Presents an anthology of one hundred top-selected poems culled from the poetry publication's first quarter century, and offers insight into the art form's flourishing status.
FAGAN. Conqueror. The lights are green as far as I can see all down the street, sweet spot pre-dawn, a Sunday, no one out. I measure time in travel now. This route's a favorite, half derelict, half grand, an oak hydrangea blooming on ...
Perhaps I still am. Perhaps I'm even more worried now than I was at the time I wrote the poem. I love how the form, a long rambling sequence of questions, allows for so much exploration.” JENNIFER L. KNOX's fifth book of poems, ...
A selection of seventy-five poems from forty literary journals illustrating the variety of American poetry.
OTHER VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES John Ashbery, editor, The Best American Poetry 1988 Donald Hall, editor, The Best American Poetry 1989 Jorie Graham, editor, The Best American Poetry 1990 Mark Strand, editor, The Best American Poetry 1991 ...
MARGARET GIBSON was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1944. She is the author of eleven books of poems, all from LSU Press, most recently Broken Cup (2014), whose title poem won a Pushcart Prize for 2016. Broken Cup was a finalist ...
OTHER VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES John Ashbery, editor, The Best American Poetry 1988 Donald Hall, editor, The Best American Poetry 1989 Jorie Graham, editor, The Best American Poetry 1990 Mark Strand, editor, The Best American Poetry 1991 ...
Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.
Rodney Jones: "Plea for Forgiveness" from Elegy for the Southern Drawl by Rodney Jones. Copyright © 1999 by Rodney Jones. Reprinted by permission of the poet and Houghton Mifflin & Co. First appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, ...
Collects poems chosen by editor Sherman Alexie as the best of 2015, featuring poets such as Sarah Arvio, Chen Chen, Andrew Kozma, and Terence Winch.
A latest annual anthology complements top-selected American poems of the year with poet notes about their creative processes.