez
8. Variations & Updates
   • The Sleeping Beauty: Variation of the Prince by Randall Jarrell
   • The True Story of Snow White by Bruce Bennett
   • Anaconda Mining Makes the Seven Dwarfs and Offer by Mike Carlin
   • HM Customs & Excuse by Rachel London
   • Juvenile Court by Sara Henderson Hay
   • The Social Worker Finds Hansel and Gretel Difficult to Place by Enid Dame
   • On a Nineteenth Century Color Lithograph of Red Riding Hood By the Artist J. H. by Alice Wirth Gray
   • The Peasant Girl by David Trinidad
   • The Ugly Stepsister by Denise Duhamel
   • Grave Fairytale by Dorothy Hewett
   • Rapunzel: A Modern Tale by Maria Terrone
   • Scorched Cinderella by Amy Gerstler
   • The Girl With No Hands by Rigoberto Gonzalez
   • Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins by R. S. Gwynn
   • Snow White and the Man Sent to Fetch Her Heart by Alice Wirth Gray
   • Snow White by Andrea Hollander Budy
   • Hazel Tells LaVerne by Katharyn Howd Machan
   • Sleeping Beauty by Donald Finkel
   • Achtung, My Princess, Good Night by Barbara Hamby
9. Ever After, or a Few Years Later
   • Ever After by Debora Gregor
   • Kissing the Frog by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
   • Cinderella by Randall Jarrell
   • Cinderella and Lazarus, Part II by Dorothy Barresi
   • Twenty Years After by Marlene Joyce Pearson
   • Gretel in Darkness by Louise Gluck
   • Hansel's Game by Agha Shahid Ali
   • Snow White Over & Over by Lee Upton
   • Snow White: The Prince by Alice Friman
   • From the Journals of the Frog Prince by Susan Mitchell
   • The Prince Who Woke Briar Rose by Anne Sheldon
   • Queen Charming Writes Again by Pamela White Hadas
   • Gretel by Ronald Koertge
   • An Interview with Red Riding Hood, Now No Longer Little by Agha Shahid Ali
   • The Archaeology of a Marriage by Maxine Kumin
10. Living the Tales
    • Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm by Gregory Orr
    • The Old Story by Emily Hiestand
    • Daughters with Toad by Mark DeFoe
    • Dock by Martha Ronk
    • A Fairy Tale by Amy Lowell
    • Fundevogel by Meg Kearney
    • A Happy Ending for the Lost Children by Charles Martin
    • Nocturne with Witch, Oven, and Two Little Figures by Peter Cooley
    • Snow White by Nicole Cooley
    • Conversation with My Father by Elline Lipkin
    • Transfiguration Begins at Home by Estha Weiner
    • Castrato by Yusef Komunyakaa
    • Poem About Straw by James Nolan
    • The Wolf in the Bed by Rachel Hadas
    • The Sleeping Beauty by Rachel Hadas
    • This Is a Convalescent Home, Not the Fairy Tale Cottage and Always the Good Father by Marlene Joyce Pearson
    • Like Gretel by Jeff Walt
    • Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny by Lisel Mueller
    • Kinder- und Hausmärchen by Diane Thiel