THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2006
Guest Editor: BILLY COLLINS

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Kim Addonizio, Verities
Appeared in: Poetry
Dick Allen, See the Pyramids Along the Nile
Appeared in: Boulevard
Craig Arnold, from Couple from Hell
Appeared in: Barrow Street
John Ashbery, A Worldly Country
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Jesse Ball, Speech in a Chamber
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Krista Benjamin, Letter from My Ancestors
Appeared in: Margie
Ilya Bernstein, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
Appeared in: Fulcrum
Gaylord Brewer, Apologia to the Blue Tit
Appeared in: River Styx
Tom Christopher, Rhetorical Figures
Appeared in: Hayden's Ferry Review
Laura Cronk, Sestina for the Newly Married
Appeared in: LIT
Carl Dennis, Our Generation
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Stephen Dobyns, Toward Some Bright Moment
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Denise Duhamel, Please Don't Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen
Appeared in: Columbia Poetry Review
Stephen Dunn, The Land of Is
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
Beth Ann Fennelly, Souvenir
Appeared in: Shenandoah
Megan Gannon, List of First Lines
Appeared in: Third Coast
Amy Gerstler, For My Niece Sidney, Age Six
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Sarah Gorham, Bust of a Young Boy in the Snow
Appeared in: Five Points
George Green, The Death of Winckelmann
Appeared in: The New Criterion
Debora Greger, My First Mermaid
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Eamon Grennan, The Curve
Appeared in: Five Points
Daniel Gutstein, Monsieur Pierre est mort
Appeared in: Rhino
R. S. Gwynn, from Sects from A to Z
Appeared in: Poetry
Rachel Hadas, Bird, Weasel, Fountain
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Mark Halliday, Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Jim Harrison, On the Way to the Doctor's
Appeared in: New Letters
Robert Hass, The Problem of Describing Color
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Christian Hawkey, Hour
Appeared in: CROWD
Terrance Hayes, Talk
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Bob Hicok, My career as a director
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
Katia Kapovich, The Ferry
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Laura Kasischke, At Gettysburg
Appeared in: New England Review
Joy Katz, Just a second ago
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
David Kirby, Seventeen Ways from Tuesday
Appeared in: Subtropics
Jennifer L. Knox, The Laws of Probability in Levittown
Appeared in: The Hat
Ron Koertge, Found
Appeared in: Iodine Poetry Journal
John Koethe, Sally's Hair
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Mark Kraushaar, Tonight
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
Julie Larios, Double Abecedarian: Please Give Me
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
Dorianne Laux, Demographic
Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review
Reb Livingston, That's Not Butter
Appeared in: MiPoesias
Thomas Lux, Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals
Appeared in: Five Points
Paul Muldoon, Blenheim
Appeared in: Five Points
Marilyn Nelson, Albert Hinckley
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Richard Newman, Briefcase of Sorrow
Appeared in: Crab Orchard Review
Mary Oliver, The Poet with His Face in His Hands
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Danielle Pafunda, Small Town Rocker
Appeared in: The Canary
Mark Pawlak, The Sharper the Berry
Appeared in: New American Writing
Bao Phi, Race
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Donald Platt, Two Poets Meet
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Lawrence Raab, The Great Poem
Appeared in: Nightsun
Betsy Retallack, Roadside Special
Appeared in: Endicott Review
Liz Rosenberg, The Other Woman's Point of View
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
J. Allyn Rosser, Discounting Lynn
Appeared in: failbetter.com
Kay Ryan, Thin
Appeared in: Poetry
Mary Jo Salter, A Phone Call to the Future
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
Vejay Sheshadri, Memoir
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Alan Shapiro, Misjudged Fly Ball
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Charles Simic, House of Cards
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Gerald Stern, Homesick
Appeared in: Ecotone
James Tate, The Loser
Appeared in: Crazyhorse
Sue Ellen Thompson, Body English
Appeared in: Connecticut Review
Tony Towle, Misprision
Appeared in: LIT
Alison Townsend, What I Never Told You About the Abortion
Appeared in: Margie
Paul Violi, Counterman
Appeared in: Shiny International
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Harvesting the Cows
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
David Wagoner, The Driver
Appeared in: Margie
Charles Harper Webb, Prayer to Tear the Sperm-Dam Down
Appeared in: The Atlanta Review
C. K. Williams, Ponies
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Terence Winch, Sex Elegy
Appeared in: Verse
Susan Wood, Gratification
Appeared in: Five Points
Franz Wright, A Happy Thought
Appeared in: Field
Robert Wrigley, Religion
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
David Yezzi, The Call
Appeared in: New England Review
Dean Young, Clam Ode
Appeared in: POOL

 

 
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