The Best American Poetry 2013 (31 page)

Alaska Quarterly Review
, ed. Ronald Spatz. University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508.

The American Poetry Review
, eds. Stephen Berg, David Bonnano, and Elizabeth Scanlon. 320 S. Broad Street, Hamilton #313, Philadelphia, PA 19102.

The American Scholar
, poetry ed. Langdon Hammer. 1606 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009.

The Antioch Review
, poetry ed. Judith Hall. PO Box 148, Yellow Springs, OH 45387.

The Awl
, poetry ed. Mark Bibbins.
www.theawl.com

Barrow Street
, eds. Melissa Hotchkiss, Patricia Carlin, Lorna Blake, and Peter Covino.
www.barrowstreet.org

The Believer
, poetry ed. Dominic Luxford.
www.believermag.com

Boston Review
, poetry eds. Timothy Donnelly and Barbara Fischer.
www.bostonreview.net

Carbon Copy Magazine
, eds. Abby Blank and Matt Zambito.
www.carboncopymagazine.com

Columbia Poetry Review
, Department of English, Columbia College Chicago, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605.

The Common
, poetry ed. John Hennessy.
www.thecommononline.org

Conduit
, ed. William D. Waltz. 788 Osceola Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105.

Court Green
, eds. Tony Trigilio and David Trinidad. Columbia College Chicago, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605.

Ecotone
, poetry ed. Regina DiPerna. Department of Creative Writing, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5938.

FIELD
, eds. David Young and David Walker.
www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/field.html

Fifth Wednesday Journal
, ed. Vern Miller.
www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com

Five Points
, eds. David Bottoms and Megan Sexton. Georgia State University, P.O. Box 3999, Atlanta, GA, 30302-3999.

The Georgia Review
, ed. Stephen Corey. The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-9009.

Granta
, ed. John Freeman.
www.granta.com

Gulf Coast
, poetry eds. Kimberly Bruss, Michelle Oakes, and Justine Post. Department of English, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3013.

Gulfshore Life
,
www.gulfshorelife.com

Hanging Loose
, eds. Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, and Mark Pawlak. 231 Wyckoff Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Harper's
, ed. Ellen Rosenbush.
www.harpers.org

Harpur Palate
, poetry eds. Nicole Santalucia and Abby E. Murray.
harpurpalate.binghamton.edu

Harvard Review
, poetry ed. Major Jackson. Lamont Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

House Organ
, ed. Kenneth Warren, PO Box 466, Youngstown, NY 14174.

jubilat
, eds. Kevin González and Caryl Pagel.
www.jubilat.org

The Los Angeles Review
, poetry and translations ed. Tanya Chernov. PO Box 2458, Redmond, WA 98073.
www.losangelesreview.org

MAKE
, poetry ed. Joel Craig.
www.makemag.com

MiPOesias
, ed. Didi Menendez.
www.mipoesias.com

Mid-American Review
, poetry ed. Jessica Zinz. Department of English, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403.

The Nation
, poetry ed. Jordan Davis. 33 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003.

New American Writing
, eds. Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover. 369 Molino Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941.

New England Review
, poetry ed. C. Dale Young. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753.

New Ohio Review
, ed. Jill Allyn Rosser. English Department, 360 Ellis Hall, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.

The New Yorker
, poetry ed. Paul Muldoon. 4 Times Square, New York, NY 10036.

PEN America
, ed. M Mark.
www.pen.org/pen-america-journal

Ploughshares
, poetry ed. John Skoyles. Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116-4624.

Plume
, ed. Daniel Lawless.
www.plumepoetry.com

Poetry
, ed. Christian Wiman. 444 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1850, Chicago, IL 60611-4034.

Poetry Daily
, eds. Don Selby and Diane Boller.
www.poems.com

Poetry London
, poetry eds. Colette Bryce, Martha Kapos. 81 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX, England.
www.poetrylondon.co.uk

A Public Space
, poetry ed. Brett Fletcher Lauer. 323 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
www.apublicspace.org

Redivider
, poetry eds. June Rockefeller and Charlotte Seley.
www.redividerjournal.org

River Styx
, ed. Richard Newman. 3547 Olive Street, Suite 107, St. Louis, MO 63103.

Slate
, poetry ed. Robert Pinsky.
www.slate.com

The Southampton Review
, poetry ed. Julie Sheehan. Stony Brook Southampton, 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton, NY 11968.

The Southern Review
, poetry ed. Jessica Faust. 3990 W. Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.

Southwest Review
, ed. Willard Spiegelman. PO Box 750374, Dallas, TX 75275-0374.

Subtropics
, poetry ed. Sidney Wade.
www.english.ufl.edu/subtropics

Terrain.org
, poetry ed. Derek Sheffield.
www.terrain.org

Verse Daily
,
www.versedaily.org

The Virginia Quarterly Review
, poetry eds. (for 2012) Ted Genoways and David Caplan.
www.vqronline.org

Vitrine: a printed museum
, curator-in-chief Alexander Vavaluzzo.
www.vitrine-aprintedmuseum.com

The series editor thanks Mark Bibbins for his invaluable assistance. Warm thanks go also to Stacey Harwood, Philip Brunst, Kathleen Ossip, and Stephanie Paterik; to Glen Hartley and Lynn Chu of Writers' Representatives; to David Stanford Burr for his skillful copy-editing; and to Daniel Burgess, Daniel Cuddy, Erich Hobbing, and Gwyneth Stansfield of Scribner.

Grateful acknowledgment is made of the magazines in which these poems first appeared and the magazine editors who selected them. A sincere attempt has been made to locate all copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, copyright to the poems is held by the individual poets.

Kim Addonizio: “Divine” appeared in
Fifth Wednesday Journal
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Sherman Alexie: “Pachyderm” appeared in
The Awl
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Nathan Anderson: “Stupid Sandwich” appeared in
New Ohio Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Nin Andrews: “The Art of Drinking Tea” appeared in
MiPOesias
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

John Ashbery: “Resisting Arrest” from
Quick Question
. © 2012 by John Ashbery. Reprinted by permission of Ecco/HarperCollins. Also appeared in
The New Yorker
.

Wendy Barker: “Books, Bath Towels, and Beyond” appeared in
The Southern Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Jan Beatty: “Youngest Known Savior” from
The Switching/Yard
. © 2013 by Jan Beatty. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Also appeared in
Redivider
.

Bruce Bond: “The Unfinished Slave” appeared in
The Antioch Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Traci Brimhall: “Dear Thanatos,” appeared in
FIELD
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Jericho Brown: “Hustle” appeared in
The Believer
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Andrei Codrescu: “Five One-Minute Eggs” appeared in
House Organ
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Billy Collins: “Foundling” appeared in
The Southampton Review
and
Slate
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Martha Collins: “[white paper 24]” from
White Papers
. © 2012 by Martha Collins. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Also appeared in
Harvard Review
.

Kwame Dawes: “Death” appeared in
The American Poetry Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Connie Deanovich: “Divestiture” appeared in
New American Writing
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Timothy Donnelly: “Apologies from the Ground Up” appeared in
A Public Space
and
Poetry London
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Stephen Dunn: “The Statue of Responsibility” appeared in
The Georgia Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Daisy Fried: “This Need Not Be a Comment on Death” from
Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice
. © 2013 by Daisy Fried. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Also appeared in
The American Poetry Review
.

Amy Gerstler: “Womanishness” appeared in
Court Green
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Louise Glück: “Afterword” appeared in
Poetry
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Beckian Fritz Goldberg: “Henry's Song” appeared in
Plume
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Terrance Hayes: “New Jersey Poem” appeared in
The Los Angeles Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Rebecca Hazelton: “Book of Forget” appeared in
AGNI
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Elizabeth Hazen: “Thanatosis” appeared in
Southwest Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

John Hennessy: “Green Man, Blue Pill” appeared in
Southwest Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

David Hernandez: “All-American” appeared in
The Southern Review
and
Poetry Daily
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Tony Hoagland: “Wrong Question” appeared in
Fifth Wednesday Journal
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Anna Maria Hong: “A Parable” appeared in
Boston Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Major Jackson: “Why I Write Poetry” appeared in
Ploughshares
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Mark Jarman: “George W. Bush” appeared in
Five Points
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Lauren Jensen: “it's hard as so much is” appeared in
Mid-American Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

A. Van Jordan: “Blazing Saddles” appeared in
The Virginia Quarterly Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Lawrence Joseph: “Syria” appeared in
The Nation
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Anna Journey, “Wedding Night: We Share an Heirloom Tomato on Our Hotel Balcony Overlooking the Ocean in Which Natalie Wood Drowned” appeared in
The Southern Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Laura Kasischke: “Perspective” appeared in
New England Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Victoria Kelly: “When the Men Go Off to War” appeared in
Southwest Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

David Kirby: “Pink Is the Navy Blue of India” appeared in
Plume
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Noelle Kocot: “Aphids” appeared in
Conduit
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

John Koethe: “Eggheads” appeared in
ROTC Kills
. © 2012 by John Koethe. Reprinted by permission of Ecco/HarperCollins. Also appeared in
The Virginia Quarterly Review
.

Dorothea Lasky: “Poem for Anne Sexting” appeared in
Conduit
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Dorianne Laux: “Song” appeared in
River Styx
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Amy Lemmon, “I take your T-shirt to bed again . . .” appeared in
Vitrine: a printed museum
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Thomas Lux: “Outline for My Memoir” from
Child Made of Sand
. © 2012 by Thomas Lux. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Also appeared in
The American Poetry Review
.

Anthony Madrid: “Once upon a Time” appeared in
Poetry
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Sally Wen Mao: “XX” appeared in
Gulf Coast
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Jen McClanaghan: “My Lie” appeared in
The New Yorker
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Campbell McGrath: “January 17” from
Seven Notebooks
. © 2008 by Campbell McGrath. Reprinted by permission of Ecco/HarperCollins. Also appeared in
PEN America
.

Jesse Millner: “In Praise of Small Gods” appeared in
Gulfshore Life
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

D. Nurkse: “Psalm to Be Read with Closed Eyes” from
A Night in Brooklyn
. © 2012 by D. Nurkse. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Also appeared in
Poetry
.

Ed Ochester: “New Year” appeared in
The American Poetry Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.