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Table of Contents
2018- Miscarriage / Allison Aair
Against dying / Kaveh Akbar
American dreams / Julia Alvarez
Finishing up / A. R. Ammons
Sherpa song / David Barber
Translator's note / Andrew Bertaina
Mourning what we thought we were / Frank Bidart
Anthem / Bruce Bond
Those were the days / George Bradley
Birds punctuate the days / Joyce Clement
Opposites game / Brendan Constantine
Prayer concerning the new more 'accurate' translation of certain prayers / Maryann Corbett
Toast to my dead parents / Robert Cording
Artuad / Cynthia Cruz
Personal sonnet / Dick Davis
Today's special / Warren Decker
Wives of the poets / Susan de Sola
Reading Dostoyevsky at seventeen / Dante Di Stefano
Pied beauty / Nausheen Eusuf
Orient epithalamion / Jonathan Galassi
Test / Jessica Goodfellow
Ghost ship / Sonia Greenfield
American sunrise / Joy Harjo
American sonnet for my past and future assassin / Terrance Hayes
Mars Ultor / Ernest Hilbert
View from the bar / R. Nemo Hill
Into the mystery / Tony Hoagland
Yonder, a rental / Anna Maria Hong
I am the size of what I see / Paul Hoover
Walking home / Marie Howe
Ives / Mandy Kahn
We lived happily during the war / Ilya Kaminsky
Quiet boy / Stephen Kampa
Love poem : chimera / Donika Kelly
Sono / Suji Kwock Kim
Palazzo Maldura / Karl Kirchwey
Aconite / Nate Klug
Using black to paint light / Robin Coste Lewis
First Christmas in the village / David Mason
Window / Robert Morgan
Invitation / Aimee Nezhukumatathil
B.F.F. / Hieu Minh Nguyen.
Addendum / Alfred Nicol
Skin deep / Nkosi Nkululeko
Hands / Sheana Ochoa
Silver spoon ode / Sharon Olds
Tilia cordata / Jacqueline Osherow
Sad math / Mike Owens
Week before she died / Elise Paschen
Bells' knells / Jessica Piazza
Happy Birthday, Herod / Aaron Poochigian
Angels in the sun / Ruben Quesada
La Mano / Alexandra Lytton Regalado
Philomela / Paisley Rekdal
Walkman / Michael Robbins
Personae who got loose / J. Allyn Rosser
Genesis / Mary Ruefle
Some transcendent addiction to the useless / Kay Ryan
We'll always have parents / Mary Jo Salter
Voxel / Jason Schneiderman
Violence / Nicole Sealey
Advent / Micahel Shewmaker
Disptch from midlife / Carmen Gimenez Smith
Old story / Tracy K. Smith
Why California will never be like Tuscany / Gary Snyder
Pencil / A. E. Stallings
How poems arrive / Anne Stevenson
Substitutions / Adrienne Su
Shooting wild / Natasha Trethewey.
Grief runs untamed / Agnieszka Tworek
Dear office in which I must account for tears / G. C. Waldrep
Lao Jia / Wang Ping
On a palm / James Matthew Wilson
Face it / Ryan Wilson
Assembly / Christian Wiman.
2019-Phase one / Dilruba Ahmed
You & the raw bullets / Rosa Alcal©Ł
Update on werewolves / Margaret Atwood
Central Park / Catherine Barnett
American will be / Johsua Bennett
Afternoons at the lake / Fleda Brown
Essay on joy / Sumita Chakraborty
Six obits / Victoria Chang
I invite my parents to a dinner pary / Chen Chen
Drank a lot / Leonard Cohen
Like a cat / Laura Cronk
Metaphor-less / Kate Daniels
Armed neighbor / Carl Dennis
An apology to the reader / Toi Derricotte
Brilliant corners / Thomas Devaney
Skin-light / Natalie Diaz
Decline in the adoration of jack-in-the-pulpits / Joanne Dominique Dwyer
I now pronounce you dead / Mart©Ưn Espada
The analytic hour / Nausheen Eusuf
Canzone in blue, then bluer / Vievee Francis
Guantanamera / Gabriela Garc©Ưa
Update / Amy Gerstler
Virgil, hey / Camille Guthrie
Dark and lovely after take-off (a future) / Yona Harvey
Dancing / Robert Hass
American sonnet for my past and future assassin / Terrance Hayes
Roll under the waves / Juan Felipe Herrera
Stranger by night / Edward Hirsch
Ledger / Jane Hirshfield
Sunflowers / James Hoch
All praise Cecil Taylor / Bob Holman
The bathers, Cassis / Garrett Hongo
Sympathy of a clear day / Ishion Hutchinson
The burning bush / Didi Jackson
In memory of Derek Alton Walcott / Major Jackson
From 'Last will and testament' / Ilya Kaminsky
We may no longer consider the end / Ruth Ellen Kocher
Soft targets / Deborah Landau
Higher calling / Quraysh Ali Lansana
The undressing / Li-Young Lee
It could happen to you / David Lehman
Cannibal woman / Ada Lim©đn
A brief history of the future apocalypse / Rebecca Lindenberg
The S in 'I loves you, Porgy' / Nabila Lovelace
Hair / Clarence Major
At land's end / Gail Mazur
The President visits the storm / Shane McCrae
Bio from a parallel world / Jeffrey McDaniel
Miles Davis: Birth of the cool;the founding of Brasilia (1950) / Campbell McGrath
Sleepwalking in Venice / Ange Mlinko
Fannie Lou Hamer / Kamilah Aisha Moon
The last of England / Andrew Motion
Aubade / Paul Muldoon
On confessionalism / John Murillo
You are your own state department / Naomi Shihab Nye
Rasputin aria / Sharon Olds
Nord-sud / Michael Palmer
The black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth / Morgan Parker
Head crack head crack / Willie Perdomo
Star map with action figures
Carl Phillips
Just rollin' along / Ishmael Reed
Four Marys / Paisley Rekdal
Belly, buttocks, and straight spines / Sonia Sanchez
#MeToo / Nicole Santalucia
The women's march / Philip Schultz
Vermeer's pearl / Lloyd Schwartz
Encore / Alan Shapiro
Who knows one / Jane Shore
The greatest personal privation / Tracy K. Smith
Harm's way / A.E. Stallings
The white orchard / Arthur Sze
Duty / Natasha Trethewey
Partly true poem reflected in a mirror / Ocean Vuong
Still life: Steven's wallet on a Key West hotel dresser
Hive / Kevin Young.
2020-Foreword / David Lehman
Introduction / Paisley Rekdal
"Saving the Children" / Julia Alvarez
"Customer Loyalty Program" / Brandon Amico
from "The Galleons" / Rick Barot
"Invention of I" / Kaveh Bassiri
"A Man Drops a Coat on the Sidewalk and Almost Falls into the Arms of Another" / Reginald Dwayne Betts
Nothing Beats a Fair" / Ryan Black
"Bells" / Bruce Bond
"Orange" / William Brewer
"Tender" / Lucie Brock-Broido
"Obit [Privacy-died]" / Victoria Chang
"The Waking Life" / Heather Christle
"Becoming a Forest" / Ama Codjoe
"In Line to Vote on Our Future Climate" / Meg Day
"All Through the War" / Timothy Donnelly
"In Which the Devil Asks Me for My Name" / Hazem Fahmy
"The Shore" / Vievee Francis
"Little Death" / Rachel Galvin
"To X (Written on This Device You Made)" / Julian Gewirtz
"Birches Are the Gods' Favorite Tree" / Regan Good
"Sex" / Christine Gosnay
"It Cannot Be" / Jorie Graham
"On Patmos, Kneeling in the Panagia" / Samuel Green
"Big Gay Ass Poem" / BC Griffith
"Good Mother" / Rachel Eliza Griffiths
"The Conversion of Paul" / Jennifer Grotz
"During the Middle Ages" / Camille Guthrie
"Putting the Pieces Together" / Janice N. Harrington
"Sunday at the Mall" / Tony Hoagland
"Fifteen" / Kimberly Johnson
"The Garden of Earthly Delights" / Troy Jollimore
"In a Time of Peace" / Ilya Kaminsky
"Sho" / Douglas Kearney
"I Never Figured How to Get Free" / Donika Kelly
"After," / Christopher Kempf
"Bear" / Steven Kleinman
"The Gift" / Jennifer L. Knox
"The Jungle" / Yusef Komunyakaa
"After a Transcript of the Final Voicemails of 9/11 Victims" / Nick Lantz
"On Faith" / Shara Lessley
"When I Feel a Whoop Comin' On" / Steven Leyva
"Locomotion" / Cate Lycurgus
"Qassida to the Statue of Sappho in Mytilini" / Khaled Mattawa
"The Punishment of One Is the Love Song of Another" / Jennifer Militello
"Night of the Living" / Susan Leslie Moore
"A Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn" / John Murillo
"Chasm" / Hieu Minh Nguyen
"Hyacinth Aria" / Sharon Olds
"Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice" / Matthew Olzmann
"Climate Is Something Different" / Paul Otremba
"The Seeds" / Cecily Parks
"Something to Believe In" / Carl Phillips
"At Night" / Stanley Plumly
"Fox" / Jana Prikryl
"Archaeology" / Kevin Prufer
"A Partial History" / Ariana Reines
"The Poorly Built House" / Max Ritvo
"The Keeper Will Enter the Cage" / Clare Rossini
"American Cockroach" / Robyn Schiff
"Shainadas" / Brandon Som
"Dysphonia" / Jon William Stout
"Sprang" / Arthur Sze
"The Prayer" / James Tate
"Sitting Isohydric Meditation" / Brian Teare
"I Am a Father Now" / Craig Morgan Teicher
"She talk like this 'cause me Mum born elsewhere, say" / Lynne Thompson
"The Stag" / Matthew Thorburn
"Isfahan, 2010" / Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad
"Recessional" / Corey Van Landingham
"Samson, 1674" / Rosanna Warren
"Machinery" / Robert Wrigley
"Reading Not Reading" / Ryo Yamaguchi
"The President's Telegram" / John Yau
"Opioid, Alcohol, Despair" / Emily Yong
"Study of Two Figures (Pasipha©±/Sado)" / Monica Youn
"My Life" / Matthew Zapruder.
2021-The Pyramid Scheme / Rosa Alcal©Ł
Divination / Lauren K. Alleyne
Some Call It God / Jabari Asim
Benediction / Joshua Bennett
love poem that ends at popeyes / Destiny O. Birdsong
Further Exercises / Susan Briante
Work / Jericho Brown
After Tu Fu / Christopher Buckley
Marfa, Texas / Victoria Chang
The School of Eternities / Chen Chen
Abecedarian for ESL in West Lafayette, Indiana / Su Cho
After the Apocalypse / Ama Codjoe
Gross National Unhappiness / Henri Cole
On the Deaths of Friends / Billy Collins
Interstate Highway System / Adam O. Davis
Before the Riot / Kwame Dawes
The Great Beauty / Toi Derricotte
A Child's Guide to Grasses / Jay Deshpande
lake-loop / Natalie Diaz
Love / Alex Dimitrov
Naji, 14. Philadelphia / Rita Dove
This'll hurt me more / Camille T. Dungy
Stone Love / Louise Erdrich
Conqueror / Kathy Fagan
They Ran and Flew from You / Chanda Feldman
I Feel Good / Nikky Finney
Night School / Louise Gl©ơck
Tilt-A-Whirl / Nancy Miller Gomez
I Won't Live Long / Jorie Graham
Hunger / Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Sonata in F Minor, K. 183: Allegro / francine j. harris
George Floyd / Terrance Hayes
Waste Management / Edward Hirsch
David / Ishion Hutchinson
Two Mule Deer / Didi Jackson
Double Major / Major Jackson
So Much for America / Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Wheelchair / Yusef Komunyakaa
Immigrant Song / Dana Levin
The End of Poetry / Ada Lim©đn
In the Village / James Longenbach
Meditations on a Photograph of Historic Rail Women / Warren C. Longmire
When My Sorrow Was Born / Emily Lee Luan
All the Stops / Dora Malech
Playing Dead / Sally Wen Mao
Provincetown / Francisco M©Łrquez
This Is a Love Poem to Trees / Hannah Marshall
The Hastily Assembled Angel on Care and Vitality / Shane McCrae
There Is Only You / Lupe Mendez
Since Time Immemorial / Francine Merasty
a brief meditation on breath / Yesenia Montilla
Irony / Kamilah Aisha Moon
A Smiling Understanding / Stanley Moss
When White Hawks Come / dg nanouk okpik
December / Cecily Parks
Elegy with Table Saw & Cobwebs / Patrick Phillips
For Black Children at the End of the World... and the Beginning / Roger Reeves
For Air / Ed Roberson
Blood / Margaret Ross
black and brown people on shark tank / Angbeen Saleem
Pages 5-8 (An excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure / Nicole Sealey
women's voting rights at one hundred (but who's counting?) / Evie Shockley
What Is There to Do in Akron, Ohio? / Darius Simpson
The Stuff of Astounding: A Golden Shovel for Juneteenth / Patricia Smith
Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me / Monica Sok
Chinese Restaurant Syndrome / Adrienne Su
Acequia del Llano / Arthur Sze
Copernicus / Paul Tran
The Beginning of the Beginning / Phuong T. Vuong
The Dead Just Need to Be Seen. Not Forgiven / John Sibley Williams
Red Wine Spills / L. Ash Williams
How to Live in Southern California / Shelley Wong
Overnight / John Yau
Caution (from "Deracinations: Seven Sonigrams") / Monica Youn
Dog Tags / Kevin Young.
2022-Foreword / David Lehman
Introduction / Matthew Zapruder
America / Aria Aber
Text and image / Raymond Antrobus
Remembering / Dara Barrois/Dixon
Vows / E.C. Belli
What the dead can do / Oliver Baez Bendorf
Gaslighter / Kristin Bock
Anthony Bourdain / William Brewer
Inaugural / Jericho Brown
Proof / James Cagney
Outer lands / Bill Carty
The innocent / Jennifer Chang
Marriage / Cathy Linh Che
Broken sestina reaching for Black joy / Tiana Clark
Preparing for sleep / Michael Earl Craig
Today: what is sexy / Laura Cronk
Separate but umbilical situations relating to my father / Diana Marie Delgado
Goblin / Matthew Dickman
Advice for Pliny the Elder, big daddy of mansplainers / Tishani Doshi
Let me / Camille T. Dungy
Ode to Sudanese Americans / Safia Elhillo
A bulldozer's American Dream / Shangyang Fang
1965: Harriet Richardson wipes Galway Kinnell's face after state troopers beat him with a billy club / Vievee Francis
Sea: night surfing in Bolinas / Forrest Gander
Second wind / Louise Gl©ơck
Into the mountains / April Goldman
Theories of revenge / Paul Guest
The life of a writer / Jalynn Harris
What would you ask the artist? / Terrance Hayes
:::[to the voice of the age]::: / Brenda HIllman
Against Death / Noor Hindi
Ode to everything / Major Jackson
Capitalism / Brionne Janae
How much I loved this life / Rodney Jones
When a bold of lightning falls in love / Laura Kasischke
Buried abecedary for intensive care / Laura Kolbe
The rest is silence / Jason Koo
Skeletons / Deborah Landau
Big clock / Li-Young Lee
January garden / Dana Levin
My father's mustache / Ada Lim©đn
the junkyard galaxy knocks / Ir©·ne Mathieu
How to greet a warbler / Yesenia Montilla
Myths about trees / Julia Anna Morrison
Trauma note / Sara Mumolo
Quoting the Bible / Luisa Muradyan
Diego de Montemayor / Robin Myers
Best friend ballad / Sharon Olds
In Virginia / Cynthia Parker-Ohene
Pandemic parable / Cecily Parks
Elegy on fire / D.A. Powell
After graduate school / Valencia Robin
The remaining facts / Michael Robins
Follow them / Matthew Rohrer
La ©poca en que hay Olvida / Patrick Rosal
Departure / Erika L. S©Łnchez
Hair sestina / Alexis Sears
Modern poetry / Diane Seuss
Widowing / Prageeta Sharma
In the lockdown / Charles Simic
Anthropocene: a dictionary / Jake Skeets
Hungry poem with laughter coming from an unknown source / Jessica Q. Stark
Little time / Alina Stefanescu
Lest I forget thee / Gerald Stern
The infant's eyes / Bianca Stone
At this point my confusion / Michael Teig
Reasons for staying / Ocean Vuong
In a dark time, the eye begins to see / William Waltz
Hi, how are you / Robert Whitehead
Elegy for the gnat / El Williams III
Final poem for my father misnamed in my mouth / Philip B. Williams
What else in art do you pay for / Elizabeth Willis
First, chill / Mark Wunderlich
Spark theory / Dean Young
Chris Martin sings 'shiver' & I shiver: a poem for Madam Vice President / Felicia Zamora
under the chiming bell / Jenny Zhang
Contributors' notes and comments
Magazines where the poems were first published
Acknowledgments.
2023-The Bluish Mathematics of Darkness / Will Alexander
Covering Stan Getz / Michael Anania
Fortune / Rae Armantrout
We get the Dialectic fairly well / W. H. Auden
A Deafening Prayer / Martine Bellen
Three Poems / Charles Bernstein
from 13th Balloon / Mark Bibbins
That's American / Lee Ann Brown
Antediluvian / Kameryn Alexa Carter
Yes / Guillermo Filice Castro
The Shape of Biddle City / Marianne Chan
World's End / Victoria Chang
The Songbird Academy / Maxine Chernoff
Photo Shoot / Kwame Dawes
The Years / Alex Dimitrov
After the Exhibition / Stuart Dischell
Instagram / Timothy Donnelly
Days at the Races / Boris Dralyuk
330 College Avenue / Joanna Fuhrman
Night Herons / Amy Gerstler
Revisionary / Peter Gizzi
Other News on Page 24 / Herbert Gold
Strange as the Rules of Grammar / Terrance Hayes
All Right / Robert Hershon
Admonitions, Afternoons / Paul Hoover
Best Original Enigma in Verse / Shelley Jackson
The Devil's Wife Explains Broken 45s / Patricia Spears Jones
I Ask that I Do Not Die / Ilya Kaminsky
A Marvelous Sky / Vincent Katz
Straight, No Chaser / John Keene
Three Shrimp Boats on the Horizon / Miho Kinnas
[Misread 'master craftsman'] / Wayne Koestenbaum
from Autobiography of My Alter Ego / Yusef Komunyakaa
I Meant To / Michael Lally
Green Moon / Dorothea Lasky
Traces / David Lehman
Hooky / Ada Limón
Places with Terrible Wi-Fi / J. Estanislao Lopez
Coffee with Lavender / Kimberly Lyons
Pi-Day / Bernadette Mayer
Moonrise / Maureen N. McLane
Tablets VI / Dunya Mikhail
Dating Buddha / Stephen Paul Miller
Chopin in Palma / Susan Mitchell
Extraordinary Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Several Invoices / Valzhyna Mort
As I Wander Lonely in the Cloud / Harryette Mullen
The Facts / Kathleen Ossip
from The Feeling Sonnets / Eugene Ostashevsky
Sunday Cave / Yuko Otomo
In space surface tension will force / a small blob of liquid to form a sphere / Maureen Owen
Film Theory / Xan Phillips
Brown Furniture / Katha Pollitt
Poem No. 2: My Kind of Feminism / Carolyn Marie Rodgers
Something I've Not Bought / Jerome Sala
Dramaturgy / Jason Schneiderman
All the Time Blues Villanelle / Tim Seibles
Little Fugue (State) / Diane Seuss
A Lost Poem of Jesus / David Shapiro
Only Death Wows Me / Mitch Sisskind
Green Goddess / Jack Skelley
These Squatting Girls in Black Spandex / Amanda Smeltz
Various Gloves / Cole Swensen
Wildfire Season / Arthur Sze
Listening in Deep Space / Diane Thiel
Full Haunt / Rodrigo Toscano
The Steeplejack / Tony Trigilio
The Poems Attributed to Him May Be by Different Poets / David trinidad
Three Poems from 13 Moons Kora / Anne Waldman
I can see Mars / Sarah Anne Wallen
And What My Species Did / Elizabeth Willis
Great Sizzle / Terence Winch
Sweepstake / Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Song for Mie Yim / John Yau
Parallel Bars / Geoffrey Young
The Empty Grave of Zsa Zsa Gabor / Matthew Zapruder.
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New York : Collier/Simon & Schuster/Scribner Poetry, 1988-.
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volumes ; 22 cm.
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English
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Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
(1988). The best American poetry . Collier/Simon & Schuster/Scribner Poetry.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)1988. The Best American Poetry. Collier/Simon & Schuster/Scribner Poetry.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)The Best American Poetry Collier/Simon & Schuster/Scribner Poetry, 1988.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)The Best American Poetry Collier/Simon & Schuster/Scribner Poetry, 1988.
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