The Best American Poetry 2015 (30 page)
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Authors: David Lehman
Rafael Campo, “DOCTORS LIE, MAY HIDE MISTAKES” from
upstreet
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Julie Carr, “A fourteen-line poem on sex” from
The Kenyon Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Chen Chen, “for i will do/undo what was done/undone to me” from
PANK
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Susanna Childress, “Careful, I Just Won a Prize at the Fair” from
Columbia Poetry Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Yi-Fen Chou, “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve” from
Prairie Schooner
. Reprinted by permission of Michael Derrick Hudson.
Erica Dawson, “Slow-Wave Sleep with a Fairy Tale” from
Tupelo Quarterly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Danielle DeTiberus, “In a Black Tank Top” from
Rattle
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Natalie Diaz, “It Was the Animals” from
Poetry
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Denise Duhamel, “Fornicating” from
The Literary Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Thomas Sayers Ellis, “Vernacular Owl” from
Poetry
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Emily Kendal Frey, “In Memory of My Parents Who Are Not Dead Yet” from
Powder Keg
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
James Galvin, “On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses” from
The Iowa Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Madelyn Garner, “The Garden in August” from
PMS: poemmemoirstory
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Amy Gerstler, “Rhinencephalon” from
The American Poetry Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Louise Glück, “A Sharply Worded Silence” from
Faithful and Virtuous Night
. © 2014 by Louise Glück. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Also appeared in
The Threepenny Review
.
R. S. Gwynn, “Looney Tunes” from
Dogwatch
. © 2014 by R. S. Gwynn. Reprinted by permission of Measure Press. Also appeared in
Able Muse
.
Meredith Hasemann, “Thumbs” from
The Southampton Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Terrance Hayes, “Antebellum House Party” from
The New Yorker
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Rebecca Hazelton, “My Husband” from
Court Green
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Jane Hirshfield, “A Common Cold” from
The Threepenny Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Bethany Schultz Hurst, “
Crisis on Infinite Earths
, Issues 1â12” from
Miss Lost Nation
. © 2014 by Bethany Schultz Hurst. Reprinted by permission of Anhinga Press. Also appeared in
New Ohio Review
.
Saeed Jones, “Body & Kentucky Bourbon” from
Prelude to Bruise
. © 2014 by Saeed Jones. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Coffee House Press. Also appeared on
Poetry Daily.
Joan Naviyuk Kane, “Exhibits from the Dark Museum” from
Alaska Quarterly Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Laura Kasischke, “For the Young Woman I Saw Hit by a Car While Riding Her Bike” from
Post Road
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Douglas Kearney, “In the End, They Were Born on TV” from
Patter
. © 2014 by Douglas Kearney. Reprinted by permission of Red Hen Press. Also appeared in
The Iowa Review
.
Jennifer Keith, “Eating Walnuts” from
Unsplendid
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
David Kirby, “Is Spot in Heaven?” from
The Cincinnati Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Andrew Kozma, “Ode to the Common Housefly” from
Subtropics
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Hailey Leithauser, “The Pickpocket Song” from
32 Poems
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Dana Levin, “Watching the Sea Go” from the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Patricia Lockwood, “See a Furious Waterfall Without Water” from
A Public Space
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Dora Malech, “Party Games” from
The Hopkins Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Donna Masini, “Anxieties” from the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Airea D. Matthews, “If My Late Grandmother Were Gertrude Stein” from
Kinfolks Quarterly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Jamaal May, “There Are Birds Here” from
Poetry
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Laura McCullough, “There Were Only Dandelions” from
Rigger Death & Hoist Another
. © 2013 by Laura McCullough. Reprinted by permission of Black Lawrence Press. Also appeared on
Verse Daily
.
Rajiv Mohabir, “Dove” from
Prairie Schooner
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “Upon Hearing the News You Buried Our Dog” from the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series.
D. Nurkse, “Plutonium” from
The Manhattan Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Tanya Olson, “54 Prince” from
The Awl
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Ron Padgett, “Survivor Guilt” from
Alone and Not Alone
. © 2015 by Ron Padgett. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Coffee House Press. Also appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series.
Alan Michael Parker, “Candying Mint” from
The Carolina Quarterly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Catherine Pierce, “Relevant Details” from
Pleiades
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Donald Platt, “The Main Event” from
Southwest Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Claudia Rankine, from
Citizen
. © 2014 by Claudia Rankine. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press. Also appeared in
Granta
.
Raphael Rubinstein, “Poem Begun on a Train” from
Harper's
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Natalie Scenters-Zapico, “Endnotes on Ciudad Juárez” from
West Branch
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Evie Shockley, “legend” from
Fence
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Charles Simic, “So Early in the Morning” from
The Paris Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Sandra Simonds, “Similitude at Versailles” from
Colorado Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Ed Skoog, “The Macarena” from
Fruita Pulp
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
A. E. Stallings, “Ajar” from
The Atlantic Monthly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Susan Terris, “Memo to the Former Child Prodigy” from
Denver Quarterly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Michael Tyrell, “Delicatessen” from
The Iowa Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Wendy Videlock, “How You Might Approach a Foal:” from
The New Criterion
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Sidney Wade, “The Chickasaw Trees” from
Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Cody Walker, “Trades I Would Make” from
Poetry Northwest
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
LaWanda Walters, “Goodness in Mississippi” from
The Georgia Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Afaa Michael Weaver, “City of Eternal Spring” from
City of Eternal Spring
. © 2014 by Afaa Michael Weaver. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Also appeared in
The Rumpus
.
Candace G. Wiley, “Dear Black Barbie” from
Prairie Schooner
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Terence Winch, “Subject to Change” from
Beltway Poetry Quarterly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Jane Wong, “Thaw” from
Birdfeast
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Monica Youn, “March of the Hanged Men” from
The Paris Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
SHERMAN ALEXIE,
winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction, a PEN/Hemingway Award for best first fiction, and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and performer. His twenty-four books include
What I've Stolen, What I've Earned
, poetry;
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories;
and
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
, a novel. Alexie has been an urban Indian since 1994 and lives in Seattle with his family.
DAVID LEHMAN,
series editor of
The Best American Poetry
, is also the editor of
The Oxford Book of American Poetry
. His books of poetry include
New and Selected Poems, When a Woman Loves a Man,
and
The Daily Mirror
. He teaches in The New School graduate writing program and lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.
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The Best American Poetry 1988
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The Best American Poetry 1989
Jorie Graham, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1990
Mark Strand, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1991
Charles Simic, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1992
Louise Glück, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1993
A. R. Ammons, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1994
Richard Howard, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1995
Adrienne Rich, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1996
James Tate, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1997
Harold Bloom, editor,
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John Hollander, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1998
Robert Bly, editor,
The Best American Poetry 1999
Rita Dove, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2000
Robert Hass, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2001
Robert Creeley, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2002
Yusef Komunyakaa, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2003
Lyn Hejinian, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2004
Paul Muldoon, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2005
Billy Collins, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2006
Heather McHugh, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2007
Charles Wright, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2008
David Wagoner, editor,
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Amy Gerstler, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2010
Kevin Young, editor,
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Mark Doty, editor,
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Robert Pinsky, editor,
The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition
Denise Duhamel, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2013
Terrance Hayes, editor,
The Best American Poetry 2014
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