The best of the best American poetry

Terminal nostalgia / Sherman Alexie

Garbage / A.R. Ammons

Soft money / Rae Armantrout

Wakefulness / John Ashbery

Bored / Margaret Atwood

Injunction / Frank Bidart

Feminine intuition / Stephanie Brown

Three oranges / Charles Bukowski

The life of towns / Anne Carson

Self-portrait as four styles of Pompeian wall painting / Henri Cole

Dharma / Billy Collins

En famille / Robert Creeley

You art a scholar, Horatio, speak to it / Olena Kalytiak Davis

Our generation / Carl Dennis

Skin / Susan Dickman

Desire / Stephen Dobyns

Difference / Mark Doty

All souls' / Rita Dove

How it will end / Denise Duhamel

The imagined / Stephen Dunn

Powers of Congress / Alice Fulton

Salutations to Fernando Pessoa / Allen Ginsberg

Landscape / Louise Glück

Manifest destiny / Jorie Graham

Safe / Linda Gregerson

The war / Linda Gregg

Cafeteria in Boston / Thom Gunn

Prophecy / Donald Hall

The opaque / Mark Halliday

Bush's war / Robert Hass

A house is not a home / Terrance Hayes

The polar circle / Lyn Hejinian

Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry / Bob Hicok

Phone booth / Brenda Hillman

Man on a fire escape / Edward Hirsch

In praise of coldness / Jane Hirshfield

In a quiet town by the sea / Tony Hoagland

The see-saw / John Hollander

Like most revelations / Richard Howard

9-11-01 / Fanny Howe

Magdalene

the seven devils /

Marie Howe

From "Urban renewal" / Major Jackson

Plea for forgiveness / Rodney Jones

So where are we? / Lawrence Joseph

Reading aloud to my father / Jane Kenyon

Proverb / Kenneth Koch

Sally's hair / John Koethe

Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa

Touch me / Stanley Kunitz

Operation memory / David Lehman

The return / Philip Levine

The autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim / Amit Majmudar

Hell / Sarah Manguso

My mammogram / J.D. McClatchy

Past all understanding / Heather McHugh

From "The person she is" / James McMichael

The 'ring' cycle / James Merrill

The stranger / W.S. Merwin

There will be animals / Thylias Moss

The loaf / Paul Muldoon

From Muse & drudge / Harryette Mullen

Hate mail / Carol Muske-Dukes

Q / Sharon Olds

The window at Arles / Meghan O'Rourke

I do not / Michael Palmer

Fretwork / Carl Phillips

Samurai song / Robert Pinsky

A short narrative of breasts and wombs in service of plot entitled / Claudia Rankine

Ends of the earth / Adrienne Rich

The Rev. Larry Love is dead / David Rivard

Discounting Lynn / J. Allyn Rosser

Middle school / Mary Ruefle

Outsider art / Kay Ryan

Switchblade / Michael Ryan

Let's all hear it for Mildred Bailey! / James Schuyler

Pornography / Lloyd Schwartz

The death of the shah / Frederick Seidel

Country western singer / Alan Shapiro

Country fair / Charles Simic

At the pool / Tom Sleigh

Building / Gary Snyder

Asphodel / A.E. Stallings

The latest hotel guest walks over particles that revolve in seven other dimensions controlling latticed space / Ruth Stone

From Dark harbor / Mark Strand

Forty / Pamela Sutton

Bounden duty / James Tate

Elegy / Natasha Trethewey

Counterman / Paul Violi

Necrophiliac / Rosanna Warren

Time pieces / Rachel Wetzsteon

A filial republic / Susan Wheeler -

This pleasing anxious being / Richard Wilbur

A hundred bones / C.K. Williams

The mill-race / Anne Winters

American twilight / Charles Wright

A happy thought / Franz Wright

Religion / Robert Wrigley

Vespers / C. Dale Young

No forgiveness ode / Dean Young

Lime light blues / Kevin Young.