Some Good Poems from 2006

Every year the Best American Poetry disappoints us some. So we decided to track down an alternative list of good poems published in periodicals during the last year. Here is the Poetry Center Library's list for your consideration:

Caroline Bergvall. “The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, no. 1)” Jacket 32 October 2006

Corey Mead. “The Conceptual Age,” Fence Winter/Spring 2006

Corey Mead. “[Of Edgar inhabited]” Lit, no. 11 2006

Christine Hume. “Lornight” Sonora Review no. 50 (2006)

Caroline Crumpacker. “The Disenchanting Architecture of Beautiful Lives,” Spork 5.1

Christian Hawkey. “Small Repairs in the Sky” Denver Quarterly 41/2 (2006)

Devin Johnston. “ Packing Up,” New American Writing,” 24 (2006)

Joshua Marie Wilkinson. “From “The book of Falling Asleep in the Bathtub & Snow,” Colorado Review (Summer 2006)

Joanna Sondheim. ‘”through the crack in the door,”’ Harp & Altar 2006

Mark Bibbins. “Wherewithout” Jubilat 11 (2006)

Ange Mlinko. “Circling the Cosmogony of Amsterdam,” Crowd 7 (2006)

Jason Zuzga. “Donald Judd,” Cue, Winter 2006

G. C. Waldrep. “Halftone Caravel,” Cue, Winter 2006

Rod Smith. “Ghost Brain,” Practice no. 1 (2006)

Lisa Goett. “Epoch,” Pool no. 5 (2006)

Logan Burns. “from a fish named by the sun going through it,” Barrow Street (2006)

Matthea Harvey. “Strawberry on the Drawbridge,” Octopus 7 (Winter 2006)