The best American poetry: 2018

Miscarriage / Allison Aair --

Against dying / Kaveh Akbar --

American dreams / Jula Alvarez --

Finishing up / A. R. Ammons --

Sherpa song / David Barber --

Translator's note / Andrew Bertaina --

Mourning what we thought we were / Frank Bidart --

Anthem / Bruce Bond --

Those were the days / George Bradley --

Birds punctuate the days / Joyce Clement --

Opposites game / Brendan Constantine --

Prayer concerning the new more 'accurate' translation of certain prayers / Maryann Corbett --

Toast to my dead parents / Robert Cording --

Artuad / Cynthia Cruz --

Personal sonnet / Dick Davis --

Today's special / Warren Decker --

Wives of the poets / Susan de Sola --

Reading Dostoyevsky at seventeen / Dante Di Stefano --

Pied beauty / Nausheen Eusuf --

Orient epithalamion / Jonathan Galassi --

Test / Jessica Goodfellow --

Ghost ship / Sonia Greenfield --

American sunrise / Joy Harjo --

American sonnet for my past and future assassin / Terrance Hayes --

Mars Ultor / Ernest Hilbert --

View from the bar / R. Nemo Hill --

Into the mystery / Tony Hoagland --

Yonder, a rental / Anna Maria Hong --

I am the size of what I see / Paul Hoover --

Walking home / Marie Howe --

Ives / Mandy Kahn --

We lived happily during the war / Ilya Kaminsky --

Quiet boy / Stephen Kampa --

Love poem : chimera / Donika Kelly --

Sono / Suji Kwock Kim --

Palazzo Maldura / Karl Kirchwey --

Aconite / Nate Klug --

Using black to paint light / Robin Coste Lewis --

First Christmas in the village / David Mason --

Window / Robert Morgan --

Invitation / Aimee Nezhukumatathil --

B.F.F. / Hieu Minh Nguyen.--

Addendum / Alfred Nicol --

Skin deep / Nkosi Nkululeko --

Hands / Sheana Ochoa --

Silver spoon ode / Sharon Olds --

Tilia cordata / Jacqueline Osherow --

Sad math / Mike Owens --

Week before she died / Elise Paschen --

Bells' knells / Jessica Piazza --

Happy Birthday, Herod / Aaron Poochigian --

Angels in the sun / Ruben Quesada --

La Mano / Alexandra Lytton Regalado --

Philomela / Paisley Rekdal --

Walkman / Michael Robbins --

Personae who got loose / J. Allyn Rosser --

Genesis / Mary Ruefle --

Some transcendent addiction to the useless / Kay Ryan --

We'll always have parents / Mary Jo Salter --

Voxel / Jason Schneiderman --

Violence / Nicole Sealey --

Advent / Micahel Shewmaker --

Disptch from midlife / Carmen Gimenez Smith --

Old story / Tracy K. Smith --

Why California will never be like Tuscany / Gary Snyder --

Pencil / A. E. Stallings --

How poems arrive / Anne Stevenson --

Substitutions / Adrienne Su --

Shooting wild / Natasha Trethewey.--

Grief runs untamed / Agnieszka Tworek --

Dear office in which I must account for tears / G. C. Waldrep --

Lao Jia / Wang Ping --

On a palm / James Matthew Wilson --

Face it / Ryan Wilson --

Assembly / Christian Wiman.