Best American poetry 2018

Miscarriage / Allison Aair.

Against dying / Kaveh Akbar

American dreams / Jula Alvarez

Finishing up / A. R. Ammons.

Sherpa song / David Barber.

Translator's note / Andrew Bertaina.

Mourning what we thought we were / Frank Bidart.

Anthem / Bruce Bond.

Those were the days / George Bradley.

Birds punctuate the days / Joyce Clement.

Opposites game / Brendan Constantine.

Prayer concerning the new more 'accurate' translation of certain prayers / Maryann Corbett.

Toast to my dead parents / Robert Cording.

Artuad / Cynthia Cruz.

Personal sonnet / Dick Davis.

Today's special / Warren Decker.

Wives of the poets / Susan de Sola.

Reading Dostoyevsky at seventeen / Dante Di Stefano.

Pied beauty / Nausheen Eusuf.

Orient epithalamion / Jonathan Galassi.

Test / Jessica Goodfellow.

Ghost ship / Sonia Greenfield.

American sunrise / Joy Harjo.

American sonnet for my past and future assassin / Terrance Hayes.

Mars Ultor / Ernest Hilbert.

View from the bar / R. Nemo Hill.

Into the mystery / Tony Hoagland.

Yonder, a rental / Anna Maria Hong.

I am the size of what I see / Paul Hoover.

Walking home / Marie Howe.

Ives / Mandy Kahn.

We lived happily during the war / Ilya Kaminsky.

Quiet boy / Stephen Kampa.

Love poem : chimera / Donika Kelly.

Sono / Suji Kwock Kim.

Palazzo Maldura / Karl Kirchwey.

Aconite / Nate Klug

Using black to paint light / Robin Coste Lewis.

First Christmas in the village / David Mason.

Window / Robert Morgan.

Invitation / Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

B.F.F. / Hieu Minh Nguyen.

Addendum / Alfred Nicol.

tSkin deep / Nkosi Nkululeko.

Hands / Sheana Ochoa.

Silver spoon ode / Sharon Olds.

Tilia cordata / Jacqueline Osherow.

Sad math / Mike Owens.

Week before she died / Elise Paschen.

Bells' knells / Jessica Piazza.

Happy Birthday, Herod / Aaron Poochigian.

Angels in the sun / Ruben Quesada.

La Mano / Alexandra Lytton Regalado.

Philomela / Paisley Rekdal.

Walkman / Michael Robbins.

Personae who got loose / J. Allyn Rosser.

Genesis / Mary Ruefle.

Some transcendent addiction to the useless / Kay Ryan.

We'll always have parents / Mary Jo Salter.

Voxel / Jason Schneiderman.

Violence / Nicole Sealey.

Advent / Micahel Shewmaker.

Disptch from midlife / Carmen Gimenez Smith.

Old story / Tracy K. Smith.

Why California will never be like Tuscany / Gary Snyder.

Pencil / A. E. Stallings.

How poems arrive / Anne Stevenson.

Substitutions / Adrienne Su.

Shooting wild / Natasha Trethewey.

Grief runs utamed / Agnieszka Tworek.

Dear office in which I must account for tears / G. C. Waldrep.

La Jia / Wang Ping.

On a palm / James Matthew Wilson.

Face it / Ryan Wilson.

Assemby / Christian Wiman.