THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2014
Guest Editor: TERRANCE HAYES

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Sherman Alexie, Sonnet, with Pride
Appeared in: Hanging Loose
Rae Armantrout, Control
Appeared in: A Public Space
John Ashbery, Breezeway
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Erin Belieu, With Birds
Appeared in: The Normal School
Linda Bierds, On Reflection
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Traci Brimhall, To Survive the Revolution
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Lucie Brock-Broido, Bird, Singing
Appeared in: Boston Review
Jericho Brown , Host
Appeared in: Vinyl Poetry
Kurt Brown, Pan del Muerto
Appeared in: Terminus Magazine
Anne Carson, A Fragment of Ibykose Translated 6 Ways
Appeared in: The London Review of Books
Joseph Ceravolo, Hidden Bird
Appeared in: The Nation
Henri Cole, City Horse
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
C A Conrad, wondering about our demise while driving to Disneyland with abandon
Appeared in: Denver Quarterly
Michael Earl Craig, The Helmet
Appeared in: jubilat
Philip Dacey, Juilliard Cento Sonnet
Appeared in: New Letters
Olena Kalytiak Davis, It Is to Have or Nothing
Appeared in: Green Mountains Review
Kwame Dawes, News from Harlem
Appeared in: Hayden's Ferry Review
Joel Dias-Porter, Elegy Indigo
Appeared in: Brilliant Corners
Natalie Diaz, These Hands, if Not Gods
Appeared in: The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
Mark Doty, Deep Lane
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Sean Thomas Dougherty, The Blues Is a Verb
Appeared in: Spillway
Rita Dove, The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude
Appeared in: Poet Lore
Camille Dungy, Conspiracy (to breathe together)
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Cornelius Eady, Overturned
Appeared in: Terminus Magazine
Vievee Francis, Fallen
Appeared in: Prairie Schooner
Ross Gay, To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Eugene Gloria , Liner Notes for Monk
Appeared in: Tongue
Ray Gonzalez, One El Paso, Two El Paso
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Kathleen Graber, The River Twice
Appeared in: Painted Bride Quarterly
Rosemary Griggs, SCRIPT POEM
Appeared in: MAKE
Adam Hammer, As Like
Appeared in: Pleiades
Bob Hicok, Blue prints
Appeared in: The Believer
Le Hinton, No Doubt About It (I Gotta Get Another Hat)
Appeared in: Little Patuxent Review
Tony Hoagland, Write Whiter
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Major Jackson, OK Cupid
Appeared in: Tin House
Amaud Jamaul Johnson, L.A. Police Chier Daryl Gates Dead at 83
Appeared in: Crazyhorse
Douglas Kearney, The Labor of Stagger Lee: Boar
Appeared in: Poetry
Yusef Komunyakaa, Negritude
Appeared in: Gris-Gris
Corey Van Landingham, During the Autopsy
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Hailey Leithauser, In My Past Life
Appeared in: Southwest Review
Larry Levis, Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze inside It
Appeared in: Blackbird
Gary Copeland Lilley, Sermon of the Dreadnaught
Appeared in: MiPoesias
Frannie Lindsay, Elegy for My Mother
Appeared in: Field
Patricia Lockwood, Rape Joke
Appeared in: The Awl
Nathaniel Mackey, Oldtime Ending
Appeared in: Poet Lore
Cate Marvin, An Etiquette for Eyes
Appeared in: Willow Springs
Jamaal May, Masticated Light
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Shara McCallum, Parasol
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Marty McConell, vivisection (you're going to break my heart)
Appeared in: The Carolina Review
Valzhyna Mort, Sylt I
Appeared in: New Letters
Harryette Mullen, Selection from Tanka Diary
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Eileen Myles, Paint Me a Penis
Appeared in: Green Mountains Review
D. Nurkse, Release from Stella Maris
Appeared in: Field
Sharon Olds, Stanley Kunitz Ode
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Gregory Pardlo, Wishing Well
Appeared in: Painted Bride Quarterly
Kiki Petrosino, Story Problem
Appeared in: The Baffler
D. A. Powell, See You Later.
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Roger Reeves, The Field Museum
Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review
Donald Revell, To Shakespeare
Appeared in: The Literary Review
Patrick Rosal, You Cannot Go the God You Love with Your Two Legs
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Mary Ruefle, Saga
Appeared in: Court Green
Jon Sands, Decoded
Appeared in: Rattle
Steve Scafidi, Thank You Lord for the Dark Ablaze
Appeared in: ABZ:A Poetry Magazine
Frederick Seidel, To Philip Roth for His Eightieth
Appeared in: The London Review of Books
Diane Seuss, Free Beer
Appeared in: The Missouri Review
Sandra Simonds, I Grade Online Humanities Tests
Appeared in: The Awl
Jane Springer, Forties War Widows, Stolen Grain
Appeared in: The Birmingham Poetry Review
Afaa Michael Weaver, Passing Through Indian Territory
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Eleanor Wilner, Sowing
Appeared in: The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
David Wojhan, My Father's Soul Departing
Appeared in: AGNI
Greg Wrenn, Detainment
Appeared in: Cream City Review
Robert Wrigley, Blesses Are
Appeared in: Southern Indiana Review
Jake Adam York, Calendar Days
Appeared in: The Missouri Review
Dean Young, Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns
Appeared in: Poetry
Rachel Zucker, Mindful
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review

 

 
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