The Best American Poetry 2001
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The Best American Poetry 2001 was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Robert Hass.
[edit] Poets and poems included
| Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
| Nin Andrews | "Notes for a Sermon on the Mount" | Another Chicago Magazine |
| Rae Armantrout | "The Plan" | American Poetry Review |
| John Ashbery | "Crossroads in the Past" | The New York Review of Books |
| Angela Ball | "Jazz" | The Nebraska Review |
| Mary Jo Bang | "Crossed-Over, Fiend-Snitched, X-ed Out" | New American Writing |
| Cal Bedient | "When the Gods Put on Meter" | Colorado Review |
| Elizabeth Bishop | "Vague Poem" | The New Yorker |
| Robert Bly | "The French Generals" | The Paris Review |
| Lee Ann Brown | "Sonnet Around Stephanie" | Verse |
| Michael Burkard | "Notes About My Face" | American Poetry Review |
| Trent Busch | "Heartland" | The Nation |
| Amina Calil | "Blouse of Felt" | Faucheuse |
| Anne Carson | "Longing, a documentary" | The Threepenny Review |
| Joshua Clover | "Ceriserie" | American Poetry Review |
| Billy Collins | "Snow Day" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Robert Creeley | "En Famille" | Boston Book Review |
| Lydia Davis | "A Mown Lawn" | McSweeney's |
| R. Erica Doyle | "Ma Ramon" | Callaloo |
| Christopher Edgar | "The Cloud of Unknowing" | Boston Review |
| Thomas Sayers Ellis | "T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M." | AGNI |
| Amy England | "The Art of the Snake Story" | Quarter After Eight |
| Alan Feldman | "Contemporary American Poetry" | Poetry |
| James Galvin | "Little Dantesque" | Fence |
| Louise Glück | "Time" | The New Yorker |
| Jewelle Gomez | "My Chakabuku Mama: a comic tale" | Callaloo |
| Jorie Graham | "Gulls" | Conjunctions |
| Linda Gregerson | "Waterborne" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Linda Gregg | "The Singers Change, The Music Goes On" | AGNI |
| Allen Grossman | "Enough rain for Agnes Walquist" | The Southern Review |
| Donald Hall | "Her Garden" | The Times Literary Supplement |
| Anthony Hecht | "Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-Seven" | The New Yorker |
| Lyn Hejinian | "Nights" | Conjunctions |
| Brenda Hillman | "The Formation of Soils" | The Journal |
| Jane Hirshfield | "In Praise of Coldness" | Tin House |
| John Hollander | "What the Lovers in the Old Songs Thought" | The New Republic |
| Richard Howard | "After 65" | The Antioch Review |
| Fanny Howe | "Doubt" | Seneca Review |
| Olena Kalytiak Davis | "Sweet Reader, Flanneled and Tulled" | The Paris Review |
| Shirley Kaufman | "The Emperor of China" | American Poetry Review |
| Galway Kinnell | "The Quick and the Dead" | The New Yorker |
| David Kirby | "Dear Derrida" | The Kenyon Review |
| Carolyn Kizer | "The Ashes" | The Texas Review |
| Kenneth Koch | "To World War Two" | Harper's |
| Noelle Kocot | "Consolations Before an Affair, Upper West Side" | Another Chicago Magazine |
| John Koethe | "Songs of the Valley" | Southwest Review |
| Yusef Komunyakaa | "Seven Deadly Sins" | Poetry |
| Mark Levine | "Wedding Day" | Northwest Review |
| Sarah Manguso | "The Rider" | American Letters & Commentary |
| J. D. McClatchy | "Tattoos" | The Paris Review |
| Colleen J. McElroy | "Mae West Chats It Up with Bessie Smith" | Crab Orchard Review |
| Heather McHugh | "My One" | jubilat |
| Harryette Mullen | "Music for Homemade Instruments" | Facture |
| Carol Muske Dukes | "Our Kitty" | Evansville Review |
| Alice Notley | "Where Leftover Misery Goes" | Chain |
| Sharon Olds | "His Costume" | The New Yorker |
| Kathleen Ossip | "The Nature of Things" | Barrow Street |
| Grace Paley | "Here" | The Massachusetts Review |
| Michael Palmer | "Untitled (February 2000)" | Conjunctions |
| John Peck | "A Metal Denser Than, and Liquid" | AGNI |
| Lucia Perillo | "The Ghost Shirt" | Pequod |
| Carl Phillips | "The Clearing" | Callaloo |
| Robert Pinsky | "Jersey Rain" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Claudia Rankine | "A short narrative of breasts and womb in service of Plot entitled" |
Verse |
| Adrienne Rich | "Architect" | The Paris Review |
| James Richardson | "Vectors: Forty-five Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays" |
Ploughshares |
| Rachel Rose | "What We Heard About the Japanese" and "What the Japanese Perhaps Heard"" |
Verse |
| Mary Ruefle | "Furtherness" | American Letters & Commentary |
| James Schuyler | "Along Overgrown Paths" | The New Yorker |
| Charles Simic | "Night Picnic" | Boston Review |
| Susan Stewart | "Apple" | TriQuarterly |
| Larissa Szporluk | "Meteor" | The Journal |
| James Tate | "The Diagnosis" | LIT |
| Bernard Welt | "I stopped writing poetry..." | The Antioch Review |
| Dean Young | "Sources of the Delaware" | Volt |
| Rachel Zucker | "In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger" | American Poetry Review |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
- [1] "The Best I Can Do This Year: Lehman's "Best American Poetry 2001" by Joan Houlihan
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