THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2024
Guest Editor: MARY JO SALTER

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Kim Addonizio, Existential Elegy
Appeared in: New England Review
Howard Altman, Kyiv
Appeared in: Commonweal
Julia Alvarez, Amenorrhea
Appeared in: Freeman's
Joshua Bennet, First Philosophy
Appeared in: AGNI
Catherine Barnett, Apophasis at the All-Night Rite Aid
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
April Bernard, Sithens in a net
Appeared in: The New York Review of Books
Maya C. Popa, What's Unsaid
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Christopher Childers, Miasma
Appeared in: Smartish Pace
Ama Codjoe, The Deer
Appeared in: The New York Review of Books
Henri Cole, At Sixty-Five
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Billy Collins, The Money Conundrum
Appeared in: Five Points
Brendan Constantine, Cleptopolitan
Appeared in: Poetry Northwest
Arman Davoudian, Conscription
Appeared in: Washington Square Review
Kwame Dawes, The Remnant
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Brandel France De Bravo, After Ecstasy, the Laundry
Appeared in: 32 Poems
Timothy Donnelly, The Bard of Armagh
Appeared in: Harper's
Rita Dove, Happy End
Appeared in: Orion Magazine
Joanne Dominique Dwyer, Irish Traveler's Writer's Block
Appeared in: New Ohio Review
Elaine Equi, Avoidance
Appeared in: Court Green
Gabriella Fee, A Lighthouse Keeper Considers Love
Appeared in: Guest House
Dana Gioia, Satan's Management Style
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Louise Glück, Passion and Form
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Amy Glynn, Space Is the Final Frontier
Appeared in: Able Muse
Jessica Greenbaum, Each Other Moment
Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review
Rachel Hadas, Voyage
Appeared in: Literary Matters
Saskia Hamilton, All Souls
Appeared in: The Yale Review
Jeffrey Harrison, A Message from Tony Hoagland
Appeared in: New Ohio Review
Terrance Hayes, How to Fold
Appeared in: The New York Review of Books
John Hennessy, Domestic Retrograde
Appeared in: Matter
W. J. Herbert, Pando's Grove
Appeared in: Southern Indiana Review
Richie Hofmann, Lamb
Appeared in: Poem-a-Day
Marie Howe, Chainsaw
Appeared in: Poetry
Omotara James, Closure
Appeared in: Guernica
Eve Jones, Japan
Appeared in: Conduit
George Kalogeris, Byzantine Chanting
Appeared in: Raritan
Stephen Kampa, Someone Else's Gift
Appeared in: Literary Matters
Richard Kenney, Self's the Man
Appeared in: The Hopkins Review
Karl Kirchewy, Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Appeared in: The New Criterion
Yusef Komunyakaa, My Brothers, the Olmec
Appeared in: Poetry
David Lehman, from Ithaca
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Ada Limón, In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa
Appeared in: Library of Congress
Sarah Luczaj, Shopping Lists
Appeared in: AGNI
Amit Majmudar, Charmed Life
Appeared in: Literary Matters
Clarence Major, Weather Conditions
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Charles Martin, You Summon Me . . .
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Heather McHugh, Two Widows, Making a Bed
Appeared in: The Hopkins Review
Ange Mlinko, The Open C
Appeared in: Bad Lilies
Andrew Motion, The Explanation
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Paul Muldoon, Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
Appeared in: Raritan
Harryette Mullen, Haiku Garden
Appeared in: Prairie Schooner
Jesse Nathan, Dame's Rocket
Appeared in: The Yale Review
Jacqueline Osherow, Fast Track: Beijing, Montana, Harlem
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Robert Pinsky, Proverbs of Limbo
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Vidyan Ravinthiran, Eelam
Appeared in: The American Scholar
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, The First and Final Poem Is the Sun
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Natali Scenters-Zapico, Sentimental Evening
Appeared in: The New Republic
Robyn Schiff, from Information Desk: An Epic
Appeared in: Literary Hub
Gertrude Schnackenberg, Stike Into It Unasked
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Grace Schulman, Night Visitor
Appeared in: The New Republic
Jane Shore, The Hat
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Mitch Sisskind, Jack Benny
Appeared in: The Common
Maggie Smith, Hope Chest
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Karen Solie, The Bluebird
Appeared in: Liberties
Christopher Spaide, I'm Not Dying, You're Dying
Appeared in: The Bennington Review
A. E. Stallings, Crown Shyness
Appeared in: The Sewanee Review
Mark Strand, Wallace Stevens Comes Back to Read His Poems at the 92nd Street Y
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Adrienne Su, The Days
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Arthur Sze, Pe'ahi Light
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Claire Wahmanholm, The Field Is Hot and Hotter
Appeared in: TriQuarterly
Rosanna Warren, A New Year
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Michael Waters, Ashkenazi Birthmark
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
Eliot Weinberger, from The Life of Tu Fu
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Matthew Yeager, The Man with the Yellow Balloon
Appeared in: New York Quarterly
Kevin Young, Diptych
Appeared in: Poetry

 

 
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