“Rare Things” by Suzanne Buffam, from A Pillow Book (Canarium, 2016)

“Pillow” by Jana Prikryl, from The After Party (Tim Duggan Books, 2016)

Sjohnna McCray, “Portrait of My Father as a Young Black Man” from Rapture ( Graywolf Press, 2016)

by Etel Adnan, from Night (Nightboat Press, 2016)

“Poem of a Forest of Clouds Sweeping By” by C. D. Wright, from Shallcross (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)

Tyehimba Jess, “What the Wind, Rain and Thunder Said to Tom,” from Olio (Wave Books, 2016)

“The Sound of Forgetting” by W. S. Merwin, from Garden Time (Copper Canyon, 2016)

Christopher Soto, from “[SOMEWHERE IN LOS ANGELES] This Poem Is Needed,” The American Poetry Review (45, 1)