THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2022
Guest Editor: MATTHEW ZAPRUDER

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Aria Aber, America
Appeared in: Poetry
Raymond Antrobus, Text and Image
Appeared in: The Rumpus
E.C.Bell, Vows
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Oliver Baez Bendorf, What the Dead Can Do
Appeared in: West Branch
Kristin Bock, Gaslighter
Appeared in: Iterant
William Brewer, Anthony Bourdain
Appeared in: ZYZZYVA
Jericho Brown, Inaugural
Appeared in: The New York Times
James Cagney, Proof
Appeared in: Alta
Bill Carty, Outer Lands
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Jennifer Chang, The Innocent
Appeared in: The Believer
Cathy Linh Che, Marriage
Appeared in: Iterant
Tiana Clark, Broken Sestina Reaching for Black Joy
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Michael Earl Craig, Preparing for Sleep
Appeared in: jubilat
Laura Cronk, Today: What Is Sexy
Appeared in: Court Green
Diana Marie Delgado, Separate but Umbilical Situations Relating to My Father
Appeared in: West Trestle Review
Matthew Dickman, Goblin
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Dara Barrois Dixon, Remembering
Appeared in: Incessant Pipe
Tishani Doshi, Advice for Pliny the Elder, Big Daddy of Mansplainers
Appeared in: The New York Review of Books
Camille T. Dungy, Let Me
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Safia Elhillo, Ode to Sudanese Americans
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Shangyang Fang, A Bulldozer's American Dream
Appeared in: Guernica
Vievee Francis, 1965: Harriet Richardson Wipes Galway Kinnell's Face after State Troupers Beat Him with a Billy Club
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Forrest Gander, Sea: Night Surfing in Bolinas
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Louise Glück, Second Wind
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
April Goldman, Into the Mountains
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Paul Guest, Theories of Revenge
Appeared in: The Missouri Review
Jalynn Harris, The Life of a Writer
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Terrance Hayes, What Would You Ask the Artist
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
Brenda Hillman, [to the voice of the age]
Appeared in: Alta
Noor Hindi, Against Death
Appeared in: TriQuarterly
Major Jackson, Ode to Everything
Appeared in: Northwest Review
Brionne Janae, Capitalism
Appeared in: The Rumpus
Rodney Jones, How Much I Loved This Life
Appeared in: Literary Matters
Laura Kasischke, When a bold of lightening falls in love
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
Laura Kolbe, Abecedary for Intensive Care
Appeared in: The New York Times
Jason Koo, The Rest Is Silence
Appeared in: Copper Nickel
Deborah Landau, Skeletons
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Li-Young Lee, Big Clock
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Dana Levin, January Garden
Appeared in: Air/Light
Ada Limón, My Father's Moustache
Appeared in: The New Republic
Irène P. Mathieu, the junkyard galazy knocks
Appeared in: Blackbird
Yesenia Montilla, How to Greet a Warbler
Appeared in: Colorado Review
Julia Anna Morrison, Myths About Trees
Appeared in: West Branch
Sara Mumolo, Trauma Note
Appeared in: Maiden Magazine
Luisa Muradyan, Quoting the Bible
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Robin Myers, Diego de Montemayor
Appeared in: The Yale Review
Sharon Olds, Best Friend Ballad
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Cynthia Parker-Ohene, In Virginia
Appeared in: The Rumpus
Cecily Parks, Pandemic Parable
Appeared in: Mississippi Review
D. A. Powell, Elegy on Fire
Appeared in: The Adroit Journal
Valencia Robin, After Graduate School
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Michael Robins, The Remaining Facts
Appeared in: the tiny
Matthew Rohrer, Follow Them
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Patrick Rosal, La Época En Que Hay Olvida
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Erika L. Sánchez, Departure
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Alexis Sears, Hair Sestina
Appeared in: Northwest Review
Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry
Appeared in: The Adirondack Review
Prageeta Sharma, Widowing
Appeared in: The Yale Review
Charles Simic, In the Lockdown
Appeared in: Salmagundi
Jake Skeets, Anthropocene: A Dictionary
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Jessica Q. Stark, Hungry Poem with Laughter Coming from an Unknown Source
Appeared in: Hobart After Dark
Alina Stefanescu, Little Time
Appeared in: Pleiades
Gerald Stern, Lest I Forget Thee
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Bianca Stone, The Infant's Eyes
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Michael Teig, At This Point My Confusion
Appeared in: Bennington Review
Ocean Vuong, Reasons for Staying
Appeared in: Harper's
William Waltz, In a dark time, the eye begins to see
Appeared in: jubilat
Robert Whitehead, Hi, How Are You
Appeared in: The Massachusetts Review
Phillip B. Williams, Final Poem for My Father Misnamed in My Mouth
Appeared in: The New Yorker
El Williams III, Elegy for the Gnat
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Elizabeth Willis, What Else in Art Do You Pay For
Appeared in: Bennington Review
Mark Wunderlich, First, Chill
Appeared in: The Cortland Review
Dean Young, Spark Theory
Appeared in: Conduit
Felicia Zamora, Chris Martin Sings Shiver & I Shiver: A Poem for Madam Vice President
Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review
Jenny Zhang, under the chiming bell
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day

 

 
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