Personal best : makers on their poems that matter most
(Book)

Samuel Ace:"I Met a Man"Kaveh Akbar:"Reading Farrokhzad in a Pandemic"Rick Barot: "The Names"Oliver Baez Bendorf: "Untitled [Who cut me from/growing into a buck?]"Reginald Dwayne Betts: from "House of Unending"Mark Bibbins: "At the End of the Endless Decade"Jericho Brown: "Pause"Molly McCully Brown: "God is Your Shoulder"Victoria Chang: "The Clock"jos charles: from "Feeld"John Lee Clark: "Line of Descent"Martha Collins: "White Paper 6"CAConrad:"9 Shard"Eduardo C. Corral: "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"Laura Da': "River City"Oscar de la Paz: "The Surgical Theater as Spirit Cabinet"Mark Doty: "No"Rita Dove: "Gtterdmmerung"Camille Dungy: "Natural History"Heid Erdrich: "The Theft Outright"Martn Espada: "Haunt Me"Tarfia Faizullah: "Great Material"Jennifer Elise Foerster: "The Last Kingdom"Carolyn Forch: "The Garden of Shukkei-En"Rigoberto Gonzles:"Anaberto Skypes with His Mother"Jorie Graham: "Why"Paul Guest: "User's Guide to Physical Debilitation"Kimiko Hahn: "The Unbearable Heart"francine j. harris: "Katherine with the lazy eye, short, and not a good poet."Brenda Hillman: "At the Solstice, a Yellow Fragment"Tyehimba Jess: "Blood of my blood (walk away)"Ilya Kaminsky: "Marina Tsvetaeva"Donika Kelly: "Brood"Yusef Komunyakaa: "Crack"Dorianne Laux: "Arizona"Dana Levin: "Working Methods"Ada Limn: "Adaptation"Cate Marvin: "My First Husband Was My Last"Adrian Matejka: "On the B Side"Airea D. Matthews: "Sexton Texts Tituba from a Bird Conservatory"Eileen Myles: "My Boy's Red Hat"Craig Santos Perez: "The Pacific Written Tradition"Robert Pinsky: "The Robots"D. A. Powell:"chronic"Roger Reeves: "Something about John Coltrane"Jason Reynolds: "April 17, 1942 Jackie Robinson Gets His First Major LeagueHit and We Still Us"Erika Snchez: "Saudade"Diane Seuss: "Still-Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl"Solmaz Sharif: "The Master's House"Cedar Sigo: "A Handbook of Poetic Forms"Jake Skeets: "Maar"Danez Smith: "waiting on you to die so i can be myself"Patricia Smith: "Sweet Daddy"Arthur Sze: "Sleepers"Mary Szybist: "The Lushness of It"Ocean Vuong: "Not Even"The Cyborg Jillian Weise: "All the Littles in Exodus"Monica Youn: "Greenacre"