THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2018
Guest Editor: DANA GIOIA

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Allison Adair, Miscarriage
Appeared in: Southwest Review
Kavey Akbar, Against Dying
Appeared in: Tin House
Julia Alvarez, American Dreams
Appeared in: America
A.R. Ammons, Finishing Up
Appeared in: Poetry
David Barber, Sherpa Song
Appeared in: Southwest Review
Andrew Bertaina, A Translator's Note
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Frank Bidart, Mourning What We Thought We Were
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Bruce Bond, Anthem
Appeared in: Denver Quarterly
George Bradley, Those Were the Days
Appeared in: Raritan
Joyce Clement, Birds Punctuate the Days
Appeared in: Modern Haiku
Brendan Constatine, The Opposites Game
Appeared in: The American Journal of Poetry
Maryann Corbett, Prayer Concerning the New, More 'Accurate' Translation of Certain Prayers
Appeared in: Rattle
Robert Cording, Toast to My Dead Parents
Appeared in: The Sewanee Review
Cynthia Cruz, Artaud
Appeared in: Bennington Review
Dick Davis, A Personal Sonnet
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Warren Decker, Today's Special
Appeared in: Think Journal
Dante Di Stefano, Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen
Appeared in: Met Magazine
Nausheen Eusuf, Pied Beauty
Appeared in: The Birmingham Poetry Review
Jonathan Galassi, Orient Epithalamion
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Jessica Goodfellow, Test
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Sonia Greenfield, Ghost Ship
Appeared in: Rattle
Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
Appeared in: Poetry
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Ernest Hilbert, Mars Ultor
Appeared in: Academic Questions
R. Nemo Hill, The View from The Bar
Appeared in: The Hopkins Review
Tony Hoagland, Into the Mystery
Appeared in: The Sun
Anna Maria Hong, Yonder, a Rental
Appeared in: Ecotone
Paul Hoover, I Am the Size of What I See
Appeared in: Fifth Wednesday Journal
Marie Howe, Walking Home
Appeared in: The New York Times Magazine
Mandy Kahn, Ives
Appeared in: Ambit
Ilya Kaminsky, We Lived Happily During the War
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Stephen Kampa, The Quiet Boy
Appeared in: The Birmingham Poetry Review
Donika Kelly, Love Poem: Chimera
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Karl Kirchwey, Palazzo Maldura
Appeared in: Plume
Nate Klug, Aconite
Appeared in: Raritan
Suji Kwock Kim, Sono
Appeared in: Southword
Robin Coste Lewis, Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
David Mason, First Christmas in the Village
Appeared in: The New Criterion
Robert Morgan, Window
Appeared in: Southern Poetry Review
Aimee Nezhukumatathill, Invitation
Appeared in: Poetry
Hieu Minh Nguyen, B.F.F.
Appeared in: BuzzFeed
Alfred Nicol, Addendum
Appeared in: First Things
Nkosi Nkululeko, Skin Deep
Appeared in: The Adroit Journal
Sheana Ochoa, Hands
Appeared in: Catamaran
Sharon Olds, Silver Spoon Ode
Appeared in: The Nation
Jacqueline Osherow, Tilia cordata
Appeared in: The Antioch Review
Mike Owens, Sad Math
Appeared in: The Way Back
Elise Paschen, The Week Before She Died
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Jessica Piazza, Bells' Knells
Appeared in: Smartish Pace
Wang Ping, ??-Lao Jia
Appeared in: Poetry
Aaron Poochigian, Happy Birthday, Herod
Appeared in: The New Criterion
Ruben Quesada, Angels in the Sun
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Alexandra Lytton Regalado, La Mano
Appeared in: Green Mountains Review
Paisley Rekdal, Philomela
Appeared in: Narrative
Michael Robbins, Walkman
Appeared in: The Paris Review
J. Allyn Rosser, Personae Who Got Loose
Appeared in: Copper Nickel
Mary Ruefle, Genesis
Appeared in: Poetry
Kay Ryan, Some Transcendent Addiction to the Useless
Appeared in: Parnassus
Mary Jo Salter, We'll Always Have Parents
Appeared in: The Common
Jason Schneiderman, Voxel
Appeared in: The Literary Review
Nicole Sealey, A Violence
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Michael Shewmaker, Advent
Appeared in: The Sewanee Review
Carment Gimenez Smith, Dispatch from Midlife
Appeared in: Colorado Review
Tracy K. Smith, An Old Story
Appeared in: The Nation
Gary Snyder, Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany
Appeared in: Catamaran
Susan De Sola, The Wive's of the Poets
Appeared in: The Dark Horse
A. E. Stallings, Pencil
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Anne Stevenson, How Poems Arrive
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Adrienne Su, Substitutions
Appeared in: New England Review
Natasha Trethewey, Shooting Wild
Appeared in: Poet Lore
Agnieszka Tworek, Grief Runs Untamed
Appeared in: The Sun
G. C. Waldrep, Dear Office in Which I Must Account for Tears,
Appeared in: Seneca Review
James Matthew Wilson, On a Palm
Appeared in: Presence
Ryan Wilson, Face It
Appeared in: The New Criterion
Christian Wiman, Assembly
Appeared in: Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now

 

 
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