The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year’s most remarkable poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah’s Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called “a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries” by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the “contraries” of our present moment in time.
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 ...
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 ...
This collection of modern American poetry features the most significant and compelling work by the most influential voices of the twentieth century.
The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.
Nomadic Press published his first book, Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory, which won the 2019 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and his James Laughlin Award–winning collection MARTIAN: The Saint of Loneliness in ...
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 ...
Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.
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 ...
The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.
... Tsunami from Solaris (Action Books, 2019). He teaches at the University of Notre Dame and co-edits Action Books. Adam Greenberg holds an MFA in poetry from Brown University. His poetry has appeared in InTranslation, Columbia Poetry ...