The best American poetry, 2016

Sentence / Christopher Bakken

O Esperanza! / Catherine Barnett

Whitman, 1841 / Rick Barot

Daylight Savings / Jill Bialoskey

Fruits de Mer / Paula Bohince

Ugglig / Michelle Boisseau

I get to float invisible / Marianne Boruch

Hubert Blankenship / David Bottoms

32 fantasy football teams / Joseph Chapman and Laura Eve Engel

Last morning with Steve Orlen / Michael Collier

The heart of it all + a free beer / Allison Davis

On the certainty of Bryan / Olena Kalytiak Davis

How the Milky Way was made / Natalie Diaz

Humanity 101 / Denise Duhamel

My life / Lynn Emanuel

Cyst / Claudia Emerson

Here I am / Martín Espada

The Kiskiminetas River / Peter Everwine

When I turned fourteen, my mother's sister took me to lunch and said: / Alexis Rhone Fancher

One had lived in a room and loved nothing / Charles Fort

The sadness of clothes / Emily Fragos

A drop of seawater under the microscope / Amy Gerstler

Meet me at the lighthouse / Dana Gioia

Reading to my father / Jorie Graham

The lady responds / Juliana Gray

Font / Linda Gregerson

Self-portrait on the street of an unnamed foreign city / Jennifer Grotz

Doctor Scheef / Mark Halliday

Afterword / Jeffrey Harrison

Barberism / Terrance Hayes

Bible study / Tony Hoagland

The unwritten volume / Cynthia Hogue

I got heaven... / Garrett Hongo

Girls / Erin Hoover

85 off & on / Richard Howard

Minutiae / T.R. Hummer

Morning tableau / Ishion Hutchinson

Aubade / Major Jackson

Visions of labor / Lawrence Joseph

As if / Julie Kane

Return of the native / Suji Kwock Kim

Tissue gallery / Loretta Collins Klobah

The swimmer / John Koethe

The fool / Yusef Komunyakaa

We drive home from the lake, sand in our shoes / Keetje Kuipers

Solitaire / Deborah Landau

Folding a five-cornered star so the corners meet / Li-Young Lee

More than you gave / Philip Levine

If he came & diminished me & mapped my way / Larry Levis

On the road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari / Robin Coste Lewis

Ode while awaiting execution / Thomas Lux

Psalm for the lost / Paul Mariani

Lament / Debra Marquart

High school in Schuzou / Cate Marvin

Everything will be taken away / Morgan Parker

My father's "Norton introduction to literature," third edition (1981) / Hai-Dang Phan

The first last light in the sky / Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Variation on a line from Elizabeth Bishop's "Five flights up" / Stanley Plumly

Late Aubade / James Richardson

At the tribunals / Patrick Rosal

Vineyard / David St. John

But I'm the only one / Brenda Shaughnessy

Maid Maleen / Anya Silver

Grief / Taije Silverman

Prayer for recovery / Tom Sleigh

Alice, bewildered / A.E. Stallings

Cotton you lose in the field / Frank Stanford

What Piranesi knew / Susan Stewart

Drones: an exercise in awe-terror / Nomi Stone

Peaches / Adrienne Su

Dome of the hidden temple / James Tate

The apology / Lee Upton

Hog / C.K. Williams

To think of how cold / Eleanor Wilner

The drummer Omar: poet of percussion / Al Young.