The best American poetry, 2015

Bodhisattva / Sarah Arvio

Cedars of Lebanon / Derrick Austin

A retrograde / Desiree Bailey

WFM: Allergic to Pine-Sol, Am I the Only One / Melissa Barrett

Swallowed / Mark Bibbins

A Scatology / Jessamyn Birrer

The Joins / Chana Bloch

House is an Enigma / Emma Bolden

Prayer at 3 a.m. / Dexter L. Booth

Makeshift / Catherine Bowman

in the hall of the ruby-throated warbler / Rachael Briggs

Homeland / Jericho Brown

DOCTORS LIE, MAY HIDE MISTAKES / Rafael Campo

A fourteen-line poem on sex / Julie Carr

for i will do/undo what was done/undone to me / Chen Chen

Careful, I Just Won a Prize at the Fair / Susanna Childress

The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve / Yi-Fen Chou

Slow-Wave Sleep with a Fairy Tale / Erica Dawson

In a Black Tank Top / Danielle DeTiberus

It Was the Animals / Natalie Diaz

Fornicating / Denise Duhamel

Vernacular Owl / Thomas Sayers Ellis

In Memory of My Parents Who Are Not Dead Yet / Emily Kendal Frey

On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses / James Galvin

The Garden in August / Madelyn Garner

Rhinencephalon / Amy Gerstler

A Sharply Worded Silence / Louise Glück

Looney Tunes / R.S. Gwynn

Thumbs / Meredith Hasemann

Antebellum House Party / Terrance Hayes

My Husband / Rebecca Hazelton

A Common Cold / Jane Hirshfield

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Issues 1-12 / Bethany Schultz Hurst

Body & Kentucky Bourbon / Saeed Jones

Exhibits from the Dark Museum / Joan Naviyuk Kane

For the Young Woman I Saw Hit by a Car While Riding Her Bike / Laura Kasischke

In the End, They Were Born On TV / Douglas Kearney

Eating Walnuts / Jennifer Keith

Is Spot in Heaven? / David Kirby

Ode to the Common Housefly / Andrew Kozma

The Pickpocket Song / Hailey Leithauser

Watching the Sea Go / Dana Levin

See a Furious Waterfall Without Water / Patricia Lockwood

Party Games / Dora Malech

Anxieties / Donna Masini

If My Late Grandmother Were Gertrude Stein / Airea D. Matthews

There Are Birds Here / Jamaal May

There Were Only Dandelions / Laura McCullough

Dove / Rajiv Mohabir

Upon Hearing the News You Buried Our Dog / Aimee Nezhukumatahil

Plutonium / D. Nurkse

54 Prince / Tanya Olson

Survivor Guilt / Ron Padgett

Candying Mint / Alan Michael Parker

Relevant Details / Catherine Pierce

The Main Event / Donald Platt

from Citizen / Claudia Rankine

Poem Begun on a Train / Raphael Rubinstein

Endnotes on Ciudad Juárez / Natalie Scenters-Zapico

legend / Evie Shockley

So Early in the Morning / Charles Simic

Similitude at Versailles / Sandra Simonds

The Macarena / Ed Skoog

Ajar / A.E. Stallings

Memo to the Former Child Prodigy / Susan Terris

Delicatessen / Michael Tyrell

How You Might Approach a Foal: / Wendy Videlock

The Chickasaw Trees / Sidney Wade

Trades I Would Make / Cody Walker

Goodness in Mississippi / LaWanda Walters

City of Eternal Spring / Afaa Michael Weaver

Dear Black Barbie / Candace G. Wiley

Subject to Change / Terence Winch

Thaw / Jane Wong

March of the Hanged Men / Monica Youn.