THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2016
Guest Editor: EDWARD HIRSCH

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Christopher Bakken, Sentence
Appeared in: The Birmingham Poetry Review
Catherine Barnett, O Esperanza!
Appeared in: Tin House
Rick Barot, Whitman, 1841
Appeared in: Waxwing
Jill Bialosky, Daylight Saving
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Paula Bohince, Fruit de Mer
Appeared in: Parnassus
Michelle Boisseau, Ugglig
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
Marianne Boruch, I Get to Float Invisible
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
David Bottoms, Hubert Blankenship
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Michael Collier, Last Morning with Steve Orlen
Appeared in: Greensboro Review
Allison Davis, The Heart of It All + A Free Beer
Appeared in: The Sycamore Review
Olena Kalytiak Davis, On the Certainty of Bryan
Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review
Natalie Diaz, How the Milky Way Was Made
Appeared in: America Poets
Denise Duhamel, Humanity 101
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Lynn Emanuel, My Life
Appeared in: The New York Times Magazine
Claudia Emerson, Cyst
Appeared in: Subtropics
Martín Espada, Here I Am
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Peter Everwine, The Kiskiminetas River
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Alexis Rhone Fancer, When I turned fourteen, my mother's sister took me to lunch and said:
Appeared in: Ragazine
Charles Fort, One Had Lived in a Room and Loved Nothing
Appeared in: Green Mountains Review
Emily Fragos, The Sadness of Clothes
Appeared in: The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
Amy Gerstler, A Drop of Seawater Under the Microscope
Appeared in: Valley Voices
Dana Gioia, Meet Me at the Lighthouse
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Jorie Graham, Reading to My Father
Appeared in: Boston Review
Juliana Gray, The Lady Responds
Appeared in: River Styx
Linda Gregerson, Font
Appeared in: Raritan
Jennifer Grotz, Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City
Appeared in: The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
Mark Halliday, Doctor Scheef
Appeared in: Copper Nickel
Jeffrey Harrison, Afterword
Appeared in: The New York Times Magazine
Terrance Hayes, Barberism
Appeared in: The New York Times Magazine
Tony Hoagland, Bible Study
Appeared in: Poetry
Cynthia Hogue, The Unwritten Volume
Appeared in: Prairie Schooner
Garrett Hongo, I Got Heaven . . .
Appeared in: Miramar
Erin Hoover, Girls
Appeared in: Crab Orchard Review
Richard Howard, 85 Off & On
Appeared in: The Yale Review
T. R. Hummer, Minutiae
Appeared in: Hinchas de Poesia
Ishion Hutchinson, Morning Tableau
Appeared in: Connotation Press
Major Jackson, Aubade
Appeared in: The New Yorker
David St. John, Vineyard
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Lawrence Joseph, Visions of Labor
Appeared in: The London Review of Books
Julie Kane, As If
Appeared in: Cherry Tree
Suji Kwock Kim, Return of the Native
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Loretta Collins Klobah, Tissue Gallery
Appeared in: The New Yorker
John Koethe, The Swimmer
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Yusef Komunyakaa, The Fool
Appeared in: Tin House
Keetje Kuipers, We drive home from the lake, sand in our shoes,
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Deborah Landau, Solitaire
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Joseph Chapman and Laura Eve Engel, 32 Fantasy Football Teams
Appeared in: 32 Poems
Li-Young Lee, Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet
Appeared in: Image
Philip Levine, More Than You Gave
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Larry Levis, d
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Robin Coste Lewis, On the Road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari
Appeared in: Los Angeles Review of Books
Thomas Lux, Ode While Awaiting Execution
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Paul Mariani, Psalm for the Lost
Appeared in: Image
Debra Marquart, Lament
Appeared in: New Letters
Cate Marvin, High School in Schuzou
Appeared in: New England Review
Morgan Parker, Everything Will Be Taken Away
Appeared in: Paperbag
Hai-Dang Phan, My Father's "Norton Introduction to Literature,Third Edition" (1981)
Appeared in: Poetry
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, The First Last Light in the Sky
Appeared in: The Common
Stanley Plumly, Variation on a Line from Elizabeth Bishop's "Five Flights Up"
Appeared in: Poetry
James Richardson, Late Aubade
Appeared in: The Yale Review
Patrick Rosal, At the Tribunals
Appeared in: New England Review
Brenda Shaughnessy, But I'm the Only One
Appeared in: The Literary Review
Anya Silver, Maid Maleen
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Taije Silverman, Grief
Appeared in: The Massachusetts Review
Tom Sleigh, Prayer for Recovery
Appeared in: Raritan
A.E. Stallings, Alice, Bewildered
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Frank Stanford, Cotton You Lose in the Field
Appeared in: The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
Susan Stewart, What Piranesi Knew
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Nomi Stone, Drones: An Exercise in Awe-Terror
Appeared in: Tahoma Literary Review
Adrienne Su, Peaches
Appeared in: The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
James Tate, Dome of the Hidden Temple
Appeared in: jubilat
Lee Upton, The Apology
Appeared in: The New Yorker
C. K. Williams, Hog
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Eleanor Wilner, To Think of How Cold
Appeared in: New Ohio Review
Al Young, The Drummer Omar: Poet of Percussion
Appeared in: Brilliant Corners

 

 
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