The Best American Poetry 1993, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Louise Glück.
| Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
| "Garbage" | American Poetry Review | |
| "Baked Alaska" | The New Yorker | |
| "The Same Trouble with Beauty You've Always Had" | Ontario Review | |
| "Cold Cash" | The Kenyon Review | |
| "Interrogation" | AGNI | |
| "Chapter One" | American Poetry Review | |
| "Three Oranges" | OnTheBus | |
| "At His Last Gig" | The Ohio Review | |
| "Statue" | American Poetry Review | |
| ""An Unlikely One Will Guide Me..."" | Ploughshares | |
| "Sometimes in Winter" | Santa Monica Review | |
| "Tuesday, June 4th, 1991" | Poetry | |
| "Macular Degeneration" | Iowa Review | |
| "litany" | American Poetry Review | |
| "Repressed Theme" | Free Lunch | |
| "The Window in Spring" | Shenandoah | |
| "Healing the World from Battery Park" | Hanging Loose | |
| "Favorite Iraqi Soldier" | The Paris Review | |
| "Feminism" | Hanging Loose | |
| "The Vanishings" | The Paris Review | |
| "Shoelace" | Phoebe | |
| "The Necessity" | Boston Review | |
| "One Kiss" | Fine Madness | |
| "Life Is Happy," | Boulevard | |
| "What the Instant Contains" | Epoch (magazine) | |
| "Great Work Farm Elegy" | Colorado Review | |
| "The Butcher's Son" | The New Yorker | |
| "Pluvia" | The Nation | |
| "Vegetable Wisdom" | The Virginia Quarterly Review | |
| "Argument" | Western Humanities Review | |
| "Theory" | Ploughshares | |
| "Absolutely" | Boulevard | |
| "Hourglass" | The New Yorker | |
| "Questions for Ecclesiastes" | New England Review | |
| "Grand Projection" | New England Review | |
| "Invitation to a Ghost" | Sewanee Theological Review | |
| "The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery" | The Gettysburg Review | |
| "Mapping" | Grand Street | |
| "Having It Out with Melancholy" | Poetry | |
| "Looking at the Sea" | The Ohio Review | |
| "Talking to Patrizia" | Poetry | |
| "Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor" | Poetry New York | |
| "Chariot" | The Gettysburg Review | |
| "In California During the Gulf War" | American Poetry Review | |
| "The Urinating Man" | Poetry East | |
| "Grim Town in a Steep Valley" | Field | |
| "The Nearsighted" | The New Yorker | |
| "Open Rebuke (Concealed Love)" | Hambone | |
| from "The Person She Is" | TriQuarterly | |
| "Waiting for Lesser Duckweed: On a Proposal of lssa's" | Iowa Review | |
| "The Stranger" | Poetry | |
| "Rapture" | Provincetown Arts | |
| "April Fool's Day, Mount Pleasant Cemetery" | Spoon River Quarterly | |
| "Poppies" | The Kenyon Review | |
| "Advice to Young Writers" | The World | |
| "Who Is to Say" | Epoch | |
| "Skin" | Ontario Review | |
| "Of Flesh and Spirit" | The World | |
| "Magic Problems" | Shenandoah | |
| "Not Somewhere Else, But Here" | Southwest Review | |
| "Makeshift" | Chelsea | |
| "Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ" | The Yale Review | |
| "Icon" | Pequod | |
| "This Morning" | The New Yorker | |
| "Suddenly" | The Hudson Review | |
| "Ripples on the Surface" | Grand Street | |
| "Coleman Valley Road" | Black Warrior Review | |
| "That Winter" | American Poetry Review | |
| from "Dark Harbor" | The New Republic | |
| "In My Own Backyard" | American Poetry Review | |
| "To a Former Mistress, Now Dead" | Poetry | |
| "Song and Story" | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| "A Filial Republic" | No Roses Review | |
| "A Dream of Mind: The Gap" | The Threepenny Review | |
| "The Business of Love Is Cruelty" | Poetry East | |