- Rae Armantrout, Next Life (Wesleyan University Press), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", 92 pages, ISBN 978-0-8195-6820-5
- John Ash, The Parthian Stations (Carcanet), ISBN 978-1-85754-872-3
- John Ashbery:
- A Worldly Country: New Poems Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-117383-7
- Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-136717-5 ISBN
- W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson (Modern Library) (Anglo-American poet), posthumous
- Mary Jo Bang, Elegy, Graywolf, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Roger Bonair-Agard, Tarnish and Masquerade (Cypher Books, Rattapallax Press)
- Yosa Buson (1716–1783), Haiku Master Buson, translated from the Japanese by Edith Shiffert and (posthumous) Yuki Sawa, University of Washington Press, ISBN 978-1-893996-81-6; claimed by the publisher to be "the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English"
- Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets, Counterpath Press
- Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned, edited by John Martin, Ecco/HarperCollins
- Kelly Cherry, Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press), ISBN 978-0-8071-3263-0
- Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Jim Daniels, Now Showing (Ahadada Books)
- Edward Dorn:
- Way More West, edited by Michael Rothenberg, Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-14-303869-6 (posthumous)
- Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes, edited by Joseph Richey, University of Michigan Press ISBN 978-0-472-06862-3 (posthumous), criticism
- Mark Doty, Dog Years (HarperCollins)
- Michael Dumanis, My Soviet Union, (University of Massachusetts Press, Juniper Prize for Poetry)
- Amy England, Victory and Her Opposites, Tupelo Press
- Aaron Fagan, Garage (Salt Publishing)
- Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft, foreword by Louise Glück (Yale UP)
- Graham Foust, Necessary Stranger, Flood Editions
- Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes: Poems, William Morrow
- Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972–2007, Graywolf
- Noah Eli Gordon, Novel Pictorial Noise, HarperCollins
- Mildred White Greear, Moving Gone Dancing (Fall Line Arts Press), ISBN 978-0-9799379-0-3
- Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin)
- Paul Guest, Notes For My Body Double, University of Nebraska
- Beth Gylys, Matchbook (La Vita Poetica Press), later set to music by Dan Welcher
- Forrest Hamer, Rift (Four Way Books)
- Matthea Harvey, Modern Life, Graywolf, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Robert Hass, Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005 (Ecco/Harper-Collins), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
- Christian Hawkey, Citizen Of, Wave Books
- Brian Henry, The Stripping Point, Counterpath Press
- Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems: 1956–1998 (Ecco), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
- Bob Hicok, This Clumsy Living, Pittsburgh University Press
- Anselm Hollo, Guests of Space, Coffee House
- Fanny Howe, The Lyrics, Graywolf Press
- Susan Howe, Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions)
- Eugen Jebeleanu, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, translated from Romanian by Matthew Zapruder, (Coffee House)
- Pierre Joris, Meditations on the Stations of Mansour Al-Halla, 1 – 21, (Anchorite Press, Albany, NY)
- James Browning Kepple, Kim Göransson, Couplet (pretend genius )
- Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel, A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond, adapted by Fanny Howe, University of California Press
- X. J. Kennedy, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New & Selected Poems 1955–2007, Johns Hopkins University Press
- Karl Kirchwey, The Happiness of This World
- Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia, Gilgamesh: A Verse Play, Wesleyan University Press
- Hiram Larew, More Than Anything (VRZHU Press) ISBN 978-1-4303-1406-6
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- James Longenbach, Draft of a Letter (Spring)
- Martial, Martial: The World of the Epigram, translated by William Fitzgerald, University of Chicago Press (posthumous)
- Michael Meyerhofer Leaving Iowa (Briery Creek Press)
- William Michaelian:
- Another Song I Know (Cosmopsis Books) ISBN 978-0-9796599-1-1
- Winter Poems (Cosmopsis Books), ISBN 978-0-9796599-0-4
- Jennifer Moxley The Line (The Post-Apollo Press)
- Ann E. Mullaney, translator, Teofilo Folengo (1491–1544), Baldo, Volume 1, Books I-XII, translated from a blend of Latin and various Italian dialects (Harvard University Press), posthumous
- Laura Mullen, Murmur, Futurepoem Books
- Kate Northrup, Things Are Disappearing Here: Poems Braziller/Persea
- Alice Notley In the Pines (Penguin Books)
- Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- George Oppen, Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers (edited by Stephen Cope), University of California Press, 2007 (publication was 2007, but not available until 2008)
- Terry Philips, Oulipoems (Ahadada Books)
- Carl Phillips, Quiver of Arrows: Selected poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
- Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Robert Pinsky, Gulf Music (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), ISBN 978-0-374-16749-3 ISBN 978-0-374-16749-3
- J. E. Pitts The Weather of Dreams (David Robert Books)
- Meghan O'Rourke, Halflife (Norton)
- Bin Ramke, Tendril, Omnidawn
- Donald Revell, A Thief of Strings, Alice James Books
- Adrienne Rich, Poetry and Commitment (Norton)
- Kim Roberts, The Kimnama (VRZHU Press) ISBN 978-1-4303-1407-3
- Martha Ronk, Vertigo, Coffee House Press
- J. Allyn Rosser, Foiled Again, (Fall) Ivan R. Dee
- Jerome Rothenberg, China Notes & The Treasures of DunHuang (Ahadada Books)
- Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems, Archipelago, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Leslie Scalapino, Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999–2006 (Green Integer)
- Grace Schulman, The Broken String
- W. G. Sebald, Unrecounted, New Directions
- David Shapiro, New and Selected Poems, 1965–2006 (Overlook Press)
- Ron Silliman, The Age of Huts (complete) (UC Press)
- Tom Sleigh, Space Walk
- Cathy Song, Cloud Moving Hands, University of Pittsburgh Press
- Rod Smith, Deed (Iowa UP)
- Gary Soto, A Simple Plan
- Mark Strand, New Selected Poems, by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States
- Cole Swensen, The Glass Age, Alice James Books
- Tony Tost, Complex Sleep (Iowa UP)
- David Trinidad, The Late Show: Poems Turtle Point
- Nance Van Winckel, No Starling, University of Washington Press, ISBN 978-0-295-98735-4
- Derek Walcott, Selected Poems, edited by Edward Baugh (Faber), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
- G. C. Waldrep, Disclamor, BOA Editions
- Philip Whalen, The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen, Wesleyan University Press
- John Wieners, A Book of Prophecies (Bootstrap Press
- C. D. Wright, One Big Self: An Investigation, a book-length poem, Copper Canyon
- C. Dale Young, The Second Person (Four Way Books)
- Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead, (Knopf)
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