The best American poetry, 2010

What you have to get over / Dick Allen

Alcove / John Ashbery

Unit of measure / Sandra Beasley

The devil you don't / Mark Bibbins

My dog has no nose / Todd Boss

The dead / Fleda Brown

Wildly constant / Anne Carson

Fidelity / Tom Clark

This poem had better be about the world we actually live in / David Clewell

An individual history / Michael Collier

Grave / Billy Collins

Ugly man / Dennis Cooper

From A walk in Victoria's secret / Kate Daniels

Four Addresses / Peter Davis

Come in from the rain / Tim Dlugos

Play / Denise Duhamel

Presidential blackness / Thomas Sayers Ellis

Dear Final Journey, / Lynn Emanuel

What is it about hands? / Elaine Equi

Apologia / Jill Alexander Essbaum

On the waterfront / B.H. Fairchild

Smoke under the bale / Vievee Francis

At the river / Louise Glück

What's left / Albert Goldbarth

Namaskar / Amy Glynn Greacen

Passing the barnyard graveyard / Sonia Greenfield

Oh dont / Kelle Groom

And what, friends, is called a road? / Gabriel Gudding

The poetic memoirs of Lady Daibu / Kimiko Hahn

Five Lingo sonnets / Barbara Hamby

I just want to look / Terrance Hayes

The cunning optimism of language / Bob Hicok

North Alabama endtime / Rodney Jones

If I ring my body like a bell of coins, will the shock waves of that sound cause oil rigs & volcanoes to erupt? / Michaela Kahn

Rome / Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Six from Birds of self-knowledge / Corinne Lee

The old woman gets drunk with the moon / Hailey Leithauser

I never went to that movie at 12:45 / Dolly Lemke

A man with a rooster in his dream / Maurice Manning

Seven days of falling / Adrian Matejka

Pietà / Shane McCrae

The grudge / Jeffrey McDaniel

Identity / W.S. Merwin

Letter to the past after long silence / Sarah Murphy

The perfect faceless fish / Eileen Myles

The prison diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone / Camille Norton

From Eurynome's sandals / Alice Notley

Q / Sharon Olds

Written by himself / Gregory Pardlo

Inseminating the elephant / Lucia Perillo

Heaven and earth / Carl Phillips

Domain / Adrienne Rich

Vectors 2.3: 50 aphorisms and ten-second essays / James Richardson

Children's children speech / J. Allyn Rosser

Having my say-so / James Schuyler

Allison Wolff / Tim Seibles

A visit / David Shapiro

Carrying on like a crow / Charles Simic

Blue yodel of those who were always telling me / Frank Stanford

Stoop / Gerald Stern

SATs / Stephen Campbell Sutherland

Depression / James Tate

Black telephone / David Trinidad

The dark rides / Chase Twichell

Peggy Lutz, Fred Muth 12/13/08 / John Updike

21 / Derek Walcott

Their faces shall be as flames / G.C. Waldrep

In the field / J.E. Wei

Something for you because you have been gone / Dara Wier

Objects of spiritual significance / Terence Winch

The darker sooner / Catherine Wing

Coyote, with mange / Mark Wunderlich

From A jar of balloons, or The uncooked rice / Matthew Yeager

Off the hook ode / Dean Young

Lime light blues / Kevin Young.