Best New Poets 2015: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Best New Poets 2015: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
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Overview
"[These poets] prove that American poetry has the strength and vision to move beyond the MFA environment in order to reshape and reflect past traditions."— Bloomsbury Review
"This collection stands out among the crowd claiming to represent emergent poets. Much of the editing and preliminary reading was done by emerging poets themselves, which results in an anthology that's fresh and eclectic, and may actually represent a significant portion of the best new poetry being written by the next generation."— Virginia Quarterly Review
Entering its tenth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the country’s top literary magazines and writing programs, as well as some two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online competition. The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality of poetry as it is being practiced today.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780692420096 |
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| Publisher: | Samovar Press/Meridian |
| Publication date: | 01/05/2016 |
| Series: | Best New Poets |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
About Best New Poets ix
Introduction Tracy K. Smith xi
The Gate Lena Moses-Schmitt 1
Saudades J. Jerome Cruz 3
It was a miracle route everyone had been searching for and the story caused a sensation Emily Vizzo 5
Definitions of Body John McCarthy 9
Idiom Kara Kai Wang 10
What Do Arabs Think of Ghosts? Leila Chatti 12
Pretty Moon Lisa Dordal 13
Crow's Sugar Alysia Nicole Harris 14
Midnight, Troy Nikki Zielinski 17
Gunshot Shards of Tiny Steel Stars Trevor Ketner 18
Gay boys and the bridges who love them sam sax 19
At Puget Sound I Think of My Brother Ellene Glenn Moore 20
Patmos Revisited Michael Lavers 21
The Real Birth of Venus Kasey Erin Phifer-Byme 22
A Fetus Dreams Her Father's Brain Is a Tenement David Thacker 24
A Place Where There Isn't Any Trouble Amy Woolard 26
Confirmation Eduardo Martinez-Leyva 29
What Happened Cassie Donish 30
Harvests Ian Burnette 31
For H Antonina Palisano 34
Reflection from a Bridge Cristina Correa 37
From the Cabinet of Counterweights & Measures Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer 38
I'm Trying to Write a Poem About a Virgin and Its Awful Analicia Sotelo 40
Not Spring Elizabeth Metzger 41
Desire Lines Jaydn DeWald 42
An Existential Bear James Davis May 44
Half-Life Erin L. Miller 46
Girl, Running Jessica Nordell 47
Well J.P. Grasser 48
Come Up Cody Ernst 50
White Beauty Danni Quintos 51
Western Slope Allison Adair 53
Fallow Claire Wahmanholm 54
Bees Make Me Think Of My Mother Crystal C. Karlberg 55
I Wish I Could Say Clare Paniccia 57
Songs of Thirst: Six Sijo Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello 59
Lullaby for a Changeling Jessica Bixel 60
Infinite Regress Laura Bylenok 61
Wolf for Water Brian Leary 63
Land of Flowers Ashley Keyser 64
My Father at 49, Working the Night Shift at B&R Diesel Edgar Kunz 66
Tuesday Ordinary Damian Caudill 68
Disaster Capital; or, We Are Made of Stardust & Will Explode Christopher Kempf 69
Former Future King Elizabeth Onusko 71
Ars Poetica J.G. McClure 73
The Last Travel Agent Alicia Rebecca Myers 74
The Frequency of Goodnight Tiana Clark 75
Dinner at Nonna's Mary Angelino 78
The Garden of Eden and the Trilobite Michael Derrick Hudson 80
Four Hawks Emily Skaja 82
Contributors' Notes 85
Acknowledgments 97
Participating Magazines 99
Participating Writing Programs 104