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Best New Poets 2021: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (Paperback)

Best New Poets 2021: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers By Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Jeb Livingood (Editor) Cover Image
By Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Jeb Livingood (Editor)
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Praise for earlier editions:

" A] reminder that contemporary poetry is not only alive and well but continuing to grow."-- Publishers Weekly

"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 seventeenth 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.

About the Author


Kaveh Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran. He is author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Portrait of the Alcoholic and is the recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Pushcart Prize, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.


Product Details
ISBN: 9780997562354
ISBN-10: 0997562358
Publisher: Samovar Press
Publication Date: February 7th, 2022
Pages: 150
Language: English
Series: Best New Poets