The Best American poetry, 2000

Virgin spring / Kim Addonizio

Semiotics / Pamela Alexander

Shot glass / A. R. Ammons / Mary Todd on her deathbed / Julianna Baggott

Choose your garden / Erin Belieu

Mango, number 61 / Richard Blanco

The year / Janet Bowdan

Crow is walking / Grace Butcher

Signs / Lucille Clifton

Man listening to disc / Billy Collins

Between periods / Jim Daniels

The most beautiful word / Linh Dinh

Immigrant picnic / Gregory Djanikian

Incest taboo / Denise Duhamel

Birthday / Christopher Edgar

Alpha images / Karl Elder

Walt, I salute you! / Lynn Emanuel

Mrs. Hill / B. H. Fairchild

We did not fear the father / Charles Fort

Seven roses / Frank X. Gaspar

And in the afternoons I botanized / Elton Glaser

For the other world / Ray Gonzalez

The last living castrato / Jennifer Grotz

The dump / Thom Gunn

Before / Mark Halliday

Ode to the lost luggage warehouse at the Rome airport / Barbara Hamby

Goldsboro narratives / Forrest Hamer

Air for Mercury / Brenda Hillman

Considering the demise of everything / Marsha Janson

Epistle / Mark Jarman

Ghosts / Patricia Spears Jones

Plea for forgivenes / Rodney Jones

Ralph : a love story / Donald Justice

Six apologies, Lord / Olena Kalytiak Davis

At the grave of Harold Goldstein / David Kirby

The oration / Carolyn Kizet

The muse of the actual / Lynne Knight

The goddess of quotas laments / Yusef Komunyakaa

Henry Clay's mouth / Thomas Lux

We take our children to Ireland / Lynne McMahon

The hours of darkness / W. S. Merwin

Lost parrot / Susan Mitchell

Aunt Lily and Frederick the Great / Jean Nordhaus

Work / Mary Oliver

I do not / Michael Palmer

Paris / Paul Perry

All art . . . / Carl Phillips

Samurai song / Robert Pinsky

History & bikinis / Donald Platt

Kunitz tending roses / Stanley Plumly

Permanence / Lawrence Raab

The beach at Falmouth Heights, summer, 1952 / Thomas Rabbitt

Au pair / Mary Jo Salter

Welcome to Ithaca / Rebecca Seiferle

Postfeminism / Brenda Shaughnessy

from Black series / Laurie Sheck

Semantics at four p.m. / Reginald Shepherd

The dislocated room / Richard Siken

Mother of us all / Cathy Song

Chit-chat with the Junior League women / Gary Soto

In a field outside the town / Gabriel Spera

Asphodel / A. E. Stallings

Wings / Susan Stewart

The English canon / Adrienne Su

There is a lake of ice on the moon / Pamela Sutton

No palms / Dorothea Tanning

Limen / Natasha Trethewey

Song / Quincy Troupe

Rahim Multani / Reetika Vazirani

As I was telling David and Alexandra Kelley / Paul Violi

Pissarro at dusk / Derek Walcott

Fabrications / Richard Wilber

Analysis of the rose as sentimental despair / Susan Wood

Borrowed love poems / John Yau

The infirmament / Dean Young.