The best American poetry 2017

Weapons discharge report / Dan Albergotti

Commotion of the birds / John Ashbury

Admission / Mary Jo Bang

On a Shaker admonition / David Barber

Apophatic / Dan Beachy-Quick

Homage to a painter of small things / Bruce Bond

Intrigue in the trees / John Brehm

Bullet points / Jericho Brown

The dead / Nickole Brown

Elegy with a gold cradle / Cyrus Cassells

Fidelity and the dead singer / Isaac Cates

I forgive you / Allison Cobb

Steer your way / Leonard Cohen

A wild tom turkey / Michael Collier

The present / Billy Collins

Two lives / Carl Dennis

Spontaneous remission / Claudia Emerson

Kaddish / David Feinstein

The boatman / Carolyn Forché

Given to these proclivities, by God / Vievee Francis

Dead butterfly / Amy Gerstler

Canasta / Reginald Gibbons

Passage / Margaret Gibson

from The Black Maria / Aracelis Girmay

Higher education / Jeffrey Harrison

Ars poetica with Bacon / Terrance Hayes

Mounting the Dove Box / W. J. Herbert

Cause of death: Fox News / Tony Hoagland

Hamlet texts Guildenstern about playing upon the pipe / John Hodgen

Certain things / David Brendan Hopes

The Flâneur tends a well-liked summer cocktail / Major Jackson

History (n.) / John James

Homecoming / Rodney Jones

Progress notes / Fady Joudah

Grackle / Meg Kearney

The age of anxiety / John Koethe

from The Last Bohemian of Avenue A / Yusef Komunyakaa

The watch / Danusha Laméris

Lapse / Dorianne Laux

Rain in winter / Philip Levine

Kill list / Amit Majmudar

Things that break / Jamaal May

White / Judson Mitcham

Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds / John Murillo

To Marlon Brando in hell / Joyce Carol Oates

Ode to the glans / Sharon Olds

Letter beginning with two lines by Czesław Miłosz

Three dark proverb sonnets / Gregory Orr

Rockabye / Carl Phillips

Halo / Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Names / Robert Pinsky

Poliomyelitus / Stanley Plumly

Assemblage of ruined plane parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi / Paisley Rekdal

The mercy home / Michael Ryan

Emanations / David St. John

I went for a walk in winter / Sherod Santos

Where to put it / Taije Silverman

Seeing things / Charles Simic

Last summer of innocence / Danez Smith

Good bones / Maggie Smith

Maricón / R. T. Smith

Shattered / A. E. Stallings

Afraid to pray / Pamela Sutton

Sad song / Chase Twichell

Something / James Valvis

Dear skull / Emily Van Kley

Deconstruction / Wendy Videlock

Scheherazade / Lucy Wainger

Double helix / Crystal Williams

Prelude / Christian Wiman

Greenacre / Monica Youn

Precatio simplex / C. Dale Young

Infinitives / Dean Young

Money road / Kevin Young

Poem for vows / Matthew Zapruder.