Contemporary Poetry, Volume 2 is a collection of scholarly essays and recent reviews of the best of contemporary poetry. The book reviews and essays include:
- "About Kevin Young" by Robert Arnold
- "Frederick Seidel, Nice Weather" by Eric Powell
- "Not Oprah's Book Club: Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals" by Ava Kofman
- "Disassociated Selves: Vijay Seshadri's 3 Sections" by Bhisam Bherwani
- "Reconsidering Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric. A Symposium, Part I" by Roderick A. Ferguson, Evie Shockley, Maria A. Windell, and Daniel Worden.