THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2012
Guest Editor: MARK DOTY

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Sherman Alexie, Terminal Nostalgia
Appeared in: Green Mountains Review
Karen Leona Anderson, Receipt: Midway Entertainment Presents
Appeared in: Seneca Review
Rae Armentrout, Accounts
Appeared in: Poetry
Julianna Baggot, For Furious Nursing Baby
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
David Baker, Outside
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Rick Barot, Child Holding Potato
Appeared in: Memorious
Reginald Dwayne Betts, At the End of Life, a Secret
Appeared in: New England Review
Frank Bidart, Of His Bones Are Coral Made
Appeared in: Salmagundi
Bruce Bond, Pill
Appeared in: Colorado Review
Stephanie Brown, Notre Dame
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Anne Carson, Sonnet of Exemplary Sentences From the Chapter Pertaining to the Nature of Pronouns in Emile Benveniste's Problems in General Linguistics (Paris, 1966)
Appeared in: The Nation
Jennifer Chang, Dorothy Wordsworth
Appeared in: The Nation
Joseph Chapman, Sparrow
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Heather Christle, BASIC
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Henri Cole, Broom
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Billy Collins, Delivery
Appeared in: Subtropics
Peter Cooley, More Than Twice, Mor Than I Can Count
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Eduardo C. Corral, To the Angelbeast
Appeared in: Poetry
Erica Dawson, Back Matter
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Stephen Dunn, The Imagined
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Elaine Equi, A Story Begins
Appeared in: New American Writing
Robert Gibb, Spirit in the Dark
Appeared in: Prairie Schooner
Kathleen Graber, Self-Portrait with No Internal Navigation
Appeared in: Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations
Amy Glynn Greacen, Helianthus annuus (Sunflower)
Appeared in: New England Review
James Allen Hall, One Train's Survival Depends on the Other Derailed
Appeared in: New England Review
Terrance Hayes, The Rose Has Teeth
Appeared in: Tin House
Steven Heighton, Collision
Appeared in: The Literary Review
Brenda Hillman, Moaning Action at the Gas Pump
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Jane Hirshfield, In a Kitchen Where Mushrooms Were Washed
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Richard Howard, A Proposed Curriculum Change
Appeared in: The Antioch Review
Marie Howe, Magdalene--The Seven Devils
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Amorak Huey, Memphis
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Jenny Johnson, Aria
Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal
Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We?
Appeared in: Granta
Fady Joudah, Tenor
Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal
Joy Katz, Death Is Something Entirely Else
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
James Kimbrell, How to Tie a Knot
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Noelle Kocot, Poem
Appeared in: New American Writing
Maxine Kumin, Either Or
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Sarah Lindsay, Hollow Boom Soft Chime: The Thai Elephant Orchestra
Appeared in: Poetry
Amit Majmudar, The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim
Appeared in: The New Yorker
David Mason, Mrs. Mason and the Poets
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Kerrin McCadden, Becca
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Honor Moore, Song
Appeared in: The Common
Michael Morse, Void and Compensation (Facebook)
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Carol Muske-Dukes, Hate Mail
Appeared in: Boston Review
Angelo Nikolopoulos, Daffodil
Appeared in: Lambda Literary Review
Mary Oliver, In Provincetown, and Ohio, and Alabama
Appeared in: Five Points
Steve Orlen, Where Do We Go After We Die
Appeared in: New Ohio Review
Alicia Ostriker, Song
Appeared in: Poetry
Eric Pankey, Sober Then Drunk Again
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Lucia Perillo, Samara
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Robert Pinsky, Improvisation on Yiddish
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Dean Rader, Self-Portrait as Dido to Aeneas
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus
Appeared in: Poetry
Paisley Rekdal, Wax
Appeared in: Witness
Mary Ruefle, Middle School
Appeared in: Conduit
Don Russ, Girl with Gerbil
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Kay Ryan, Playacting
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Mary Jo Salter, The Gods
Appeared in: The Common
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, The Afterlife
Appeared in: River Styx
Frederick Seidel, Rain
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Brenda Shaughnessy, Artless
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Peter Jay Shippy, Our Posthumous Lives
Appeared in: The Literary Review
Tracy K. Smith, Everything That Ever Was
Appeared in: Zoland Poetry
Bruce Snider, The Drag Queen Dies in New Castle
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
Mark Strand, The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter
Appeared in: Poetry
Larissa Szporluk, Sunflower
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Daniel Tobin, The Turnpike
Appeared in: Southwest Review
Natasha Tretheway, Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright on Dissecting the White Negro, 1851
Appeared in: New England Review
Susan Wheeler, "From "The Split""
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Franz Wright, The Lesson
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
David Yezzi, Minding Rites
Appeared in: New Ohio Review
Dean Young, Restoration Ode
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
Kevin Young, Expecting
Appeared in: The New Yorker

 

 
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