The Best American Poetry 1994, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor A. R. Ammons.
| Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
| "A Short History of the Vietnam War Years" | The Gettysburg Review | |
| "Cinema Vérité" | Field | |
| "Myrtle" | The New Yorker | |
| "Tremendous Mood Swings" | Grand Street | |
| "What You Want Means What You Can Afford" | Ascent | |
| "Demographics" | TriQuarterly | |
| "The Fire Fetched Down" | The Paris Review | |
| "me against the world" | Urbanus | |
| "The Only Dance There Is" | New England Review | |
| "A Catalpa Tree on West Twelfth Street" | The New York Times | |
| "Tantrum Girl Responds to Death" | The Kenyon Review | |
| "Sestina" | The Paris Review | |
| "full of rain, the word" | Green Mountains Review | |
| "The Cardinal Detoxes: A Play in One Act" | The Hudson Review | |
| "Difference" | Boulevard | |
| "Bulimia" | Poet Lore | |
| "Northwestern Mathematics" | Fine Madness | |
| "Life Drawing" | Poetry | |
| "The Priming Is a Negligee" | Southwest Review | |
| "After Dark" | Poetry | |
| "In the Hotel" | The New Yorker | |
| "The Frog in the Swimming Pool" | The New Republic | |
| "Another Elegy" | Iowa Review | |
| "Getting Happy" | ZYZZYVA | |
| "The Polar Circle" | Grand Street | |
| "Deceptively Like a Solid" | Glass Technology | |
| "Variations on a Fragment by Trumball Stickney" | The Paris Review | |
| "The Love of the Flesh" | Tar River Poetry | |
| "Baseball" | Another Chicago Magazine | |
| "A Lost Art" | Poetry | |
| "The Necessary Angel" | River Styx | |
| "Unholy Sonnets" | The New Criterion | |
| "The Foot" | ZYZZYVA | |
| "Contempt" | Michigan Quarterly Review | |
| "Courting the Famous Figures at the Grotto of Improbable Thought" | Northwest Review | |
| "A Rune" | Fine Madness | |
| "One Train May Hide Another" | The New York Review of Books | |
| "Avant-Dernieres Pensees" | Seneca Review | |
| "Found Parable" | The New Yorker | |
| "Following Her to Sleep" | Ploughshares | |
| "Spike Logic" | Salmagundi | |
| "Family Week at Oracle Ranch" | The New Yorker | |
| "One of the Lives" | The New York Review of Books | |
| "I Was on a Golf Course the Day John Cage Died of a Stroke" | Poetry New York | |
| "Allegory" | Colorado Review | |
| "From Muse & Drudge" | AGNI | |
| "At the Lakehouse" | Colorado Review | |
| "Sensible Qualities" | No Roses Review | |
| "The Knowing" | American Poetry Review | |
| "Them" | Poetry New York | |
| "Divided Touch, Divided Color" | Colorado Review | |
| "A Mathematics of Breathing" | AGNI | |
| "Pornography" | The Paris Review | |
| "Pol Pot" | American Poetry Review | |
| "The Letter" | The Threepenny Review | |
| "Courtesan" | Chelsea | |
| "Read Your Fate" | The New Yorker | |
| "Snow Songs" | The Kenyon Review | |
| "The Robed Heart" | Iowa Review | |
| "Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses" | Beloit Poetry Journal | |
| "The Mysterious Maps" | The New Yorker | |
| "Offering" | Callaloo | |
| "Sleeping with Boa" | The Yale Review | |
| "Modern Times" | Boulevard | |
| "Like a Scarf" | Colorado Review | |
| "Death of a Distant In-Law" | AGNI | |
| "The Snake in the Garden Considers Daphne" | The Paris Review | |
| "My Talk with an Elegant Man" | The Bridge | |
| "Putting in a Word" | Boulevard | |
| "The One" | American Poetry Review | |
| "Who They Were" | The Threepenny Review | |
| "Song for the In-Itselfand For-Itself" | Poetry New York | |
| Michael White | "Camille Monet sur son lit de mort" | The New Republic |
| "A Digression" | The New Yorker | |
| "Upon Hearing of My Friend's Marriage Breaking Up" | The Threepenny Review | |