The best American poetry 2024

Existential Elegy / Kim Addonizio

Kyiv / Howard Altmann

Amenorrhea / Julia Alvarez

Apophasis at the All-Night Rite Aid / Catherine Barnett

First Philosophy / Joshua Bennett

Sithens in a net / April Bernard

Miasma / Christopher Childers

The Deer / Ama Codjoe

At Sixty-Five / Henri Cole

The Monet Conundrum / Billy Collins

Cleptopolitan / Brendan Constantine

Conscription / Armen Davoudian

The Remnant / Kwame Dawes

The Bard of Armagh / Timothy Donnelly

Happy End / Rita Dove

Irish Traveler's Writer's Block / Joanne Dominique Dwyer

Avoidance / Elaine Equi

A Lighthouse Keeper Considers Love / Gabriella Fee

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry / Brandel France de Bravo

Satan's Management Style / Dana Gioia

Passion and Form / Louise Glück

Space Is the Final Frontier / Amy Glynn

Each Other Moment / Jessica Greenbaum

Voyage / Rachel Hadas

All Souls / Saskia Hamilton

A Message from Tony Hoagland / Jeffrey Harrison

How to Fold / Terrance Hayes

Domestic Retrograde / John Hennessy

Pando's Grove / W. J. Herbert

Lamb / Richie Hofmann

Chainsaw / Marie Howe

Closure / Omotara James

Japan / Eve Jones

Byzantine Chanting / George Kalogeris

Someone Else's Gift / Stephen Kampa

Self's the Man / Richard Kenney

Kiss Me Deadly (1955) / Karl Kirchwey

My Brothers, the Olmec / Yusef Komunyakaa

from Ithaca / David Lehman

In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa / Ada Limón

Shopping Lists / Sarah Luczaj

Charmed Life / Amit Majmudar

Weather Conditions / Clarence Major

You Summon Me... / Charles Martin

Two Widows, Making a Bed / Heather McHugh

from Couplets / Maggie Millner

The Open C / Ange Mlinko

The Explanation / Andrew Motion

Joy in Service on Rue Tagore / Paul Muldoon

Haiku Garden / Harryette Mullen

Dame's Rocket / Jesse Nathan

Fast Track: Beijing, Montana, Harlem / Jacqueline Osherow

The First and Final Poem Is the Sun / Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Proverbs of Limbo / Robert Pinsky

What's Unsaid / Maya C. Popa

Eelam / Vidyan Ravinthiran

Sentimental Evening / Natalie Scenters-Zapico

from Information Desk: An Epic / Robyn Schiff

Strike Into It Unasked / Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Night Visitor / Grace Schulman

The Hat / Jane Shore

Jack Benny / Mitch Sisskind

Hope Chest / Maggie Smith

The Bluebird / Karen Solie

I'm Not Dying, You're Dying / Christopher Spaide

Crown Shyness / A. E. Stallings

Wallace Stevens Comes Back to Read His Poems at the 92nd Street Y / Mark Strand

The Days / Adrienne Su

Pe'ahi Light / Arthur Sze

The Field Is Hot and Hotter / Claire Wahmanholm

A New Year / Rosanna Warren

Ashkenazi Birthmark / Michael Waters

from The Life of Tu Fu / Eliot Weinberger

The Man with the Yellow Balloon / Matthew Yeager

Diptych / Kevin Young.