The New Republic magazine) Sean O'Brien: Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001 (Picador) With John Kinsella and Peter Porter, Rivers (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Australia) Alice Oswald: Dart, Faber and Faber, Co-editor, with Peter Oswald and Robert Woof), Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's "Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge" Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, John Heath-Stubbs, The Return of the Cranes Peter Redgrove, From the Virgil Caverns R.S. Thomas, Residues (posthumous) Hugo Williams, Collected Poems, Faber and Faber United States Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart, Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States John Ashbery, Chinese Whispers Frank Bidart, Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books), the only poetry chapbook ever nominated for a Pulitzer Prize Billy Collins, Nine Horses: Poems (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" () Robert Creeley, guest editor, The Best American Poetry 2002 Jim Dodge – Rain on the River Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (Seven Stories); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Michael S. Harper, Selected Poems, ARC Publications Paul Hoover, Winter Mirror, (Flood Editions) Kenneth Koch: Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954, New York: Knopf A Possible World, New York: Knopf Abba Kovner, Sloan-Kettering: Poems (Schocken); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Brad Leithauser, Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a 5,700-line verse novel in 10-line stanzas, irregularly rhymed; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Glyn Maxwell, The Nerve (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (British poet living in America, poetry editor of The New Republic magazine) J.D. McClatchy, Hazmat: Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Czesław Miłosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 (Ecco/HarperCollins); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Griffin Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize Lorine Niedecker, Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works, edited by Jenny Penberthy (University of California Press), posthumous Mary Oliver, What Do We Know Molly Peacock, Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems Carl Phillips, Rock Harbor Marie Ponsot, Springing: New and Selected Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr, editors, American Women Poets in the 21st Century: