BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2007
Guest Editor: HEATHER MCHUGH

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Kazim Ali, The Art of Breathing
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Jeannette Allee, Crimble of Staines
Appeared in: Field
Rae Armantrout, Scumble
Appeared in: American Poet
Mary Jo Bang, The Opening
Appeared in: Verse
Nicky Beer, Still Life with Half-Turned Woman and Questions
Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal
Marvin Bell, The Method
Appeared in: Crazyhorse
Christian Bok, Vowels
Appeared in: New American Writing
Louis E. Bourgeois, A Voice from the City
Appeared in: Sentence
Geoffrey Brock, Flesh of John Brown's Flesh: Dec. 2, 1859
Appeared in: Subtropics
Matthew Byrne, Let Me Count the Ways
Appeared in: Poet Lore
MacGregor Card, Duties of an English Foreign Secretary
Appeared in: Fence
Julie Carr, marriage
Appeared in: POOL
Michael Collier, Common Flicker
Appeared in: TriQuarterly
Billy Collins, The News Today
Appeared in: Bookforum
Robert Creeley, Valentine for You
Appeared in: Crazyhorse
Linh Dinh, Continuous Bullets over Flattened Earth and A Super-Clean Country
Appeared in: New American Writing
Mike Dockins, Dead Critics Society
Appeared in: The Atlanta Review
Sharon Dolin, Tea Lay
Appeared in: New American Writing
Denise Duhamel, Language Police Report
Appeared in: Sentence
Stephen Dunn, Where He Found Himself
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Russell Edson, See Jack
Appeared in: Sentence
Elaine Equi, Etudes
Appeared in: the tiny
Landis Everson, Lemon Tree
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Thomas Fink, Yinglish Strophes IX
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Helen Ransom Forman, Daily
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Louise Gluck, Archaic Fragment
Appeared in: Poetry
Albert Goldbarth, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Appeared in: New Letters
Donald Hall, The Master
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Mark Halliday, Best Am Po
Appeared in: POOL
Forrest Hamer, Initiation
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Matthea Harvey, From The Future of Terror/Terror of the Future Series
Appeared in: Bomb
Robert Hass, Bush's War
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Jane Hirshfield, Critique of Pure Reason
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Daniel Johnson, Do Unto Others
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Richard Kenney, Auguries
Appeared in: Southwest Review
Milton Kessler, Comma of God
Appeared in: Sentence
Galway Kinnell, Hide-and-Seek, 1933
Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal
David Kirby, Ode to the Personals
Appeared in: Five Points
Julie Larios, What Bee Did
Appeared in: The Cortland Review
Brad Leithauser, A Good List
Appeared in: The New Criterion
Ben Lerner, From Angle of Yaw
Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal
Joanie Mackowski, When I was a dinosaur
Appeared in: POOL
Amit Majmudar, By Accident
Appeared in: The Antioch Review
Sabrina Orah Mark, The 10 Stages of Beatrice
Appeared in: Conduit
Campbell McGrath, Ode to the Plantar Fascia
Appeared in: POOL
Leslie Adrienne Miller, On Leonardo's Drawings
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Marilyn Nelson, Etymology
Appeared in: Literary Imagination
Meghan O'rourke, Peep Show
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Ed Ochester, Voltaire at Cirey, 1736
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Gregory Orr, From Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved
Appeared in: Rattle
Danielle Pafunda, Dear Pearce & Pearce, Inc.
Appeared in: Denver Quarterly
Chad Parmenter, A Tech's Ode to Genome Computer
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Susan Parr, Swooping Actuarial Fauna and Ecstatic Cling
Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review
Peter Pereira, Nursmaid's Elbow
Appeared in: New England Review
Robert Pinsky, Stupid Meditation on Peace
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Robert Pinsky, Louie Louie
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
David Rivard, The Rev. Larry Love is Dead
Appeared in: TriQuarterly
Marya Rosenberg, If I Tell You You're Beautiful, Will You Report Me?: A West Point Haiku Series
Appeared in: Hanging Loose
Natasha Saje, F
Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal
Frederick Seidel, The Death of the Sha
Appeared in: Raritan
Alan Shapiro, Country Western Singer
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
David Shumate, Drawing Jesus
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Carmine Starnino, Money
Appeared in: New American Writing
Brian Turner, What Every Soldier Should Know
Appeared in: American Poet
Arthur Vogelsang, The Family
Appeared in: Colorado Review
Cody Walker, Coulrophobia
Appeared in: Tarpaulin Sky
Kary Wayson, Flu Song in Spanish
Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review
Charles Harper Webb, Big
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Joe Wenderoth, The Home of the Brave
Appeared in: Sacramento News & Review
Richard Wilbur, From Opposites and More Opposites
Appeared in: American Poet
George Witte, At Dusk, the Catbird
Appeared in: The Vocabula Review
Theodor Worozbyt, An Experiment
Appeared in: Crazyhorse
Harriet Zinnes, Remiss Rebut
Appeared in: Colorado Review

 

 
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