THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2013
Guest Editor: DENISE DUHAMEL

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Kim Addonizio, Divine
Appeared in: Fifth Wednesday Journal
Sherman Alexie, Pachyderm
Appeared in: The Awl
Nathan Athanderson, Stupid Sandwich
Appeared in: New Ohio Review
Nin Andrews, The Art of Drinking Tea
Appeared in: MiPoesias
John Ashbery, Resisting Arrest
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Wendy Barker, Books, Bath Towels, and Beyond
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Jan Beatty, Youngest Known Savior
Appeared in: Redivider
Bruce Bond, The Unfinished Slave
Appeared in: The Antioch Review
Traci Brimhall, Dear Thanatos,
Appeared in: Field
Jericho Brown, Hustle
Appeared in: The Believer
Andrei Codrescu, Five One-Minute Eggs
Appeared in: The House Organ
Billy Collins, Foundling
Appeared in: Slate
Martha Collins, [white paper 24]
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Kwame Dawes, Death
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Connie Deanovich, Divestiture
Appeared in: New American Writing
Timothy Donnelly, Apologies from the Ground Up
Appeared in: A Public Space
Stephen Dunn, The Statue of Responsibility
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
Daisy Fried, This Need Not Be a Comment on Death
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Amy Gerstler, Womanishness
Appeared in: Court Green
Louise Glück, Afterword
Appeared in: Poetry
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Henry's Song
Appeared in: Plume
Terrance Hayes, New Jersey Poem
Appeared in: The Los Angeles Review
Rebecca Hazelton, Book of Forget
Appeared in: AGNI
Elizabeth Hazen, Thanatosis
Appeared in: Southwest Review
John Hennessy, Green Man, Blue Pill
Appeared in: Southwest Review
David Hernandez, All-American
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Tony Hoagland, Wrong Question
Appeared in: Fifth Wednesday Journal
Anna Maria Hong, A Parable
Appeared in: Boston Review
Major Jackson, Why I Write Poetry
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Mark Jarman, George W. Bush
Appeared in: Five Points
Lauren Jensen, it's hard as so much is
Appeared in: Mid-American Review
A. Van Jordan, Blazing Saddles
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Lawrence Joseph, Syria
Appeared in: The Nation
Anna Journey, Wedding Night:We Share an Heirloom Tomato on Our Hotel Balcony Overlooking the Ocean in Natalie Wood Drowned
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Laura Kasischke, Perspective
Appeared in: New England Review
Victoria Kelly, When the Men Go Off to War
Appeared in: Southwest Review
David Kirby, Pink is the Navy Blue of India
Appeared in: Plume
Noelle Kocot, Aphids
Appeared in: Conduit
John Koethe, Eggheads
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Dorothea Lasky, Poem for Anne Sexting
Appeared in: Conduit
Dorianne Laux, Song
Appeared in: River Styx
Amy Lawless, It Can Feel Amazing to Be Targeted by a Narcissist
Appeared in: The Common
Amy Lemmon, I take your T-shirt to bed again . . .
Appeared in: Vitrine: a printed museum
Thomas Lux, Outline for My Memoir
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Anthony Madrid, Once upon a Time
Appeared in: Poetry
Sally Wen Mao, XX
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Jen McClanaghan, My Lie
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Campbell McGrath, January 17
Appeared in: PEN America
Jesse Millner, In Praise of Small Gods
Appeared in: Gulfshore Life
D. Nurske, Psalm to Be Read with Closed Eyes
Appeared in: Poetry
Ed Ochester, New Year
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Paisley Rekdal, Birthday Poem
Appeared in: New England Review
Adrienne Rich, Endpapers
Appeared in: Granta
Anne Marie Roonie, Lake Sonnet
Appeared in: Subtropics
J. Allyn Rosser, Intro to Happiness
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
Mary Ruefle, Little Golf Pencil
Appeared in: Ecotone
Maureen Seaton, Chelsea/Suicide
Appeared in: Columbia Poetry Review
Tom Seibles, Sotto Voce: Othello, Unplugged
Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review
Vijay Seshadri, Trailing Clouds of Glory
Appeared in: Field
Peter Jay Shippy, Western Civilization
Appeared in: The Common
Mitch Sisskind, Joe Adamczyk
Appeared in: Harpur Palate
Aaron Smith, What It Feels Like to Be Aaron Smith
Appeared in: Court Green
Stephanie Strickland, Introductions
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Adrienne Su, On Writing
Appeared in: New England Review
James Tate, The Baby
Appeared in: jubilat
Emma Trelles , Florida Poem
Appeared in: Terrain.org
David Trinidad, from Payton Place:A Hauku Soap Opera, season Two, 1965-1966
Appeared in: Carbon Copy Magazine
Jean Valentine, 1945
Appeared in: Plume
Paul Violi, Now I'll Never Be Able to Finish That Poem to Bob
Appeared in: Hanging Loose
David Wagoner, Casting Aspersions
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
Stacey Waite, The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV
Appeared in: Columbia Poetry Review
Richard Wilbur, Sugar Maples, January
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Angela Veronica Wong, It Can Feel Amazing to Be Targeted by a Narcissist
Appeared in: The Common
Wendy Xu, Where the Hero Speaks to Others
Appeared in: MAKE
Kevin Young, Wintering
Appeared in: The American Scholar
Matthew Zapruder, Albert Einstein
Appeared in: The Believer

 

 
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