The Best American poetry, 2001 / Robert Hass, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.

Notes for a Sermon on the Mount / Nin Andrews
The plan / Rae Armantrout
Crossroads in the past / John Ashbery
Jazz / Angela Ball
Crossed-over, fiend-snitched, x-ed out / Mary Jo Bang
When the gods put on meter / Cal Bedient
Vague poem / Elizabeth Bishop
The French generals / Robert Bly
Sonnet around Stephanie / Lee Ann Brown
Notes about my face / Michael Burkard
Heartland / Trent Busch
Blouse of felt / Amina Calil
Longing, a documentary / Anne Carson
Ceriserie / Joshua Clover
Snow day / Billy Collins
En famille / Robert Creeley
A mown lawn / Lydia Davis
Ma Ramon / R. Erica Doyle
The cloud of unknowing / Christopher Edgar
T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. / Thomas Sayers Ellis
The art of the snake story / Amy England
Contemporary American poetry / Alan Feldman
Little Dantesque / James Galvin
Time / Louise Glück
My Chakabuku mama, a comic tale / Jewelle Gomez
Gulls / Jorie Graham
Waterborne / Linda Gregerson
The singers change, the music goes on / Linda Gregg
Enough rain for Agnes Walquist
Her garden / Donald Hall
Sarabande on attaining the age of seventy-seven / Anthony Hecht
Nights / Lyn Hejinian
The formation of soils / Brenda Hillman.

In praise of coldness / Jane Hirshfield
What the lovers in the old songs thought / John Hollander
After 65 / Richard Howard
Doubt / Fanny Howe
Sweet reader, flanneled and tulled / Olena Kalytiak Davis
The Emperor of China / Shirley Kaufman
The quick and the dead / Galway Kinnell
Dear Derrida / David Kirby
The ashes / Carolyn Kizer
To World War Two / Kenneth Koch
Consolations before an affair, Upper West Side / Noelle Kocot
Songs of the valley / John Koethe
Seven deadly sins / Yusef Komunyakaa
Wedding day / Mark Levine
The rider / Sarah Manguso
Tattoos / J.D. McClatchy
Mae West chats it up with Bessie Smith / Colleen J. McElroy
My one / Heather McHugh
Music for homemade instruments / Harryette Mullen
Our Kitty / Carol Muske Dukes
Where leftover misery goes / Alice Notley
His costume / Sharon Olds
The nature of things / Kathleen Ossip
Here / Grace Paley
Untitled (February 2000) / Michael Palmer
A metal denser than, and liquid / John Peck
The ghost shirt / Lucia Perillo
The clearing / Carl Phillips
Jersey rain / Robert Pinsky
A short narrative of breasts and womb in the service of Plot entitled / Claudia Rankine
Architect / Adrienne Rich.

Vectors: forty-five aphorisms and ten-second essays / James Richardson
What we heard about the Japanese / Rachel Rose
What the Japanese perhaps heard / Rachel Rose
Furtherness / Mary Ruefle
Along overgrown paths / James Schuyler
Night picnic / Charles Simic
Apple / Susan Stewart
Meteor / Larissa Szporluk
The diagnosis / James Tate
I stopped writing poetry ... / Bernard Welt
Sources of the Delaware / Dean Young
In your version of Heaven I am younger / Rachel Zucker.