THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2019
Guest Editor: MAJOR JACKSON

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Dilruba Ahmed, Phase One
Appeared in: Asian American Literary Review
Rosa Alcala, You & the Raw Bullets
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Margaret Atwood, Update on Werewolves
Appeared in: Freeman's
Catherine Barnett, Central Park
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Joshua Bennett, America Will Be
Appeared in: The Nation
Fleda Brown, Afternoons at the Lake
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Sumita Chakraborty, Essay on Joy
Appeared in: The Rumpus
Victoria Chang, Six Obits
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Chen Chen, I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Leonard Cohen, Drank a Lot
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Laura Cronk, Like a Cat
Appeared in: STAT®REC
Kate Daniels, Metaphor-Less
Appeared in: Five Points
Carl Dennis, Armed Neighbor
Appeared in: New Letters
Toi Derricotte, An apology to the reader
Appeared in: Prairie Schooner
Thomas Devaney, Brilliant Corners
Appeared in: The Brooklyn Rail
Natalie Diaz, Skin-Light
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Joanne Dominique Dwyer, Decline in the Adoration of Jack-in-the-Pulpits
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Martin Espada, I Now Pronounce You Dead
Appeared in: The Massachusetts Review
Nausheen Eusuf, The Analytic Hour
Appeared in: The American Scholar
Vievee Francis, Canzone in Blue, Then Bluer
Appeared in: Asheville Poetry Review
Gabriela Garcia, Guantanamera
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Amy Gerstler, Update
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Camille Guthrie, Virgil, Hey
Appeared in: The New Republic
Yona Harvey, Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Robert Hass, Dancing
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Jaun Felipe Herrera, Roll Under the Wave
Appeared in: Love's Executive Order
Edward Hirsch, Stranger by Night
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Jane Hirshfield, Ledger
Appeared in: The Times Literary Supplement
James Hoch, Sunflowers
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Bob Holman, All Praise Cecil Taylor
Appeared in: Black Renaissance Noire
Garrett Hongo, The Bathers
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Ishion Hutchinson, Sympathy of a Clear Day
Appeared in: Freeman's
Didi Jackson, The Burning Bush
Appeared in: New England Review
Major Jackson, In Memory of Derek Alton Walcott
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Ilya Kaminsky, from "Last Will and Testament"
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Ruth Ellen Kocher, We May No Longer Consider the End
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Deborah Landau, Soft Targets
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Higher Calling
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Li-Young Lee, The Undressing
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
David Lehman, It Could Happen to You
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Ada Lim ón, Cannibal Woman
Appeared in: SWWIM
Rebecca Lindenberg, A Brief History of the Future Apocalypse
Appeared in: Southern Indiana Review
Nabila Lovelace, The S in "I Loves You, Porgy"
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Clarence Major, Hair
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Gail Mazur, At Land's End
Appeared in: Salamander
Shane McCrae, The President Visits the Storm
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Jeffrey McDaniel, Bio from a Parallel World
Appeared in: The Southampton Review
Campbell McGrath, Miles David: Birth of the Cool/The Founding of Brasillia (1950)
Appeared in: Salmagundi
Ange Mlinko, Sleepwalking in Venice
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Kamilah Aisha Moon, Fannie Lou Hamer
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Andrew Motion, The Last of England
Appeared in: The American Scholar
Paul Muldoon, Aubade
Appeared in: The New Yorker
John Murillo, On Confessionalism
Appeared in: The Common
Naomi Shihab Nye, You Are Your Own State Department
Appeared in: Fifth Wednesday Journal
Sharon Olds, Rasputin Aria
Appeared in: The Southampton Review
Michael Palmer, Nord-Sud
Appeared in: Harper's
Morgan Parker, The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady & The Dead & The Truth
Appeared in: Harper's
Willie Perdomo, Head Crack Head Crack
Appeared in: Green Mountains Review
Carl Phillips, Star Map with Action Figures
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Ishmael Reed, Just Rollin' Along
Appeared in: Black Renaissance Noire
Paisley Rekdal, Four Marys
Appeared in: AGNI
Sonia Sanchez, Belly, Buttocks, and Straight Spines
Appeared in: Valley Voices
Nicole Santalucia, #MeToo
Appeared in: The Seventh Wave
Philip Schultz, The Women's March
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Lloyd Schwartz, Vermeer's Pearl
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Alan Shapiro, Encore
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Jane Shore, Who Knows One
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Tracy K. Smith, The Greatest Personal Privation
Appeared in: The Believer
A. E. Stallings, Harm's Way
Appeared in: The Hopkins Review
Arthur Sze, The White Orchard
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Natasha Trethewey, Duty
Appeared in: Time
Ocean Vuong, Partly True Poem Reflected in a Mirror
Appeared in: Freeman's
David Wojahn, Still Life: Steven's Wallet on a Key West Hotel Dresser
Appeared in: AGNI
Kevin Young, Hive
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day

 

 
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