The best American poetry: 2018

Miscarriage / Allison Adair

Against dying / Kaveh Akbar

American dreams / Julia 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

Artaud / 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 / Michael Shewmaker

Dispatch 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.