1988 "like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo" 1989 in an unlit alcove where bookstore patrons fear to tread 1990 to inflame passions, disturb the complacent, and arouse the anxiety of despots 1991 a poem entitled "Cigarettes" by a poet named Ash 1992 The question of poetry and its audience 1993 the gust of fresh air that turned into the blizzard of '93 1994 It's safe to say that the inaugural was the best-attended poetry reading of the decade 1995 At least somebody played ball in 1994 1996 a given volume in this series might hang question marks over all three terms in the title 1997 As a gimmick, if that's what it is, National Poetry Month worked The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997 (1998) The debate is joined 1998 The president spoke of having had to memorize 100 lines of Macbeth 1999 "Whitman rocks" 2000 "Now I know how poems feel" 2001 "Everybody else was analog and Nietzsche was digital" 2002 The day now marks a boundary 2003 "How many people have to die before you can becoem president?" 2004 canons do not remain fixed for long 2005 the creative writing workshop (and) the fall of civilization 2006 Accessibility - as a term and, implicitly, as a value 2007 Undoubtedly the most parodied of all poems 2008 Who says that hot poems can't get you into trouble in 2008? 2009 "that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry" 2012 McChrystal sent copies of "The Second Coming" to his special operators 2011 in Dickinson's brain, "wider than the sky" 2012 the "uncanny" is a category too little invoked The Best of the Best American Poetry, 25th Anniversary Edition (2013) "Every time I read Pessoa I think" It was his poetry that kept him going In the antagonism between science and the humanities