The Best American Poetry, 2015

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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.

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Controversial volume submitted by redwood on July 24, 2019, 9:19pm See Jenny Zhang's excellent article for a breakdown ... https://www.buzzfeed.com/jennybagel/they-pretend-to-be-us-while-pretending-we-dont-exist