The best American poetry 2013

Divine / Kim Addonizio

Pachyderm / Sherman Alexie

Stupid sandwich / Nathan Anderson

The art of drinking tea / Nin Andrews

Resisting arrest / John Ashberry

Books, bath towels, and beyond / Wendy Barker

Youngest known savior / Jan Beatty

The unfinished slave / Bruce Bond

Dear Thanatos / Traci Brimhall

Hustle / Jericho Brown

Five one-minute eggs / Andrei Codrescu

Foundling / Billy Collins

[white paper 24] / Martha Collins

Death / Kwame Dawes

Divestiture / Connie Deanovich

Apologies from the ground up / Timothy Donnelly

The statue of responsibility / Stephen Dunn

This need not be a comment on death / Daisy Fried

Womanishness / Amy Gerstler

Afterword / Louise Glück

Henry's song / Beckian Fritz Goldberg

New Jersey poem / Terrance Hayes

Book of forget / Rebecca Hazelton

Thanatosis / Elizabeth Hazen

Green man, blue pill / John Hennessy

All-American / David Hernandez

Wrong question / Tony Hoaglan

A parable / Anna Maria Hong

Why I write poetry / Major Jackson

George W. / Mark Jarman

It's hard as so much is / Lauren Jensen

Blazing saddles / A. Van Jordan

Syria / Lawrence Joseph

Wedding night: we share an heirloom tomato on our hotel balcony overlooking the ocean in which Natalie Wood drowned / Anna Journey

Perspective / Laura Kaischke

When the men go off to war / Victoria Kelly

Pink is the navy blue of India / David Kirby

Aphids / Noelle Kocot

Eggheads / John Koethe

Poem for Anne Sexting / Dorothea Lasky

Song / Dorianne Laux

I take your t-shirt to bed again... / Amy Lemmon

Outline for my memoir / Thomas Lux

Once upon a time / Anthony Madrid

XX / Sally Wen Mao

My lie / Jen McClanaghan

January 17 / Campbell McGrath

In praise of small gods / Jesse Millner

Psalm to be read with closed eyes / D. Nurske

New Year / Ed Ochester

Birthday poem / Paisley Rekdal

Endpapers / Adrienne Rich

Lake Sonnet / Anne Marie Rooney

Intro to happiness / J. Allyn Rosser

Little golf pencil / Mary Ruefle

Chelsea/suicide / Maureen Seaton

Sotto voice: Othello unplugged / Tim Seibles

Trailing clouds of glory / Vijay Seshadri

Western civilization / Peter Jay Shippy

Joe Adamczyk / Mitch Sisskind

What it feels like to be Aaron Smith / Aaron Smith

Introductions / Stephanie Strickland

On writing / Adrienne Su

The baby / James Tate

Florida poem / Emma Trelles

From Peyton Place: a Haiku Soap Opera, season two, 1965-1966 / David Trinidad

1945 / Jean Valentine

Now I'll never be able to finish that poem to Bob / Paul Violi

Casting aspersions / David Wagoner

The kind of man I am at the DMV / Stacey Waite

Sugar maples, January / Richard Wilbur

It can feel amazing to be targeted by a narcissist / Angela Veronica and Amy Lawless

Where the hero speaks to others / Wendy Xu

Wintering / Kevin Young

Albert Einstein / Matthew Zapruder.