POEMS POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA (in posting order)
2023 POEMS
Kathryn Nuernberger, “The Petty Politics of the Thing,” 32 Poems, collected in Rue, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Sean Singer, “Doubt,” collected in Today in the Taxi, Tupelo Press
Natalie Shapero, “The Beach,” Memorious, collected in Popular Longing, Copper Canyon Press
Erin Hoover, “The power of passive voice,” Gargoyle Magazine
Chen Chen, “The School of Eternities,” Ploughshares, collected in Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Amorak Huey, “At the Memorial Service for the Way Things Used to Be We Talk About Zombies,” Had
Jennifer Militello, “Empathy,” So and So Magazine, collected in Body Thesaurus, Tupelo Press
Kendra DeColo, “I Write Poems About Motherhood,” Los Angeles Review, collected in I am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Stephanie Niu, “Learning Money in Reverse,” Copper Nickel
Cindy King, “The Rivers Runneth Black with Mascara,” The Cincinnati Review, collected in Zoonotic, Tinderbox Editions
Nicole Callihan, “The Paper Anniversary (5),” Calyx
Russell Jaffe, “Sadness: the poem: the ride,” collected in This Super Doom I Aver, Poets Democracy
Ron Koertge, “Body Shop,” collected in Fever, Red Hen Press
George Bilgere, “Corned Beef and Cabbage,” collected in The Good Kiss, The University of Akron Press
Hala Alyan, “Aquarius,” The Journal, collected in Atrium, Three Rooms Press
P. Scott Cunningham, “Wagner & Nietzsche,” Okey-Panky, collected in Ya Te Veo, The University of Arkansas Press
Hera Lindsay Bird, “Children are the Orgasms of the World,” Minarets, collected in Hera Lindsay Bird, Penguin Books
Simon Armitage, “The Experience,” collected in Seeing Stars, Alfred A. Knopf
Dara Yen Elerath, “Things I Left You,” Poetry
Brandi Nicole Martin, “A Day That Was Mine,” Boston Review
Victoria Chang, “Completion,” collected in The Trees Witness Everything, Copper Canyon Press
Kathy Evans, “Psychic Healers,” Southern Poetry Review, collected in Don’t Leave Hungry, The University of Arkansas Press
Bianca Stone, “Identification of the Hawk,” The Rumpus
Landon Godfrey, “Inventory of Doubts [Houseguest, Dog, and Atoms],” collected in Inventory of Doubts, Tupelo Press
Nicky Beer, “Exclusive Interview,” Tupelo Quarterly, collected in Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, Milkweed Editions
David Kirby, “Fine Gentleman,” One
Caki Wilkinson, “14 Dubious U-Turns,” Horsethief, collected in The Survival Expo, Persea Books
Catherine Pierce, “In Which I Imagine Myself into a Slasher Flick,” collected in Famous Last Words, Saturnalia Books
Jaswinder Bolina, “If I Persisted for Seven Lifetimes, I’d Spend Six of with You,” Columbia Poetry Review, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Terrance Hayes, “Ars Poetica #789,” collected in Hip Logic, Penguin Books
Katie Condon, “The Real Self is Very Scary,” Nashville Review, collected in Praying Naked, Ohio State University Press
Catherine Barnett, “Comic Morning,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Kevin Prufer, “Not Thinking,” Prairie Schooner, collected in The Art of Fiction, Four Way Books
Jay Nebel, “Fast, Hard, and Rated R,” collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Erika Meitner, “the experience we are thrust into,” Poet Lore, collected in Useful Junk, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Carrie Fountain, “Yes,” collected in Instant Winner, Penguin Books
Cate Marvin, “My Father’s Daughter,” Birmingham Poetry Review, collected in Event Horizon, Copper Canyon Press
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “In the Room Next Door How Many People Have Died,” Cultural Daily
Leigh Stein, “The King of Staten Island (2020),” collected in What to Miss When, Soft Skull Press
Catherine Bowman, “Mr. X,” Chelsea, 1-800-Hot-Ribs, Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Mark Halliday, “Pasco, Barbara,” AGNI, collected in Selfwolf, The University of Chicago Press
Sharon Olds, “Necking,” collected in The Wellspring, Alfred A. Knopf
Julia Story, “And the Waters Prevailed,” collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Jack Gilbert, “All the Way From There to Here,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
William Matthews, “The Cat,” collected in Sleek for the Long Flight, Ecco
Camille Guthrie, “Victim of Love,” Iowa Review
Kiki Petrosino, “I Married a Horseman,” collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Rachel Mennies, “November 30, 2016,” Kenyon Review, collected in The Naomi Letters, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Lauren Shapiro, “Feast,” collected in Arena, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Steven Cramer, “A Cosmography of Melancholy,” Sugar House Review, collected in Listen, Mad Hat Press
Randall Mann, “Monday,” Subtropics, collected in Breakfast with Thom Gunn, The University of Chicago Press
Norman Dubie, “Pastoral,” collected in In the Dead of the Night, University of Pittsburgh Press
Mary Ruefle, “Pandemonium,” collected in Indeed I Was Pleased with the World, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Sommer Browning, “Great Things from the Department of Transportation,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Good Actors, Birds, LLC
Matthew Rohrer, “A Plate of Chicken [Take your pants off, Creepy],” collected in A Plate of Chicken, Ugly Duckling Presse
Eduardo C. Corral, “To a Mojado Who Died Crossing the Desert,” Web Del Sol, collected in Slow Lightning, Yale University Press
Erin Belieu, “Last Trip to the Island,” The Electronic Poetry Review, collected in Black Box, Copper Canyon Press
Diane Seuss, “Rhapsody,” Ninth Letter
Angie Estes, “Salle des Départs,” collected in Tryst, Oberlin College Press
Paul Guest, “What I Believe,” Copper Nickel
Philip Metres, “A Concordance of Leaves [& though the border guard],” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Bob Hicok, “The point of life,” diode, collected in Hold, Copper Canyon Press
Kim Addonizio, “Still Time,” Southword, collected in Now We’re Getting Somewhere, W. W. Norton & Company
Charles Simic, “Ghost stories written as algebraic equations,” collected in The World Doesn’t End, Ecco
Kathleen Rooney, “A Place Set Aside for Burial of the Dead,” Sporklet, collected in Where Are the Snows, Texas Review Press
Adrian Matejka, “Love Notes [Do you love the way we sound…],” Wildness, collected in Somebody Else Sold the World, Penguin Books
Michael McGriff, “Buying and Selling,” Missouri Review, collected in Dismantling the Hills, University of Pittsburgh Press
Karyna McGlynn, “Tiffany Conditioner,” collected in 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse, Sarabande Books
Stephanie Burt, “My 1993,” Scoundrel Time, collected in We Are Mermaids, Graywolf Press
Alison Powell, “Missing File #3: Panthera Leo Leo, Or, A Civics Lesson,” collected in Boats in the Attic, Fordham University Press
Rio Cortez, “Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Movie,” collected in Golden Ax, Penguin Books
Jessica L. Walsh, “What Kind of Mother,” collected in The Book of Gods & Grudges, Glass Lyre Press
Kathryn Nuernberger, “A Difficult Woman,” Poetry International, collected in Rue, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Sean Singer, “Schism,” collected in Today in the Taxi, Tupelo Press
Natalie Shapero, “Don’t Spend It All in One Place [Give them what they want],” collected in Popular Longing, Copper Canyon Press
Matt Donovan, “Poem Not Ending with Blossoms,” Copper Nickel, collected in The Dug-Up Gun Museum, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Brenda Shaughnessy, “A Poet’s Poem,” Columbia Poetry Review, collected in Human Dark with Sugar, Copper Canyon Press
Mary Biddinger, “Lady of the Canal,” Always Crashing
Kerri Webster, “Primrose, Orchid, Datura,” The Los Angeles Review, collected in Lapis, Wesleyan University Press
Lloyd Wallace, “Science Fair,” Passages North
Claire Wahmanholm, “In a Land Where Everything Is Already Trying to Kill Me, I Enter a New Phase of My Life in Which It Would Be Very Bad If I Died,” 32 Poems, collected in Meltwater, Milkweed Editions
Tony Hoagland, “Virginia Woolf,” collected in Turn Up the Ocean, Graywolf Press
Aaron Smith, “A Private Education,” Allium, collected in Stop Lying, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jennifer Martelli, “Oak and Moon,” Plath Poetry Project, collected in All Things are Born to Change Their Shape, Small Harbor Publishing
Terrance Hayes, “Still Music,” collected in Hip Logic, Penguin Books
Caroline Bird, “Stephanie,” collected in In These Days of Prohibition, Carcanet Press
R.T. Smith, “Cross Garden,” Poetry, collected in Brightwood, Louisiana State University Press
James Hoch, “[Boot Ceremony],” collected in Radio Static, Green Linden Press
Al Maginnes, “Dinkytown,” Lake Effect, collected in Ghost Alphabet, White Pine Press
Victoria Chang, “The Old Room,” collected in The Trees Witness Everything, Copper Canyon Press
K. Iver, “Family of Origin Rewrite,” The Common, collected in Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, Milkweed Editions
Robert Krut, “A Bar Called Nostalgia on Route 22,” Moria, collected in Watch Me Trick Ghosts, Codhill Press
Erin Hoover, “What use are you?,” Gargoyle Magazine
Erika Meitner, “Médium Adam 25,” Swamp Pink, collected in Useful Junk, BOA Editions, Ltd.
James Allen Hall, “Early English History,” collected in Romantic Comedy, Four Way Books
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Postcard with Photo of Samuel Beckett, Sent By a Friend,” collected in Every Form of Ruin, University of Pittsburgh Press
Amorak Huey, “Amorak Autocorrects to Amoral,” Rogue Agent, collected in Dad Jokes from the Late Patriarchy, Sundress Publications
Jennifer Militello, “Dear B, [This black trance where I lie],” Fusion, collected in A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, Tupelo Press
Joan Houlihan, “The Good Girl,” collected in It isn’t a Ghost if it Lives in Your Chest, Four Way Books
Kendra DeColo, “Thinking About How I Never Say the Word Cunt,” Great River Review, collected in I am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Cindy King, “Study in White,” Hawaiʻi Review, collected in Zoonotic, Tinderbox Editions
Monica Youn, “Deracination (8. Canon),” Pleiades, collected in From From, Graywolf Press
Ron Koertge, “Making Love to Roget’s Wife,” collected in Vampire Planet, Red Hen Press
George Bilgere, “Below the Rim,” collected in The White Museum, Autumn House Press
P. Scott Cunningham, “Orange and Life in General,” collected in Ya Te Veo, The University of Arkansas Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Pastoral,” Pangyrus, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Hera Lindsay Bird, “Waste My Life,” The Nation, collected in Pamper Me to Hell & Back, The Poetry Business
Bianca Stone, “Does Life Exist Independent of Its Form?,” collected in What is Otherwise Infinite, Tin House Books
Nicky Beer, “The Stereoscopic Man Takes a Lover,” collected in Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, Milkweed Editions
Caki Wilkinson, “Local Woman Makes a Casserole,” collected in The Survival Expo, Persea Books
Randall Mann, “Reception,” collected in Breakfast with Thom Gunn, The University of Chicago Press
Catherine Pierce, “This Is Not an Elegy,” Blackbird, collected in Famous Last Words, Saturnalia Books
Katie Condon, “At Poetry Readings I’m Always Drunk,” Bloom, collected in Praying Naked, Ohio State University Press
Catherine Barnett, “The Skin of the Face Is That Which Stays Most Naked, Most Destitute,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Kevin Prufer, “Wet Leaves,” Prairie Schooner, collected in The Art of Fiction, Four Way Books
Eduardo C. Corral, “Ceremonial,” Poem-A-Day, collected in Guillotine, Graywolf Press
Jay Nebel, “A Blessing for the Neighborhood,” collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Carrie Fountain, “How has motherhood changed the way you write?,” collected in The Life, Penguin Books
Cate Marvin, “The Teacher Says Poems about Dreams Are Boring,” collected in Event Horizon, Copper Canyon Press
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “One Sentence on Pain,” Spoonie Journal
Philip Metres, “A Concordance of Leaves [& though the bride’s arms],” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Gabrielle Bates, “Dance Party at the Public Glasshouse,” Virginia Quarterly Review, collected in Judas Goat, Tin House Books
David Blair, “The Week of Bombs,” collected in True Figures, MadHat Press
Julia Story, “The Romantics,” Xavier Review, collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Adrian Matejka, “It’s Just a Guess,” Great River Review, collected in Somebody Else Sold the World, Penguin
William Matthews, “This Spud’s For You,” New England Review, collected in Selected Poems and Translations, Ecco
Camille Guthrie, “I Am Giving Up Poetry,” Interim: A Journal, collected in Diamonds, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Lauren Shapiro, “Projection,” collected in Arena, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Mary Biddinger, “The Slimness of Our Chances,” Court Green, collected in Department of Elegy, Black Lawrence Press
Sharon Olds, “First,” collected in The Wellspring, Penguin Books
Mary Ruefle, “The Refrigerator,” collected in Indeed I Was Pleased with the World, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Sommer Browning, “Life: A Draft (Prologue),” The Volta, collected in Good Actors, Birds, LLC
Terrance Hayes, “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin,” Tin House, collected in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Penguin Books
Matthew Rohrer, “A Plate of Chicken [Again tonight I will eat a can],” collected in A Plate of Chicken, Ugly Duckling Presse
Erin Belieu, “Below Zero,” Can We Have Our Ball Back?, collected in Black Box, Copper Canyon Press
Diane Seuss, “Modern Poetry,” The Adirondack Review, collected in The Best American Poetry 2022, Scribner
Victoria Chang, “Turning,” collected in The Trees Witness Everything, Copper Canyon Press
Paul Guest, “Rented Dark,” New Orleans Review, collected in My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, HarperCollins
Bob Hicok, “No suicide is an island,” collected in Red Rover Red Rover, Copper Canyon Press
Kim Addonizio, “Wishbone,” The Café Review, collected in Mortal Trash, W. W. Norton & Company
Matthew Zapruder, “Thoughts on Punctuation,” The American Poetry Review
Jessy Randall, “Marie Germain (1776–1831),” collected in Mathematics for Ladies, Goldsmiths Press
Brian Clements, “22,” collected in Bullets into Bells, Beacon Press
Nicole Callihan, “twenty,” Poetry Northwest
Stephen Dunn, “The Sexual Revolution,” The Kenyon Review, collected in Different Hours, W. W. Norton & Company
Claire Wahmanholm, “Metamorphosis with Milk and Sugar,” RHINO, collected in Meltwater, Milkweed Editions
Philip Levine, “Gin,” ZYZZYVA, collected in What Work Is, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Erika Meitner, “Selfie with Airplane Voyeurism & References to Your Body,” Forklift, Ohio, collected in Useful Junk, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Kathleen Rooney, “Every Now and Then,” collected in Where Are the Snows, Texas Review Press
Michael McGriff, “Mikey’s in Jail,” collected in Eternal Sentences, The University of Arkansas Press
Karyna McGlynn, “Lionhearts,” Poetry
Monica Youn, “Deracination (5. Science),” Pleiades, collected in From From, Graywolf Press
Franz Wright, “Learning to Read,” The New Yorker, collected in F, Alfred A. Knopf
Stephanie Burt, “Love Poem with Comic Books on Saturdays,” Moist, collected in We Are Mermaids, Graywolf Press
Alison Powell, “The First Word,” collected in Boats in the Attic, Fordham University Press
Jessica L. Walsh, “The Pain Scale,” Lunch Ticket, collected in The Book of Gods & Grudges, Glass Lyre Press
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Plutarch’s Parallel Lives of Virtue and Failing,” Heavy Feather Review, collected in Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, The Ohio State University Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Scarlet,” Prac Crit, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Sean Singer, “Bottomless Vat,” collected in Today in the Taxi, Tupelo Press
Natalie Shapero, “Implausible Travel Plans,” FIELD, collected in No Object, Saturnalia Books
Charles Simic, “A dog with a soul,” collected in The World Doesn’t End, Ecco
Joey Gould, “Geometer,” Miniskirt Magazine
Tony Hoagland, “Causes of Death,” collected in Turn Up the Ocean, Graywolf Press
Randall Mann, “Rhapsody,” Court Green, collected in A Better Life, Persea Books
Aaron Smith, “How to Describe What It Felt Like,” One Art, collected in Stop Lying, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jennifer Martelli, “2 AM Feeding,” collected in All Things are Born to Change Their Shape, Small Harbor Publishing
Virginia Konchan, “Ubi Sunt,” Poem-a-Day
Caroline Bird, “Adultery for Atheists,” The Rialto, collected in In These Days of Prohibition, Carcanet Press
Robert Krut, “The Subterranean Audience Takes Notes, or Philip Marlowe Retires to Woodland Hills,” Longshot, collected in This is the Ocean, Bona Fide Books
Eduardo C. Corral, “Testaments Scratched into a Water Station Barrel [Sister, we crouched…],” collected in Guillotine, Graywolf Press
James Allen Hall, “Poppies in October,” collected in Romantic Comedy, Four Way Books
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Sad Cartography,” collected in Every Form of Ruin, University of Pittsburgh Press
Amorak Huey, “Steve Keaton & Dan Conner & Bob Saget & Alan Thicke & Both of My Two Dads,” Quiddity, collected in Dad Jokes from the Late Patriarchy, Sundress Publications
Russell Jaffe, “You will see such pretty things,” collected in This Super Doom I Aver, Poets Democracy
Dorsey Craft, “Ode to the Stroller We Bought from Facebook,” Blackbird
Jennifer Militello, “Body Thesaurus,” The Laurel Review, collected in Body Thesaurus, Tupelo Press
Philip Metres, “Act Three. The Matter of One’s Flesh [1. Miriam],” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Kendra DeColo, “Gold Soundz,” Thrush, collected in My Dinner with Ron Jeremy, Third Man Books
Hera Lindsay Bird, “Speech time”
Cindy King, “Second Marriage,” collected in Zoonotic, Tinderbox Editions
George Bilgere, “Haywire,” collected in Haywire, Utah State University Press
Petra Chambers, “This Narrator is Approximately Sixteen,” Pithead Chapel
Lena Crown, “Picnic,” Poet Lore
Bianca Stone, “During the Nap,” Isele Magazine, collected in What is Otherwise Infinite, Tin House Books
Charles Simic, “They wheeled out the ash blonde…, Lover of endless disappointments…, Everything’s foreseeable…,” collected in The World Doesn’t End, Ecco
Ron Koertge, “Molly Is Asked,” collected in Vampire Planet, Red Hen Press
Catherine Pierce, “While You Sleep, I Watch Myself Die,” collected in Animals of Habit, The Kent State University Press
Mary Biddinger, “Test of Fortitude,” collected in Department of Elegy, Black Lawrence Press
Catherine Barnett, “In the Studio at End of Day,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Kevin Prufer, “The Living,” Fourteen Hills, collected in The Finger Bone, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Norman Dubie, “The Dun Cow and the Hag,” The American Poetry Review, collected in The City of the Olesha Fruit, Doubleday
Jay Nebel, “Paradise,” Tin House, collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Caki Wilkinson, “A Supermarket in Tennessee,” Sewanee Review, collected in The Survival Expo, Persea Books
Terrance Hayes, “William H. Johnson,” collected in Hip Logic, Penguin Books
Cate Marvin, “The Eyes of the Neighborhood,” The Kenyon Review, collected in Event Horizon, Copper Canyon Press
Gabrielle Bates, “And Even After All That, No Epiphany,” Ambit, collected in Judas Goat, Tin House Books
Julia Story, “The Well,” Sixth Finch, collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Victoria Chang, “Passing,” collected in The Trees Witness Everything, Copper Canyon Press
William Matthews, “Vasectomy,” collected in Foreseeable Futures, Ecco
David Kirby, “Hitchhike,” Birmingham Poetry Review, collected in Help Me, Information, Louisiana State University
Lynn Emanuel, “Out of Metropolis,” The Antioch Review, collected in Then, Suddenly…, University of Pittsburgh Press
Adrian Matejka, “Love Notes [Do you love…],” Wildness, collected in Somebody Else Sold the World, Penguin
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “When things repeat,” Hobart, collected in Death Prefers the Minor Keys, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Lauren Shapiro, “The Bodies,” Copper Nickel, collected in Arena, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Steven Cramer, “The Island, Part Two,” collected in Departures from Rilke, Arrowsmith Press
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, “Good Night,” The Cortland Review, collected in Seeing the Body, W. W. Norton & Company
Mary Ruefle, “Something of a Tractate,” collected in Indeed I Was Pleased with the World, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Erika Meitner, “Nude Selfie Ode,” Poet Lore, collected in Useful Junk, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Erin Belieu, “Choose Your Garden,” collected in One Above & One Below, Copper Canyon Press
Diane Seuss, “As a child, I ate and mourned,” Blackbird, collected in Four-Legged Girl, Graywolf Press
Kim Addonizio, “Rain,” Another Chicago Magazine, collected in Tell Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Paul Guest, “All-Purpose Elegy,” Guernica
Richard Siken, “Cover Story,” Pithead Chapel
Barbara Hamby, “Ode on My Grandmother the Mohel,” New Ohio Review, Holoholo, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jessy Randall, “Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) [1. In the Mind of Elizabeth Blackwell],” Zuzu’s Petals, collected in Mathematics for Ladies, Goldsmiths Press
Stephen Dunn, “The Last Hours,” The Southern Review, collected in Different Hours, W. W. Norton & Company
Camille Guthrie, “Family Collection,” At Length, collected in Diamonds, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Joanna Penn Cooper, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis [I dreamed the moon was the hugest…],” collected in The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis, Brooklyn Arts Press
Carrie Fountain, “Will You?,” Poem-a-Day, collected in The Life, Penguin Books
Michael McGriff, “No Bond, No Levy,” Terrain, collected in Eternal Sentences, The University of Arkansas Press
Karyna McGlynn, “I Was Born in a Cloud,” collected in 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse, Sarabande Books
Jessica L. Walsh, “No Trees for Shade,” collected in The Book of Gods & Grudges, Glass Lyre Press
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Heed Not the Milk Hare,” DIAGRAM, collected in Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, Ohio State University Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Break-Up-A-Thalamion,” collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Sean Singer, “Strawberry,” collected in Today in the Taxi, Tupelo Press
Natalie Shapero, “Good Description,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Popular Longing, Copper Canyon Press
Tony Hoagland, “Weather of Pain,” collected in Turn Up the Ocean, Graywolf Press
Randall Mann, “True Blue,” jubilat, collected in A Better Life, Persea Books
John Ashbery, “This Room,” collected in Your Name Here, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Kathy Fagan, “Cooper’s Hawk,” Blackbird, collected in Bad Hobby, Milkweed Editions
Charles Simic, “Are Russian cannibals worse…, A week-long holiday in a glass paperweight…, The Art of Making Gods…,” collected in The World Doesn’t End, Ecco
Jennifer Martelli, “Delicious,” collected in All Things are Born to Change Their Shape, Small Harbor Publishing
Landon Godfrey, “Inventory of Doubts [Aviatrix and Champagne],” collected in Inventory of Doubts, Tupelo Press
Caroline Bird, “Wedding Guest,” collected in Watering Can, Carcanet Press
Eduardo C. Corral, “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome [At a Quarter to Midnight],” Quarterly West, collected in Slow Lightning, Yale University Press
Maureen Seaton, “Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,” Indiana Review, collected in Furious Cooking, University of Iowa Press
Mark Halliday, “Summer 1935,” Sycamore Review, collected in Jab, The University of Chicago Press
James Allen Hall, “Bypass,” collected in Romantic Comedy, Four Way Books
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Extinction,” AGNI, collected in Every Form of Ruin, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kerri Webster, “Relic Hall,” collected in Lapis, Wesleyan University Press
Bob Hicok, “She,” Boulevard, collected in Sex & Love &, Copper Canyon Press
Rebecca Black, “Roommates, Florida Street,” Pithead Chapel
Amorak Huey, “A Primer,” Guesthouse Lit, collected in Dad Jokes from the Late Patriarchy, Sundress Publications
Angie Estes, “Sommersonnenwende,” Ninth Letter, collected in Tryst, Oberlin College Press
Jennifer Militello, “Personality State: Prophet,” The Kenyon Review, collected in Body Thesaurus, Tupelo Press
Philip Metres, “Act Three. The Matter of One’s Flesh [3. Aaron],” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Paisley Rekdal, “爾 Your,” collected in West: A Translation, Copper Canyon Press
Kendra DeColo, “Anthem,” The Collagist, collected in Thieves in the Afterlife, Saturnalia Books
Cindy King, “Getting Over,” collected in Zoonotic, Tinderbox Editions
George Bilgere, “Anna Karenina,” Tar River Poetry, collected in Central Air, University of Pittsburgh Press
Bianca Stone, “Drunk during Creation,” Powder Keg, collected in What is Otherwise Infinite, Tin House Books
Ron Koertge, “Since You Asked,” collected in Fever, Red Hen Press
Catherine Pierce, “Heroines,” Pleiades, collected in The Tornado is the World, Saturnalia Books
Mary Biddinger, “The Claw of God,” collected in Department of Elegy, Black Lawrence Press
Catherine Barnett, “Uncertainty Principle at Dawn,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Caki Wilkinson, “Hope and Neoliberalism,” collected in The Survival Expo, Persea Books
Cate Marvin, “Days of 1994,” Narrative Magazine, collected in Event Horizon, Copper Canyon Press
Melissa Stein, “Montgomery Inn,” collected in Terrible Blooms, Copper Canyon Press
Joe Weil, “Painting the Christmas Trees,” Red Brick Review, collected in Painting the Christmas Trees, Texas Review Press
Frances Klein, “Resume,” Sheila-Na-Gig
Elisa Gonzalez, “After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad,” collected in Grand Tour, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Dora Malech, “Four Weeks,” Plume, collected in Flourish, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Sommer Browning, “The Opposite of Love,” New York Quarterly, collected in Either Way I’m Celebrating, Birds, LLC
David Tomas Martinez, “Calaveras (5),” collected in Hustle, Sarabande Books
David Berman, “The Moon,” collected in Actual Air, Drag City
Jane Miller, “Street of Dreams,” collected in Thunderbird, Copper Canyon Press
Gabrielle Bates, “Rosification,” Washington Square Review, collected in Judas Goat, Tin House Books
Julia Story, “Houses.,” collected in Julie the Astonishing, Sixth Finch
Victoria Chang, “What Can We Call It,” collected in The Trees Witness Everything, Copper Canyon Press
David Kirby, “Patience,” collected in I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay, Orchises Press
Adrian Matejka, “Bullet Parts: Rim (Brass),” collected in Somebody Else Sold the World, Penguin
Matthew Minicucci, “Nostalgia,” Pithead Chapel
Lauren Shapiro, “Patience, Patient,” Forklift, Ohio, collected in Arena, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Mary Ruefle, “On the Beach,” collected in Indeed I Was Pleased with the World, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Erika Meitner, “The Replication Machine,” Southern Indiana Review, collected in Useful Junk, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Erin Belieu, “The Last of the Gentlemen Heartbreakers,” Virginia Quarterly Review, collected in Black Box, Copper Canyon Press
Diane Seuss, “It seems, back then, there was a mythic teapot,” Columbia Poetry Review, collected in Four-Legged Girl, Graywolf Press
Kim Addonizio, “Nothing,” 33 Review, collected in Tell Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Barbara Hamby, “Ode on the Moon, Pontormo, and Losing My Mind,” American Poetry Review, Holoholo, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jason Bredle, “Fight Night,” DIAGRAM, collected in Pain Fantasy, Red Morning Press
Andrea Cohen, “Springfield,” The New Yorker
Terrance Hayes, “What It Look Like,” collected in How to Be Drawn, Penguin Books
Stephen Dunn, “The Same Cold,” The Southern Review, collected in Different Hours, W. W. Norton & Company
Camille Guthrie, “Wise Woman,” Pleiades, collected in Diamonds, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Louise Glück, “Siren,” collected in Meadowlands, Ecco
Carrie Fountain, “Working Mother Poem,” collected in Instant Winner, Penguin Books
Michael McGriff, “Why I Am Obsessed with Horses,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Early Hour, Copper Canyon Press
Karyna McGlynn, “I Stand Outside This Woman’s Work,” Arts & Letters, collected in 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse, Sarabande Books
Kathryn Nuernberger, “The End of Pink,” collected in The End of Pink, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Kiki Petrosino, “Souvenir,” collected in White Blood, Sarabande Books
Sean Singer, “Glands and Nerves,” Jewish Currents, collected in Today in the Taxi, Tupelo Press
Natasha Sajé, “Palette,” The Georgia Review, collected in The Future Will Call You Something Else, Tupelo Press
Natalie Shapero, “Weekend,” The New York Review of Books, collected in Popular Longing, Copper Canyon Press
Hala Alyan, “Barbie,” collected in Atrium, Three Rooms Press
Jesse Lee Kercheval, “Blue Plate,” collected in Dog Angel, University of Pittsburgh Press
Marge Piercy, “For the young who want to,” Mother Jones, collected in Circles on the Water, Alfred A. Knopf
Randall Mann, “Nothing,” Poetry, collected in Proprietary, Persea Books
Stephanie Young, “love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf),” The Nation
Courtney Bush, “Katelyn,” collected in I Love Information, Milkweed Editions
Alice Fulton, “Beauty School,” collected in Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems, W. W. Norton & Company
Richard Siken, “Parataxis,” The Adroit Journal
Katie Farris, “Standing in the Forest of Being Alive,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, Alice James Books
Alex Tretbar, “Sturnella Neglecta,” Pithead Chapel
B. H. Fairchild, “Spatula,” River Styx, collected in An Ordinary Life, W. W. Norton & Company
Jacqueline Allen Trimble, “Sonnet for Where We Are Now,” South Florida Poetry Journal, collected in How To Survive The Apocalypse, NewSouth Books
Anders Carlson-Wee, “B&B,” Virginia Quarterly Review, collected in Disease of Kings, W. W. Norton & Company
Mark Bibbins, “13th Balloon [A person I knew for a short time…],” collected in 13th Balloon, Copper Canyon Press
Sara Borjas, “Aztlán,” collected in Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff, Noemi Press
Amorak Huey, “Self-Portrait Following a Trail of Reese’s Pieces,” Radar Poetry, collected in Boom Box, Sundress Publications
Bob Hicok, “Pedagogy,” collected in Red Rover Red Rover, Copper Canyon Press
Kendra DeColo, “Clitoris,” collected in Thieves in the Afterlife, Saturnalia Books
Cindy King, “Ten-Piece Dark,” Hawaiʻi Review, collected in Zoonotic, Tinderbox Editions
George Bilgere, “Moxie,” Tar River Poetry, collected in Central Air, University of Pittsburgh Press
Bianca Stone, “Artichokes,” The New Yorker, collected in What is Otherwise Infinite, Tin House Books
Ron Koertge, “Trivial,” collected in The Ogre’s Wife, Red Hen Press
Catherine Pierce, “She Considers Trading Her Secrets,” Anti-, collected in The Girls of Peculiar, Saturnalia Books
Mary Biddinger, “A Backpack Full of Knives,” collected in Department of Elegy, Black Lawrence Press
Norman Dubie, “The Obscure,” The American Poetry Review, collected in In the Dead of the Night, University of Pittsburgh Press
Caki Wilkinson, “Juvenilia,” The Hopkins Review, collected in The Survival Expo, Persea Books
Cate Marvin, “Nostalgia is A,” collected in Event Horizon, Copper Canyon Press
Julia Story, “How She Was Tempted.,” diode, collected in Julie the Astonishing, Sixth Finch
Victoria Chang, “Collision,” collected in Salvinia Molesta, University of Georgia Press
Patricia Spears Jones, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Liz in Lingerie,” Court Green, collected in Femme du Monde, Tia Chucha Press
Gregory Lawless, “It’s Okay,” Souvenir
Lucia Perillo, “In the Confessional Mode, with a Borrowed Movie Trope,” collected in Luck is Luck, Random House
Carolyn Oliver, “Night Ocean,” Nimrod, collected in Night Ocean, Seven Kitchens Press
Nicole Callihan, “103 Pine Ln.,” Whale Road Review
Gaia Rajan, “Runaway,” swamp pink
Kelly Weber, “After the RN Warns Me About the Blood,” Waxwing
Larry Levis, “Those Graves in Rome,” collected in Winter Stars, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kathy Fish, “Procession,” swamp pink
Airea D. Matthews, “March, 1969,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, collected in Bread and Circus, Scribner
Jane Miller, “Memory,” collected in Thunderbird, Copper Canyon Press
Kevin Prufer, “Memory,” Southeast Review
Lynn Emanuel, “Tourists,” collected in Hotel Fiesta, University of Illinois Press
Mary Ruefle, “As a Man Thinketh,” collected in Indeed I Was Pleased with the World, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Erika Meitner, “On the Road,” The Kenyon Review, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, “Brother,” collected in Black Swan, University of Pittsburgh Press
Erin Belieu, “In the Graveyard,” collected in Black Box, Copper Canyon Press
Diane Seuss, “Threnody,” The Adirondack Review
Devin Johnston, “Friday Night,” collected in Mosses and Lichens, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Kim Addonizio, “Beginning with His Body and Ending in a Small Town,” Another Chicago Magazine, collected in Tell Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Paul Guest, “Some Things I Would Like to Forget about America,” Poetry
Bob Hicok, “The Art of Sanctification,” Poetry Northwest, collected in Plus Shipping, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Megan Fernandes, “Catskills,” TriQuarterly, collected in I Do Everything I’m Told, Tin House Books
Jessy Randall, “Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) [2. Elizabeth Blackwell Loses Her Depth Perception],” Zuzu’s Petals, collected in Mathematics for Ladies, Goldsmiths Press
Richard Siken, “Balcony,” Wildness
Barbara Hamby, “Ode to Laundromats,” Holoholo, University of Pittsburgh Press
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, “Who by Fire,” collected in Seeing the Body, W. W. Norton & Company
Charles Simic, “The World Doesn’t End [My father loved the strange books…, Lots of people around here have been taken…, An arctic voyager with a room to cross…,” collected in The World Doesn’t End, Ecco
Kathy Fagan, “Foreshortening,” Numéro Cinq, collected in Bad Hobby, Milkweed Editions
George Bilgere, “Last Night,” collected in Central Air, University of Pittsburgh Press
Angie Estes, “You Were About,” collected in Tryst, Oberlin College Press
Philip Metres, “Act Two. This Tide of Blood [1. Adina],” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Caroline Bird, “The Videos,” collected in Watering Can, Carcanet Press
James Allen Hall, “Gift,” collected in Romantic Comedy, Four Way Books
Mark Halliday, “Olivier Bergmann,” collected in Jab, The University of Chicago Press
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Love Song as Iphigenia in a Teen Movie Asked to Prom as Part of a Prank,” Gulf Coast, collected in Every Form of Ruin, University of Pittsburgh Press
Landon Godfrey, “Inventory of Doubts [Boa, Feet, and Boulder],” collected in Inventory of Doubts, Tupelo Press
Elisa Gonzalez, “Failed Essay on Privilege,” The New Yorker, collected in Grand Tour, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
David Tomas Martinez, “Calaveras (6),” collected in Hustle, Sarabande Books
Stephen Dunn, “Oklahoma City,” American Poetry Review, collected in Different Hours, W. W. Norton & Company
Sommer Browning, “Foaming Doberman,” collected in Either Way I’m Celebrating, Birds, LLC
Adrian Matejka, “Somebody Else Sold the World [When I was a kid…],” The American Poetry Review, collected in Somebody Else Sold the World, Penguin
Maya Pindyck, “Piss Starshine,” collected in Emoticoncert, Four Way Books
Brian Teare, “Doomstead Days,” Oversound, collected in Doomstead Days, Nightboat Books
2022 POEMS
Erika Meitner, “Jackhammering Limestone,” Tin House, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Keith Kopka, “Georgic on the Boston Comma,” The Cincinnati Review, collected in Count Four, University of Tampa Press
Mary Biddinger, “Saint Monica and the Devil’s Place,” collected in Saint Monica, Black Lawrence Press
Catherine Pierce, “We Are in Love,” Arts & Letters, collected in Famous Last Words, Saturnalia Books
David Kirby, “Racing Through Pittsburgh with Annie Dillard,” Smartish Pace, collected in Help Me, Information, Louisiana State University
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Wild Apples,” collected in Wild Apples, Ethel
Sarah Galvin, “Imaginary Friend,” collected in The Three Einsteins, Poor Claudia
Eduardo C. Corral, “Testaments Scratched into a Water Station Barrel [Perro que no anda…],” Poetry, collected in Guillotine, Graywolf Press
Kevin Prufer, “House Sitter,” collected in How He Loved Them, Four Way Books
Cindy King, “Survivor’s Guide to Grief, Loss, Bereavement, Life-Imploding Tragedies, and Various Other Kinds of Human Suffering (Abridged),” The New Southern Fugitives
Philip Metres, “According to This Midrash,” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Carrie Fountain, “The Continental Divide,” collected in Burn Lake, Penguin Books
Amorak Huey, “Everything I Know About Life I Earned from 1980s Action Shows,” Split Lip, collected in Boom Box, Sundress Publications
Leigh Stein, “Plague as Literary Motif,” collected in What to Miss When, Soft Skull Press
Katie Schmid, “At their first meeting, my first boyfriend asks my father, ‘So, what was prison like?,’” collected in Nowhere, University of New Mexico Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Happineſs,” Tin House, collected in White Blood, Sarabande Books
Steven Riel, “Rosemary Woodhouse,” Ethel, collected in Edgemere, Lily Poetry Review Books
Jack Gilbert, “Perspective He Would Mutter Going to Bed,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
Steven Cramer, “After Tomaž Šalamun,” New England Review, collected in Listen, Mad Hat Press
Aria Aber, “Schöheit / Beauty,” collected in Hard Damage, University of Nebraska Press
Jay Nebel, “The Pond,” collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Didi Jackson, “kill lies all,” Ploughshares, collected in Moon Jar, Red Hen Press
Phillip B. Williams, “Final Poem for a King,” collected in Mutiny, Penguin Books
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “Those Notes We Compose,” Here, collected in Not All Saints, Bitter Oleander Press
Angie Estes, “How to Know When the Dead Are Dead,” The American Scholar, collected in Enchantée, Oberlin College Press
Barbara Hamby, “The Lotus Eaters: Ode on My Pothead Nephews,” Hanging Loose, collected in Bird Odyssey, University of Pittsburgh Press
Andrea Cohen, “Fontainebleau,” Plume, collected in Nightshade, Four Way Books
Rachel Mennies, “July 16, 2016,” The Adroit Journal, collected in The Naomi Letters, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Laura Kasischke, “Miss Congeniality,” New England Review, collected in Lilies Without, Ausable Press
Catherine Barnett, “The Amenities,” Poetry International, collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Barbara Duffey, “The Theoktistria,” Blackbird
Connie Voisine, “We Are Crossing Soon,” collected in Calle Florista, The University of Chicago Press
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, “Abandoned Sestina,” Rattle
Camille Guthrie, “To Bring You News,” On the Seawall, collected in Diamonds, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Bob Hicok, “Still,” collected in Hold, Copper Canyon Press
Victoria Chang, “I Once Had a Good Boss,” diode, collected in The Boss, McSweeney’s
Victoria Redel, “Some Crazy Dancing,” collected in Already the World, Kent State University Press
Lauren Shapiro, “Cenotaph,” Columbia Poetry Review, collected in Arena, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Mary Ruefle, “Bath Time,” collected in Dunce, Wave Books
Hannah Gamble, “Despite Its Promising Title, The ABCs of Death Proved to Be a Subpar Film,” The Southeast Review, collected in The Traditional Feel of the Ballroom, Trio House Press, Inc.
Heid E. Erdrich, “Not,” collected in Little Big Bully, Penguin Books
Erin Hoover, “The Evacuation Shadow,” Sugar House Review
Lisel Mueller, “Palindrome,” collected in Alive Together, Louisiana State University Press
Kathleen Rooney, “The Sweet and Fleshy Product of a Tree or Other Plant,” Brevity
Diane Wald, “My Undertaker Wears a Sweet Cologne,” The Laurel Review, collected in The Warhol Pillows, Finishing Line Press
Adrian Matejka, “*Vital Juices (1975 Version),” collected in Standing on the Verge of Getting It On & Maggot Brain, Third Man Books
Cammy Thomas, “Neighbors,” collected in Tremors, Four Way Books
Melissa Crowe, “I want to tell you what poverty gave me—,” New England Review
Dorianne Laux, “Family Stories,” Ploughshares, collected in Only as the Day Is Long, W. W. Norton & Company
Maggie Smith, “The Hum,” New England Review, collected in Goldenrod, One Signal Publishers
Franz Wright, “To a Blossoming Nut Case,” collected in The Beforelife, Knopf
Erin Belieu, “Cephalophore,” collected in One Above & One Below, Copper Canyon Press
Aliyah Cotton, “Plastic Bag from Corner Store Laments the Self,” Poetry
Natalie Shapero, “The English End,” Sewanee Theological Review, collected in No Object, Saturnalia Books
Sean Shearer, “Nothing Gets Crossed Out,” collected in Red Lemons, University of Akron Press
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Civilization,” Quarterly West
Danusha Laméris, “Dressing for the Burial,” American Poetry Review, collected in Bonfire Opera, University of Pittsburgh Press
Diane Seuss, “Colette,” The Adirondack Review
Kim Addonizio, “Animals,” American Poetry Review, collected in Now We’re Getting Somewhere, W. W. Norton & Company
Jennifer Militello, “A Dictionary of the Symphony in the Voice of Ludwig van Beethoven,” Iowa Review, collected in A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, Tupelo Press
Mark Bibbins, “13th Balloon [During the storm your ashes drop],” collected in 13th Balloon, Copper Canyon Press
Megan Fernandes, “In Which I Become a Mythology and Also, Executed,” CURA magazine, collected in Good Boys, Tin House Books
Katie Condon, “Desire is a Sickness,” collected in Praying Naked, Ohio State University Press
Meghan Privitello, “The Minotaur,” The Kenyon Review, One God at a Time, YesYes Books
Marc McKee, “What Isn’t Rubble,” Crazyhorse, collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Kendra DeColo, “I Pump Milk like a Boss,” Los Angeles Review, collected in I am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Jaswinder Bolina, “Make Believe,” Ploughshares, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Heather Christle, “Wallpaper Everywhere Even the Ceiling,” Harpur Palate, collected in What Is Amazing, Wesleyan University Press
Paul Guest, “After Damascus: 4,” collected in Because Everything is Terrible, Diode Editions
Michael McGriff, “Five for the Roofer,” American Literary Review, collected in Dismantling the Hills, University of Pittsburgh Press
Emilia Phillips, “‘You should write a poem about that,’ they say,” The Cincinnati Review, collected in Embouchure, The University of Akron Press
Terrance Hayes, “Hip Logic,” collected in Hip Logic, Penguin Books
Kathryn Nuernberger, “The Gazelle,” Lake Effect, collected in Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, Ohio State University Press
Ron Koertge, “Flying to Nevada with Ten Thousand Dollars in My Sock,” 5 AM, collected in Fever, Red Hen Press
Ellen Bass, “Not Dead Yet,” Poet Lore, collected in Indigo, Copper Canyon Press
Eugenia Leigh, “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with Secret Knock,” The Adroit Journal
Erika Meitner, “Peregrinus,” Bennington Review, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Catherine Pierce, “In Which I Imagine Myself into a Film Noir,” collected in Famous Last Words, Saturnalia Books
Heather Madden, “Excerpts (x-xvi) from Accretion: What Breaks Becomes the Binding Agent,” Pithead Chapel
P. Scott Cunningham, “Now a Word about Twentieth Century Music,” Floating Wolf Quarterly, collected in Ya Te Veo, The University of Arkansas Press
David Kirby, “Siberia,” Missouri Review, collected in The Biscuit Joint, Louisiana State University Press
Susan Nguyen, “Suzi’s Mother Does Nails,” collected in Dear Diaspora, University of Nebraska Press
Sarah Galvin, “The Room of Disembodied Excitement,” Pinwheel, collected in The Three Einsteins, Poor Claudia
Kevin Prufer, “In Small Spaces,” The Southern Review, collected in The Art of Fiction, Four Way Books
Cindy King, “Immaculate Conception,” collected in Easy Street, Dancing Girl Press
Carrie Fountain, “Getting Better,” collected in Burn Lake, Penguin Books
Julia Story, “Boathouse,” collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Randall Mann, “Days,” The Arkansas International
Leigh Stein, “Outside Time,” collected in What to Miss When, Soft Skull Press
Sean Cole, “Prose for Sharon Mesmer” collected in After These Messages, Lunar Chandelier Press
Katie Schmid, “Nowhere,” Hobart, collected in Nowhere, University of New Mexico Press
Jack Gilbert, “Textures,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
Mary Biddinger, “Hot Tears,” DIAGRAM
Steven Cramer, “Clangings [Okay, here’s what we did…],” Crazyhorse, collected in Clangings, Sarabande Books
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “Ask the Rain What It Knows,” collected in Not All Saints, Bitter Oleander Press
Angie Estes, “The House in Good Taste,” The Manhattan Review, collected in Tryst, Oberlin College Press
Eduardo C. Corral, “Autobiography of My Hungers,” Poetry, collected in Guillotine, Graywolf Press
Barbara Hamby, “9 Sonnets from the Psalms,” Five Points, collected in All-Night Lingo Tango, University of Pittsburgh Press
Rachel Mennies, “March 5, 2017,” collected in The Naomi Letters, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Keith Kopka, “Poem Misquoting Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians,” Solstice
Jay Nebel, “Unicorn,” Narrative, collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Laura Kasischke, “Gray, as Flowers,” collected in Fire & Flower, Alice James Books
Catherine Barnett, “The Material World,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Philip Metres, “A Concordance of Leaves [& though some seaside café],” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Camille Guthrie, “Upon Reading Milton,” The Volta, collected in Diamonds, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Bob Hicok, “Reunion,” Tar River Poetry, collected in Plus Shipping, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Lauren Shapiro, “Silver Hill,” collected in Arena, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Kiki Petrosino, “Doubloon Oath,” Los Angeles Review of Books, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Kristin Bock, “Uncanny Valleys,” FENCE Magazine, collected in Glass Bikini, Tupelo Press
Landon Godfrey, “Cigarette,” collected in Inventory of Doubts, Tupelo Press
Mary Ruefle, “Earthly Failure,” collected in Dunce, Wave Books
Hannah Gamble, “Empty Movie Theater,” collected in The Traditional Feel of the Ballroom, Trio House Press, Inc.
Cammy Thomas, “Our Father,” collected in Tremors, Four Way Books
Carmen Gimenez Smith, “Owl Bits and Bits,” collected in Goodbye, Flicker, University of Massachusetts Press
Christopher Spaide, “Fair Trade Sonnet,” Ploughshares
Nicole Hefner Callihan, “A Difficult Day,” Witness
Aimee Seu, “Rich Friend,” Philadelphia Stories
Jordan Stempleman, “Call Me,” Laurel Review
Joanna Fuhrman, “Ten Months After My Mother’s Death,” South Florida Poetry Journal
Rosebud Ben-Oni, “Bang a Gong Get It On,” Copper Nickel
Charles Kell, “Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” collected in Cage of Lit Glass, Autumn House Press
Kathleen Rooney, “The State or Period of Being a Child,” Court Green
Keith Kopka, “The First Time I Ask a Woman to Dance,” Ocean State Review
Kathryn Smith, “Chronic and Nameless,” Laurel Review, collected in Self-Portrait with Cephalopod, Milkweed Editions
Karyna McGlynn, “Application to Model for Helmut Newton,” Matter, collected in 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse, Sarabande Books
Sean Singer, “Form Is the Shape of Content,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Today in the Taxi, Tupelo Press
Tony Trigilio, “On Poetics,” Laurel Review
Charles Simic, “In a forest of question marks,” collected in The World Doesn’t End, Ecco
Erin Belieu, “Pity,” collected in Black Box, Copper Canyon Press
Katie Condon, “A Covered Dish,” New Ohio Review
Natalie Shapero, “Totally Under the Water,” The Believer, collected in Popular Longing, Copper Canyon Press
Kim Addonizio, “Happiness Report,” Southword, collected in Now We’re Getting Somewhere, W. W. Norton & Company
Danusha Laméris, “Reading My Valetine’s Poem to Frank X. Gaspar,” American Poetry Review, collected in Bonfire Opera, University of Pittsburgh Press
Amorak Huey, “Pastoral with Rosé,” The Southern Review, collected in Dad Jokes from the Late Patriarchy, Sundress Publications
Diane Seuss, “The potato sack filled with toys was beautiful,” Tar River Poetry, collected in Four-Legged Girl, Graywolf Press
Dorianne Laux, “Afterlife,” Quercus Review, collected in Facts About the Moon, W. W. Norton & Company
Jennifer Militello, “Dear B, [Two months of spasms],” Fusion, collected in A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, Tupelo Press
Meghan Privitello, “Feral,” collected in A New Language for Falling Out of Love, YesYes Books
Marc McKee, “Fan Mail 2: Nanny Time Approacheth,” The Offending Adam, collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Adrian Matejka, “On the B Side,” Poetry, collected in Somebody Else Sold the World, Penguin Books
Victoria Chang, “The Cold Before the Moonrise,” collected in The Trees Witness Everything, Copper Canyon Press
Jennifer Martelli, “Oracular,” On the Seawall, collected in The Queen of Queens, Bordighera Press
Barbara Hamby, “Ode to My Prison,” Literary Matters, collected in Holoholo, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kendra DeColo, “On the Cusp of 36 I Remember the Only Republican at My College Gave Me Head and I Didn’t Come,” Great River Review, collected in I am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Paul Guest, “After Damascus: 6,” South Dakota Review, collected in Because Everything is Terrible, Diode Editions
Michael McGriff, “My Uncle Would Visit,” collected in Dismantling the Hills, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jaswinder Bolina, “Troposphere,” Qualm, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Emilia Phillips, “My OB/GYN Suggests I Consider Cosmetic Labiaplasty,” Grist, collected in Embouchure, The University of Akron Press
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Letter Home,” 32 Poems, collected in Rue, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Ron Koertge, “Rumplestiltskin,” Oh No, collected in The Ogre’s Wife, Red Hen Press
Stephanie Burt, “In Memory of the Rock Band Breaking Circus,” collected in Belmont, Graywolf Press
Ellen Bass, “A Child Is Born,” collected in The Human Line, Copper Canyon Press
Terrance Hayes, “Mr. T—,” collected in Hip Logic, Penguin Books
Erika Meitner, “Too Strong,” Virginia Quarterly Review, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Catherine Pierce, “Lesson,” diode, collected in The Tornado is the World, Saturnalia Books
P. Scott Cunningham, “Dear Goose,” Abe’s Penny, collected in Ya Te Veo, The University of Arkansas Press
Victoria Redel, “Talking Angel,” Shankpainter, collected in Already the World, Kent State University Press
Heather Christle, “We Are Not Getting Anywhere,” collected in What Is Amazing, Wesleyan University Press
David Kirby, “The Voice in the Other Room,” Southern Review, collected in The Biscuit Joint, Louisiana State University Press
Randall Mann, “Syntax,” collected in Breakfast with Thom Gunn, The University of Chicago Press
Sarah Galvin, “Victorian Ladies,” collected in The Three Einsteins, Poor Claudia
Kevin Prufer, “Into the Weeds,” collected in The Art of Fiction, Four Way Books
Cindy King, “What It Is,” collected in Easy Street, Dancing Girl Press
Cate Marvin, “War on Fun,” Fence
Jay Nebel, “Robert Frank: The Americans,” Southern Humanities Review, collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Mary Biddinger, “Cautionary Film,” collected in Partial Genius, Black Lawrence Press
Carrie Fountain, “Poem Made of Revisions,” collected in The Life, Penguin Books
Steven Cramer, “Clangings [A finch in my chest flinches…],” Slate, collected in Clangings, Sarabande Books
Julia Story, “Indiana Bardo,” collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Gregory Lawless, “Riprap,” Salamander, collected in Foreclosure, Back Pages Publishers
Leigh Stein, “St. Elmo’s Fire (1985),” collected in What to Miss When, Soft Skull Press
Katie Schmid, “white horse and the moon,” collected in Nowhere, University of New Mexico Press
Eduardo C. Corral, “Testaments Scratched into a Water Station Barrel [In the desert, the moon…],” Poetry, collected in Guillotine, Graywolf Press
Jack Gilbert, “In Dispraise of Poetry,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things,” collected in The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things, Jacar Press
Barbara Hamby, “Who Do Mambo,” Boulevard, collected in All-Night Lingo Tango, University of Pittsburgh Press
Paul Guest, “All I Know,” The American Poetry Review
Philip Metres, “A Concordance of Leaves [& having been warned],” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Rachel Mennies, “December 3, 2016,” American Poetry Review, collected in The Naomi Letters, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Catherine Barnett, “Forensics,” Poetry International, collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Al Maginnes, “Iggy Pop Died For Our Sins,” Birmingham Poetry Review
Camille Guthrie, “Magical Object,” Interim: A Journal, collected in Diamonds, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Kiki Petrosino, “Happineſs,” Tin House, collected in White Blood, Sarabande Books
Bob Hicok, “The Life,” collected in Plus Shipping, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Lauren Shapiro, “When,” collected in Arena, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Landon Godfrey, “Marriage,” collected in Inventory of Doubts, Tupelo Press
Carmen Giménez Smith, “Southern Cone,” Harper’s, collected in Be Recorder, Graywolf Press
Angie Estes, “Clauses After Verbs of Fearing,” The Plume Anthology of Poetry, 2013, collected in Parole, Oberlin College Press
Kristin Bock, “Barn Burning,” Aperçus, collected in Glass Bikini, Tupelo Press
Mary Ruefle, “My Timid Eternity,” collected in Indeed I Was Pleased with the World, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Em Palughi, “Alabama Pace,” Black Warrior Review
Hannah Gamble, “Holy People,” The Ampersand Review, collected in The Traditional Feel of the Ballroom, Trio House Press, Inc.
Karyna McGlynn, “It’s Sadder If You’re a Girl,” collected in 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse, Sarabande Books
Danusha Laméris, “Bonfire Opera,” American Poetry Review, collected in Bonfire Opera, University of Pittsburgh Press
Erin Belieu, “The Problem of the Domestic,” Prairie Schooner, collected in Slant Six, Copper Canyon Press
Sean Singer, “Antivenom,” collected in Today in the Taxi, Tupelo Press
Natalie Shapero, “The Lone Acceptable Application of Daylight,” Narrative, collected in Popular Longing, Copper Canyon Press
Kim Addonizio, “Stray Sparks,” The Dark Horse, collected in Mortal Trash, W. W. Norton & Company
Amorak Huey, “Dungeon Master’s Guide to Eight Grade,” The Collagist, collected in Boom Box, Sundress Publications
Diane Seuss, “[Lately, I’ve been feeling about poetry],” Guesthouse, collected in Frank, Graywolf Press
Dorianne Laux, “Staff Sgt. Metz,” collected in The Book of Men, W. W. Norton & Company
Jennifer Militello, “Personality State: Persephone,” Midway Journal, collected in Body Thesaurus, Tupelo Press
Adrian Matejka, “It Was Over Way Back Then,” Tin House, collected in Somebody Else Sold the World, Penguin Books
Victoria Chang, “To the Face in the Mirror,” collected in The Trees Witness Everything, Copper Canyon Press
Jennifer Martelli, “Honeymoon During the Reagan Administration,” 3 Elements Literary Review, collected in The Queen of Queens, Bordighera Press
Barbara Hamby, “Ode on Killing Sadness,” The American Poetry Review, Holoholo, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kendra DeColo, “I Don’t Think Neruda Was Thinking of My Tampon,” Columbia Journal, collected in I am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Michael McGriff, “The Residence of the Night,” American Poetry Review, collected in Home Burial, Copper Canyon Press
Jaswinder Bolina, “Love Song of the Assimilated,” Guernica, collected in The 44th of July, Omnidawn Publishing
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” Hobart, collected in Rue, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Ron Koertge, “Future Farmers of America,” collected in Vampire Planet, Red Hen Press
Ellen Bass, “Sleeping in My Mother’s Bed,” The Seattle Review, collected in The Human Line, Copper Canyon Press
Terrance Hayes, “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (Why someone would crowd into a church),” collected in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Penguin Books
Erika Meitner, “The Seeming Impenetrability of the Space Between,” Poet Lore, collected in Useful Junk, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Catherine Pierce, “Gestational Size Equivalency Chart,” The Shore, collected in Danger Days, Saturnalia Books
P. Scott Cunningham, “And from the Chimney Issues the Smoke,” collected in Ya Te Veo, The University of Arkansas Press
Victoria Redel, “Watching Love,” collected in Already the World, Kent State University Press
Heather Christle, “Hospitality,” The Missouri Review
David Kirby, “High School,” Missouri Review, collected in Help Me, Information, Louisiana State University
Sarah Galvin, “Happy Birthday,” collected in The Three Einsteins, Poor Claudia
Kevin Prufer, “Archaeology,” collected in The Art of Fiction, Four Way Books
Randall Mann, “Early Morning on Market Street,” Poetry, collected in Breakfast with Thom Gunn, The University of Chicago Press
Cindy King, “Crescendo,” So to Speak
Cate Marvin, “Trying Too Hard,” Narrative
Rodney Jones, “Rain on Tin,” Five Points, collected in Salvation Blues, Mariner Books
Jay Nebel, “Men,” Ploughshares, collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Mariah Whelan, “Tarot/Death,” At Length
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “After Tolstoy,” diode
Emily Lawson, “Viewing Car,” The Adroit Journal
Mary Biddinger, “Saint Monica at the Oakleaf Suites,” collected in Saint Monica, Black Lawrence Press
Carrie Fountain, “The Change,” collected in Burn Lake, Penguin Books
Ashley Capps, “Kindly,” American Poetry Review
Andrea Cohen, “Self Portrait with Eraser,” Kenyon Review, collected in Everything, Four Way Books
Traci Brimhall, “Admissions Essay,” SWWIM Every Day
Matthew Dickman, “About Love,” collected in Husbandry, W.W. Norton & Company
Erika Meitner, “What I’m saying is that the planet is on fucking fire,” Oxford American
C.D. Wright, “Tours,” collected in Translation of the Gospel Back Into Tongues, State University of New York Press
William Matthews, “Mingus at The Showplace,” Poetry, collected in Time & Money, Ecco
Nicky Beer, “Dear Bruce Wayne,” Cherry Tree, collected in Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, Milkweed Editions
Aimee Seu, “Nikki Lyn,” collected in Velvet Hounds, University of Akron Press
Nicole Callihan, “The Cat Is Black,” Sixth Finch
Ray A. Young Bear, “A Season of Provocations and Other Ethnic Dreams,” collected in The Rock Island Hiking Club, University of Iowa Press
Maxine Chernoff, “Breasts,” collected in New Faces of 1952, Ithaca House
Heather McHugh, “So Thick?,” collected in The Father of the Predicaments, Wesleyan University Press
Jason Bredle, “Girls, Look Out for Todd Bernstein,” collected in Standing in Line for the Beast, New Issues
Phyllis Moore, “Why I Hate Martin Frobisher,” Tri-Quarterly, collected in Seriously Funny, University of Georgia Press
Gary Soto, “The Wrestler’s Heart,” collected in Home Course in Religion, Chronicle Books
Lynne McMahon, “We Take Our Children to Ireland,” The Southern Review, collected in Seriously Funny, University of Georgia Press
Terrance Hayes, “Harryette Mullen Lecture on the American Dream,” collected in Wind in a Box, Penguin Books
Matthew Zapruder, “Canada,” collected in The Pajamaist, Copper Canyon Press
Jim Daniels, “Outdoor Chef,” collected in Waiting in Line for the Exterminator, Wayne State University Press
Adrian Blevins, “Failing the Republic,” collected in The Brass Girl Brouhaha, Copper Canyon Press
Stephen Dunn, “Decorum,” collected in New and Selected Poems: 1974 – 1994, W.W. Norton & Company
Jeffrey Harrison, “Fork,” collected in Incomplete Knowledge, Four Way Books
Bob Hicok, “Fieldwork,” collected in Plus Shipping, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Nin Andrews, “The Book of Lies,” The Paris Review, collected in Why They Grow Wings, Silver Fish Review Press
Kim Addonizio, “Bad Girl,” collected in What Is This Thing Called Love, W.W. Norton & Company
Charles Simic, “The Devils,” collected in The Book of Gods and Devils, Mariner Books
Rodney Jones, “Blasphemy,” collected in Transparent Gestures, HarperCollins
Lucia Perillo, “Fubar,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Luck is Luck, Random House
Paul Guest, “Notes for My Body Double,” collected in Notes for My Body Double, University of Nebraska Press
Jennifer L. Knox, “Chicken Bucket,” collected in A Gringo Like Me, Bloof Books
Sara Eliza Johnson, “Fallout,” collected in Vapor, Milkweed Editions
Kathleen Rooney, “One Authorized to Perform the Sacred Rites,” Cimarron Review, collected in Where Are the Snows, The University Press of SHSU
C.D. Wright, “Bent Tones,” collected in Translations of the Gospel Back Into Tongues, State University of New York Press
Karyna McGlynn, “When You’re Seventeen Everything Sounds like a Secret Anthem to Doom,” Poetry
Michael McGriff, “1995,” Terrain, collected in Eternal Sentences, The University of Arkansas Press
Kathy Fagan, “Dedicated,” Pleiades, collected in Bad Hobby, Milkweed Editions
Alison Powell, “Missing File #7: Nomen Nudum,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, collected in Boats in the Attic, Fordham University Press
Jessica L. Walsh, “When my daughter tells me I was never punk,” Nixes Mate Review, collected in The Book of Gods & Grudges, Glass Lyre Press
Nicole Callihan, “The Paper Anniversary (2),” Heroin Chic
Sean Singer, “Fire Unknown Even to Yourself,” Jewish Currents, collected in Today in the Taxi, Tupelo Press
Natalie Shapero, “Ohio on TV,” Mississippi Review, collected in Popular Longing, Copper Canyon Press
Erin Hoover, “The nineties,” Gargoyle Magazine
Aria Aber, “America,” Poetry, collected in The Best American Poetry 2022, Scribner
Camille T. Dungy, “Let Me,” The New Yorker, collected The Best American Poetry 2022, Scribner
Joshua Bennett, “Trash (All the men I loved were dead),” The Kenyon Review, collected in The Study of Human Life, Penguin Books
Chen Chen, “Study Abroad,” City News, collected in Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Amorak Huey, “A Scene Destined for the Cutting Room Floor,” Apple Valley Review, collected in Dad Jokes from the Late Patriarchy, Sundress Publications
Jennifer Militello, “&,” American Poetry Review, collected in The Pact, Tupelo Press
Victoria Chang, “Calling Late,” collected in The Trees Witness Everything, Copper Canyon Press
Tracy Fuad, “Considering the Unit of the Day,” Pigeon Pages, collected in about:blank, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kendra DeColo, “Weaning, I Listen to Tyler, the Creator,” Tin House, collected in I am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Jaswinder Bolina, “Ultrasonic,” Qualm, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Christmas Night,” Ninth Letter, collected in Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, The Ohio State University Press
Ron Koertge, “Traffic,” collected in The Ogre’s Wife, Red Hen Press
Jennifer Barber, “Reinante,” Harvard Review, collected in Rigging the Wind, Kore Press
Terrance Hayes, “Squawk,” collected in Hip Logic, Penguin Books
Russell Jaffe, “Participation belly button,” collected in This Super Doom I Aver, Poets Democracy
Erika Meitner, “My List of True Facts,” The Believer, collected in Useful Junk, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Grace Cavalieri, “Give It Up,” collected in Poems: New & Selected, Vision Library Publications
Carolyn Oliver, “John Donne and Leonard Cohen at the End of the World,” BOOTH, collected in Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble, The University of Utah Press
Nicky Beer, “Our Sister, Who Is Anger,” The Journal
David Kirby, “Bring Me My Arrows of Desire,” South Florida Poetry Journal
Caki Wilkinson, “Jocks,” Kenyon Review, collected in The Survival Expo, Persea Books
C.D. Wright, “What No One Could Have Told Them,” Sulfur, collected in String Light, The University of Georgia Press
Lynn Emanuel, “Homage to Sharon Stone,” collected in Then, Suddenly—, University of Pittsburgh Press
David Hernandez, “Marina Abramović’s Gaze,” Zócalo Public Square, collected in Hello I Must Be Going, University of Pittsburgh Press
Catherine Pierce, “Love Poem to Sinister Moments,” Mid-American Review, collected in Animals of Habit, The Kent State University Press
P. Scott Cunningham, “Against Surrealism,” Maggy, collected in Ya Te Veo, The University of Arkansas Press
Gregory Lawless, “Factoryville Eclogue,” collected in Foreclosure, Back Pages Publishers
Soren Stockman, “My Brother,” The Louisville Review, collected in Elephant, Four Way Books
Katie Condon, “When the professor asked the workshop, Who among us now will speak about poetry ideologically? I thought with abandon ME! & then,” collected in Praying Naked, Ohio State University Press
Catherine Barnett, “Accursed Questions, iv,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Kevin Prufer, “And He Will Guide My Craft,” AGNI, collected in The Art of Fiction, Four Way Books
Jay Nebel, “World Peace,” collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Mary Biddinger, “Battle Hymn of the Roommate,” DIAGRAM
Carrie Fountain, “Starting Small,” Cimarron Review, collected in Burn Lake, Penguin Books
Rae Armantrout, “Who’s Who,” collected in Finalists, Wesleyan University Press
Adrian Blevins, “Pastoral,” Copper Nickel, collected in Appalachians Run Amok, Two Sylvias Press
C. T. Salazar, “Noah’s Nameless Wife Sees a Golden Bust of Joan of Arc,” collected in Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, Acre Books
Randall Mann, “The Fall of 1992,” Poetry, collected in Straight Razor, Persea Books
Cate Marvin, “Ice Cream in February,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Event Horizon, Copper Canyon Press
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “There is One Blue River,” Nine Mile, collected in Not All Saints, Bitter Oleander Press
William Matthews, “It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing,” collected in Blues If You Want, Ecco
Marc McKee, “Kite Shepherd (2),” collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Julia Story, “Monstress,” Mount Island, collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Work
Leigh Stein, “My Therapist Gave Me Permission to Want to Lose Weight Without Bringing Gloria Steinem into It,” collected in What to Miss When, Soft Skull Press
Jennifer Tseng, “Another Immigrant in Love,” Hawai’i Review, collected in The Man with My Face, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Dorothy Barresi, “Group Therapy Lounge, Columbia, South Carolina,” Poetry Northwest, collected in All of the Above, Penguin Books
Kathy Fish, “You Were Only Waiting for This Moment to Arrive,” Ghost Parachute
W.J. Herbert, “After a Miscarriage, My Daughter Asks,” collected in Dear Specimen, Beacon Press
Noor Hindi, “In a Dream, I Get Married in an Abandoned Mall,” Crazyhorse, collected in Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow, Haymarket Books
Mark Halliday, “Non-Tenured,” collected in Selfwolf, The University of Chicago Press
Cynthia Marie Hoffman, “None of This Happened,” Smartish Pace
Emily Skaja, “Aubade with Attention to Pathos,” collected in Brute, Graywolf Press
Adam Day, “Nothing’s Branch,” Descant, collected in Nothing’s Branch, Bottlecap Press
Sam Cha, “Motherfuckers Talking Shit About American Sonnets,” Clarion
Rebecca Hazelton, “Sexy Is the Least Interesting,” Poetry
Ama Codjoe, “On Seeing and Being Seen,” The Common, collected in Bluest Nude, Milkweed Editions
Carla Sarett, “Goodbye Fugue,” Anti-Heroin Chic, collected in She Has Visions, Main St. Rag
Rachel Mennies, “February 26, 2017,” collected in The Naomi Letters, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Camille Guthrie, “A Young Daughter of the Picts,” The Iowa Review, collected in Diamonds, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Lauren Shapiro, “Don’t Go There,” collected in Arena, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Steven Cramer, “Clangings [So I left my apartment…],” Sugar House Review, collected in Clangings, Sarabande Books
Tishani Doshi, “Nation,” Granta, collected in A God at the Door, Copper Canyon Press
Charles Kell, “The Lost Boy,” collected in Cage of Lit Glass, Autumn House Press
Angie Estes, “Heart,” Cerise Press, collected in Tryst, Oberlin College Press
Rio Cortez, “Black Annie Hall,” Prairie Schooner, collected in Golden Ax, Penguin Books
Kristin Bock, “Broken Mirror,” collected in Glass Bikini, Tupelo Press
Mary Ruefle, “Lightly, Very Lightly,” collected in Dunce, Wave Books
Erin Belieu, “On Being Fired Again,” The New York Times, collected in One Above and One Below, Copper Canyon Press
Diane Seuss, “Blue-ish,” Iterant
Kiki Petrosino, “Happineſs,” Tin House, collected in White Blood, Sarabande Books
Jennifer Martelli, “Hot Things to Me Are Not Dark,” The Coop
Barbara Hamby, “Ode to a Chickadee at Troy,” Cherry Tree, collected in Bird Odyssey, University of Pittsburgh Press
Heather Christle, “How Long is the Heliopause,” collected in Heliopause, Wesleyan University Press
Eduardo C. Corral, “Around Every Circle Another Can Be Drawn,” Poetry London, collected in Guillotine, Graywolf Press
Bob Hicok, “O my pa-pa,” collected in Red Rover Red Rover, Copper Canyon Press
Paul Guest, “Theories of Revenge,” The Missouri Review, collected in The Best American Poetry 2022, Scribner
Kim Addonizio, “Art of Poetry,” Five Points, collected in Now We’re Getting Somewhere, W. W. Norton & Company
Philip Metres, “A Concordance of Leaves [& our family will ask],” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Charles Simic, “A century of gathering clouds,” collected in The World Doesn’t End, Ecco
Sara Eliza Johnson, “Home,” collected in Vapor, Milkweed Editions
Kathleen Rooney, “Western,” The Best American Poetry Blog
Karyna McGlynn, “I Wake Up in the Underworld of My Own Dirty Purse,” Arts & Letters, collected in 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse, Sarabande Books
Michael McGriff, “1986,” collected in Eternal Sentences, The University of Arkansas Press
Adrian Matejka, “Highest,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Somebody Else Sold the World, Penguin Books
Kathy Fagan, “Animal Prudence,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Bad Hobby, Milkweed Editions
Stephanie Burt, “Introduction to Trans Literature,” FUSION, collected in We Are Mermaids, Graywolf Press
Alison Powell, “Missing File #1: Wooly Rhinoceros/Ancient Cavity Tooth,” A Public Space, collected in Boats in the Attic, Fordham University Press
Jessica L. Walsh, “In Collection,” Ample Remains, collected in The Book of Gods & Grudges, Glass Lyre Press
Lynn Emanuel, “The Burial,” collected in Then, Suddenly—, University of Pittsburgh Press
Connie Voisine, “First Taste,” collected in Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, The University of Chicago Press
2021 POEMS
Kathryn Nuernberger, “It’s Like She Loves Us and Like She Hates Us,” FIELD, collected in Rue, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Victoria Chang, “Dear P.,” Poem-A-Day
Andrea Cohen, “Gift Economy,” diode, collected in Nightshade, Four Way Books
Marc McKee, “Just a Bunch of Received Ideas About Mazes,” collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Aaron Smith, “The Year Annie Lennox Released ‘Why,’” collected in The Book of Daniel, The University of Pittsburgh Press
Paul Guest, “First Narrowly Averted Apocalypse,” Plume, collected in Because Everything is Terrible, Diode Editions
Carmen Giménez Smith, “Play Therapy,” collected in Be Recorder, Graywolf Press
Mark Bibbins, “13th Balloon [In some ways our story amounted],” collected in 13th Balloon, Copper Canyon Press
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “X,” collected in Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Michael McGriff, “The Cow,” Blackbird, collected in Home Burial, Copper Canyon Press
Hala Alyan, “Salat,” collected in Hijra, Southern Illinois University Press
R. Bratten Weiss, “Arsenic Kiss,” Connecticut River Review
Robin Ekiss, “First Birthday,” Waccamaw, collected in The Mansion of Happiness, University of Georgia Press
Shira Erlichman, “Somewhere Real,” The Nation
Rachel Loden, “Terror is My Business,” collected in The Last Campaign, Slapering Hol Press
Kelly Morse, “Four Months Along Primipara Song,” collected in Heavy Light, Two of Cups Press
Forrest Gander, “The Man Who Won’t Pay Dues,” College English, collected in Lynchburg, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kendra DeColo, “There Are Things I Won’t Tell My Daughter,” Ninth Letter, collected in My Dinner with Ron Jeremy, Third Man Books
Victoria Redel, “Press,” collected in Already the World, Kent State University Press
Steven Espada Dawson, “Salvation Sonnet,” The Adroit Journal
Oliver Bendorf, “Call Her Vincent,” Quarterly West, collected in The Spectral Wilderness, The Kent State University Press
Catherine Pierce, “Postcards Nos. 1-6,” collected in Famous Last Words, Saturnalia Books
Julia Story, “Indiana Problem (Fear, 1983),” The Rockhurst Review, collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Carolyn Forché, “Light of Sleep,” World Literature Today, collected in In the Lateness of the World, Penguin Books
Terrance Hayes, “Touch,” Callaloo, collected in Hip Logic, Penguin Books
Connie Voisine, “Shameful,” The Rumpus, collected in And God Created Woman, Bull City Press
Catherine Barnett, “Essay on An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” The New Yorker, collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Erin Belieu, “Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease,” Poetry Daily, collected in Come-Hither Honeycomb, Copper Canyon Press
Cammy Thomas, “Vacation,” Blaze, collected in Cathedral of Wish, Four Way Books
Laura Cronk, “Ancestry,” Mississippi Review, collected in Ghost Hour, Persea Books
Naomi Shihab Nye, “Our Principal,” collected in Fuel, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Dorianne Laux, “The Ravens of Denali,” collected in Facts About the Moon, W. W. Norton & Company
Ariana Reines, “Gizzard,” blush
Elizabeth Alexander, “Yolande Speaks,” collected in Crave Radiance, Graywolf Press
Kathleen Rooney, “Brazilian Wedding: Dream No. 4,” collected in Oneiromance, Switchback Books
Bradley Trumpfheller, “Reconstructions [Hills flatline in the rearview],” Tinderbox, collected in Reconstructions, Sibling Rivalry Press
Traci Brimhall, “Riddle at 29,000 Feet,” Orion, collected in Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Copper Canyon Press
Marilyn Chin, “A Portrait of the Self as Nation, 1990-1991,” collected in A Portrait of the Self as Nation, W. W. Norton & Company
Patrick Donnelly, “Jesus said Will someone,” Mudlark, collected in Little-Known Operas, Four Way Books
Virginia Konchan, “Adult Entertainment,” Diagram, collected in Any God Will Do, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Erika Meitner, “Dollar General,” Oxford American, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
David Kirby, “Come to Find Out,” Superstition Review, collected in Get Up, Please, Louisiana State University Press
Natalie Diaz, “Catching Copper,” BuzzFeed, collected in Postcolonial Love Poem, Graywolf Press
Kai Carlson-Wee, “Poet at Twenty-Four,” The Cortland Review, collected in Rail, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Ron Koertge, “Nancy Drew,” Gargoyle, collected in Fever, Red Hen Press
Cassandra de Alba, “Self-Portrait with Rabbit Ears and Seventeen,” Action/Spectacle, collected in Ugly/Sad, Glass Poetry Press
Randall Mann, “Evidence,” The Paris Review, collected in Complaint in the Garden, Zoo Press
Heather Christle, “Aesthetics of Crying,” The Fanzine, collected in Heliopause, Wesleyan University Press
Rebecca Hazelton, “Self-Portrait with Your Head Between My Legs,” collected in Gloss, University of Wisconsin Press
Fleda Brown, “The Purpose of Poetry,” American Poetry Review, collected in No Need of Sympathy, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Sarah Galvin, “In Galleries,” The Alice, collected in Ugly Time, Gramma Poetry
Emilia Phillips, “Sweat Bee,” diode, collected in Hemlock, Diode Editions
Heid E. Erdrich, “Girl of Lightning,” collected in Cell Traffic, University of Arizona Press
Karyna McGlynn, “This is a Screwdriver, She Says,” Quarterly West, collected in Hothouse, Sarabande Books
Paul-Victor Winters, “Story About the Moon,” Web del Sol
Bianca Stone, “Math,” The Brooklyn Rail, collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Ellen Bass, “Black Coffee,” collected in Indigo, Copper Canyon Press
Victoria C. Flanagan, “Rough Draft as Caeneus Abroad,” The Adroit Journal
Christine Gosnay, “Coarse Gold,” The Rumpus
Natalie Shapero, “Four Fights,” The Offending Adam, collected in No Object, Saturnalia Books
Kevin Prufer, “Love Poem: Just Then,” Copper Nickel, collected in How He Loved Them, Four Way Books
Meghan O’Rourke, “The Lighthouse Keeper,” collected in Halflife, W. W. Norton & Company
C.D. Wright, “Casting Deep Shade,” collected in Casting Deep Shade, Copper Canyon Press
Jay Nebel, “The Difference Between Science Fiction and Fantasy,” collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Carrie Fountain, “Purple Heart,” The Marlboro Review, collected in Burn Lake, Penguin Books
Alison C. Rollins, “Quartet for the End of Time,” Poetry
Cindy King, “Capacitor (Be Mine),” Baltimore Review
Bob Hicok, “Just checking in,” Grist, collected in Hold, Copper Canyon Press
Caki Wilkinson, “Smoke and Mirrors,” 32 Poems
Laura Read, “Thinking of You,” Alaska Quarterly Review, collected in Dresses from the Old Country, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Adrian Matejka, “Bullet (Lead + Alloy),” Four Way Review
Sandra Lim, “Black Box,” Smartish Pace
Sandra Beasley, “Jefferson, Midnight,” collected in Made to Explode, W. W. Norton & Company
Vickie Vértiz, “Verde,” collected in Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, The University of Arizona Press
Jack Gilbert, “Meaning Well,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
Nancy Krygowski, “A Friend Asks If I’m Comfortable Writing about My Marriage,” collected in The Woman in the Corner, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kim Addonizio, “To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall,” diode
Jaswinder Bolina, “Body in a Phone Booth,” Columbia Poetry Review, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Alex Green, “David Naughton at Midnight, Full Moon, etc.” collected in Emergency Anthems, Brooklyn Arts Press
Steven Cramer, “Lackawanna,” The Paris Review, collected in Listen, Mad Hat Press
Jill Alexander Essbaum, “Nightwalk,” Moira, collected in Would-Land, Cooper Dillon Books
Robert Hass, “Faint Music,” collected in Sun Under Wood, HarperCollins Publishers
Joshua Bennett, “Elegy for the Modern School,” Connotation Press, collected in Owed, Penguin Books
Lauren Shapiro, “ESL Students,” collected in Easy Math, Sarabande Books
Erin Hoover, “The Lovely Voice of Samantha West,” LIT, collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Diane Seuss, “Memory Fed Me until It Didn’t,” Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, collected in Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Graywolf Press
Quan Barry, “loose strife (‘We are not allowed that’),” collected in Loose Strife, University of Pittsburgh Press
Erin Adair-Hodges, “The Jennifer Century,” Boulevard, collected in Let’s All Die Happy, University of Pittsburgh Press
Barbara Hamby, “Doubt,” collected in Delirium, University of North Texas Press
B.K. Fischer, “(Kiddie Pool),” collected in Radioapocrypha, Ohio State University Press
Cate Marvin, “Yellow Rubber Gloves,” collected in Oracle, W. W. Norton & Company
Sandra Beasley, “Death by Chocolate,” The New York Times, collected in Made to Explode, W. W. Norton & Company
Amaud Jamaul Johnson, “Smokey,” Arkansas International Review, collected in Imperial Liquor, University of Pittsburgh Press
Katie Condon, “To the woman who accused me of not being a feminist, I’m sorry,” Narrative, collected in Praying Naked, Ohio State University Press
Randall Mann, “Florida Again,” Poem-a-Day, collected in A Better Life, Persea Books
Sarah Freligh, “Ann Arbor, 1974,” diode, collected in We, Small Harbor Publishing
Rebecca Seiferle, “A lonely man in his greatness,” Archipelago, collected in Bitters, Copper Canyon Press
Rick Barot, “The Grasshopper and the Cricket,” Threepenny Review, collected in The Galleons, Milkweed Editions
Kathryn Nuernberger, “A Natural History of Columbine,” Origins, collected in Rue, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Marc McKee, “Some Little Movie,” Absent, collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Mary Biddinger, “Saint Monica and the Itch,” The Laurel Review, collected in Saint Monica, Black Lawrence Press
Sandra Beasley, “Death by Chocolate,” The New York Times, collected in Made to Explode, W. W. Norton & Company
Amaud Jamaul Johnson, “Smokey,” Arkansas International Review, collected in Imperial Liquor, University of Pittsburgh Press
Katie Condon, “To the woman who accused me of not being a feminist, I’m sorry,” Narrative, collected in Praying Naked, Ohio State University Press
Randall Mann, “Florida Again,” Poem-a-Day, collected in A Better Life, Persea Books
Sarah Freligh, “Ann Arbor, 1974,” diode, collected in We, Small Harbor Publishing
Paul Guest, “After Damascus: 5,” The Greensboro Review, collected in Because Everything is Terrible, Diode Editions
Mark Bibbins, “13th Balloon [One of the only facts I can find],” collected in 13th Balloon, Copper Canyon Press
Michael McGriff, “Midwinter,” The Missouri Review, collected in Home Burial, Copper Canyon Press
Shira Erlichman, “Someone Else’s Mother,” NAILED, collected in Odes to Lithium, Alice James Books
Eduardo C. Corral, “Sentence,” collected in Guillotine, Graywolf Press
Philip Metres, “Belfast Standard Time,” The Rumpus
Rachel Loden, “Miss October,” collected in Dick of the Dead, Ahsahta Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Nursery,” Poetry, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Kendra DeColo, “Weaning, I Listen to Paganini’s Concerto, No. 1,” Tin House, collected in I am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Keith Kopka, “At the Haunted Doll Market,” The Journal, collected in Count Four, University of Tampa Press
Suzanne Langlois, “The Wheel of Fortune,” Cider Press Review, collected in Bright Glint Gone, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Tess Taylor, “Berkeley in the Nineties,” At Length, collected in Rift Zone, Red Hen Press
Danusha Laméris, “Elegy in an Orchard,” Miramar, collected in Bonfire Opera, University of Pittsburgh Press
Catherine Pierce, “I Used to Be Able to Listen to Sad Songs,” diode, collected in The Tornado is the World, Saturnalia Books
Carolyn Forché, “For Ilya at Tsarkoe Selo,” Poetry London, collected in In the Lateness of the World, Penguin Books
Emilia Phillips, “The First Boy I Thought I Loved Was in a Band Called Romanticide,” The Adroit Journal, collected in Embouchure, The University of Akron Press
Toi Derricotte, “Gifts from the Dead,” collected in “I”: New and Selected Poems, University of Pittsburgh Press
Julia Story, “Husbandry,” collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Connie Voisine, “Self-Portrait as Medic,” collected in And God Created Woman, Bull City Press
Cammy Thomas, “Egg,” collected in Inscriptions, Four Way Books
Naomi Shihab Nye, “From This Distance,” collected in Fuel, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Bradley Trumpfheller, “Monument,” collected in Reconstructions, Sibling Rivalry Press
Traci Brimhall, “Dear Thanatos, [Last week a pregnant woman…],” collected in Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Copper Canyon Press
Patrick Donnelly, “Sacral,” collected in The Charge, Ausable Press
Virginia Konchan, “Arcadian,” carte blanche, collected in Any God Will Do, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Jane Yeh, “The Wyndham Sisters (after Sargent),” collected in The Ninjas, Carcanet Press, Ltd.
Erika Meitner, “Diaspora,” collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Deborah Landau, “Skeletons,” The New Yorker
David Kirby, “Letters to Juliet,” collected in The Ha-Ha, Louisiana State University Press
Kai Carlson-Wee, “The Cloudmaker’s Bag,” collected in Rail, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Ron Koertge, “Poetry Begins in Delight,” collected in The Ogre’s Wife, Red Hen Press
Natasha Trethewey, “Signs, Oakvale, Mississippi, 1941,” collected in Domestic Work, Graywolf Press
Cassandra de Alba, “northern new england & nowhere else,” collected in Ugly/Sad, Glass Poetry Press
Fleda Brown, “The Illustration,” collected in No Need of Sympathy, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Sarah Galvin, “Taco Time,” collected in Ugly Time, Gramma Poetry
Karyna McGlynn, “Steve is on Top of Me,” collected in Alabama Steve, Sundress Publications
Bianca Stone, “The Lit Club Slaughter,” collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Ellen Bass, “Subway in Madrid,” collected in The Human Line, Copper Canyon Press
Elizabeth Alexander, “The Venus Hottentot,” Callaloo, collected in Crave Radiance, Graywolf Press
Kevin Prufer, “In a Beautiful Country,” collected in In a Beautiful Country, Four Way Books
Jay Nebel, “The Happiest Place on Earth is Norway,” Connotation Press, collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Marilyn Chin, “The Cricket,” collected in A Portrait of the Self as Nation, W. W. Norton & Company
Cindy King, “Little Oaths and Apologies,” Minola Review
Carrie Fountain, “Poem with a Dream of the Future in It,” collected in The Life, Penguin Books
Bob Hicok, “For love of the game,” diode, collected in Hold, Copper Canyon Press
Heid E. Erdrich, “Prisoner No. 280,” collected in Cell Traffic, University of Arizona Press
Caitlin Bailey, “Animus,” collected in Solve for Desire, Milkweed Editions
Sandra Beasley, “Say the Word,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Made to Explode, W. W. Norton & Company
Vickie Vértiz, “Lover’s Letter,” Brooklyn & Boyle, collected in Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, The University of Arizona Press
Robert Hass, “Notes on the Notion of a Boundless Poetics,” Lana Turner, collected in Summer Snow, Ecco
Alex Green, “They’ll Know When You’re Gone,” New Ohio Review, collected in Emergency Anthems, Brooklyn Arts Press
Jack Gilbert, “Halloween,” collected in Refusing Heaven, Alfred A. Knopf
Steven Cramer, “Clangings [First I denied the no-seeums…],” Memorious, collected in Clangings, Sarabande Books
Joshua Bennett, “The Next Black National Anthem,” collected in Owed, Penguin Books
Lauren Shapiro, “I’ve Always Wanted to Say This,” Thermos, collected in Easy Math, Sarabande Books
Jaswinder Bolina, “My Face Instead of the Virgin Mary,” The Laurel Review, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Erin Hoover, “What Is the Sisterhood to Me?,” Prairie Schooner, collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Patricia Kirkpatrick, “The Abuser: from The Italo Poems,” Prairie Schooner, collected in Odessa, Milkweed Editions
Maggie Smith, “Cana,” Roanoke Review, collected in Lamp of the Body, Red Hen Press
Marsha De la O, “Black Hands,” Miramar, collected in Antidote for Night, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Angie Estes, “Gloss,” FIELD, collected in Tryst, Oberlin College Press
Dan Chiasson, “Poem,” Slate, collected in The Afterlife of Objects, The University of Chicago Press
Meghan Privitello, “Premonition,” collected in A New Language for Falling Out of Love, YesYes Books
Andrea Cohen, “Eleven,” The New York Review of Books, collected in Everything, Four Way Books
Rachel Mennies, “September 10, 2016,” Jet Fuel Review, collected in The Naomi Letters, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Matt Rasmussen, “After Suicide [A hole is nothing],” Oyez Review, collected in Black Aperture, Louisiana State University Press
Sally Keith, “River House [47],” collected in River House, Milkweed Editions
Laura Kasischke, “Miss Consolation for Emotional Damages,” collected in Lilies Without, Ausable Press
Aaron Smith, “Get Thee to a Nunnery.,” Court Green, collected in The Book of Daniel, The University of Pittsburgh Press
Victoria Redel, “Milk,” collected in Already the World, Kent State University Press
Catherine Barnett, “Appeal to Numbers,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Erin Belieu, “In Which a Therapist Asks for the Gargoyle Who Sits on My Chest,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Come Hither Honeycomb, Copper Canyon Press
Laura Cronk, “Thirst,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Ghost Hour, Persea Books
Natasha Sajé, “Dear Utah,” Painted Bride Quarterly, collected in Special Delivery, Diode Editions
P. Scott Cunningham, “Against Detroit,” Maggy, collected in Ya Te Veo, The University of Arkansas Press
Carmen Gimenez Smith, “Off,” collected in Goodbye, Flicker, University of Massachusetts Press
Dorianne Laux, “Democracy,” collected in Facts About the Moon, W. W. Norton & Company
Heather Christle, “Teamwork Should Come from the Soul,” The Believer, collected in What Is Amazing, Wesleyan University Press
Natalie Shapero, “California,” Brick, collected in Popular Longing, Copper Canyon Press
Laura Read, “Introduction to Poetry,” collected in Dresses from the Old Country, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Hala Alyan, “The Female of the Species,” collected in The Twenty-Ninth Year, Mariner Books
Kim Addonizio, “Comfort of the Resurrection,” James Dickey Review, collected in Now We’re Getting Somewhere, W. W. Norton & Company
Aria Aber, “Lass / Let,” collected in Hard Damage, University of Nebraska Press
Diane Seuss, “[I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered],” The New Yorker
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Seeing Ex-Boyfriends,” Yes Poetry, collected in Let’s All Die Happy, University of Pittsburgh Press
Eleanor Boudreau, “Bird’s-Eye View,” The McNeese Review, collected in Earnest, Earnest?, University of Pittsburgh Press
Victoria C. Flanagan, “In Response to My Mother When She Says Hearing Me Read My Writing’s like Hearing God,” Palette Poetry
Terrance Hayes, “The Things-No-One-Knows Blues,” collected in Hip Logic, Penguin Books
Ellora Sutton, “Self-portrait as Autopsy,” The Poetry Review
Jennifer Militello, “The Pact,” American Poetry Review, collected in The Pact, Tupelo Press
Cate Marvin, “After Aftermath,” The Rumpus, collected in Oracle, W. W. Norton & Company
Kathryn Nuernberger, “A Great Place to Raise Children,” Tongue, collected in Rue, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Marc McKee, “Public Health Response to a Rabid Kitten—Four States, 2007,” Anti-, collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Katie Condon, “Don’t Be Bitter, Baby!,” Blunderbuss, collected in Praying Naked, Ohio State University Press
Randall Mann, “The Lone Palm,” Asian American Poetry Review, collected in A Better Life, Persea Books
Sarah Freligh, “What We Remember,” Milk Candy Review, collected in We, Small Harbor Publishing
Paul Guest, “Monticello’,” Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson, collected in Because Everything is Terrible, Diode Editions
Mark Bibbins, “13th Balloon [Here in the spectral academy],” T Magazine, collected in 13th Balloon, Copper Canyon Press
Michael McGriff, “In the Break Room,” The Missouri Review, collected in Home Burial, Copper Canyon Press
Shira Erlichman, “Portrait of a Release,” collected in Odes to Lithium, Alice James Books
Kendra DeColo, “Cocktail Hour at the Petting Zoo,” collected in My Dinner with Ron Jeremy, Third Man Books
Keith Kopka, “Monument,” Queen Mob’s Teahouse, collected in Count Four, University of Tampa Press
Sarah Matthes, “Amorphism,” jubilat
Suzanne Langlois, “Undressing,” collected in Bright Glint Gone, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Danusha Laméris, “Passion Fish,” American Poetry Review, collected in Bonfire Opera, University of Pittsburgh Press
Carolyn Forché, “Hue: From a Notebook,” collected in In the Lateness of the World, Penguin Books
Emilia Phillips, “Poem about Death Beginning with a Humblebrag and Ending with a Shower Beer,” The Adroit Journal, collected in Embouchure, The University of Akron Press
Connie Voisine, “Ireland, To Bethlehem,” Hunger Mountain, collected in Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, The University of Chicago Press
Victoria Chang, “Obit [Logic—my father’s logic died],” Ploughshares, collected in Obit, Copper Canyon Press
Traci Brimhall, “Bedtime Story with Goodnight Moon & CNN,” Narrative, collected in Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Copper Canyon Press
Erika Meitner, “Hat Trick,” Colorado Review, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
David Kirby, “Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator Ode,” Birmingham Poetry Review
Joanna Penn Cooper, “I Wish I Were a Little More Oblivious,” collected in Wild Apples, Ethel
Ron Koertge, “Myths,” collected in Fever, Red Hen Press
Taylor Johnson, “This is a review for Blue in Green by Miles Davis,” Indiana Review, collected in Inheritance, Alice James Books
Bianca Stone, “Letter to a Letter to the Editors,” The Brooklyn Rail, collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Quan Barry, “loose strife (‘Embarrassingly it was just outside the tunnels’),” Fusion Magazine, collected in Loose Strife, University of Pittsburgh Press
Julia Story, “Indiana Problem (Mousetrap),” The Rockhurst Review, collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Sarah Galvin, “I Live in an Actual Flophouse,” Gramma, collected in Ugly Time, Black Ocean
Naomi Shihab Nye, “Saved,” collected in Red Suitcase, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Kevin Prufer, “The Newspapers,” The Paris Review, collected in The Art of Fiction, Four Way Books
Eduardo C. Corral, “Testaments Scratched into a Water Station Barrel [Far from highways I flicker…],” Poetry, collected in Guillotine, Graywolf Press
Carrie Fountain, “First,” Poem-a-Day, collected in The Life, Penguin Books
Bob Hicok, “Getting there,” PoetsArtists, collected in Hold, Copper Canyon Press
Sandra Beasley, “Customer Service Is,” Split This Rock, collected in Made to Explode, W. W. Norton & Company
Robert Hass, “Smoking in Heaven,” collected in Summer Snow, Ecco
Alex Green, “Crush the Smiling Nothing,” collected in Emergency Anthems, Brooklyn Arts Press
Philip Metres, “Act One. Our House Is Now Another House,” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Jillian Weise, “My Friend Says I Should Be Thinking about “Masked Intimacy” When I Think about Leila Olive,” Poetry
Virginia Konchan, “Terra Nova,” Bennington Review
Paul Guest, “Poem for Tucker Carlson’s Face,” Southern Indiana Review
Jack Gilbert, “Not Part of Literature,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
Steven Cramer, “Elegy to My Family,” Salamander, collected in Listen, Mad Hat Press
Casey Smith, “be all yr sins remembered,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Erin Hoover, “With Gratitude to Those Who Have Made This Book Possible,” Scoundrel Time, collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Didi Jackson, “After the Suicide,” The Iowa Review, collected in Moon Jar, Red Hen Press
Marsha De la O, “Crossing Over,” Solo Novo, collected in Antidote for Night, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Kiki Petrosino, “Happineſs,” Tin House, collected in White Blood, Sarabande Books
Eugenia Leigh, “My Whole Life I Was Trained to Deny Myself,” Poetry
Jay Nebel, “Queen Anne’s Revenge,” collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Angie Estes, “Nebbiolo,” FIELD, collected in Parole, Oberlin College Press
Barbara Hamby, “Ode to Airheads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris,” Indiana Review, collected in All-Night Lingo Tango, University of Pittsburgh Press
Andrea Cohen, “Registry,” The New Yorker, collected in Everything, Four Way Books
Laura Read, “Marie Curie and the Isotopes, World Tour 1911,” The Laurel Review
Cassandra de Alba, “you told me it worked & i’ve been doing it ever since,” collected in Ugly/Sad, Glass Poetry Press
Rachel Mennies, “December 17, 2016,” collected in The Naomi Letters, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Laura Kasischke, “Joy,” The Southern Review, collected in Dance and Disappear, University of Massachusetts Press
Megan Pinto, “Faith,” The Common
Catherine Barnett, “The Necessary Preoccupations,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Erin Belieu, “As for the Heart,” collected in Come Hither Honeycomb, Copper Canyon Press
Elizabeth Alexander, “Boston Year,” collected in Crave Radiance, Graywolf Press
Natasha Sajé, “Dear Apostrophe,” Minnesota Review, collected in Special Delivery, Diode Editions
P. Scott Cunningham, “Bidart & Lowell,” Okey-Panky, collected in Ya Te Veo, The University of Arkansas Press
Dorianne Laux, “Facts About the Moon,” collected in Facts About the Moon, W. W. Norton & Company
Galway Kinnell, “Little Sleep’s Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight,” collected in The Book of Nightmares, Houghton Mifflin
Joshua Bennett, “The Panther is a Virtual Animal,” The New York Times Magazine, collected in Owed, Penguin Books
Natalie Shapero, “Good Share,” Los Angeles Review of Books, collected in Popular Longing, Copper Canyon Press
B.K. Fischer, “Maidenform Museum,” collected in Mutiny Gallery, Truman State University Press
Gala Mukomolova, “On the Brighton Beach Boardwalk,” Boston Review, collected in Without Protection, Coffee House Press
Kim Addonizio, “Night in the Castle,” collected in Now We’re Getting Somewhere, W. W. Norton & Company
Jaswinder Bolina, “Portrait of the Village,” Cavalier, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Diane Seuss, “[The problem with sweetness is death],” Shenandoah, collected in Frank, Graywolf Press
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Regeneration,” Superstition Review, collected in Let’s All Die Happy, University of Pittsburgh Press
Eleanor Boudreau, “Wedding Planning,” Copper Nickel, collected in Earnest, Earnest?, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jennifer Militello, “Odaxelagnia,” Boston Review, collected in The Pact, Tupelo Press
Jennifer Martelli, “The Destruction of the Piano Was the Destruction of Me,” Incessant Pipe
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Regarding Silphium, the Birth Control of the Roman Empire for 600 Years, Extincted by Careless Land Management in the Year 200 A.D.,” The Account, collected in Rue, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Camille Guthrie, “Diamonds,” Boston Review, collected in Diamonds, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Craig Morgan Teicher, “Marriage Abstract,” Colorado Review, collected in Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Andrew Grace, “Not a Mile,” The New Yorker
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “What Long Ellipsis,” North American Review, collected in Not All Saints, Bitter Oleander Press
Katie Condon, “Volatile Elegy,” Blunderbuss, collected in Praying Naked, Ohio State University Press
Meghan Privitello, “Day 4,” collected in Notes on the End of the World, Black Lawrence Press
Marc McKee, “Make-Belief,” collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Mary Biddinger, “Partial Genius,” collected in Partial Genius, Black Lawrence Press
Heather Christle, “Disintegration Loop 1.1,” Everyday Genius, collected in Heliopause, Wesleyan University Press
Paul Guest, “After Damascus: 3,” Plume, collected in Because Everything is Terrible, Diode Editions
Mark Bibbins, “13th Balloon [Scraps of magazines],” collected in 13th Balloon, Copper Canyon Press
Ai, “Dread,” Canary River, collected in Dread, W. W. Norton & Company
Michael McGriff, “Mother, Expanding from the Piano, the Light, the Whales (1),” Exile: The Literary Quarterly, collected in Dismantling the Hills, University of Pittsburgh Press
Sarah Freligh, “Epidemic,” Fractured Lit, collected in We, Small Harbor Publishing
Shira Erlichman, “The Two Things I Remember from Freshman Physics Class,” collected in Odes to Lithium, Alice James Books
Kendra DeColo, “Love Letter with The Beatles, Lana Del Ray, and Julio Cortázar,” Columbia Journal, collected in I am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Suzanne Langlois, “Drink to This,” NAILED, collected in Bright Glint Gone, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Keith Kopka, “Etymology,” Copper Nickel, collected in Count Four, University of Tampa Press
Emilia Phillips, “Hyperbole is Underrated,” Great River Review, collected in Embouchure, The University of Akron Press
Ellen Bass, “I Wake Thinking about Depleted Uranium,” collected in The Human Line, Copper Canyon Press
Catherine Pierce, “Instructive Fable for the Daughter I Don’t Have,” Colorado Review, collected in Danger Days, Saturnalia Books
Julia Story, “Small Wonder,” collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Connie Voisine, “The Devotions,” Zócalo Public Square, collected in And God Created Woman, Bull City Press
Victoria Chang, “Barbie Chang’s Father Paid,” collected in Barbie Chang, Copper Canyon Press
Traci Brimhall, “Sleep Regression Lullaby,” collected in Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Copper Canyon Press
Erika Meitner, “Factography: Hometown,” The Ampersand Review, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
David Kirby, “The Nematode,” Southern Review, collected in Get Up, Please, Louisiana State University Press
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Bauhaus,” collected in Wild Apples, Ethel
Ron Koertge, “First Grade,” collected in Vampire Planet, Red Hen Press
Sarah Galvin, “Peep Show,” The Alice, collected in Ugly Time, Gramma Poetry
Bianca Stone, “Ones Who Got Away with It,” Pinwheel, collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Kevin Prufer, “The Translator,” The Paris Review, collected in The Art of Fiction, Four Way Books
Cindy King, “Fall,” TriQuarterly
Eduardo C. Corral, “Watermark,” New England Review, collected in Slow Lightning, Yale University Press
Philip Metres, “Future Anterior [2. What is a ruin],” collected in Shrapnel Maps, Copper Canyon Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Why Don’t You Wear a Black Crepe Glove Embroidered in Gold, Like the Hand that Bore a Falcon?,” Memorious, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Keith Kopka, “Not Holding the Gun,” New Ohio Review, collected in Count Four, University of Tampa Press
Aaron Smith, “Definition,” One Art
Hala Alyan, “Step One: Admit Powerlessness,” Crazyhorse, collected in The Twenty-Ninth Year, Mariner Books
Aria Aber, “Geschehn / Happen,” collected in Hard Damage, University of Nebraska Press
Matthew Minicucci, “On Camping,” Copper Nickel
Adrian Matejka, “[Somebody, please put something],” collected in Standing on the Verge of Getting It On & Maggot Brain, Third Man Books
David Blair, “Problems with the Early Times Poetry,” collected in Barbarian Seasons, MadHat Press
Carrie Fountain, “Poem without New Year’s Resolution,” Ecotone, collected in Instant Winner, Penguin Books
Amorak Huey, “FMK,” Four Way Review, collected in Dad Jokes from the Late Patriarchy, Sundress Publications
Leigh Stein, “Think Starlight,” collected in What to Miss When, Soft Skull Press
Katie Schmid, “All My Boyfriends Love My Father the Best,” The Spectacle, collected in Nowhere, University of New Mexico Press
Steven Riel, “Interview with Phyllis Fromme,” Evening Street Review, collected in Edgemere, Lily Poetry Review Books
Bob Hicok, “Poof,” collected in Hold, Copper Canyon Press
Sandra Beasley, “Elephant,” Waxwing, collected in Made to Explode, W. W. Norton & Company
Jack Gilbert, “Orpheus in Greenwich Village,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
Sam Cha, “Oracles,” Lily Poetry Review
Alex Green, “Rave-Ups and Galaxies,” collected in Emergency Anthems, Brooklyn Arts Press
Erin Hoover, “Correspondence Theory,” collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Steven Cramer, “Clangings [Back on my wings…],” Memorious, collected in Clangings, Sarabande Books
Danusha Laméris, “Coyote,” collected in Bonfire Opera, University of Pittsburgh Press
Didi Jackson, “Killing Jar,” The Common, collected in Moon Jar, Red Hen Press
Michael Dumanis, “Ordeal,” The Common
Jay Nebel, “The Order of Things,” Tin House, collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Laura Sobott Ross, “Wine with Everything Was What I Said,” Kestrel
Adam Sol, “Elegy for a Youth Shot by Police on the Day Robin Williams Died,” collected in Broken Dawn Blessings, ECW Press
Angie Estes, “I’ll Call You This Afternoon,” Plume, collected in Parole, Oberlin College Press
Barbara Hamby, “Ode to Odor, Ardor, and the Queen’s Chickabobboo,” collected in All-Night Lingo Tango, University of Pittsburgh Press
Andrea Cohen, “To the Woman Going Up the Escalator at Columbus Circle at Five-Thirty Last Evening,” Arkansas International, collected in Nightshade, Four Way Books
Rachel Mennies, “January 22, 2017,” collected in The Naomi Letters, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Jaswinder Bolina, “Postcards,” The Laurel Review, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Laura Kasischke, “Show and Tell,” collected in Dance and Disappear, University of Massachusetts Press
Catherine Barnett, “Landscape with Borrowed Contours,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Erin Belieu, “The Death of Humphrey Bogart,” The Nebraska Review, collected in Infanta, Copper Canyon Press
Terrance Hayes, “corporal,” collected in Hip Logic, Penguin Books
Dorianne Laux, “Bakersfield, 1969,” collected in The Book of Men, W. W. Norton & Company
Natalie Shapero, “Hostile Platitudes,” collected in No Object, Saturnalia Books
Kim Addonizio, “Fixed and in Flux,” collected in Now We’re Getting Somewhere, W. W. Norton & Company
Sean Shearer, “Conor Oberst,” jubilat, collected in Red Lemons, University of Akron Press
Erin Adair-Hodges, “The Last Judgment,” Painted Bride Quarterly, collected in Let’s All Die Happy, University of Pittsburgh Press
Diane Seuss, “Self-Portrait as Mouthpiece of an Anonymous Benefactor,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Graywolf Press
Eleanor Boudreau, “The Ballad of Eleanor and Earnest,” collected in Earnest, Earnest?, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jennifer Militello, “Felon’s Logic,” Gulf Coast, collected in Body Thesaurus, Tupelo Press
Mark Bibbins, “At the End of the Endless Decade,” Poem-a-Day
Sarah Freligh, “We Dive,” Cease, Cows, collected in We, Small Harbor Publishing
Katie Condon, “My mother gives a man permission,” The Columbia Review, collected in Praying Naked, Ohio State University Press
Joshua Bennett, “Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother’s Couch,” collected in Owed, Penguin Books
Meghan Privitello, “Notes on the End of the World,”collected in Notes on the End of the World, Black Lawrence Press
Marc McKee, “This is the Part of the Poem Where You Help Me Out,” collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Sara Eliza Johnson, “Little Rabbit,” Virginia Quarterly Review
Heather Christle, “They Are Leaving You a Message,” Two Serious Ladies, collected in Heliopause, Wesleyan University Press
Paul Guest, “New Year,” Kenyon Review
Michael McGriff, “The Last Temptation of Christ,” collected in Dismantling the Hills, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kendra DeColo, “They Said I’d Never Be a Dancer,” collected in My Dinner with Ron Jeremy, Third Man Books
Emilia Phillips, “Haha-Boohoo,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Embouchure, The University of Akron Press
Julia Story, “How She Went to Salisbury Beach the Day Before She Died.,” Mount Island, collected in Julie the Astonishing, Sixth Finch
Randall Mann, “American Poetry,” On the Seawall, collected in A Better Life, Persea Books
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Trinkets,” Tupelo Quarterly, collected in Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, The Ohio State University Press
Ron Koertge, “Cinderella’s Diary,” collected in Vampire Planet, Red Hen Press
Ellen Bass, “The Moment I Knew I Shouldn’t Have Married My Husband,” collected in The Human Line, Copper Canyon Press
Sherrie Flick, “Porch Light,” collected in New Micro, W.W. Norton & Company
Scott Cunningham, “Mexico,” collected in Ya Te Veo, The University of Arkansas Press
2020 POEMS
Karyna McGlynn, “What Happens in 1918 Won’t Stay in 1918,” Columbia Poetry Review, collected in Hothouse, Sarabande Books
Bianca Stone, “In the Champagne Room with Grandma,” collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Mary Ruefle, “A Morning Person,” collected in Dunce, Wave Books
Kerri Webster, “Corpse Flower,” Guernica, collected in The Trailhead, Wesleyan University Press
Terrance Hayes, “How to Be Drawn to Trouble,” Poet Lore, collected in How to Be Drawn, Penguin Books
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Translations,” Redactions, collected in Rag & Bone, Elixir Press
Keetje Kuipers, “The Great Lakes,” Tin House, collected in All Its Charms, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Alex Green, “The Sky Wet with Signals,” collected in Emergency Anthems, Brooklyn Arts Press
Vijay Seshadri, “North of Manhattan,” The New Yorker, collected in The Long Meadow, Graywolf Press
Laura Read, “Ruins,” collected in Dresses from the Old Country, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Amy Newman, “Dear Editor [8 November],” collected in Dear Editor, Persea Books
Meghan O’Rourke, “Appeal to the Self,” The Kenyon Review, collected in Once, W. W. Norton & Company
Natalie Shapero, “Close Space,” collected in No Object, Saturnalia Books
Jonathan Moody, “Paranoid,” The Common, collected in Olympic Butter Gold, Northwestern University Press
Lauren Shapiro, “The Conversation,” collected in Easy Math, Sarabande Books
Anna Moschovakis, “In Search of Wealth (When tourists attend a Dani pig roast),” collected in You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, Coffee House Press
Charles Simic, Aphorisms, collected in Short Flights, Schaffner Press
Lauren Clark, “George Clark across the United States,” The Adroit Journal, collected in Music for a Wedding, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Study Abroad,” collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Jennifer Michael Hecht, “Gender Bender,” The New Yorker, collected in Who Said, Copper Canyon Press
Carrie Fountain, “Embarrassment,” Crazyhorse, collected in Burn Lake, Penguin Books
Erin Hoover, “Conversion Party,” Grist, collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Diane Seuss, “[Yes, I saw them all, saw them, met some, Richard Hell],” Scoundrel Time
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Pilgrimage,” Elbow Room NM, collected in Let’s All Die Happy, University of Pittsburgh Press
Morgan Parker, “When a Man I Love Jerks Off in My Bed Next to Me and Falls Asleep,” Gulf Coast, collected in Magical Negro, Tin House Books
Kelli Russell Agodon, “Believing Anagrams,” 32 Poems, collected in Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, White Pine Press
Christine Gosnay, “A River in an Ocean of Space,” collected in Even Years, The Kent State University Press
Oliver Baez Bendorf, “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart,” collected in The Spectral Wilderness, The Kent State University Press
Joanna Penn Cooper, “How the Sausage Is Made,” On the Seawall
Barbara Hamby, “A Farewell to Shopping,” Cincinnati Review, collected in Bird Odyssey, University of Pittsburgh Press
Marni Ludwig, “Everything is a Hat,” collected in Pinwheel, New Issues Press
Hala Alyan, “Call Me to Prayer,” Juxtapoz, collected in The Twenty-Ninth Year, Mariner Books
Matthew Zapruder, “When I was Fifteen,” collected in Father’s Day, Copper Canyon Press
Meghan Privitello, “Again, Let’s Do It Again,” collected in A New Language for Falling Out of Love, YesYes Books
B.K. Fischer, “(Beatitudes),” collected in Radioapocrypha, Ohio State University Press
James Richardson, Aphorisms, collected in Short Flights, Schaffner Press
Kevin Prufer, “After You Have Gone,” collected in How He Loved Them, Four Way Books
Major Jackson, “Don Pullen at the Zanzibar Blue Jazz Café,” Callaloo, collected in Leaving Saturn, The University of Georgia Press
Dan Chiasson, “Four Horaces,” TriQuarterly, collected in Natural History, Alfred A. Knopf
J.D. Scrimgeour, “J M,” collected in Festival, Nixes Mate Review, Incessant Pipe
Gala Mukomolova, “A girl brings me home to nothing,” collected in Without Protection, Coffee House Press
Jennifer Martelli, “Vision Test in the First Grade,” Nelle
Victoria Chang, “Barbie Chang Has No Intention,” collected in Barbie Chang, Copper Canyon Press
Dorianne Laux, “Juneau,” Orion, collected in The Book of Men, W. W. Norton & Company
Rachel Loden, “Bride of Tricky D.,” collected in The Last Campaign, Slapering Hol Press
Erin Belieu, “After Reading That the Milky Way Is Devouring the Galaxy of Sagittarius,” Virginia Quarterly Review, collected in Black Box, Copper Canyon Press
Monica Ferrell, “Beautiful Funeral,” Guernica, collected in You Darling Thing, Four Way Books
Robin Ekiss, “Dark Girl Dressed in Blue,” New England Review, collected in The Mansion of Happiness, University of Georgia Press
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “Song for My Father,” Harpur Palate, collected in All You Ask for is Longing, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Emma Bolden, “Deposition: On That Night & All That Was After,” Josephine Quarterly, collected in House is an Enigma, Southeast Missouri State University
Mark Bibbins, “13th Balloon [When I was a teenager I smugly told],” collected in 13th Balloon, Copper Canyon Press
Michael McGriff, “Men Keep on Dying,” Poem-a-Day
Cassandra de Alba, “before it chooses you,” collected in Ugly/Sad, Glass Poetry Press
Andrea Cohen, “Night,” Terrain, collected in Nightshade, Four Way Books
Marc McKee, “& What Shoulder, & What Art,” Artifice, collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Aaron Smith, “Appetite,” Gulf Coast, collected in Appetite, University of Pittsburgh Press
Paul Guest, “After Damascus: 2,” The Cortland Review, collected in Because Everything is Terrible, Diode Editions
Ann Lauterbach, “Some of Us,” collected in Spell, Penguin Books
Pimone Triplett, “First Child Miscarried,” collected in Rumor, Northwestern University Press
Elizabeth Alexander, “Nineteen,” collected in Crave Radiance, Graywolf Press
Adrienne Su, “Antidepressant,” collected in Middle Kingdom, Alice James Books
Kelly Morse, “Swan Song,” Entropy, collected in Heavy Light, Two of Cups Press
Forrest Gander, “Life of Johnson/Upside Your Head, a Libretto [She had looked in the crib…],” Sulfur, collected in Lynchburg, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kendra DeColo, “After Hours, Provincetown Cemetery,” Muzzle, collected in Thieves in the Afterlife, Saturnalia Books
Justin Bigos, “Three Rivers,” New England Review, collected in Mad River, Gold Wake Press
Julia Story, “Dead Reckoning.,” collected in Julie the Astonishing, Sixth Finch
Victoria Redel, “Breaking the Air,” collected in Already the World, Kent State University Press
Julie Sheehan, “Coney Island,” collected in Orient Point, W. W. Norton & Company
Connie Voisine, “Anonymous Lyric,” Puerto del Sol, collected in Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, The University of Chicago Press
Jill McDonough, “Still Falling,” Hobart, collected in Here All Night, Alice James Books
Randall Mann, “Aubade,” Salmagundi, collected in Breakfast with Thom Gunn, The University of Chicago Press
Catherine Pierce, “Alleys,” Copper Nickel, collected in The Tornado is the World, Saturnalia Books
Catherine Barnett, “Accursed Questions, iii,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
George Murray, “Aphorisms,” collected in Short Flights, Schaffner Press
Jaswinder Bolina, “Aviary,” The Offending Adam, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
George David Clark, “Ambitious Dream Number Twenty-Three,” The Southeast Review
Ruth Madievsky, “Tiny Shotgun,” Harpur Palate, collected in Emergency Brake, Tavern Books
Joe Hall, “January 9, 1875,” collected in Someone’s Utopia, Black Ocean
Jim Daniels, “Sin Sandwich,” Colorado Review, collected in Blessing the House, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kevin Young, “Howlin’ Wolf,” collected in Brown, Alfred A. Knopf
Chase Berggrun, “Palmistry,” Poetry
Tara Bergin, “Looking at Lucy’s Painting of the Thames at Low Tide Without Lucy Present,” PN Review, collected in This is Yarrow, Carcanet Press, Ltd.
Caroline Bird, “The Final Episode,” Poetry
Kathleen Rooney, “Brazilian Wedding: Dream No. 3,” RealPoetik, collected in Oneiromance, Switchback Books
Erin Belieu, “She Returns To the Water,” Poem-a-Day
Camille Rankine, “Symptoms of Aftermath,” collected in Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Copper Canyon Press
Bradley Trumpfheller, “Spectacular, Spectacular,” Redivider
Traci Brimhall, “Dear Thanatos, [Goddamn the sweet ease…],” The Los Angeles Review, collected in Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Copper Canyon Press
Patrick Donnelly, “Honey,” collected in Little-Known Operas, Four Way Books
Eduardo C. Corral, “Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez,” Poetry Northwest, collected in Slow Lightning, Yale University Press
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder, “The Literary Scholar,” Blackbird
Paige Ackerson-Kiely, “The Lesson,” Ampersand Review, collected in Dolefully, a Rampart Stands, Penguin Books
Virginia Konchan, “Against Nostalgia,” Bear Review, collected in Any God Will Do, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Quan Barry, “loose strife (‘As in loosely inspired by Aeschylus’s’),” collected in Loose Strife, University of Pittsburgh Press
Angie Estes, “Curio,” Indiana Review, collected in Tryst, Oberlin College Press
Jack Gilbert, “A Kind of World,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
Erika Meitner, “Continuation,” Shenandoah, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
David Kirby, “Bite Me,” The Florida Review
Mary Biddinger, “God’s Plan,” Psaltery and Lyre
Heather Christle, “I suppose some people can weep softly…,” collected in The Crying Book, Catapult
Kai Carlson-Wee, “Miss Diana,” collected in Rail, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Cate Marvin, “High School as The Picture of Dorian Gray,” collected in Oracle, W. W. Norton & Company
Ron Koertge, “Field Trip,” collected in The Ogre’s Wife, Red Hen Press
Bob Hicok, “A meditation on hoarding,” collected in Hold, Copper Canyon Press
Julia Story, “Toad Circus,” The New Yorker
Hannah Sanghee Park, “And a Lie,” Poetry, collected in The Same-Different, Louisiana State University Press
Allison Benis White, “Torrance,” collected in The Wendys, Four Way Books
Rebecca Hazelton, “Love Poem,” Tupelo Quarterly, collected in Gloss, University of Wisconsin Press
Lee Ann Roripaugh, “Talk Television: Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,” Copper Nickel, collected in Dandarians, Milkweed Editions
Sarah Galvin, “Crusade,” collected in The Three Einsteins, Poor Claudia
Fleda Brown, “For, Or, Nor,” Poetry, collected in No Need of Sympathy, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Emilia Phillips, “My First Kiss Was in a Room Where They Polish Lenses for Eyeglasses,” Quarterly West
Karyna McGlynn, “Self-Portrait as Erotic Thriller,” collected in Hothouse, Sarabande Books
Kim Addonizio, “Manners,” American Poetry Review, collected in Mortal Trash, W. W. Norton & Company
Diana Marie Delgado, “Who Makes Love to Us After We Die,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Tracing the Horse, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Bianca Stone, “Artichokes,” The New Yorker
Dan Liebert, Aphorisms, collected in Short Flights, Schaffner Press
Ellen Bass, “How I Became Miss America,” Rattle, collected in Like a Beggar, Copper Canyon Press
Taneum Bambrick, “Elk Tooth Necklace,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Vantage, The American Poetry Review
Jake Skeets, “Afterparty,” Apogee, collected in Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Milkweed Editions
Francesca Bell, “For My 1st Ex-Lover to Die,” New Ohio Review, collected in Bright Stain, Red Hen Press
Michael Teig, “A Little (more) About Me,” collected in There’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Kateri Lanthier, “Junk Science,” collected in Siren, Véhicule Press
Matthew Rohrer, “Brooklyn is Covered in Little Pieces of Paper,” collected in Surrounded by Friends, Wave Books
Terrance Hayes, “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Suppose you could speak nothing but money…],” collected in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Penguin Books
Matthea Harvey, “The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away,” collected in Sad Little Breathing Machine, Graywolf Press
July Westhale, “Etiquette,” collected in Trailer Trash, Kore Press
Kristin Bock, “The Island of Zerrissenheit,” The Rupture
Alan Michael Parker, “The Use of the Second Person,” collected in The Ladder, Tupelo Press
Vijay Seshadri, “Visiting Russia,” The Paris Review, collected in The Long Meadow, Graywolf Press
Elaine Equi, “Scenes from an Imaginary Childhood,” collected in The Intangibles, Coffee House Press
Paisley Rekdal, “有 識: Have Knowledge,” Poem-a-Day
Martin Ott, “How Russia Hacks You,” The Opiate Magazine, collected in Fake News Poems, BlazeVOX [Books]
Emily Borgmann, “Polaroids of God from My Eleventh Summer,” Waxwing
Maya C. Popa, “Elegy,” Fence, collected in American Faith, Sarabande Books
Kiki Petrosino, “Happineſs,” Tin House, collected in White Blood, Sarabande Books
Katherine Larson, “Broke the Lunatic Horse,” Boulevard, collected in Radial Symmetry, Yale University Press
Natalie Shapero, “Man at His Bath,” Poetry
Stephanie Burt, “Persephone (Unplugged),” collected in Popular Music, University Press of Colorado
Kathryn Nuernberger, “I Want to Know You All,” The Florida Review
Robert Hass, “Those Who Die in Their Twenties,” collected in Summer Snow, Ecco
Keetje Kuipers, “Donetsk,” Construction, collected in All Its Charms, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Alex Green, “Outside Tucker Luminar,” collected in Emergency Anthems, Brooklyn Arts Press
Ladan Osman, “Hotel Party,” collected in The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony, University of Nebraska Press
Kevin Griffith, Aphorisms, collected in Short Flights, Schaffner Press
Laura Read, “Invagination,” Crab Creek Review, collected in Dresses from the Old Country, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Meghan O’Rourke, “Sleep,” Poetry, collected in Halflife, W. W. Norton & Company
Anna Moschovakis, “What It Means to Be Avant Garde (I was in the park),” collected in They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This, Coffee House Press
Lauren Clark, “Kim Kardashian and Ray J Sex Tape,” Ninth Letter, collected in Music for a Wedding, University of Pittsburgh Press
Marilyn Chin, “That Half Is Almost Gone,” Solo, collected in Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, W. W. Norton & Company
Jennifer Michael Hecht, “Hecht’s Furniture Polish,” collected in Who Said, Copper Canyon Press
Sally Keith, “River House [20.]” collected in River House, Milkweed Editions
Carrie Fountain, “Nostalgia Says No,” Iron Horse Literary Review, collected in Instant Winner, Penguin Books
Cindy King, “Matrons of the Ward,” Sou’wester
Gregory Pardlo, “Restoring O’Keefe,” collected in Totem, The American Poetry Review
Steven Cramer, “A Burn So Bad It Requires Ice,” Plume
Hala Alyan, “Dirty Girl,” Pank, collected in The Twenty-Ninth Year, Mariner Books
Lauren Shapiro, “Bent Syllogism,” collected in Easy Math, Sarabande Books
Steven Riel, “Upon Reading Tennessee Williams’ Obituaries,” collected in Fellow Odd Fellow, Trio House Press
Erin Hoover, “Livestock,” Sugar House Review, collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Diane Seuss, “[You know what living means? Tits out, tits in the rain. Tits],” Gulf Coast
Lindsey Alexander, “Elegy at Twenty-Three,” Forklift, Ohio, collected in Rodeo in Reverse, Hub City Press
Erin Adair-Hodges, “The End of September,” The Adroit Journal
Victoria Chang, “[Body—is dying a slow constant death.],” The Rumpus
Kelli Russell Agodon, “Coming Up Next: How Killer Blue Irises Spread,” The Atlantic, collected in Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, White Pine Press
Christine Gosnay, “Listening to Townes Van Zandt,” Poetry, collected in Even Years, The Kent State University Press
Allyson Boggess, “And When Ms. Pac-Man Eats All the Cherries, and When the Dentist Asks Me to Spit into the Bowl,” The Collagist
Eleanor Boudreau, “Earnest Postcard,” The McNeese Review
Carmen Gimenez Smith, “Backstory,” Little Red Leaves, collected in Goodbye, Flicker, University of Massachusetts Press
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Minecraft Ars Poetica,” On the Seawall
Barbara Hamby, “Deception,” Western Humanities Review, collected in Delirium, University of North Texas Press
Jen Karetnick, “Evaporating Villanelle During a Time of Pandemic,” Under a Warm Green Linden
Marni Ludwig, “Pill Box,” collected in Pinwheel, New Issues Press
Meghan Privitello, “Coordinates,” Pinwheel, collected in A New Language for Falling Out of Love, YesYes Books
Cameron Awkward-Rich, “Essay on the Theory of Motion,” collected in Transit, Button Poetry
Adam Day, “Sakra,” collected in Left-Handed Wolf, Louisiana State University Press
B.K. Fischer, “Our Lady of the Garage Band,” collected in Radioapocrypha, Ohio State University Press
Alfred Corn, Aphorisms, collected in Short Flights, Schaffner Press
Kevin Prufer, “Ars Poetica,” collected in How He Loved Them, Four Way Books
Gala Mukomolova, “But, like, where is the body?” collected in Without Protection, Coffee House Press
Rachel Loden, “Clueless in Paradise,” Exquisite Corpse, collected in The Last Campaign, Slapering Hol Press
Laura Kasischke, “Hostess,” The Southern Review, collected in Fire & Flower, Alice James Books
Kristine Ong Muslim, “Holocene: Microfilm Reel 82,” The Cincinnati Review, Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction, Aforementioned Productions
Robin Ekiss, “Preface,” American Poetry Review, collected in The Mansion of Happiness, University of Georgia Press
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “The House of Fragments,” collected in Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Emma Bolden, “The Plight Troth,” Nice Cage, collected in House is an Enigma, Southeast Missouri State University
Jay Besemer, “Shell,” collected in Theories of Performance, The Lettered Streets Press
Shira Erlichman, “Aftertaste,” Prelude, collected in Odes to Lithium, Alice James Books
Mark Bibbins, “13th Balloon [A few months after you died],” Lit Hub, collected in 13th Balloon, Copper Canyon Press
Michael McGriff, “Kissing Hitler,” Neo, collected in Home Burial, Copper Canyon Press
Andrea Cohen, “Field Trip,” Tin House, collected in Nightshade, Four Way Books
Marc McKee, “Kite Shepherd (1),” Southern Indiana Review, collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Cassandra de Alba, “i want to name all my oregon trail characters after you & drown them on purpose,” collected in Ugly/Sad, Glass Poetry Press
Clay Ventre, “Love Means Never Having to Distinguish Between the Sound of a Clarinet and the Sound of a Crying Baby,” Lily Poetry Review
Aaron Smith, “Dr. Engel Survives the Blackout in New York City,” collected in Blue on Blue Ground, University of Pittsburgh Press
Paul Guest, “1986,” Waxwing
Kelly Morse, “Dar la luz,” Mid-American Review, collected in Heavy Light, Two of Cups Press
Forrest Gander, “Psychoanalysis of Water,” Five Fingers Review, collected in Lynchburg, University of Pittsburgh Press
Elizabeth Alexander, “Five Elegies,” collected in Crave Radiance, Graywolf Press
Kendra DeColo, “Christian Camp for Troubled Girls,” The Journal, collected in My Dinner with Ron Jeremy, Third Man Books
Ashleigh Brilliant, Aphorisms, collected in Short Flights, Schaffner Press
Victoria Redel, “Smoking Cigarettes with Brodsky,” Harvard Review, collected in Woman without Umbrella, Four Way Books
Jill McDonough, “What the Boyfriends Teach Us,” Bird’s Thumb, collected in Here All Night, Alice James Books
Sommer Browning, “Homecoming,” Gulf Stream
Sara Wainscott, “Insecurity System [Lovely as a rainbow trout],” collected in Insecurity System, Persea Books
Maggie Smith, “Horoscope (1),” Beacon Street Review, collected in Lamp of the Body, Red Hen Press
Anna Journey, “A Partial Illustration of the Black Market Accompanied by the Scented Breath of Starved Alligator,” 32 Poems
Carolyn Forché, “Uninhabited,” Poetry London, collected in In the Lateness of the World, Penguin Books
Natalie Diaz, “If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert,” Literary Hub, collected in Postcolonial Love Poem, Graywolf Press
Justin Phillip Reed, “Leaves of Grass,” The Rumpus, collected in The Malevolent Volume, Coffee House Press
Dara Yen Elerath, “The History of My Body,” diode
Catherine Pierce, “Graceland,” collected in Famous Last Words, Saturnalia Books
Connie Voisine, “Sorry I Don’t Like You,” collected in Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, The University of Chicago Press
Catherine Barnett, “Lore,” The Literary Review, collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Randall Mann, “Lexington,” Fourteen Hills, collected in Breakfast with Thom Gunn, The University of Chicago Press
Rebecca Seiferle, “A History of Romanticism,” Alaska Quarterly Review, collected in Bitters, Copper Canyon Press
Cammy Thomas, “Cracked Sycamore,” collected in Cathedral of Wish, Four Way Books
Lorine Niedecker, “Darwin,” collected in The Granite Pail, Gnomon Press
Jenny Boully, “Essay on Trees,” collected in The Book of Beginnings and Endings, Sarabande Books
Monica Ferrell, “Eleven Steps to Breaking up a Hart,” Tin House, collected in Beasts for the Chase, Sarabande Books
Dan Chiasson, “One on One,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Bicentennial, Alfred A. Knopf
Adrienne Su, “1978,” collected in Middle Kingdom, Alice James Books
Vickie Vértiz, “Already My Lips Were Luminous,” Cobalt Review, collected in Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, The University of Arizona Press
Naomi Shihab Nye, “So There,” collected in Fuel, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Michael Earl Craig, “Who was Joan of Arc,” collected in Woods and Clouds Interchangeable, Wave Books
Tiana Clark, “Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #7,” The Sewanee Review, collected in I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, University of Pittsburgh Press
Adrian Matejka, “Primer (Brass + Lead),” Four Way Review
Dorianne Laux, “Superman,” collected in The Book of Men, W. W. Norton & Company
Jillian Weise, “Of the Impending Mission,” Bellingham Review, collected in Cyborg Detective, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Shanna Compton, “Back in Seaside,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Brink, Bloof Books
Sandra Lim, “Garden Quarrel,” collected in The Wilderness, W. W. Norton & Company
Ariana Reines, “Magazine Feminism,” collected in A Sand Book, Tin House Books
Diane Seuss, “Parties among strangers, punks, leather caps and straps, pressing,” The Adroit Journal
Eugenia Leigh, “Gold,” Pleiades
Eileen Cleary, “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV,” What Rough Beast
Natasha Sajé, “Alcohol,” Southern Indiana Review
Martha Silano, “I Am Writing a Letter,” Four Way Review
Maya C. Popa, “My Brother Doesn’t Wake Up Wishing We Were Closer,” The Adroit Journal
Miguel Murphy, “Hart Crane, on the Failure of Poetry,” Sporklet
Zachary Schomburg, “The Monster Hour,” collected in The Man Suit, Black Ocean
TJ Jarrett, “How the Past Tense Turns a Whole Sentence Dark,” collected in Zion, Southern Illinois University Press
Kathleen Rooney, “Midwestern Wedding: Dream No. 5,” collected in Oneiromance, Switchback Books
Aline Dolinh, “Extreme Domesticity,” The Rumpus
Aracelis Girmay, “You Are Who I Love,” The Quarry
Ocean Vuong, “Not Even This,” Poetry
Erin Belieu, “In Airports,” Narrative
Bradley Trumpfheller, “Palinode,” The Cortland Review, collected in Reconstructions, Sibling Rivalry Press
Traci Brimhall, “Family Portrait as Lullaby,” Poetry Northwest, collected in Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Copper Canyon Press
Sally Wen Mao, “Valentine for a Flytrap,” Cave Wall, collected in Mad Honey Symposium, Alice James Books
Wyn Cooper, “Holiday,” American Literary Review, collected in The Way Back, White Pine Press
Caroline Bird, “Rookie,” collected in The Air Year, Carcanet Press, Ltd.
Patrick Donnelly, “Malediction on an Iron Bed,” collected in The Charge, Ausable Press
Rosemary Willey, “White Flowers,” collected in Intended Place, The Kent State University Press
Alison C. Rollins, “Library of Small Catastrophes,” collected in Library of Small Catastrophes, Copper Canyon Press
Virginia Konchan, “Apocrypha,” Free Verse, collected in Any God Will Do, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Erika Meitner, “Post-Game-Day Blessing,” The Kenyon Review, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Jennifer Tseng, “(Please note the jade is a genuine jade, not a plastic fake),” collected in Not so dear Jenny, Bateau Press
David Kirby, “Tige Watley’s Whoah,” Northwest Review, collected in The House of Blue Light, Louisiana State University Press
Heather Christle, “Uncloudy,” collected in Heliopause, Wesleyan University Press
Kai Carlson-Wee, “The Boy’s Head,” The Missouri Review, collected in Rail, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Cate Marvin, “Let the Day Perish,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, collected in Oracle, W. W. Norton & Company
Chet’la Sebree, “In Medias Res,” collected in Mistress, New Issues Press
Ron Koertge, “American Wife,” Cider Press Review, collected in Fever, Red Hen Press
Julia Story, “Indiana Problem (Three Dusks),” collected in Spinster for Hire, The Word Works
Megan Pinto, “Original Sin,” The Margins
Jaswinder Bolina, “Portrait of the Minor Character,” Third Coast, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Rebecca Hazelton, “Self-Portrait with Unsewn Shadow,” collected in Gloss, University of Wisconsin Press
Sarah Galvin, “God Doesn’t Care Where You Pee,” collected in Ugly Time, Gramma Poetry
Fleda Brown, “Talk Radio,” The Georgia Review, collected in No Need of Sympathy, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Kevin Young, “Phys. Ed.,” collected in Brown, Alfred A. Knopf
Emilia Phillips, “Moonpie,” Underblong, collected in Hemlock, Diode Editions
Karyna McGlynn, “The Devil Chains Me to a Microphone,” collected in Hothouse, Sarabande Books
Kim Addonizio, “Romance,” collected in What Is This Thing Called Love, W. W. Norton & Company
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, “The Moon is Trans,” The Feminist Wire, collected in There Should Be Flowers, Civil Coping Mechanisms
Camille Rankine, “Still Life with House Finch,” collected in Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Copper Canyon Press
Samuel Green, “On Patmos, Kneeling in the Panagea,” Prairie Schooner
Matthew Zapruder, “La Plague,” can we have our ball back
Bianca Stone, “The Fall,” collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Ellen Bass, “Relax,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Like a Beggar, Copper Canyon Press
Francesca Bell, “You Can Call Me Ma’am,” Burnt District, collected in Bright Stain, Red Hen Press
Kateri Lanthier, “Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily,” collected in Siren, Véhicule Press
Quan Barry, “Noli Me Tangere,” collected in Loose Strife, University of Pittsburgh Press
July Westhale, “One in a Line of Many,” The Boiler, collected in Trailer Trash, Kore Press
Kristin Bock, “Windscape,” The Massachusetts Review, collected in Cloisters, Tupelo Press
Maya C. Popa, “Palimpsest,” The Literary Review, collected in American Faith, Sarabande Books
Katherine Larson, “The Oranges in Uganda,” collected in Radial Symmetry, Yale University Press
Kathryn Nuernberger, “I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours,” Poetry International, collected in Rue, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Natalie Shapero, “Ten What,” Kettle Blue Review, collected in Hard Child, Copper Canyon Press
Kevin Prufer, “Condominiums,” Waxwing
Joshua Bennett, “The Open,” Connotation Press, collected in Owed, Penguin Books
Maggie Smith, “First Fall,” collected in Good Bones, Tupelo Press
Mag Gabbert, “Wight,” Hobart
Mohja Kahf, “Hajar, First Woman on the Moon,” collected in Hagar Poems, The University of Arkansas Press
Rick Barot, “UDFj-39546284,” Arroyo Literary Review, collected in The Galleons, Milkweed Editions
Jennifer Michael Hecht, “No Hemlock Rock,” The Awl, collected in Who Said, Copper Canyon Press
Laura Read, “St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Pray for Us,” collected in Dresses from the Old Country, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Meghan O’Rourke, “My Mother,” Brooklyn Magazine, collected in Once, W. W. Norton & Company
Jack Gilbert, “New York, Summer,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
Kim Addonizio, “Ways of Being Lonely,” The New Yorker
Jay Nebel, “The Mathematician,” collected in Neighbors, Saturnalia Books
Mary Biddinger, “Procreation Myth,” collected in Partial Genius, Black Lawrence Press
Carrie Fountain, “Experience,” collected in Burn Lake, Penguin Books
Cindy King, “When Your Mother Asks If You’re Seeing Anyone and No Longer Means a Therapist,” The Slowdown
Christine Gosnay, “The World’s Fair,” Thrush, collected in Even Years, The Kent State University Press
Bob Hicok, “End of the work ethic,” Conduit, collected in Hold, Copper Canyon Press
Melissa Kwasny, “Pictograph: Bizarre Anthropomorph, Often with Interior Body Decorations,” Willow Springs, collected in Pictograph, Milkweed Editions
Eduardo C. Corral, “Testaments Scratched into a Water Station Barrel [Bought my luck…],” Poetry, collected in Guillotine, Graywolf Press
Angie Estes, “Dark Spots,” Southwest Review, collected in Enchantée, Oberlin College Press
Keetje Kuipers, “At the Small Town Drag Show,” Hunger Mountain, collected in All Its Charms, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Alex Green, “Highlights from Under the Sod,” collected in Emergency Anthems, Brooklyn Arts Press
Steven Cramer, “Note to My First Wife,” New Ohio Review, collected in Listen, Mad Hat Press
Richard Siken, “Real Estate,” Poem-a-Day
Dan Chiasson, “Q & A,” collected in The Math Campers, Alfred A. Knopf
Jill Alexander Essbaum, “The Wistful,” collected in Would-Land, Cooper Dillon Books
Sumita Chakraborty, “Marigolds,” At Length, collected in Arrow, Alice James Books
Jay Besemer, “May I Just Say,” collected in Theories of Performance, The Lettered Streets Press
Robert Hass, “An Argument About Poetics Imagined at Squaw Valley After a Night Walk Under the Mountain,” Literary Imagination, collected in Summer Snow, Ecco
Sean Singer, “Dirt,” American Poetry Review
Lauren Shapiro, “Persona Poem,” collected in Easy Math, Sarabande Books
Erin Hoover, “What Kind of Deal Are We Going to Make?,” Tampa Review, collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Diane Seuss, “Self-Portrait with Amy (Creation Myth),” The American Poetry Review, collected in Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Graywolf Press
Lee Ann Roripaugh, “Ten Nights’ Dreams,” No Tell Motel, collected in Dandarians, Milkweed Editions
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Song in the Key of Negged,” Spork
Joanna Penn Cooper, “While Watching Ice Dancing, I Contemplate Mortality,” Zócalo Public Square, collected in When We Were Fearsome, Ethel
Kiki Petrosino, “Happineſs,” Tin House, collected in White Blood, Sarabande Books
Barbara Hamby, “Ode to Fear,” River Styx, collected in All-Night Lingo Tango, University of Pittsburgh Press
Meghan Privitello, “Please Wear Proper Attire,” Redivider, collected in A New Language for Falling Out of Love, YesYes Books
B.K. Fischer, “Week 26: St. Rage’s Vault,” Western Humanities Review, collected in St. Rage’s Vault, The Word Works
Gala Mukomolova, “If Vasilyssa Is the Suitor,” collected in Without Protection, Coffee House Press
Ladan Osman, “Ken,” collected in The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony, University of Nebraska Press
Laura Kasischke, “Guide to Imaginary Places,” collected in Dance and Disappear, University of Massachusetts Press
Cate Marvin, “My First Husband Was My Last,” Harvard Review, collected in Oracle, W.W. Norton & Company
2019 POEMS
Joanna Penn Cooper, “A Vision for the Coming Year,” On the Seawall
Adrian Blevins, “Triage,” Blood Orange Review
Landon Godfrey, “In Praise of Wax,” Orbis, collected in Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown, Cider Press
Sandra Beasley, “August,” Barrow Street, collected in Theories of Falling, New Issues Press
Erica Wright, “Oracle for the Violin’s Daughter,” The Philadelphia Review of Books, collected in All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned, Black Lawrence Press
Jenny Johnson, “In the Dream,” Poem-a-Day, collected In Full Velvet, Sarabande Books
B.K. Fischer, “Our Lady of the Hair Cuttery,” collected in Radioapocrypha, Ohio State University Press
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “Kowalski: A Historiography,” Cimarron Review, collected in Broken Hallelujahs, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Paul Guest, “The Cartoonist in Hell,” LIT, collected in Notes for My Body Double, University of Nebraska Press
Lisa Olstein, “A Simple Lesson on the Buried Spirit,” collected in Late Empire, Copper Canyon Press
Tara Skurtu, “Writing Poetry Is Like Fielding Ground Balls,” AGNI
Gregory Lawless, “Tongs,” Cimarron Review, collected in Far Away, Red Mountain Press
Ed Pavlić, “Since I Fell For You’: A Deposition,” The Cortland Review, collected in Live at the Bitter End, Saturnalia Books
Justin Bigos, “Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany,” Tupelo Quarterly, collected in Mad River, Gold Wake Press
Joel Long, “Brahms’ Requiem,” collected in Winged Insects, White Pine Press
Metta Sáma, “Fish & Duck Skills,” Poem-a-Day
Robert Archambeau, “Annie Oakley Misses the Kaiser,” collected in Home and Variations, Salt Publishing
Jamie Mortara, “breadcrumbs,” Ampersand Review, collected in GOOD MORNING AMERICA I AM HUNGRY AND ON FIRE, YesYes Books
Larry Levis, “Winter Stars,” Blackbird, collected in Winter Stars, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jon D. Lee, “Terroir,” One
Jenny Irish, “Red Wreck Learns Through Secondhand Experience,” collected in Common Ancestor, Black Lawrence Press
Sean Shearer, “Rewinding an Overdose on a Projector,” Beloit Poetry Journal
Melissa Stein, “Seven Minutes in Heaven,” The Yale Review, collected in Terrible Blooms, Copper Canyon Press
Aaron Smith, “When You Told Me Your Father Was Dying,” LIT, collected in Primer, University of Pittsburgh Press
Marc McKee, “Tracking Shot,” Zocalo Public Square
Dorianne Laux, “Iceland,” Red Rock Review, collected in Smoke, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Jim Daniels, “The Thirty-Years Minor Skirmish,” Bayou, collected in Apology to the Moon, Batcat Press
Adam Zagajewski, “Bertolt Brecht in Eternity,” Clare Cavanagh, translator, collected in Asymmetry, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Rachel Loden, “In the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments,” Denver Quarterly, collected in Dick of the Dead, Ahsahta Press
Nicholas Christopher, “On Tour with Rita,” collected in On Tour with Rita, Alfred A. Knopf
Julie Carr, “Interlude: A Real Life Fiction,” collected in Real Life: An Installation, Omnidawn Publishing
Elaine Equi, “Slight,” collected in Sentences and Rain, Coffee House Press
Jenny George, “Origins of Violence,” collected in The Dream of Reason, Copper Canyon Press
Arda Collins, “A History of Something,” GutCult, collected in It Is Daylight, Yale University Press
Layli Long Soldier, “38,” Mud City Journal, collected in Whereas, Graywolf Press
Virginia Konchan, “On Dissonance,” collected in The End of Spectacle, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Kendra DeColo, “After the Poet From Kentucky Tells Me My Poems Are Not Considerate to Their Audience I Try to Teach Him What I Know About Etiquette,” collected in Thieves in the Afterlife, Saturnalia Books
Heather Christle, “The Small Husband,” Front Porch, collected in What Is Amazing, Wesleyan University Press
Chelsey Minnis, “Baby, I don’t care,” collected in Baby, I don’t care, Wave Books
Diane Seuss, “People, the ghosts down in North-of-the-South aren’t see-through,” Ecotone, collected in Four-Legged Girl, Graywolf Press
J.D. Scrimgeour, “Territory,” Thought & Action, collected in Lifting the Turtle, Turning Point Books
Meghan Privitello, “Day 5,” Jet Fuel Review, collected in Notes on the End of the World, Black Lawrence Press
Connie Voisine, “Dangerous for Girls,” collected in Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, The University of Chicago Press
Erin Belieu, “Shooting Range,” collected in Black Box, Copper Canyon Press
Laura Kasischke, “Dear Fire,” collected in Fire & Flower, Alice James Books
Mary Biddinger, “Breach Year,” Revolution House, collected in Small Enterprise, Black Lawrence Press
Catherine Pierce, “Let’s Live in the Books of My Childhood,” collected in The Girls of Peculiar, Saturnalia Books
Kristin Bock, “Layover,” collected in Cloisters, Tupelo Press
Kate Hancock, “The Illusion of Choice,” New Virginia Review, collected in The Lazarus Method, The Kent State University Press
Maggie Nelson, “The Canal Diaries (Green),” BOMB, collected in Something Bright, Then Holes, Soft Skull Press
David Daniel, “Where We Feel It The Most,” Connotation Press, collected in Ornaments, University of Pittsburgh Press
Morgan Parker, “Who Were Frederick Douglass’s Cousins, and Other Quotidian Black History Facts That I Wish I Learned in School,” collected in Magical Negro, Tin House Books
Catherine Barnett, “Accursed Questions, i,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Terrance Hayes, “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (For her last birthday I found…),” collected in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Penguin Books
Cate Marvin, “Poetry Machines,” Boston Review, collected in Oracle, W. W. Norton & Company
Joe Hall, “Someone’s Utopia: Love as a Fountain,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Someone’s Utopia, Black Ocean
Jillian Weise, “The Body in Pain,” Painted Bride Quarterly, collected in The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, Soft Skull Press
Patrick Donnelly, “Which makes me, I guess, the muddy Colorado,” Plume, collected in Little-Known Operas, Four Way Books
Elizabeth Alexander, “Neonatology,” TriQuarterly, collected in Antebellum Dream Book, Graywolf Press
Julia Story, “Julia the Astonishing,” The Best American Poetry Blog, collected in Julia the Astonishing, Sixth Finch
Monica Ferrell, “At the White Quay,” The Canary, collected in Beasts for the Chase, Sarabande Books
Alicia Jo Rabins, “Between the Tongue and the Warm Salt,” collected in Divinity School, The American Poetry Review
GennaRose Nethercott, “At the hospital, Lumberjack is still waiting…,” The Lumberjack’s Dove, HarperCollins
Victoria Redel, “What Was Left of the Angel,” collected in Already the World, Kent State University Press
Kristin Chang, “Etymology of butch,” BOAAT
Michael Martone, “Dear Miss Hamilton,” collected in Brooding, University of Georgia Press
sam sax, “Ultrasound,” The Beloit Poetry Journal, collected in bury it, Wesleyan University Press
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, “Many Hats,” collected in Water & Salt, Red Hen Press
Lisa Coffman, “Romeo Collision,” Beloit Poetry Journal, collected in Likely, The Kent State University Press
Khadijah Queen, “The same year I found out who Audie Murphy was I got stretch marks,” collected in I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On, YesYes Books
Hala Alyan, “Tattler,” collected in The Twenty-Ninth Year, Mariner Books
Rodney Jones, “The Poem of Fountains,” River Styx, collected in Imaginary Logic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Paige Ackerson-Kiely, “Folding Chairs,” collected in Dolefully, a Rampart Stands, Penguin Books
W.S. Merwin, “The River of Bees,” collected in The Lice, Copper Canyon Press
David Kirby, “John the Conqueror,” Terminus, collected in Get Up, Please, Louisiana State University Press
Reginald Shepherd, “The Gods at Three A.M.,” The Iowa Review, collected in Angel, Interrupted, The University of Pittsburgh Press
Eduardo C. Corral, “Our Completion: Oil On Wood: Tino Rodriguez: 1999,” Post Road, collected in Slow Lightning, Yale University Press
Victoria Chang, “Cardinal,” collected in Salvinia Molesta, University of Georgia Press
Erika Meitner, “Medium / Message,” At Length, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Karyna McGlynn, “The New Sincerity,” collected in Hothouse, Sarabande Books
Kim Addonizio, “’Round Midnight,” collected in What Is This Thing Called Love, W. W. Norton & Company
Jennifer Chang, “Dorothy Wordsworth,” The Nation
Steven Cramer, “South Belknap,” Massachusetts Review
Sarah Rose Nordgren, “Movie Night,” Bennington Review, collected in Darwin’s Mother, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jaswinder Bolina, “Mine Is the First Rodeo, Mine Is the Last Accolade,” Black Warrior Review, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Marc McKee, “How We Respond Is What It Means,” Phoebe, collected in Consolationeer, Black Lawrence Press
Randall Mann, “Alphabet Street,” Poem-a-Day
Kai Carlson-Wee, “Mental Health,” Frontier Poetry, collected in Rail, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Sarah Galvin, “Black Umbrella,” Dogzplot, collected in The Three Einsteins, Poor Claudia
Salem Dockery, “Mary Donner,” BOAAT
Hannah Stephenson, “Sagittarius,” collected in Cadence, The Kent State University Press
Marni Ludwig, “Clinic,” collected in Pinwheel, New Issues Press
Mary Ruefle, “When I was a child…,” collected in On Imagination,” Sarabande Books
Martha Silano, “Here I am,” collected in Gravity Assist, Saturnalia Books
Hadara Bar-Nadav, “Donor (Wind),” Prairie Schooner, collected in Lullaby (with Exit Sign), Saturnalia Books
Paul-Victor Winters, “Untitled (Imagine),” Unbroken
Angie Estes, “Note,” Poetry London, collected in Enchantée, Oberlin College Press
Eileen Cleary, “Rounds,” Incessant Pipe
Carolyn Forché, “It is summer we are driving along a highway…” collected in What You Have Heard is True, Penguin Books
Quan Barry, “craft (‘The first great poet of the crisis’),” collected in Loose Strife, University of Pittsburgh Press
Joe Fletcher, “Ringing,” collected in The Hatch, Brooklyn Arts Press
Terri Witek, “Sex Dream with Transit Warning,” collected in Body Switch, Orchises Press
Maureen N. McLane, “Excursion Susan Sontag,” collected in Same Life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Olena Kalytiak Davis, “It Is To Have Or Nothing,” Green Mountains Review
Tom Andrews, “Cinema Verité: The Death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson,” FIELD
Jack Gilbert, “Mistrust of Bronze,” collected in Monolithos, Alfred A. Knopf
Patricia Smith, “Alliance,” collected in Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, Coffee House Press
Analicia Sotelo, “You Really Killed That ’80s Love Song,” Waxwing, collected in Virgin, Milkweed Editions
Jill Alexander Essbaum, “Lullaby for a Good Friday,” Rather-vue, collected in Heaven, University Press of New England
Emilia Phillips, “Barista,” Banango Street, collected in Empty Clip, University of Akron Press
Rebecca Hazelton, “We’ll Fix It in Post,” Missouri Review, collected in Gloss, University of Wisconsin Press
Bob Hicok, “Pedagogy,” On the Seawall
Dana Curtis, “Pope Joan on Film,” collected in The Body’s Response to Famine, Pavement Saw Press
Tiana Clark, “Gentrification,” The Southeast Review
Matthew Dickman, “The Order of Things,” collected in Wonderland, W. W. Norton & Company
Libby Burton, “And This is Rare,” collected in Soft Volcano, Saturnalia Books
Bradley Trumpfheller, “Asphyxia,” Washington Square
Eleni Sikelianos, “Skin on a Dime,” GlitterPony, collected in The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead, Coffee House Press
Bianca Stone, “The Green Word,” collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Rachel Mennies, “September 10, 2016,” Jet Fuel Review
Kathryn Nuernberger, “And now brightness falls from the air…,” Lake Effect, collected in Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, Ohio State University Press
Kevin Young, “[ Death’s Dictionary ],” collected in Brown, Alfred A. Knopf
Traci Brimhall, “Love Prodigal,” The Nation
Kateri Lanthier, “Baby Grand,” Green Mountains Review, collected in Siren, Véhicule Press
Anna Moschovakis, “What It Means to Be Avant Garde,” collected in They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This, Coffee House Press
Cassandra de Alba, “solstice poem: somerville, massachusetts,” IDK Magazine
Natalie Shapero, “Invocation: The Third and Fourth Generation of Them That Hate Me,” collected in No Object, Saturnalia Books
Dan Chiasson, “Natural History,” collected in Natural History, Alfred A. Knopf
Carrie Fountain, “Yes,” collected in Instant Winner, Penguin Books
Sara Lefsyk, “For and After Federico García Lorca,” Poetry Crush, collected in We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds, Black Lawrence Press
Erin Hoover, “Science Fiction: A Love Poem,” Pleiades, collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Eve L. Ewing, “The Discount Megamall (in memorial),” collected in Electric Arches, Haymarket Books
Christine Gosnay, “Ode to Men of the Service Industry,” Linebreak, collected in Even Years, The Kent State University Press
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Self-Portrait as Banshee,” Pleiades, collected in Let’s All Die Happy, University of Pittsburgh Press
Ed Pavlić, “Verbatim,” collected in Visiting Hours at the Color Line, Milkweed Editions
Chen Chen, “The Cuckoo Cry,” Southern Indiana Review, collected in When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, BOA Editions, Ltd
Katherine Larson, “Study for Love’s Body,” AGNI, collected in Radial Symmetry, Yale University Press
Kathy Fagan, “Life, with Eyeliner,” Connotation Press, collected in Sycamore, Milkweed Editions
Kelli Russell Agodon, “Exam,” Southeast Review, collected in Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, White Pine Press
Diane Seuss, “[Margaret Sanger did the first one, I was awake and felt terribly sorry],” Scoundrel Time
Solmaz Sharif, “Deception Story,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Look, Graywolf Press
Barbara Hamby, “The Dream of the Red Drink,” The Southern Review, collected in The Alphabet of Desire, NYU Press
Joel Long, “Bermuda Triangle,” collected in Winged Insects, White Pine Press
Martin Ott, “Jesus Wasn’t a Refugee. He Just Wanted to Pay His Taxes,” Barrow Street, collected in Fake News Poems, BlazeVOX [Books]
Kevin Prufer, “The Adulterer,” The Paris Review, collected in How He Loved Them, Four Way Books
Angie Estes, “Transcript,” The Manhattan Review, collected in Tryst, Oberlin College Press
Anders Carlson-Wee, “Gathering Firewood on Tinpan,” The Journal, collected in The Low Passions, W. W. Norton & Company
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Affect Theory,” collected in When We Were Fearsome, Ethel
Oliver Bendorf, “The Doctor Told Me the Shots Would Make Me Spin Silk,” Redivider, collected in The Spectral Wilderness, The Kent State University Press
Aaron Smith, “The Crystal Lithium,” The Baffler, collected in The Book of Daniel, The University of Pittsburgh Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Little Gals,” Wave Composition, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Sean Shearer, “Wrestling Season,” The Iowa Review
Landon Godfrey, “Compositions in Grey and Grey,” collected in Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown, Cider Press
Justin Bigos, “The Good Life,” diode, collected in Mad River, Gold Wake Press
Sandra Beasley, “Fireproof,” Coconut, collected in Theories of Falling, New Issues Press
Mary Biddinger, “Instant Courage,” Waxwing
Robert Archambeau, “The People’s Republic of Sleepless Nights,” Rattle, collected in Home and Variations, Salt Publishing
Meghan Privitello, “Day 7,” Drunk in a Midnight Choir, collected in Notes on the End of the World, Black Lawrence Press
B.K. Fischer, “Losing It,” collected in My Lover’s Discourse, Tinderbox Editions
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “Rain, Gas, Boone County, West Virginia,” collected in The Second O of Sorrow, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Morgan Parker, “Sammy Davis Jr.,” collected in Magical Negro, Tin House Books
Erica Wright, “Mortuary Man,” B O D Y, collected in All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned, Black Lawrence Press
Paul Guest, “Audio Commentary Track 2,” collected in My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, HarperCollins
Julie Carr, “Rag [Was that it then],” collected in Rag, Omnidawn Publishing
Gregory Lawless, “State Fair,” Poets/Artists, collected in Far Away, Red Mountain Press
Terrance Hayes, “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin,” Connotation Press, collected in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Penguin Books
Jenny Irish, “Red Wreck’s Sexual Education,” collected in Common Ancestor, Black Lawrence Press
Dorianne Laux, “Oh, the Water,” collected in Smoke, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Erin Belieu, “Wayward Girl,” collected in One Above & One Below, Copper Canyon Press
Jim Daniels, “#2, Parking Lot, Ford Sterling Plant,” collected in Places/Everyone, University of Wisconsin Press
Elizabeth Alexander, “Orange,” Callaloo, collected in Antebellum Dream Book, Graywolf Press
Oni Buchanan, “Dear Lonely Animal, [I miss you. The other animals],” collected in Spring, University of Illinois Press
Rachel Loden, “Blues for the Evil Empire,” collected in The Last Campaign, Slapering Hol Press
Virginia Konchan, “The Great Physician,” The Wallace Stevens Journal, collected in The End of Spectacle, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Heather Christle, “Paper Crown,” American Poetry Review
Sean Shearer, “Red Lemons,” Foundry
Oliver de la Paz, “Self-Portrait Beside a Dead Chestnut Horse,” The Chattahoochee Review, collected in Requiem for the Orchard, The University of Akron Press
Elaine Equi, “Restaurant Art,” collected in Sentences and Rain, Coffee House Press
Nicholas Christopher, “Notes Toward a History of Imperialism,” collected in In the Year of the Comet, Penguin Books
Kendra DeColo, “After Seeing The Misfits,” collected in Thieves in the Afterlife, Saturnalia Books
Hala Alyan, “Oklahoma,” Poetry, collected in The Twenty-Ninth Year, Mariner Books
Julia Story, “How She Forced Visions Upon Herself.,” Rockhurst Review, collected in Julie the Astonishing, Sixth Finch
Joe Pan, “Cheerios,” Operating Systems, Spork Press
Eduardo C. Corral, “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome [I approach a harp],” Indiana Review, Slow Lightning, Yale University Press
Connie Voisine, “The Bower,” collected in The Bower, University of Chicago Press
Laura Kasischke, “Kitchen Song,” collected in Dance and Disappear, University of Massachusetts Press
Catherine Pierce, “In Which I Am Famous,” Ploughshares, collected in The Tornado is the World, Saturnalia Books
J.D. Scrimgeour, “A Montage of Brick and Water,” collected in The Last Miles, Fine Tooth Press
Kristin Bock, “Binding Spell,” inter|rupture
Victoria Chang, “How Much,” collected in Salvinia Molesta, University of Georgia Press
David Daniel, “The Sonnet,” collected in Ornaments, University of Pittsburgh Press
Catherine Barnett, “Calamity Jane on Etsy after the 2016 Election,” Poetry International, collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Emily Skaja, “No, I Do Not Want to Connect with You on LinkedIn,” The Rumpus, collected in Brute, Graywolf Press
Jennifer Chang, “The Middle Ages,” collected in Some Say the Lark, Alice James Books
Robert Bly, “Late Moon,”
Joe Hall, “Amnesia, 2000 / Dawn, Third Shift,” PEN America Blog, collected in Someone’s Utopia, Black Ocean
Jillian Weise, “The Old Questions,” collected in The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, Soft Skull Press
Kathleen Rooney, “Midwestern Wedding: Dream No. 4,” collected in Oneiromance, Switchback Books
Bradley Trumpfheller, “Ekphrasis, I Guess,” BOAAT
Cate Marvin, “High School as a Dead Girl,” The Awl, collected in Oracle, W. W. Norton & Company
Emilia Phillips, “My Mother Confessed I was Conceived to Ravel’s ‘Bolero,’” Poetry International
Jaswinder Bolina, “Federal Scene,” Explosion-Proof, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Patrick Donnelly, “Callas as Medea,” collected in Little-Known Operas, Four Way Books
Alicia Jo Rabins, “The Magic,” The Cortland Review, collected in Divinity School, The American Poetry Review
Randall Mann, “Forever,” Court Green
GennaRose Nethercott, “This is the part of the telling…” The Lumberjack’s Dove, HarperCollins
Michael Martone, “What Was On My Mind: Face to Facebook with My Mother’s Death, July 2012,” Stone Canoe, collected in Brooding, University of Georgia Press
Lisa Coffman, “The Small Town,” West Branch, collected in Likely, The Kent State University Press
Paige Ackerson-Kiely, “Laconia,” Pinwheel, collected in Dolefully, a Rampart Stands, Penguin Books
Erika Meitner, “Threat Assessment,” Columbia Poetry Review, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Quan Barry, “loose strife (‘I will not say its name’),” collected in Loose Strife, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kim Addonizio, “Review of Possible Signs and Symptoms,” Mead, collected in Mortal Trash, W. W. Norton & Company
David Kirby, “The Werewolf,” Five Points, collected in The Ha-Ha, Louisiana State University Press
David Berman, “Community College in the Rain,” collected in Actual Air, Open City Books
Karyna McGlynn, “The Girls I Grew Up with Were Hard,” 32 Poems
Donika Kelly, “Swallow,” Virginia Quarterly Review, collected in Bestiary, Graywolf Press
Kai Carlson-Wee, “American Freight,” Atticus Review, collected in Rail, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Sarah Galvin, “The Only Light Source Should Be a Scented Candle the Size of a Trash Can,” collected in The Three Einsteins, Poor Claudia
Martha Silano, “My Hour with Jorie Graham,” Green Mountains Review, collected in What the Truth Tastes Like, Two Sylvias Press
Terri Witek, “Wet Specimens,” Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, collected in Exit Island, Orchises Press
Hadara Bar-Nadav, “Run Round and Round a Room,” collected in Lullaby (with Exit Sign), Saturnalia Books
Kevin Young, “Phys. Ed.,” collected in Brown, Alfred A. Knopf
Maureen N. McLane, “Au Revoir,” The New Yorker, collected in Same Life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Eileen Cleary, “At the Fernald School for the Feeble Minded,” The American Journal of Poetry, collected in Child Ward of the Commonwealth, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.
July Westhale, “You Can Lead a Horse to Water. Repeat.,” Thin Noon, collected in Trailer Trash, Kore Press
Emilia Phillips, “The days that were have now,” Boston Review, collected in Empty Clip, University of Akron Press
Chen Chen, “Summer Was Forever,” Pank, collected in When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Jack Gilbert, “I’ll Try To Explain About the Fear,” collected in Monolithos
Rebecca Hazelton, “I Animal You,” Compose Journal, collected in Gloss, University of Wisconsin Press
Ron Koertge, “Never Let Your Reader’s Attention Wander.” collected in The Ogre’s Wife, Red Hen Press
Solmaz Sharif, “Mess Hall,” Blackbird, collected in Look, Graywolf Press
Kelly Forsythe, “A poem in which I am dreaming,” DIAGRAM, collected in Perennial, Coffee House Press
Tina Chang, “Hybrida: A Zuihitsu,” collected in Hybrida, W. W. Norton & Company
Laura Read, “The Big Chill,” collected in Dresses from the Old Country, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Jericho Brown, “Duplex,” American Poetry Review, collected in The Tradition, Copper Canyon Press
Bianca Stone, “A Brief Topography of the MSCOG,” collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Keetje Kuipers, “Our Last Vacation,” Connotation Press, collected in The Keys to the Jail, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Kerri Webster, “This is Manifest,” Los Angeles Review, collected in The Trailhead, Wesleyan University Press
Kathryn Nuernberger, “When We Dead Awaken,” The Collagist
Vijay Seshadri, “Trailing Clouds of Glory,” collected in 3 Sections, Graywolf Press
Mary Ruefle, “The Tenor of Your Yes,” collected in Indeed I was Pleased with the World, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Sarah Blake, “For Max,” The Rumpus, collected in Let’s Not Live on Earth, Wesleyan University Press
Anna Moschovakis, “Death as a Way of Life,” collected in You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, Coffee House Press
jasper avery, “#0 earth,” collected in number one earth, Metatron Press
Natalie Shapero, “I Don’t Sleep in White,” The Progressive, collected in No Object, Saturnalia Books
Emma Bolden, “Terror Management Theory,” Parentheses
Lauren Clark, “Epithalamion,” NAP, collected in Music for a Wedding, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jennife Michael Hecht, “Please Use This Against Me,” collected in Who Said, Copper Canyon Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Confession,” Under a Warm Green Linden, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Emily Pettit, “How to Find a Robber,” collected in Goat in the Snow, Birds, LLC
Sarah Freligh, “Waitress,” collected in Sad Math, Moon City Press
Jenny Johnson, “Dappled Things,” The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, collected in In Full Velvet, Sarabande Books
Sara Eliza Johnson, “Combustion,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Bone Map, Milkweed Editions
Carrie Fountain, “The Parable of the Talents,” collected in Instant Winner, Penguin Books
Morgan Parker, “Matt,” Sixth Finch, collected in Magical Negro, Tin House Books
Sara Lefsyk, “We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds,” collected in We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds, Black Lawrence Press
Erin Hoover, “The Valkyrie,” The Awl, collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Lauren Yarnall, “Mouth Full of White Flags,” Waxwing
Jeni De La O, “Once,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Lookback,” Horsethief, collected in Let’s All Die Happy, University of Pittsburgh Press
Elizabeth Alexander, “Nat King Cole on the Amalfi Drive,” collected in Antebellum Dream Book, Graywolf Press
Diane Seuss, “[How will I leave this life, like I left my job, drifting off without],” Waxwing
Katherine Larson, “Grandfather Outside,” collected in Radial Symmetry, Yale University Press
Christine Gosnay, “Plastic Mirror,” collected in Even Years, The Kent State University Press
Kelli Russell Agodon, “Dune Primrose,” Crab Creek Review, collected in The Hourglass Museum, Two Sylvias Press
Khadijah Queen, “My Other Name: A Postscript,” collected in I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On, YesYes Books
Kathy Fagan, “In California,” Gulf Coast, collected in The Charm, Zoo Press
Barbara Hamby, “Ode on My Sharp Tongue,” Western Humanities Review, collected in Babel, University of Pittsburgh Press
Tara Skurtu, “Hunger,” spoKe, collected in The Amoeba Game
Marni Ludwig, “In the Kingdom of Shade and Silence,” collected in Pinwheel, New Issues Press
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Hexagenia Limbata,” Tin House, collected in Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, Ohio State University Press
Oliver Bendorf, “Inventory,” Toe Good Poetry, collected in The Spectral Wilderness, The Kent State University Press
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Existential Kink,” collected in When We Were Fearsome, Ethel
Suzanne Gardinier, “Leviathan,” collected in The New World, University of Pittsburgh Press
Emilia Phillips, “It Doesn’t Matter Who You Are or What You Do, Something in this World Will Make a Fool of You,” The Rumpus
Hala Alyan, “Truth,” diode, collected in The Twenty-Ninth Year, Mariner Books
Landon Godfrey, “Landscape with Dialectical Materialism and Milk,” collected in Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown, Cider Press
Olena Kalytiak Davis, “The Panic of Birds,” collected in The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems, Copper Canyon Press
Terrance Hayes, “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (I cut myself on some glass),” collected in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Penguin Books
Meghan Privitello, “Day 12,” collected in Notes on the End of the World, Black Lawrence Press
B.K. Fischer, “(Litmus),” collected in Radioapocrypha, Ohio State University Press
Traci Brimhall, “Self-Portrait as Milk Hare in Active Shooter Alert,” Crazyhorse
Kevin Prufer, “Giving It Back,” AGNI, collected in How He Loved Them, Four Way Books
Anders Carlson-Wee, “Cousin Josh on Doomsday,” New Ohio Review, collected in The Low Passions, W. W. Norton & Company
Oliver de la Paz, “Self-Portrait with a Schlitz, a Pickup, and the Snake River,” River Styx, collected in Requiem for the Orchard, The University of Akron Press
Victoria Chang, “Ars Poetica as Corporation and Canary,” collected in Salvinia Molesta, University of Georgia Press
Dan Chiasson, “Here Follows an Account of the Nature of Birds,” The Paris Review, collected in Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon, Alfred A. Knopf
Justin Bigos, “Portrait of My Father as John Clare: ‘Skunk’s Nest,’” North Dakota Quarterly, collected in Mad River, Gold Wake Press
Amy Dryansky, “Because the Moon Is a Cliché & Not Exactly Steadfast,” Waxwing
Jenny Irish, “Red Wreck Watches PBS,” collected in Common Ancestor, Black Lawrence Press
Aaron Smith, “Music History,” collected in Blue on Blue Ground, University of Pittsburgh Press
Dorianne Laux, “The Tooth Fairy,” collected in Awake, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Rachel Loden, “Premillenial Tristesse,” collected in The Last Campaign, Slapering Hol Press
Erin Belieu, “Of the Poet’s Youth,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, collected in Black Box, Copper Canyon Press
Sean Thomas Dougherty, “Poem Made of East Sides,” Matter, collected in The Second O of Sorrow, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Ruth Madievsky, “Sidewalk,” The Paris-American, collected in Emergency Brake, Tavern Books
Jaswinder Bolina, “All My Darlings,” Jet Fuel Review, collected in Phantom Camera, New Issues Press
Gregory Lawless, “Paradise for Strangers,” collected in I Thought I Was New Here, BlazeVOX Books
Oni Buchanan, “Dear Lonely Animal, [Sometimes I could just],” collected in Spring, University of Illinois Press
Eduardo C. Corral, “Temple in a Teapot (Aquí Está el Detalle),” The Journal, collected in Slow Lightning, Yale University Press
Marc McKee, “How Meta is This?: An Essay,” collected in Meta Meta Make-Belief, Black Lawrence Press
Paul Guest, “Inaugural Poem,” collected in Because Everything is Terrible, Diode Editions
Kelly Morse, “Heavy Light,” Cincinnati Review, collected in Heavy Light, Two of Cups Press
Virginia Konchan, “Rorschach,” Third Coast, collected in The End of Spectacle, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Kendra DeColo, “The Retired Contortionist Inside You,” Copper Nickel, collected in My Dinner with Ron Jeremy, Third Man Books
Jim Daniels, “Posted Limits,” Fat City Review, collected in Apology to the Moon, Batcat Press
Randall Mann, “Abandoned Landscapes,” Spork, collected in Breakfast with Thom Gunn, The University of Chicago Press
Lisa Jarnot, “Marginalia,” collected in Some Other Kind of Mission, Burning Deck
Julia Story, “How She Was Saved.,” Rockhurst Review, collected in Julie the Astonishing, Sixth Finch
Kevin Young, “De La Soul Is Dead,” collected in Brown, Alfred A. Knopf
Ellen Doré Watson, “Numbers,” collected in pray me stay eager, Alice James Books
Melissa Kwasny, “Attar,” Interim, collected in The Nine Senses, Milkweed Editions
William Matthews, “Manners,” Five Points, collected in After All, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Rosa Alcalá, “Good Night,” collected in Undocumentaries, Shearsman Books
Camille Rankine, “On the Motion of Animals,” collected in Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Copper Canyon Press
Victoria Redel, “The Presidential Debate,” collected in Already the World, Kent State University Press
Connie Voisine, “And God Created Woman,” New Ohio Review, collected in And God Created Woman, Bull City Press
Laura Kasischke, “Dear Earth,” Willow Springs, collected in Fire & Flower, Alice James Books
Catherine Pierce, “Adolescence,” collected in Animals of Habit, The Kent State University Press
Julie Sheehan, “Hate Poem,” collected in Orient Point, W. W. Norton & Company
Kristin Bock, “Among Sorrows and Stones,” collected in Cloisters, Tupelo Press
Tyree Daye, “Planet Theory,” collected in River Hymns, The American Poetry Review
Catherine Barnett, “Accursed Questions, ii,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Joe Hall, “1873,” collected in Someone’s Utopia, Black Ocean
Jillian Weise, “The Devotee,” collected in The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, Soft Skull Press
Kathleen Rooney, “Brazilian Wedding: Dream No. 2,” collected in Oneiromance, Switchback Books
Bradley Trumpfheller, “Hearing Loss,” jubilat
Quan Barry, “craft (‘The man in the Hawaiian shirt’),” collected in Loose Strife, University of Pittsburgh Press
Michael Earl Craig, “I’m in Room 927,” Gulf Coast, collected in Woods and Clouds Interchangeable, Wave Books
Katia Kapovich, “In Nabokov’s Memory,” Big Bridge, collected in Cossacks and Bandits, Salt Publishing
Patrick Donnelly, “Blood Moon,” Tikkun, collected in Little-Known Operas, Four Way Books
Joe Jiménez, “I’m afraid the house we’re in will explode—.” collected in Rattlesnake Allegory, Red Hen Press
Sean Shearer, “Urine Sample,” Beloit Poetry Journal
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder, “In the Museum of the Nineteenth Century, the Lights Are Coming On,” Blackbird
Zachary Schomburg, “Sea of Japan,” collected in The Man Suit, Black Ocean
Mary Biddinger, “Heaven and Its Atmosphere,” Black Fork Review
Cassie Donish, “Heat Waves,” collected in The Year of the Femme, University of Iowa Press
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Fast Skirt Blues,” collected in Outlandish Blues, Wesleyan University Press
Paige Ackerson-Kiely, “Simple Story of Illumination,” collected in Dolefully, a Rampart Stands, Penguin Books
Laura Read, “Cathedral,” Rock & Sling, collected in Dresses from the Old Country, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Angie Estes, “Bourrée,” Green Mountains Review, collected in Tryst, Oberlin College Press
Erika Meitner, “And Still We Gather with Infinite Momentum,” Forklift, Ohio, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
David Kirby, “Calling Robert Bly,” Salt Hill, collected in The Ha-Ha, Louisiana State University Press
Heather Christle, “Funding the Arts and Sciences,” Southeast Review
Ed Pavlić, “A Brief History of Now and at Least a Good Elbow’s Worth of Headroom,” collected in Labors Lost Left Unfinished, Sheep Meadow Press
Nicholas Christopher, “Vertigo from an Open Window Overlooking a Sodium Light,” collected in In the Year of the Comet, Penguin Books
Kai Carlson-Wee, “Freddy Krueger,” AGNI, collected in Rail, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Cate Marvin, “Thoughts on Wisteria,” Tin House, collected in Oracle, W. W. Norton & Company
Ron Koertge, “Cincinnati, 1947,” Slipstream, collected in The Ogre’s Wife, Red Hen Press
Lee Ann Roripaugh, “The Planet of Dandar,” Platte Valley Review, collected in Dandarians, Milkweed Editions
Diana Marie Delgado, “House of Stars,” collected in Tracing the Horse, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Kim Addonizio, “In the Lonely Universe,” collected in Lucifer at the Starlite, W. W. Norton & Company
Martha Silano, “When You Didn’t Call,” Hanging Loose, collected in What the Truth Tastes Like, Two Sylvias Press
Hadara Bar-Nadav, “The Sun Also Lonely,” collected in The Frame Called Ruin, New Issues Press
Cecily Iddings, “Sword Fight,” The Volta, collected in Is To: As: Is To, Spooky Girlfriend Press
Tommy Pico, “Having Left,” collected in Brooklyn Poets Anthology, Brooklyn Arts Press
Sarah Galvin, “Bombshell,” collected in The Three Einsteins, Poor Claudia
Maureen N. McLane, “Terrible things are happening…,” The New Yorker, collected in Same Life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Terri Witek, “In Portuguese,” The Ilanot Review, collected in Body Switch, Orchises Press
Emilia Phillips, “On a Late-Night Encounter with a Barefoot College Student Wearing Only a Party Dress and a Man’s Blazer,” collected in Empty Clip, University of Akron Press
Rachel Zucker, “Seven Beds Six Cities Eight Weeks,” At Length, collected in Soundmachine, Wave Books
2018 POEMS
Paisley Rekdal, “Confessional,” Ninth Letter, collected in Imaginary Vessels, Copper Canyon Press
Joanna C. Valente, “The Afterlife Is a Room Full of Windows You Are Trying to Avoid,” Cotton Xenomorph
Victoria Chang, “Barbie Chang’s Mother Calls,” diode, collected in Barbie Chang, Copper Canyon Press
Mai Der Vang, “I Am the Whole Defense,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Afterland, Graywolf Press
Amy Dryansky, “I Meant Eyes But Wrote Yes,” Connotation Press
Tanya Olson, “Caught In A Trap: The Dead Redux,” The Pedestal, collected in Boyishly, YesYes Books
Adam Sol, “Suburban Pastoral,” collected in Crowd of Sounds, House of Anansi Press
Chen Chen, “Night Falls like a Button,” Poem-a-Day, collected in When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, BOA Editions
Mary Ruefle, “I Remember, I Remember,” Poetry
Eugenia Leigh, “Not a Warning, Not a Challenge, Not an Instruction Manual,” Muzzle, collected in Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, Four Way Books
James Tate, “Dear Reader,” collected in The Oblivion Ha-Ha, Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Tara Skurtu, “Coming and Going,” The Los Angeles Review, collected in The Amoeba Game, Eyewear Publishing
Patricia Smith, “That Chile Emmett in That Casket,” in Water~Stone Review, collected in Incendiary Art, TriQuarterly Books
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Circus Fire, 1944,” The Paris Review, collected in The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Persea Books
Sophie Klahr, “Say When,” PANK, collected in Meet Me Here at Dawn, YesYes Books
Kiki Petrosino, “Self-Portrait,” River Styx, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Rachel Mennies, “Early Winter, Before (II),” Waxwing
Rachel Loden, “Milhous as King of the Ghosts,” Spoon River Poetry Review, collected in Dick of the Dead, Ahsahta Press
Jim Daniels, “Hair on Fire,” The Alembic, collected in Street Calligraphy, Steel Toe Books
Sarah Howe, “Stray Dogs,” The Poetry Review, collected in Loop of Jade, Penguin
Gregory Lawless, “Dost,” Drunken Boat, collected in I Thought I Was New Here, BlazeVOX
Dave Snyder, “Acetylcholine: Lot and Sparrow,” Sentence
Maureen N. McLane, “Tips for Survival,” collected in Some Say, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Rodney Jones, “XLI (Mack, The Breaker),” Five Points, collected in Village Prodigies, Mariner Books
Reginald Shepherd, “Refrain,” Indiana Review, collected in Fata Morgana, University of Pittsburgh Press
Hayan Charara, “Terrorism,” Poetry
Josh Bell, “Vince Neil Accompanies Josh to Luncheon w/ Scholars, Poets, and Others—Gets Cell-Phone Number of Grad. Student Sitting at Far End of Table—Orders Cheeseburger, No Tomato—Borrows Josh’s Cell Phone—Calls Grad. Student Sitting at Far End of Table,” The Manchester Review, collected in Alamo Theory, Copper Canyon Press
Stephanie Burt, “Electrical Flora,” collected in Advice from the Lights, Graywolf Press
Emilia Phillips, “If You Can’t See My Mirrors I Can’t See You,” Tinderbox
Aleda Shirley, “Right as Rain,” Crazyhorse, collected in Long Distance, Miami University Press
Kristen Case, “A Crown for Whatever Has Fallen,” boaat
Nickole Brown, “The Dead,” Cave Wall, collected in The Best American Poetry 2017, Scribner
Jennie Malboeuf, “The Leonids,” The Cortland Review
Sandra Newman, “1 Fave = 1 Fact About Myself That Is of Interest Only To Myself: Everything Gold Can Stay”
Maureen Seaton, “Latitudes,” Waxwing
Beth Ann Fennelly, “Safety Scissors”; “The Visitation”; “When They Grow Up”; “What I Think About When Someone Uses ‘Pussy’ as a Synonym for ‘Weak’”; collected in Heating & Cooling, Norton
Nicole Sealey, “Legendary,” Callaloo, collected in Ordinary Beast, HarperCollins
Michael Earl Craig, “April,” collected in Yes, Master, Fence Books
Belle Waring, “Use the Following Construction in a Sentence,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Dark Blonde, Sarabande Books
David Kirby, “Ode to Lists,” Upstreet, collected in Get Up, Please, Louisiana State University Press
Sarah Green, “Seeing His New Girlfriend at the Coat Check,” collected in Earth Science, 421 Atlanta
Rachel McKibbens, “the ghost’s daughter speaks: white elephant,” collected in blud, Copper Canyon Press
Mary Biddinger, “Risk Management Memo: The Service Industry & You,” Banango Street, collected in Small Enterprise, Black Lawrence Press
Adriana Cloud, “Instructions for Renting an Apartment,” collected in Instructions for Building a Wind Chime, Poetry Society of America
Kateri Lanthier, “Valentine’s Day,” collected in Siren, Véhicule Press
Camille Guthrie, “During the Middle Ages,” The Iowa Review
Diane Seuss, “[I floated I flew I fell to earth to learn the pleasures of the lowdown],” Waxwing
Kendra DeColo, “Love Poem in the Style of Jordan’s Furniture,” Waxwing
Arielle Greenberg, “Ord,” collected in Locally Made Panties, Ricochet Editions
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Three Poems,” Vinyl
Marta Balcewicz, “Natasha Writes Back,” AGNI
Traci Brimhall, “In Which the Chorus Sees an Incomplete Vision of the Future,” The Believer, collected in Saudade, Copper Canyon
Laura Kasischke, “The Bad Teacher,” The New Republic, collected in Lilies Without, Ausable Press
Paul-Victor Winters, “Eva Braun,” Spider Mirror
Kristin Bock, “On the Day of Your Wedding,” Ghost Town
Elizabeth Alexander, “The female seer will burn upon this pyre,” collected in Antebellum Dream Book, Graywolf Press
Deborah Landau, “All Else Fails,” The Awl, collected in The Last Usable Hour, Copper Canyon Press
Catherine Bowman, “The Stall,” collected in Can I Finish, Please?, Four Way Books
Karyna McGlynn, “Eyebrows,” collected in Hothouse, Sarabande Books
Alison Stine, “Service,” Thrush
Adrian Matejka, “Collectable Blacks,” Copper Nickel, collected in Map to the Stars, Penguin
Erin Belieu, “How We Count in the South,” collected in Slant Six, Copper Canyon Press
Martha Silano, “The Untied States of America,” Verse Daily, collected in Reckless Lovely, Saturnalia Books
Kim Addonizio, “Introduction to Poetry,” Five Points, collected in Lucifer at the Starlite, W.W. Norton
April Bernard, “When I Was Thirteen, I Saw Uncle Vanya,” Little Star, collected in Brawl & Jag, W.W. Norton
Jill Alexander Essbaum, “Tongues of Fire,” Wascana Review, collected in Heaven, University Press of New England
Marni Ludwig, “Ceremony for a Sphere,” collected in Pinwheel, New Issues Press
Analicio Sotelo, “Summer Barbecue with Two Men,” Waxwing, collected in Virgin, Milkweed Editions
William Matthews, “Living among the Dead,” collected in Search Party, Mariner Books
Stephanie Burt, “My 1986,” collected in Advice from the Lights, Graywolf
Lynn Melnick, “Poem to Remind My Heart to Beat,” Phantom, collected in Landscape with Sex and Violence, YesYes Books
cassandra de alba, “the deer become piñatas,” collected in habitats, Horse Less Press
Bob Hicok, “Friendship (Half Hitch),” collected in Sex & Love &, Copper Canyon Press
Hera Lindsay Bird, “Lost Scrolls,” collected in Hera Lindsay Bird, Victoria University Press
Nicholas Christopher, “Confessio Amantis,” collected in In the Year of the Comet, Alfred A. Knopf
Fred Marchant, “Malebolge,” collected in The Tipping Point, The Word Works
Kathryn Nuernberger, “The Real Thing,” The Gettysburg Review
Julia Story, “Julie the Astonishing (How She Discovered Christ Was a Metaphor),” Tinderbox
Alexander Long, “Meditation on a Suicide,” The Prose Poem: An International Journal, collected in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry, Rose Metal Press
Joshua Bennett, “In Defense of DMX,” collected in The Sobbing School, Penguin
Natalie Shapero, “The Obligatory Making of Amends,” Pinwheel, collected in Hard Child, Copper Canyon
Sara Wainscott, “Four Poems,” collected in Queen of the Moon: Sevenlings, Dancing Girl Press
Marcus Wicker, “Conjecture on the Stained Glass Image of White Christ at Ebenezer Baptist Church,” Poetry, collected in Silencer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Landon Godfrey, “A Single Clap of Thunder Can Quite Literally Frighten a Shrew to Death,” Chelsea, collected in Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown, Cider Press
Lisa Dordal, “Survival,” Cave Wall, collected in Mosaic of the Dark, Black Lawrence Press
Major Jackson, “The Flâneur Tends a Well-Liked Summer Cocktail,” Virginia Quarterly Review, collected in The Best American Poetry 2017, Scribner
Bianca Stone, “Blue Jays,” collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Zach Savich, “A Smear of Paint to Test the Paper,” collected in Day Bed, Black Ocean
Sarah Blake, “The Week Kanye Joined Twitter,” Fleeting Magazine, collected in Mr. West, Wesleyan University Press
David Rivard, ”This,” Green Mountains Review, collected in Standoff, Graywolf
Jason Phoebe Rusch, “Dearly Beloved, Abomination,” BOAAT
Rebecca Black, “Coda,” Blackbird
Gregory Orr, “Three Dark Proverb Sonnets,” Mississippi Review, collected in The Best American Poetry 2017, Scribner
Shauna Barbosa, “Welcome Back,” collected in Cape Verdean Blues, University of Pittsburgh Press
Raymond McDaniel, “Destiny and Mystique,” collected in The Cataracts, Coffee House Press
Kerri Webster, “The Spinster Project,” BOAAT, collected in The Trailhead, Wesleyan University Press
Amanda Cook, “We are nearly rioting here…” collected in Ironstone Whirlygig, Bootstrap Press
Sandra Beasley, “Theories of Non-Violence,” Foursquare, collected in Theories of Falling, New Issues Press
Erica Wright, “Admitted: There Are Tractors in This Hallucination,” Ping-Pong, collected in All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned, Black Lawrence Press
Adrian Blevins, “Brief Essay on Self-Contempt in the Key of ‘S,’” Cimarron Review, collected in Appalachians Run Amok, Two Sylvias Press
Adriana Cloud, “Instructions for Pronouncing My Name,” collected in Instructions for Building a Wind Chime, Poetry Society of America
Victoria Chang, “The Doctor Says Hospice,” collected in Barbie Chang, Copper Canyon Press
Kevin Prufer, “In the Wheat Field,” collected in How He Loved Them, Four Way Books
Paisley Rekdal, “Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Imaginary Vessels, Copper Canyon Press
Chen Chen, “Didier et Zizou,” jmww, collected in When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, BOA
Mary Ruefle, “Emily Dickinson had an amazing imagination…,” collected in On Imagination, Sarabande Books
Joanna C. Valente, “Body Within Body,” Pouch
Wendy C. Ortiz, Selections from Bruja, Civil Coping Mechanisms
John Gallaher, “All is Love,” The Rumpus, collected in The Future of Love, Salt Hill
Kiki Petrosino, “Nocturne,” Memorious, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
B.K. Fischer, “Our Lady of the Prom,” collected in Radioapocrypha, Ohio State University Press
Michael Mercurio, “Monster,” Crab Creek Review
Rebecca Morgan Frank, “Crawfish Chorus,” The Gulf Stream, collected in Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Rachel Loden, “Lapland Not Actually the Country of Lesbians,” Zoland Poetry, collected in Dick of the Dead, Ahsahta Press
Jim Daniels, “FOE: Forwarding Order Expired,” collected in Rowing Inland, Wayne State University Press
Paul Guest, “On Being Asked Who the You Is in My Poems,” Blue Mesa Review, collected in Notes for My Body Double, University of Nebraska Press
Matthew Zapruder, “Luna My Captive,” Poem-a-Day
Gregory Lawless, “Scranton Considers Reviving the Coal Industry,” collected in Far Away, Red Mountain Press
Justin Bigos, “Twenty Thousand Pigeons,” iO, collected in Mad River, Gold Wake Press
Chris Tonelli, Three Poems, collected in Whatever Stasis, Barrelhouse Books
Ed Pavlić, “Scire Facias: Dr Tchicai, Alias, ER from Beneath Beyond,” collected in Live at the Bitter End, Saturnalia Books
Emilia Phillips, “Love Em and Leave Em Fast,” Tinderbox
Susan Lewis, “Another Dream of Beginnings,” Conjunctions
David Daniel, “Rock and Roll,” collected in Ornaments, University of Pittsburgh Press
Sumita Chakraborty, “Essay on Joy,” The Rumpus
William Trowbridge, “In Memoriam: Omaha Tech,” New Letters, collected in Put This On, Please, Red Hen Press
Maureen Seaton, “Infidel,” collected in Fisher, Black Lawrence Press
Cindy King, “Prelude and Seating of the Mothers,” River Styx
David Wojahn, “Concerning Pan,” Blackbird, collected in For the Scribe, University of Pittsburgh Press
Joe Pan, Four Poems, collected in Hiccups, Augury Books
David Kirby, “The Juniper Tree,” The Cortland Review, collected in Get Up, Please, Louisiana State University Press
Danielle Pafunda, “Where do you keep your trick…” collected in The Dead Girls Speak in Unison, Bloof Books
Nin Andrews, “The orgasm wants to open a Twitter account,” Plume, collected in Our Lady of the Orgasm, MadHat Press
Rachel Mennies, “The Glimmering Creature,” Waxwing
Reginald Shepherd, “Until She Returns,” Massachusetts Review, collected in Some Are Drowning, University of Pittsburgh Press
Sophie Klahr, “Slant,” The Rumpus, collected in Meet Me Here at Dawn, YesYes Books
Ali Power, “The Lawn is a Social Construct,” collected in The Lawn is a Social Construct, Sixth Finch Books
Sarah Green, “Insect,” collected in Earth Science, 421 Atlanta
Danielle Deulen, “First Wife,” Fleeting Magazine, collected in Lovely Asunder, University of Arkansas Press
Kendra DeColo, “I am Thinking About the Movie Con Air,” Waxwing
Erika L Sánchez, “The Loop,” Anti-, collected in Lessons on Expulsion, Graywolf Press
Virginia Konchan, “Dolores Haze Disappears in a Kidney-Shaped Pool,” Sixth Finch, collected in The End of Spectacle, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Diane Seuss, “Bowl,” Michigan Quarterly Review
Catherine Pierce, “Fire Blight,” FIELD, collected in The Girls of Peculiar, Saturnalia Books
Mary Biddinger, “Risk Management Memo: Member Appreciation,” Thrush, collected in Small Enterprise, Black Lawrence Press
Marc McKee, “Memory is a Disease of Animals,” The Journal, collected in Consolationeer, Black Lawrence Press
George David Clark, “The Bride’s Warm Breast in Her Groom’s Warm Hand,” The Cincinnati Review
Lynda Hull, “The Window,” Blackbird, collected in The Only World, HarperCollins
Beth Ann Fennelly, “Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding,” collected in Open House, W.W. Norton & Company
Meghan Privitello, “The Encyclopedia of Sexual Positions with God,” Waxwing
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Four Long Years at Court,” The Rumpus, collected in Rocket Fantastic, Persea Books
Heather Christle, “New Story,” Fence
Erin Belieu, “I Heart Your Dog’s Head,” collected in Black Box, Copper Canyon Press
Laura Kasischke, “Welcome Wagon,” collected in Lilies Without, Ausable Press
Traci Brimhall, “A Camera Crew Films a Telenovela Based on the Miracles at Puraquequara,” The Believer, collected in Saudade, Copper Canyon
Rachel Zucker, “There Are Two Magics,” Poem-a-Day
Nicole Sealey, “A Violence,” The New Yorker, collected in Ordinary Beast, HarperCollins Publishers
Kristin Bock, “Notes from the Boat Docks,” Gulf Coast, collected in Cloisters, Tupelo Press
Elizabeth Alexander, “Zodiac,” collected in The Venus Hottentot, Graywolf Press
Cindy Hunter Morgan, “Philadelphia, 1893,” collected in Harborless, Wayne State University Press
Rodney Jones, “Feelings, by Ashley Higgins,” New Ohio Review, collected in Imaginary Logic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Eduardo C. Corral, “Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso,” collected in Slow Lightning, Yale University Press
James Grinwis, “Night of a Gazillion Squirrels,” Arcturus
Deborah Landau, “Someone,” collected in The Last Usable Hour, Copper Canyon Press
Victoria Chang, “Obit (Hope),” Blackbird
Karyna McGlynn, “Rich Girl Camp Revenge Fantasy,” Black Warrior Review, collected in Hothouse, Sarabande Books
Traci Brimhall, “Dear Eros,” Virginia Quarterly Review
Martha Silano, “Saint Catherine of Siena,” Southern Humanities Review, collected in Reckless Lovely, Saturnalia Books
Kim Addonizio, “Pareidolia,” Los Angeles Review, collected in Mortal Trash, W.W. Norton & Company
Fritz Ward, “Born,” Fogged Clarity
Charles Nutter Peck, “The Radio Show,” Booth
Samiya Bashir, “John Henry’s First Real Swing,” collected in Field Theories, Nightboat Books
Adrian Matejka, “Trumpets Up in Here,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Map to the Stars, Penguin Books
M’Bilia Meekers, “Geography of a Bad American,” The Rumpus
Diane Seuss, “Self-Portrait With Emily Dickinson (Rebirth of Mourning),” The New York Times Magazine
Jill Alexander Essbaum, “Outside,” The American Poetry Journal
Jennifer Chang, “About Trees,” Orion, collected in Some Say the Lark, Alice James Books
Donald Hall, “The Town of Hill,” collected in The Town of Hill, David R. Godine
April Bernard, “Not from the Italian,” Epiphany, collected in Brawl & Jag, W.W. Norton & Company
Marni Ludwig, “Cigar Box,” Assembly, collected in Pinwheel, New Issues Press
Analicia Sotelo, “Do You Speak Virgin?,” The Collagist, collected in The Virgin, Milkweed Editions
Stephanie Burt, “My 1987,” collected in Advice from the Lights, Graywolf Press
Natalie Diaz, “From the Desire Field,” Poem-a-Day
Cassandra de Alba, “the deer become stoners,” Drunk in a Midnight Choir, collected in habitats, Horse Less Press
Bob Hicok, “Why We Must Support PBS,” FIELD, collected in Sex & Love &, Copper Canyon Press
Hera Lindsay Bird, “The Ex-Girlfriends Are Back From the Wilderness,” The Spin-Off, collected in Hera Lindsay Bird, Penguin UK
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Float, Cleave,” The Journal, collected in Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, Ohio State University Press
John Hodgen, “Hamlet Texts Guildenstern about Playing Upon the Pipe,” The Antioch Review, collected in The Best American Poetry 2017, Scribner
Nicholas Christopher, “Heat,” The New Yorker, collected in On Tour with Rita, Alfred A. Knopf
Lloyd Schwartz, “Mental Cases,” The Massachusetts Review, collected in These People, Wesleyan University
Diana Adams, “Crustacean,” The Laurel Review
Bianca Stone, “Emily Dickinson,” The Brooklyn Rail, collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
J.D. Scrimgeour, “Their Favorite Author,” collected in The Last Miles, Fine Tooth Press
Sara Wainscott, “There’s no way this can end well,” Grimoire
Natalie Shapero, “You Look Like I Feel,” Poetry, collected in Hard Child, Copper Canyon Press
Karyna McGlynn, “How to Talk the Manic Away,” The Best American Poetry Blog
Sarah Blake, “Mouths at the Party,” Storyscape, collected in Let’s Not Live on Earth, Wesleyan University Press
Dan Chiasson, “My Ravine,” The New Yorker, collected in The Afterlife of Objects, The University of Chicago Press
Bruce Beasley, “Disorientation Psalm: Tohu Bohu,” Poetry Northwest, collected in All Soul Parts Returned, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Marcus Wicker, “In My 31st Year,” Boston Review, collected in Silencer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Christine Gosnay, “Some Requirements,” collected in Even Years, The Kent State University Press
Randall Mann, “RSVP,” 32 Poems
Fred Marchant, “Wartime,” AGNI, collected in The Tipping Point, The Word Works
Bernadette Mayer, “To Have No,” collected in Works & Days, New Directions
Joshua Bennett, “Love Poem Ending With Typewriters,” collected in The Sobbing School, Penguin Books
Landon Godfrey, “Housework,” collected in Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown, Cider Press
Kevin Prufer, “Chandler Brossard,” New Ohio Review, collected in How He Loved Them, Four Way Books
Zach Savich, “[If the dead have preferences…],” Under a Warm Green Linden, collected in Day Bed, Black Ocean
David Rivard, “Kid Charlemagne,” collected in Standoff, Graywolf Press
Evie Shockley, “lotto motto,” Boston Review, collected in semiautomatic, Wesleyan University Press
Shauna Barbosa, “Strology Cancer,” collected in Cape Verdean Blues, University of Pittsburgh Press
Rebecca Black, “The Library,” Meridian
Bradley K. Meyer, “’I’m Never Drinking Again for Two Days’ —D. Wagner,” decomP
Kerri Webster, “Vanitas,” Grimoire, collected in The Trailhead, Wesleyan University Press
Patrick Donnelly, “Angel’s Trumpet,” collected in The Charge, Ausable Press
Amanda Cook, “After the conversation tonight…,” collected in Ironstone Whirlygig, Bootstrap Press
Solmaz Sharif, “Look,” PEN Poetry Series, collected in Look, Graywolf Press
Erica Wright, “Festival Circuit,” Dialogist, collected in All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned, Black Lawrence Press
Sandra Beasley, “In Which I Fail, Again, to be Vestal,” collected in Theories of Falling, New Issues Press
Adrian Blevins, “Swimming Hole,” collected in Appalachians Run Amok, Two Sylvias Press
Dorothea Lasky, “Why I Hate The Internet,” The Brooklyn Rail, collected in Milk, Wave Books
Sabrina Orah Mark, “The Oldest Animal Writes a Letter Home,” diode, collected in Tsim Tsum, Saturnalia Books
Chen Chen, “Kafka’s Axe & Michael’s Vest,” Narrative Northeast, collected in When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, BOA Editions, Ltd
Monica Hand, “DiVida I am’s,” collected in DiVida, Alice James Books
G.C. Waldrep, “The Resurrection: Sweden,” New England Review, collected in Disclamor, BOA Editions
Mary Ruefle, “What irks me…,” collected in On Imagination, Sarabande Books
Teddy Macker, “Teddy Agonistes,” New Ohio Review
B.K. Fischer, “Our Lady of Cinderblock,” collected in Radioapocrypha, Ohio State University Press
Tracey Knapp, “Trust Me,” 236
Lisa Olstein, “Despair Fire,” collected in Late Empire, Copper Canyon Press
Paul Guest, “Audio Commentary Track 1,” collected in My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, HarperCollins
Gregory Lawless, “Scranton Prayer,” Stride, collected in I Thought I Was New Here, BlazeVOX Books
Camille Guthrie, “Virgil, Hey,” The New Republic
Katharine Rauk, “History,” 32 Poems
Melissa Stein, “Blessings” Narrative, collected in Terrible Blooms, Copper Canyon Press
Jim Daniels, “Still Lives in Detroit: #1, Rome Street,” Carnegie-Mellon Magazine, collected in Places/Everyone, The University of Wisconsin Press
Rachel Loden, “The Death of Checkers,” New American Writing, collected in Hotel Imperium, University of Georgia Press
Justin Bigos, “Portrait of My Father as John Clare: ’Common Loon’s Nest,’” Forklift, Ohio, collected in Mad River, Gold Wake Press
Chris Tonelli, “Three Poems,” collected in Whatever Stasis, Barrelhouse Books
Emilia Phillips, “A Western,” Green Mountains Review
Hadara Bar-Nadav, “Pill,” collected in The New Nudity, Saturnalia Books
Ed Pavlić, “Amicus Brief: Friends Who Know Don’t Ask Anyone Who Asks Doesn’t Really Want to Know Anyone Who Knows,” The Cortland Review, collected in Live at the Bitter End, Saturnalia Books
William Trowbridge, “Bad,” collected in collected in Put This On, Please, Red Hen Press
Brock Jones, “The Less We Know,” collected in Cenotaph, University of Arkansas Press
Anna Lea Jancewicz, “Marriage,” matchbook
Brad Trumpfheller, “Catalog of Divine Encounters in Mobile County, Alabama,” The Adroit Journal
Cindy E. King, “Real Housewife Goes Home,” Bat City Review
Rebecca Hazelton, “Personal Affect,” Tupelo Quarterly
Maureen Seaton, “Yonkers,” collected in Fisher, Black Lawrence Press
Elise Paschen, “Bat House,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, collected in The Nightlife, Red Hen Press
Wendy Xu, “We Are Both Sure to Die,” Red Lightbulbs, collected in You Are Not Dead, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Stevie Edwards, “Harm’s Way,” Underblong
Virginia Konchan, “Zsa Zsa Gabor Learns to Read,” Rhino, collected in The End of Spectacle, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Katie Schmid, “After the Hospital,” decomP
Maggie Smith, “Heart,” Tinderbox, collected in Good Bones, Tupelo Press
Kendra DeColo, “Rodney Dangerfield’s Ex Writes Him a Letter,” Tupelo Quarterly, collected in Thieves in the Afterlife, Saturnalia Books
Heather Christle, “What Is Amazing,” BOMB, collected in What Is Amazing, Wesleyan University Press
Kathleen Graber, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Arts & Letters, collected in Correspondence, Saturnalia Books
Diane Seuss, “On what day you think Jesus was actually born he asks,” Waxwing
Mary Biddinger, “Saint Monica and the Devil’s Place,” New Ohio Review, collected in Saint Monica, Black Lawrence Press
Catherine Pierce, “The women from the ’70s are beautiful,” Court Green, collected in The Girls of Peculiar, Saturnalia Books
Mary Szybist, “Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle,” Kenyon Review, collected in Incarnadine, Graywolf Press
Jenny Johnson, “Dappled Things (Our days are charged by so much nature),” The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, collected in In Full Velvet, Sarabande Books
Lynda Hull, “Ornithology,” Ploughshares, collected in Collected Poems, Graywolf Press
Meghan Privitello, “Day 6,” Drunk in a Midnight Choir, collected in Notes on the End of the World, Black Lawrence Press
Connie Voisine, “Via Dolorosa,” Shadowgraph Quarterly, collected in And God Created Woman, Bull City Press
Nancy Reddy, “Girl Chooses Flight,” Connotation Press, collected in Acadiana, Black Lawrence Press
Erin Belieu, “Loser Bait,” Poetry
Kelly Jean Egan, “In the Dream You Have Babies Now,” The Laurel Review
Laura Kasischke, “Hag,” collected in Lilies Without, Copper Canyon Press
Nicole Sealey, “Medical History,” The Account, collected in Ordinary Beast, HarperCollins Publishers
Kristin Bock, “Scarecrow,” The Cream City Review, collected in Cloisters, Tupelo Press
Beth Ann Fennelly, “Reduced Sentences,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Heating and Cooling, W.W. Norton & Company
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “Last Aerogramme to You, with Lizard,” New England Review, collected in At the Drive-In Volcano, Tupelo Press
Traci Brimhall, “In Which the Chorus Acts Out What May Be a Love Story,” collected in Saudade, Copper Canyon Press
Elizabeth Alexander, “Hostage,” Fence, collected in Antebellum Dream Book, Graywolf Press
David Daniel, “Crash,” collected in Ornaments, University of Pittsburgh Press
Joe Hall, “Someone’s Utopia: Love as Refusal,” Bat City Review, collected in Someone’s Utopia, Black Ocean
sam sax, “#Mania,” The Southern Review, collected in madness, Penguin Books
Michael Snediker, “Roderick Hudson / Callery Pear,” collected in The New York Editions, Fordham University Press
Joanna Penn Cooper, “When We Were Fearsome,” Poem-a-Day, collected in When We Were Fearsome, Ethel
Catherine Barnett, “Prayer for the Lost Among Us,” collected in Human Hours, Graywolf Press
Terrance Hayes, “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (I lock you in an American sonnet),” Poetry, collected in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Penguin Books
GennaRose Nethercott, “Lumberjack clutches the absent space…,” The Lumberjack’s Dove, HarperCollins
Kyle Dargan, “Separating,” collected in Anagnorisis, Northwestern University Press
Alicia Jo Rabins, “How to Graduate,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Divinity School, The American Poetry Review
Kristin Chang, “Girl on Girl on Fire,” The Adroit Journal
Michael Martone, “Key Notes: Reliquary,” collected in Brooding, University of Georgia Press
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, “Running Orders,” Vox Populi, collected in Water & Salt, Red Hen Press
Roger Mitchell, “Dunst,” Wabash Watershed, collected in Reason’s Dream, Dos Madres Press
Victoria Redel, “Problem,” Epoch, collected in Swoon, The University of Chicago Press
Kelli Russell Agodon, “Punctuating the Living,” Waxwing
David Kirby, “Catholic Teenager from Hell Goes to Italy,” The Ledge, collected in The House of Blue Light, Louisiana State University
Jos Charles, “Private Access Network,” collected in Safe Space, Ahsahta Press
Rosa Alcalá, “Central Casting,” collected in Undocumentaries, Shearsman Books
Khadijah Queen, “Montell Jordan came to the drive-thru,” collected in I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On, YesYes Books
Rodney Jones, “The Moons: Notes on the Formation of Self,” Five Points, collected in Imaginary Logic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Reginald Shepherd, “Orion,” Prairie Schooner, collected in Angel, Interrupted, The University of Pittsburgh Press
Eduardo C. Corral, “My Hands Are My Heart: Two-Part Cibachrome Print: Gabriel Orozco: 1991,” Salt Hill, collected in Slow Lighting, Yale University Press
Deborah Landau, “The Silence Will Be Sudden Then Last,” Poetry
Victoria Chang, “The Boss is Not Poetic,” collected in The Boss, McSweeney’s
Mitchell L. H. Douglas, “(In Medias) Res,” collected in dying in the scarecrow’s arms, Persea Books
Erika Meitner, “HolyMolyLand,” Fourth Genre, collected in Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Karyna McGlynn, “I Can’t Stop Being Performative,” The Kenyon Review, collected in Hothouse, Sarabande Books
Kim Addonizio, “This Poem is in Recovery,” The American Poetry Review, collected in What Is This Thing Called Love, W. W. Norton & Company
Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, “I Never Wanted to Speak,” collected in Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Nightboat Books
Stephanie Burt, “Self-Portrait as Kitty Pryde,” Free Verse, collected in Parallel Play, Graywolf Press
Peter Everwine, “From the Meadow,” collected in From the Meadow, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jill Alexander Essbaum, “The Last of All Suppers,” collected in Heaven, University Press of New England
Lauren Sanderson, “The Fall,” The Adroit Journal
Jennifer Chang, “Again a Solstice,” Poem-a-Day, collected in Some Say the Lark, Alice James Books
Duy Doan, “You,” Amethyst Arsenic, collected in We Play a Game, Yale University Press
Silvia Curbelo, “Garden Party,” The American Poetry Review, collected in Falling Landscape, Anhinga Press
April Bernard, “Wheeling,” The New Republic, collected in Brawl & Jag, W. W. Norton & Company
Joe Fletcher, “Palmdale Area,” collected in The Hatch, Brooklyn Arts Press
Hadara Bar-Nadav, “Lullaby (with Exit Sign),” collected in Lullaby (with Exit Sign), Saturnalia Books
Terri Witek, “Bonnard on Painting Marthe Bathing,” Pierian Springs, collected in Carnal World, Story Line Press
Javier Zamora, “Nocturne,” Poetry, collected in Unaccompanied, Copper Canyon Press
Marni Ludwig, “Refrigerator,” collected in Pinwheel, New Issues Press
Camille Rankine, “After the Fire, I Ask Myself,” collected in Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Copper Canyon Press
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern,” The New Yorker
Joyelle McSweeney, “Simon the Good,” Poem-a-Day
Randall Mann, “Long Beach,” On the Seawall
Kai Carlson-Wee, “The Fog and the Sound,” The Lumberyard, collected in Rail, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Quan Barry, “loose strife (‘Listen closely as I sing this’),” collected in Loose Strife, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kevin Young, “Money Road,” The New Yorker, collected in Brown, Alfred A. Knopf
Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, “End of Adolescence,” collected in Bear, Diamonds and Crane, Four Way Books
Analicia Sotelo, “South Texas Persephone,” Missouri Review, collected in Virgin, Milkweed Editions
Julia Story, “With the Time She Had Left,” Tupelo Quarterly
Wyn Cooper, “Sling,” collected in Chaos is the New Calm, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Bob Hicok, “A visit to my pantheon reveals a hole in the sky,” collected in Hold, Copper Canyon Press
Cassandra de Alba, “the new fashion,” Smoking Glue Gun, collected in habitats, Horse Less Press
Megan Fernandes, “Conversion,” The Adroit Journal
Dana Curtis, “The Unchosen Twin,” collected in The Body’s Response to Famine, Pavement Saw Press
Matthew Dickman, “Minimum Wage,” collected in Wonderland, W.W. Norton & Company
Libby Burton, “First World,” Meridian, collected in Soft Volcano, Saturnalia Books
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Ichthyphobia,” Cream City Review, collected in Rag & Bone, Elixir Press
Bianca Stone, “Retreating Knights and Riderless Horses, or Poem with Another Poem Halfway Through It,” collected in The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Tin House Books
Ben Purkert, “Today is Work,” collected in For Love of Endings, Four Way Books
Anna Moschovakis, “In Search of Wealth (Tom Cruise has been dubbed the Christ),” collected in You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, Coffee House Press
Eve L. Ewing, “montage in a car.,” collected in Electric Arches, Haymarket Books
Natalie Shapero, “Arranged Hours,” The Offending Adam, collected in No Object, Saturnalia Books
Dan Chiasson, “Vital Signs,” Society, collected in Bicentennial, Alfred A. Knopf
Sarah Blake, “Suicide Prevention,” Slice, collected in Let’s Not Live on Earth, Wesleyan University Press
Adam Day, “Cobalt Noso,” Posit
Erin Hoover, “Anticonfessional,” Narrative, collected in Barnburner, Elixir Press
Joshua Bennett, “On Flesh,” Blackbird, collected in The Sobbing School, Penguin Books
Christine Gosnay, “Prescription,” collected in Even Years, The Kent State University Press
Erin Adair-Hodges, “Of Yalta,” The Georgia Review, collected in Let’s All Die Happy, University of Pittsburgh Press
Fatimah Asghar, “Playroom,” Gulf Coast, collected in If They Come for Us, One World
Amorak Huey, “Dad Jokes,” Gulf Coast
Carlina Duan, “Your Mom Tells You To Stop Writing About Race,” Tinderbox, collected in I Wore My Blackest Hair, Little A
Kathy Fagan, “Misfortune Cookies,” collected in The Charm, Zoo Press
Katherine Larson, “Almost a Figure,” Poetry, collected in Radial Symmetry, Yale University Press
Barbara Hamby, “Raskolnikov Rates the Plays,” Waccamaw, collected in All-Night Lingo Tango, University of Pittsburgh Press
Chen Chen, “In the City,” Poem-A-Day, collected in When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, BOA Editions, Ltd
Mary Ruefle, “Maria and the Halls of the Perish,” Bennington Review
Kelli Russell Agodon, “Fragments of a Dissected Word,” collected in Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, White Pine Press
Oni Buchanan, “Text Message,” collected in Spring, University of Illinois Press
Solmaz Sharif, “The Master’s House,” Poetry
Forrest Gander, “Deadout,” collected in Be With, New Directions
Julian Randall, “Wasn’t the Minotaur Buried Horns First: Vulnerability and Identity in the Mythic Body,” the Shade Journal, collected in Refuse, University of Pittsburgh Press
Kiki Petrosino, “Afterlife,” Tupelo Quarterly, collected in Witch Wife, Sarabande Books
Kevin Prufer, “The Old Poets,” collected in How He Loved Them, Four Way Books
Anne Carson, “Irony Is Not Enough: Essay on My Life as Catherine Deneuve,” Seneca Review
2017 POEMS
Eduardo C. Corral, “To the Angelbeast,” in Poetry, collected in Slow Lightning, Yale
Emilia Phillips, “Age of Beauty,” Poem-a-Day
Sam Cha, “Essay on Terry Pratchett (A Corollary),” in Boston Review
John Gallaher, “Space Chimp Lives!” in boaat
Sophie Klahr, “Arrivals,” collected in Meet Me Here at Dawn, Yes Yes
Anne Cecelia Holmes, “Frantic in the present…” collected in Dead Year, Sixth Finch
Natalie Diaz, “Manhattan is a Lenape Word,” in Lenny
Shari Caplan, “Clementines,” collected in Advice from a Siren, Dancing Girl
Anne Boyer, “But I had been striking against…” collected in Garments Against Women, Ahsahta
Joanna Penn Cooper, “The Dog and Cat Circus”
Jedediah Berry, “The telephone rings…” collected in The Family Arcana, Ninepin
Adriana Cloud, “Instructions for Making Salsa Verde,” Noble / Gas Qtrly, collected in Instructions for Building a Wind Chime, Poetry Society of America
Danniel Schoonebeek, “C’est La Guerre,” Poem-a-Day
Sandra Beasley, “The Parade,” in Blackbird, , collected in I Was the Jukebox, Norton
Zach Savich, “Or with Steve on a slow sweaty train…” collected in Diving Makes the Water Deep, Rescue Press
Bob Hicok, “Elections Have Consequences and Confetti on One Side, not the Other,” in diode
Jeffrey Allen, “An Obituary,” in The Laurel Review
Tommy Pico, “Being sprayed on like roaches…” collected in IRL, Birds
Emilia Phillips, “No children exist after midnight…” collected in Beneath the Ice Fish Like Souls Look Alike, Bull City
Gregory Lawless, “The President’s Dreams,” collected in I Thought I Was New Here, BlazeVOX
Matthew Minicucci, “What We’re Talking About Here,” in Kenyon Review, collected in Translation, Kent State
George David Clark, “White Noise,” Poem of the Week, collected in Reveille, University of Arkansas
Dana Levin, “Banana Palace,” in Poetry, collected in Banana Palace, Copper Canyon
John Gallaher, “Love is a Place from Which You Return,” in decomP
Rio Machete Cortez, “Self-Portrait in a Tanning Bed,” in Poets House, collected in I have learned to define a field as a space between mountains, Jai-Alai Books
Danielle Cadena Deulen, “On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment,” collected in Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, Barrow Street
Valerie Hsiung, “I was the show-off…” collected in incantation inarticulate, O Balthazar
Valerie Duff, “Tell You,” collected in To the New World, Salmon Poetry
Mark Doty, “Tiara,” collected in Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS, Persea
Allison Benis White, “As if death was a place…” collected in Please Bury Me in This, Four Way
Natalie Shapero, “Mostly I Don’t Want to Have a Son—” in Typo, collected in Hard Child, Copper Canyon
Laura Mullen, “Read,” collected in Complicated Grief, Solid Objects
Amelia Martens, “In the First World,” collected in The Spoons In the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat, Sarabande
Adriana Cloud, “Instructions for Learning a Foreign Language,” collected in Instructions for Building a Wind Chime, Poetry Society of America
Zach Savich, “My course on the Literature of Longing…” collected in Diving Makes the Water Deep, Rescue Press
Adam Sol, “Note Found in a Copy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” collected in Complicity, McClelland & Stewart
Fred Marchant, “Ard Na Mara,” in Post Road Magazine, collected in The Looking House, Graywolf
Rebecca Hazelton, “[I gave myself to Him—]” in Pleiades, collected in Fair Copy, Ohio State
Lucia Perillo, “Inseminator Man,” collected in The Body Mutinies, Purdue University
Karyna McGlynn, “Amanda Hopper’s House,” collected in I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, Sarabande
Brian Kim Stefans, “The Future is One of Place,” in Poetry
Susan Harper Slaviero, “Mechanized Bride,” collected in Cyborgia, Mayapple
Sara Jane Stoner, “Evolutionary Pleasures,” collected in Experience in the Medium of Destruction, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
Monica Youn, “Exhibition of the Hanged Man,” in The Paris Review, collected in Blackacre, Graywolf
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Slow Crescendo,” What is a Domicile, Noctuary Press
Cynthia Cruz, “Breaking Glass,” collected in The Glimmering Room, Four Way
Gregory Lawless, “What Fire was That,” in Drunken Boat, collected in I Thought I Was New Here, BlazeVOX
Lori Desrosiers, “Night Writing” collected in The Philosopher’s Daughter, Salmon Poetry
Shari Caplan, “The Moon Moth Lives for a Week After Emerging,” in Drunk Monkeys
Laura Cronk, “Jersey City Poems,” in The Seventh Wave
Julia Leverone, “Anew,” in Posit
Andrea Cohen, “Butter,” in Poetry, collected in Kentucky Derby, Salmon Poetry
Natalie Shapero, “I am not Built for Dead,” in Typo, collected in Hard Child, Copper Canyon
Allison Benis White, “Even the word depression…” collected in Please Bury Me in This, Four Way
Caolan Madden, “Your Mother Wasted a Year,” in Posit
Cindy Hunter Morgan, “Chicora, 1895,” collected in Harborless, Wayne State
Nin Andrews, “Against Amnesia,” in Harpur Palate, collected in Our Lady of the Orgasm, MadHat
Danielle Pafunda, “One of us said…” collected in The Dead Girls Speak in Unison, Bloof
Alice Anderson, “Hush,” collected in The Watermark, Eyewear
Rio Machete Cortez, “I’m Forced to Imagine There are Two of Me Here,” collected in I have learned to define a field as a space between mountains, Jai-Alai Books
Fred Marchant, “Elephants Walking,” collected in Tipping Point, The Word Works
Jim Daniels, “Skylab Party,” in The South Carolina Review, collected in Apology to the Moon, Bat Cat
Traci Brimhall, “Matar as Saudades,” in Waxwing
Kathryn Nuernberger, “About Derrida, If You’re Into That,” in Harpur Palate, collected in The End of Pink, BOA
Maggie Smith, “Unclassified Stars,” in Mid-American Review, collected in The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Tupelo
Karyna McGlynn, “Somebody Gets Shot at the RV Park,” collected in Hothouse, Sarabande
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Fortuitous Poem,” in The Tiny
Amelia Martens, “Newtown,” collected in The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat, Sarabande
Tommy Pico, “And ugh someone in this wreck…” collected in IRL, Birds
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Boat Sonnet”
Danniel Schoonebeek, “This Neverender,” in Bat City Review, collected in Trébuchet, University of Georgia
Allison Benis White, “I am not any closer to saying what I mean…” collected in Please Bury Me in This, Four Way
Diane Seuss, “Wolf Lake, white gown blown open,” in Poetry Daily, collected in Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, University of Massachusetts
Adam Sol, “Mr. Polk was Afraid of the Rain,” collected in Crowd of Sounds, House of Anansi
Paisley Rekdal, “At the Fishhouses,” in Poetry, collected in Imaginary Vessels, Copper Canyon
Sophie Klahr, “Departures,” collected in Meet Me Here at Dawn, Yes Yes
Claire Donato, “Catalogue Entry for Aging,” in Harp & Altar, collected in The Second Body, Poor Claudia
Susannah Mintz, “Anti-Eclogue,” collected in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry, Rose Metal Press
David Kirby, “A Little Cough Syrup,” collected in The House of Blue Light, LSU
Jennie Malboeuf, “Grandmothers,” collected in Best New Poets 2016, University of Virginia
Susan Harper Slaviero, “Abort / Retry,” collected in Cyborgia, Mayapple
Reginald Shepherd, “Antibody,” collected in Wrong, University of Pittsburgh
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Seven for Today”
Rachel Mennies, “The Teenage Girl Understands,” in The Adroit Journal
Denis Johnson, “The White Fires of Venus,” in Poem-a-Day, collected in The Incognito Lounge, Carnegie Mellon University
Natalie Shapero, “My Hair is My Thing,” in The Adroit Journal, collected in Hard Child, Copper Canyon
Fritz Ward, “Letter, Clip,” Sundog Lit, collected in Tsunami Diorama, The Word Works
Gregory Lawless, “Jingle,” collected in I Thought I Was New Here, BlazeVOX
Catherine Bowman, “Tango (Cinema Sex Ed),” collected in Can I Finish, Please?, Four Way Books
Sarah Blake, “Twilight, Starring Kanye,” collected in Mr. West, Wesleyan
Tana Jean Welch, “Ad Infinitum,” in Beloit Poetry Journal, collected in Latest Volcano, Marsh Hawk
Kim Addonizio, “73,” collected in Mortal Trash, Norton
Anne Cecelia Holmes, “I remember someone calling…” collected in Dead Year, Sixth Finch
Cate Marvin, “A Brief Attachment,” in Konundrum Engine Literary Review, collected in Fragment of the Head of a Queen, Sarabande
Bob Hicok, “A Picture is Worth Eight Hundred and Eighty-Seven Words,” in The Southern Review, collected in Sex & Love &, Copper Canyon
Valerie Hsiung, “Sir or Madam,” collected in incantation inarticulate, O Balthazar
Eugenia Leigh, “What I Miss Most about Hell,” in Waxwing
John Gallaher, “Among Competing Answers, Choose the Simplest,” in The Los Angeles Review
Joseph O. Legaspi, “30,” in Waxwing
Adriana Cloud, “Instructions for Weeding a Garden,” collected in Instructions for Building a Wind Chime, Poetry Society of America
Rebecca Hazelton, “First Husband,” collected in Vow, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Amy Lawless, “Dolphin Live Birth,” in Bennington Review
Cynthia Cruz, “Death Star,” collected in The Glimmering Room, Four Way
Andrea Cohen, “Isn’t True Love Wonderful?” in The American Poetry Review, collected in Unfathoming, Four Way Books
Danielle Pafunda, “Then we lay back on limestone…” collected in The Dead Girls Speak in Unison, Bloof
Camille Guthrie, “The Other Victorians,” in At Length
Adrian Matejka, “& Later,” in Poem-a-Day, collected in Map to the Stars, Penguin
Karyna McGlynn, “Mortification Montage,” collected in Hothouse, Sarabande
Fred Marchant, “The Origins of the Practice,” collected in The Looking House, Graywolf Press
Kevin Griffith, “National Poetry Month,” in Pearl, collected in Denmark, Kangaroo, Orange, Pearl Editions
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Bat Boy Washed Up Onshore,” in The Southeast Review, collected in The End of Pink, BOA
Nin Andrews, “A Glossary of French Orgasms,” collected in Our Lady of the Orgasm, MadHat
Lori Desrosiers, “Blanche Remembers,” collected in The Philosopher’s Daughter, Salmon Poetry
Cassandra de Alba, “the deer become pre-teens,” in Drunk In A Midnight Choir, collected in habitats, Horse Less
Erin Belieu, “When I am a Teenage Boy,” in Willow Springs
Paul-Victor Winters, “Untitled (Future),” in KYSO Flash
Adam Sol, “Security Camera,” collected in Complicity, McClelland & Stewart
Allison Benis White, “I am writing to you as an act of immolation…” collected in Please Bury Me in This, Four Way
Joanna C. Valente, “You are everything to me but you are nowhere on earth because you have died,” in Typo
Kent Shaw, “A Story from My Romantic Past. It Was Full Of Misgivings,” HOBART
Jennifer L. Knox, “Mushrooms,” in Typo
Rosebud Ben-Oni, “Somewhere they tell a woman…” in Waxwing
Jim Daniels, “Snowstorm in Detroit,” collected in Places/Everyone, The University of Wisconsin
Zach Savich, “The colleague was very lonely…” collected in Diving Makes the Water Deep, Rescue Press
Krysten Hill, “Kansas City Loves You,” in PANK, collected in How Her Spirit Got Out, Aforementioned Productions
Paisley Rekdal, “Prayer,” collected in Imaginary Vessels, Copper Canyon
Sophie Klahr, “Do You,” in The Rumpus, collected in Meet Me Here at Dawn, Yes Yes
Sumita Chakraborty, “And Death Demands a Labor,” in The Adroit Journal
Jim Daniels, “Places Everyone,” collected in Places/Everyone, The University of Wisconsin
George David Clark, “Jellyfish,” in Southern Poetry Review, collected in Reveille, University of Arkansas Press
Kevin Prufer, “Rain,” in Poem-a-Day
Joanna Penn Cooper, “Pink Moon Self Portrait,” in The Tiny
Lily Hoang, “On the first day of class…” collected in A Bestiary, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Katie Condon, “On the Seventh day God says: What you’ve got is virgin charm & a knife in your pocket.” in boaat
Tana Jean Welch, “Baile Gitano,” in The Briar Cliff Review, collected in Latest Volcano, Marsh Hawk
Natalie Shapero, “Hard Child,” in Gulf Coast, collected in Hard Child, Copper Canyon
Gregory Lawless, “Midsummer,” in The Adroit Journal, collected in I Thought I Was New Here, BlazeVOX
Cate Marvin, “Plastic Cookie,” in Poem-a-Day, collected in Oracle, Norton
Kaveh Akbar, “Supplication with Rabbit Skull and Bouquet,” in Poem-a-Day, collected in Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Alice James
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “I was popular in certain circles,” in The Awl, collected in Rocket Fantastic, Persea
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Praise House: The New Economy,” in The American Poetry Review, collected in Rocket Fantastic, Persea
Jill McDonough, “Bad Decisions,” collected in Reaper, Alice James
Maureen N. McLane, “Girls in Bed,” in The Paris Review, collected in Some Say, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Aleda Shirley, “Blue over Orange,” collected in Dark Familiar, Sarabande
Carrie Shipers, “Divas’ Division,” in The Laurel Review
Rachel Mennies, “Confession,” in Waxwing
Rebecca Hazelton, “Handsome Man,” in Waxwing
Larisa Svirsky, “Good,” in Typo
Amorak Huey, “Looking at Men,” in Typo
Stephanie Burt, “My 1985,” in The New Yorker, collected in Advice from the Lights, Graywolf
Maureen Seaton, “The Integrity of Matter,” in Posit
David Kirby, “Strip Poker,” collected in The House of Blue Light, LSU
Sarah Trudgeon, “Freshbaby,” in diode
Morgan Parker, “Welcome to the Jungle,” in Prelude, collected in There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Tin House
Steve Mueske, “What Doesn’t Kill You,” in Typo
Colette Arrand, “Body Image,” in Waxwing
Alice Anderson, “To the Wolves,” collected in The Watermark, Eyewear
Natalie Diaz, “The Cure for Melancholy is to Take the Horn,” in The Paris-American
Shanna Compton, “The Driest Place on Earth,” in The Awl
Marni Ludwig, “Ceremony for a Bystander,” collected in Pinwheel, New Issues
Jay Besemer, “my philosophers are all in love with one another,” collected in Chelate, Brooklyn Arts
Marcus Wicker, “Ars Poetica Battle Rhyme for Sucker Emcees,” in jubilat, collected in Silencer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Emma Winsor Wood, “blowjob,” in Whiskey Island
Claire Donato, “The Second Body is a Shield,” in Aufgabe, collected in The Second Body, Poor Claudia
Reginald Shepherd, “Boy, Allegorically Deployed,” collected in Fata Morgana, University of Pittsburgh
Catherine Bowman, “What is Ohio Who is Mr Ellington,” in Harvard Review, collected in Can I Finish, Please?, Four Way Books
David Wojahn, “Atahualpa,” in The Cortland Review, collected in For the Scribe, University of Pittsburgh
Sarah Blake, “I Try Not to See Myself as a Mother Figure,” in Boston Review, collected in Mr. West, Wesleyan
Kim Addonizio, “Divine,” in Fifth Wednesday, collected in Mortal Trash, Norton
Anne Cecelia Holmes, “I crack open a light bulb…” in Nightblock, collected in Dead Year, Sixth Finch
Emilia Phillips, “Believe It or Not I Started to Worry,” in The Shallow Ends
Miriam Bird Greenberg, “I Passed Three Girls Killing a Goat,” in Poetry, collected in In the Volcano’s Mouth, University of Pittsburgh
Maggie Smith, “Manic Panic,” in Failbetter, collected in The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Tupelo
Bob Hicok, “Varieties of Cool,” in The New Yorker, collected in Sex & Love &, Copper Canyon
Andrea Cohen, “What I Heard,” in Alaska Quarterly Review, collected in Unfathoming, Four Way Books
Danielle Pafunda, “Though our sticks are split…” collected in The Dead Girls Speak in Unison, Bloof
Zach Savich, “Cavafy, I sometimes say in a class…” collected in Diving Makes the Water Deep, Rescue Press
G.C. Waldrep, “Blood Ruminant,” in New England Review, collected in Disclamor, BOA
Cassandra de Alba, “a deer with the head of Emily Dickinson,” in Flapperhouse, collected in habitats, Horse Less
Adriana Cloud, “Instructions for Drowning,” collected in Instructions for Building a Wind Chime, Poetry Society of America
Karyna McGlynn, “Elegiac Stanza (with Rhinestones),” collected in Hothouse, Sarabande
Fred Marchant, “C.O.” collected in Tipping Point, The Word Works
Kathryn Nuernberger, “PT Barnum’s Fiji Mermaid Exhibition,” in Green Mountains Review, collected in The End of Pink, BOA
Lesley Wheeler, “All-purpose Spell for Banishment,” in Salamander
Max Ritvo, “Plush Bunny,” in Poetry Northwest, collected in Four Reincarnations, Milkweed
Miguel Murphy, “Hamlet,” in Blackbird
Nin Andrews, “The orgasm is not sure about the About Me page,” collected in Our Lady of the Orgasm, MadHat
Cate Marvin, “It’s a Limousine,” in The Baffler
Adrian Matejka, “Beat Boxing,” collected in Map to the Stars, Penguin
Adrian Blevins, “Nope,” in The Baffler
Lynn Melnick, “Lagoon,” collected in If I Should Say I Have Hope, Yes Yes
Joshua Bennett, “VCR&B,” in Blackbird, collected in The Sobbing School, Penguin
George David Clark, “Denouement in a Wooden Dollhouse,” collected in Reveille, University of Arkansas Press
Elisa Gonzalez, “Essay on Inheritance,” in Hyperallergic
Vanessa Stauffer, “Cosmology,” collected in Cosmology, Dancing Girl
Ocean Vuong, “Trevor,” in Buzzfeed