The best American poetry 2007

Art of breathing / Ali Kazim

Crimble of Staines / Jeannette Allée

Scumble / Rae Armantrout

Opening / Mary Jo Bang

Still life with half-turned woman and questions / Nicky Beer

Method / Marvin Bell

Vowels / Christian Bök

Voice from the city / Louis E.Bourgeois

Flesh of John Brown's flesh: Dec. 2, 1859 / Geoffrey Brock

Let me count the ways / Matthew Byrne

Duties of an English foreign secretary / Macgregor Card

Marriage / Julie Carr

Common flicker / Michael Collier

News today / Billy Collins

Valentine for you / Robert Creeley

Continuous bullets over flattened earth ; Super-clean country / Linh Dinh

Dead critics society / Mike Dockins

Tea lay / Sharon Dolin

Language police report / Denise Duhamel

Where he found himself / Stephen Dunn

See Jack / Russell Edson

Etudes / Elaine Equi

Lemon tree / Landis Everson

Yinglish strophes IX / Thomas Fink

Daily / Helen Ramsom Forman

Archaic fragment / Louise Glück

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Albert Goldbarth

Master / Donald Hall

Best am po / Mark Halliday

Initiation / Forrest Hamer

From The future of terror/Terror of the future series / Matthea Harvey

Bush's war / Robert Hass

Critique of pure reason / Jane Hirshfield

Do unto others / Daniel Johnson

Auguries / Richard Kenney

Comma of God / Milton Kessler

Hide-and-seek, 1933 / Galway Kinnell

Ode to the personals / David Kirby

What bee did / Julie Larios

Good list / Brad Leithauser

From Angle of yaw / Ben Lerner

When I was a dinosaur / Joanie Mackowski

By accident / Amit Majmudar

10 stages of Beatrice / Sabrina Orah Mark

Ode to the plantar fascia / Campbell McGrath

On Leonardo's drawings / Leslie Adrienne Miller

Etymology / Marilyn Nelson

Voltaire at Cirey, 1736 / Ed Ochester

Peep show / Meghan O'Rourke

From Concerning the book that is the body of the beloved / Gregory Orr

Dear Pearce & Pearce, Inc. / Danielle Pafunda

Tech's ode to the genome computer / Chad Parmenter

Swooping actuarial fauna ; Ecstatic cling / Susan Parr

Nursemaid's elbow /

Peter Pereira

Louie Louie ; Stupid meditation on Pearce / Robert Pinsky

Rev. Larry Love is dead / David Rivard

If I tell you you're beautiful, will you report me?: a West Point haiku series / Marya Rosenberg

F / Natasha Sajé

Death of the shah / Frederick Seidel

Country western singer / Alan Shapiro

Drawing Jesus / David Shumate

Money / Carmine Starnino

What every soldier should know / Brian Turner

Family / Arthur Vogelsang

Coulrophobia / Andy Walker

Flu song in Spanish / Kary Wayson

Big / Charles Harper Webb

Home of the brave / Joe Wenderoth

From Opposites and More opposites / Richard Wilbur

At dusk, the catbird / George Witte

Experiment / Theodore Worozbyt

Remiss rebut / Harriet Zinnes.