THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2011
Guest Editor: KEVIN YOUNG

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Elizabeth Alexander, Rally
Appeared in: The American Scholar
Sherman Alexie, Valediction
Appeared in: Cave Wall
Rae Armentrout, Soft Money
Appeared in: Poetry
John Ashbery, Postlude and Prequel
Appeared in: The London Review of Books
Julianna Baggot, To My Lover, Concerning the Yird-Swine
Appeared in: AGNI
Erin Belieu, When at a Certain Party in NYC
Appeared in: 32 Poems
Cara Benson, Banking
Appeared in: Boston Review
Jaswinder Bolina, Mine is the First Rodeo, Min Is the Last Accolade
Appeared in: Black Warrior Review
Catherine Bowman, The Sink
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Turner Cassidy, Off the Nollendorfplatz
Appeared in: The Sewanee Review
Michael Cerelli, Dead Ass
Appeared in: New York Quarterly
Billy Collins, Here and There
Appeared in: Boulevard
Olena Kalytiak Davis, Three Sonnets
Appeared in: Green Mountains Review
Matthew Dickman, Coffee
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Michael Dickman, From the Lives of My Friends
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Denise Duhamel, My Strip Club
Appeared in: DMQ Review
Cornelius Eady, Emmett Till's Glass-Top Casket
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Jill Alexander Essbaum, Stays
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Alan Feldman, In November
Appeared in: upstreet
Farrah Field, From The Amy Poems
Appeared in: LIT
Carolyn Forche, Morning on the Island
Appeared in: The Nation
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Everything is Nervous
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Benjamin S. Grossberg, The Space Traveler Talks Frankly about Desire
Appeared in: Cave Wall
Jennifer Grotz, Poppies
Appeared in: New England Review
Robert Hass, August Notebook: A Death
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy
Appeared in: jubilat
K.A. Hayes, Just As, After a Point, Job Cried Out
Appeared in: Black Warrior Review
Bob Hicok, Having Intended to Merely Pick on an Oil Company, the Poem Goes Awry
Appeared in: New Ohio Review
Jane Hirshfield, The Cloudy Vase
Appeared in: McSweeney's
Paul Hoover, God's Promises
Appeared in: Poetry
Andrew Hudgins, The Funeral Sermon
Appeared in: Poetry
Major Jackson, From Holding Company
Appeared in: The Believer
Allison Joseph, Notebooks
Appeared in: River Styx
L. S. Klatt, Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91
Appeared in: The Believer
Jennifer L. Knox, Kiri Te Kanawa Singing O Mio Babbino Caro
Appeared in: LIT
Yusef Komunyakaa, A Voice on an Answering Machine
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
James Longenbach, Snow
Appeared in: Salmagundi
Bridget Lowe, The Pilgrim is Bridled and Bespectacled
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Maurice Manning, The Complaint against Roney Laswell's Rooster
Appeared in: New South
Morton Marcus, Pears
Appeared in: Sentence
Jill McDonough, Dear Gaybashers
Appeared in: DMQ Review
Erika Meitner, Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Paul Muldoon, The Side Project
Appeared in: The American Scholar
Jude Nutter, Word
Appeared in: The Sycamore Review
Jeni Olin, Pillow Talk
Appeared in: Hanging Loose
Eric Pankey, Cogitatio Mortis
Appeared in: New England Review
Alan Michael Parker, Family Math
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Catherine Pierce, Postcards from Her Alternate Lives
Appeared in: Court Green
Robert Pinsky, Horn
Appeared in: New Ohio Review
Katha Pollitt, Angels
Appeared in: Ploughshares
D. A. Powell, Bugcatching at Twilight
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Gretchen Steele Pratt, To my father on the anniversary of his death
Appeared in: Post Road
James Richardson, Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays from Vectors 3.0
Appeared in: The Literary Review
Anne Marie Rooney, What my heart is turning
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Mary Ruefle, Provenance
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Mary Jo Salter, The Afterlife
Appeared in: Southwest Review
James Schuyler, The Smallest
Appeared in: The Nation
Charles Simic, Nineteen Thirty-Eight
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Matthew Buckly Smith, Nowhere
Appeared in: Iron Horse Literary Review
Patricia Smith, Motown Crown
Appeared in: Rattle
David St. John, Ghost Aurora
Appeared in: Denver Quarterly, Poetry Daily
Gerald Stern, Dream IV
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Bianca Stone, Pantoum for the Imperceptible
Appeared in: Maggy
Mark Strand, The Poem of the Spanish Poet
Appeared in: Salmagundi
Mary Jo Thompson, Thirteen Months
Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily
Natasha Trethewey, Elegy
Appeared in: New England Review
Lee Upton, Drunk at a Party
Appeared in: AGNI
David Wagoner, Thoreau and the Lightning
Appeared in: Ecotone
Rosanna Warren, The Latch
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Rachel Wetzsteon, Time Pieces
Appeared in: The New Criterion, Early Music America
Richard Wilbur, Ecclesiastes II:I
Appeared in: The New Yorker
C. K. Williams, A Hundred Bones
Appeared in: AGNI
David Wojahn, Mix Tape to Be Brought to Her in Rehab
Appeared in: Prairie Schooner
Charles Wright, Toadstools
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Stephen Yenser, Cycladic Idyll: An Aplogia
Appeared in: The Yale Review

 

 
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