2016: Our Year in Poems

Every December, we gather excerpts from a few of the many poems published in The New Yorker during the preceding year. Among the selections from 2016, below, are several poems by newcomers to our pages—including Max Ritvo, who died of cancer, at the age of twenty-five, this past summer—and some by veterans, including Rita Dove and the late Seamus Heaney. Subscribers may read these poems in full by following the links, and can access the entire poetry archive here.