THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2023
Guest Editor: ELAINE EQUI

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Will Alexander, The Bluish Mathematics of Darkness
Appeared in: New American Writing
Michael Anania, Covering Stan Getz
Appeared in: The Café Review
Rae Armantrout, Fortune
Appeared in: The London Review of Books
W. H. Auden, We get the Dialectic fairly well
Appeared in: The New York Review of Books
Martine Bellen, A Deafening Prayer
Appeared in: New American Writing
Charles Bernstein, Three Poems
Appeared in: The Brooklyn Rail
Mark Bibbins, from 13th Balloon
Appeared in: The New York Times
Lee Ann Brown, That's American
Appeared in: The Brooklyn Rail
Kameryn Alexa Carter, Antediluvian
Appeared in: The Bennington Review
Guillermo Filice Castro, Yes,
Appeared in: The Brooklyn Rail
Yuko Cave, Sunday Cave
Appeared in: The Café Review
Marianne Chan, The Shape of Biddle City
Appeared in: AGNI
Victoria Chang, World's End
Appeared in: Mississippi Review
Maxine Chernoff, The Songbird Academy
Appeared in: Conjunctions
Kwame Dawes, Photo Shoot
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Alex Dimitrov, The Years
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Stuart Dischell, After the Exhibition
Appeared in: The Birmingham Poetry Review
Timothy Donelly, Instagram
Appeared in: Plume
Boris Dralyuk, Days at the Races
Appeared in: Raritan
Joanna Fuhrman, 330 College Ave
Appeared in: South Florida Poetry Journal
Amy Gerstler, Night Herons
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Peter Gizzi, Revisionism
Appeared in: The New York Review of Books
Herbert Gold, Other News on Page 24
Appeared in: Tablet
Terrance Hayes, Strange as the Rules of Grammar
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Robert Hershon, All Right
Appeared in: Hanging Loose
Admonitions, Afternoons, Admonitions, Afternoons
Appeared in: Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
Shelley Jackson, Best Original Enigrama in Verse
Appeared in: Conjunctions
Patricia Spears Jones, The Devil's Wife Explains Broken 45s
Appeared in: Vox Populi
Ilya Kaminsky, I Ask That I Do Not Die
Appeared in: Poetry
Vincent Katz, A Marvelous Sky
Appeared in: Hanging Loose
John Keene, Straight, No Chaser
Appeared in: Bomb
Miho Kinnas, Three Shrimp Boats on the Horizon
Appeared in: Wet Cement Press Magazine
Wayne Koesterbaum, [Misread "master craftsman"]
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Yusef Komunyakaa, from Autobiography of My Alter Ego
Appeared in: The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
Michael Lally, I Meant To
Appeared in: The Best American Poetry Blog
Dorthea Lasky, Green Moon
Appeared in: The Paris Review
David Lehman, Traces
Appeared in: New American Writing
Ada Limón, Hooky
Appeared in: Bomb
J. Estanislao Lopez, Places with Terrible Wi-Fi
Appeared in: The Bennington Review
Kimberly Lyons, Coffee with Lavender
Appeared in: Big Other
Bernadette Mayer, Pi-Day
Appeared in: The Café Review
Maureen N. McLane, Moonrise
Appeared in: The London Review of Books
Dunya Mikhail, Tablets VI
Appeared in: Poetry
Stephen Paul Miller, Dating Buddha
Appeared in: Marsh Hawk Review
Susan Mitchell, Chopin in Palma
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Valzhyna Mort, Extraordinary Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Several Invoices
Appeared in: Poetry
Harryette Mullen, As I Wander Lonely in the Cloud
Appeared in: Court Green
Kathleen Ossip, The Facts
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Eugene Ostashevsky, from The Feeling Sonnets
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Maureen Owen, In space surface tension will force a small blob of liquid to form a sphere
Appeared in: Three Fold
Xan Phillips, Film Theory
Appeared in: Bomb
Katha Pollitt, Brown Furniture
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Carolyn Marie Rodgers, Poem No.2: My Kind of Feminism
Appeared in: Poetry
Jerome Sala, Something I've Not Bought
Appeared in: Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
Jason Schneiderman, Dramaturgy
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Tim Seibles, All the Time Blues Villanelle
Appeared in: The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
Diane Seuss, Little Fugue (State)
Appeared in: Iterant
David Shapiro, A Lost Poem of Jesus
Appeared in: New American Writing
Mitch Sisskind, Only Death Wows Me
Appeared in: The Common
Jack Skelley, Green Goddess
Appeared in: Court Green
Amanda Smeltz, These Squatting Girls in Black Spandex
Appeared in: Prelude
Cole Swensen, Various Gloves
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Arthur Sze, Wildfire Season
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Diane Thiel, Listening in Deep Space
Appeared in: The Birmingham Poetry Review
Rodrigo Toscano, Full Haunt
Appeared in: Tupelo Quarterly
Tony Trigilio, The Steeplejack
Appeared in: Marsh Hawk Review
David Trinidad, The Poems Attributed to Him May Be by Different Poets
Appeared in: Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
Anne Waldman, Three Poems from 13 Moons Kora
Appeared in: Three Fold
Sarah Anne Wallen, I Can see Mars
Appeared in: The Brooklyn Rail
Elizabeth Willis, And What My Species Did
Appeared in: Harper's
Terence Winch, Great Sizzle
Appeared in: Biscuit Hill
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Sweepstake
Appeared in: Live Mag!
John Yau, Song for Mie Yim
Appeared in: The Brooklyn Rail
Geoffry Young, Parallel Bars
Appeared in: The Best American Poetry Blog
Matthew Zapruder, The Empty Grave of Zsa Zsa Gabor
Appeared in: A Public Space

 

 
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