The best American poetry, 2019

Phase one / Dilruba Ahmed

You & the raw bullets / Rosa Alcalá

Update on werewolves / Margaret Atwood

Central Park / Catherine Barnett

American will be / Johsua Bennett

Afternoons at the lake / Fleda Brown

Essay on joy / Sumita Chakraborty

Six obits / Victoria Chang

I invite my parents to a dinner pary / Chen Chen

Drank a lot / Leonard Cohen

Like a cat / Laura Cronk

Metaphor-less / Kate Daniels

Armed neighbor / Carl Dennis

An apology to the reader / Toi Derricotte

Brilliant corners / Thomas Devaney

Skin-light / Natalie Diaz

Decline in the adoration of jack-in-the-pulpits / Joanne Dominique Dwyer

I now pronounce you dead / Martín Espada

The analytic hour / Nausheen Eusuf

Canzone in blue, then bluer / Vievee Francis

Guantanamera / Gabriela García

Update / Amy Gerstler

Virgil, hey / Camille Guthrie

Dark and lovely after take-off (a future) / Yona Harvey

Dancing / Robert Hass

American sonnet for my past and future assassin / Terrance Hayes

Roll under the waves / Juan Felipe Herrera

Stranger by night / Edward Hirsch

Ledger / Jane Hirshfield

Sunflowers / James Hoch

All praise Cecil Taylor / Bob Holman

The bathers, Cassis / Garrett Hongo

Sympathy of a clear day / Ishion Hutchinson

The burning bush / Didi Jackson

In memory of Derek Alton Walcott / Major Jackson

From 'Last will and testament' / Ilya Kaminsky

We may no longer consider the end / Ruth Ellen Kocher

Soft targets / Deborah Landau

Higher calling / Quraysh Ali Lansana

The undressing / Li-Young Lee

It could happen to you / David Lehman

Cannibal woman / Ada Limón

A brief history of the future apocalypse / Rebecca Lindenberg

The S in 'I loves you, Porgy' / Nabila Lovelace

Hair / Clarence Major

At land's end / Gail Mazur

The President visits the storm / Shane McCrae

Bio from a parallel world / Jeffrey McDaniel

Miles Davis: Birth of the cool;the founding of Brasilia (1950) / Campbell McGrath

Sleepwalking in Venice / Ange Mlinko

Fannie Lou Hamer / Kamilah Aisha Moon

The last of England / Andrew Motion

Aubade / Paul Muldoon

On confessionalism / John Murillo

You are your own state department / Naomi Shihab Nye

Rasputin aria / Sharon Olds

Nord-sud / Michael Palmer

The black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth / Morgan Parker

Head crack head crack / Willie Perdomo

Star map with action figures

Carl Phillips

Just rollin' along / Ishmael Reed

Four Marys / Paisley Rekdal

Belly, buttocks, and straight spines / Sonia Sanchez

#MeToo / Nicole Santalucia

The women's march / Philip Schultz

Vermeer's pearl / Lloyd Schwartz

Encore / Alan Shapiro

Who knows one / Jane Shore

The greatest personal privation / Tracy K. Smith

Harm's way / A.E. Stallings

The white orchard / Arthur Sze

Duty / Natasha Trethewey

Partly true poem reflected in a mirror / Ocean Vuong

Still life: Steven's wallet on a Key West hotel dresser

Hive / Kevin Young.