| Jonathan Aaron, Dance Mania |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1992 |
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| A. R. Ammons, Anxiety's Prosody |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| A. R. Ammons, from "Strip" |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1997 |
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| A. R. Ammons, Garbage |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1993 |
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| John Ashbery, Baked Alaska |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1993 |
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| John Ashbery, The Problem of Anxiety |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1997 |
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| John Ashbery, Myrtle |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1994 |
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| Elizabeth Bishop, It is Marvellous . . . |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| George Bradley, The Fire Fetched Down |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1994 |
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| Lucie Brock-Broido, Inevitably, She Declined |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1992 |
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| Anne Carson, The Life of Towns |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1990 |
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| Amy Clampitt, My Cousin Muriel |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1990 |
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| Douglas Crase, True Solar Holiday |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| Carolyn Creedon, litany |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1993 |
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| Thomas M. Disch, The Cardinal Detoxes: A Play in One Act |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1994 |
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| Irving Feldman, Terminal Laughs |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1995 |
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| Aaron Fogel, The Printers Error |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1995 |
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| Alice Fulton, Powers of Congress |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| Allen Ginsberg, Salutations to Fernando Pessoa |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1995 |
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| Louise Glück, Vespers |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1992 |
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| Louise Glück, Celestial Music |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1991 |
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| Jorie Graham, Manifest Destiny |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1992 |
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| Jorie Graham, What the Instant Contains |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1993 |
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| Allen Grossman, The Piano Player Explains Himself |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1988 |
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| Donald Hall, Prophecy |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1988 |
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| Donald Hall, The Porcelain Couple |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1997 |
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| Vicki Hearne, St. Luke Painting the Virgin |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1992 |
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| Anthony Hecht, Prospects |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1995 |
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| Edward Hirsch, Man on a Fire Escape |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1992 |
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| John Hollander, Kinneret |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| John Hollander, The See-Saw |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1991 |
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| John Hollander, An Old-Fashioned Song |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1990 |
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| Richard Howard, Like Most Revelations |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1992 |
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| Donald Justice, Nostalgia of the Lakefronts |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1988 |
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| Donald Justice, Invitation to a Ghost |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1993 |
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| Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1993 |
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| Jane Kenyon, Three Songs at the End of the Summer |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| Galway Kinnell, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1990 |
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| Karl Kirchwey, Sonogram |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1995 |
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| Kenneth Koch, One Train May Hide Another |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1994 |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1990 |
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| Ann Lauterbach, Psyches Dream |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1988 |
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| Philip Levine, Scouting |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1990 |
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| Harry Matthews, Histoire |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1988 |
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| J. D. McClatchy, An Essay on Friendship |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1991 |
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| James Merrill, A Room at the Heart of Things |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| James Merrill, The 'Ring' Cycle |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1991 |
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| James Merrill, Family Week at Oracle Ranch |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1994 |
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| W.S. Merwin, The Stranger |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1993 |
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| Susan Mitchell, Havana Birth |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1990 |
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| A. F. Moritz, Protracted Episode |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1991 |
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| Thylias Moss, The Warmth of Hot Chocolate |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| Brighde Mullins, At the Lakehouse |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1994 |
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| Molly Peacock, Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm? |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1995 |
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| Bob Perelman, Movie |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| Carl Phillips, A Mathematics of Breathing |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1994 |
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| Kay Ryan, Outsider Art |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1995 |
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| Grace Schulman, The Present Perfect |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1995 |
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| David Shapiro, The Seasons |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1991 |
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| Charles Simic, Country Fair |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1991 |
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| Charles Simic, The Something |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1997 |
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| Gary Snyder, Ripples on the Surface |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1993 |
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| Mark Strand, Reading in Place |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| Mark Strand, from "Dark Harbor" |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1993 |
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| Mark Strand, Morning, Noon, and Night |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1997 |
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| May Swenson, Sleeping with Boa |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1994 |
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| Derek Walcott, Omeros |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1991 |
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| Rosanna Warren, The Cormorant |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1990 |
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| Rosanna Warren, Diversion |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1997 |
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| Susan Wheeler, What Memory Reveals |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1988 |
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| Richard Wilbur, Lying |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| Richard Wilbur, A Wall in the Woods: Cummington |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1990 |
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| Charles Wright, Disjecta Membra |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1997 |
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| Jay Wright, Madrid |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1989 |
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| Jay Wright, The Cradle Logic of Autumn |
| Appeared in: The Best American Poetry 1995 |
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