The only publication of its kind, Best New Poets is an annual anthology of poetry 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 nearly two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online competition. The fifty poems that made the final cut show, in dazzling fashion, how tomorrow's poets are writing today.
For those concerned that current writing programs and periodicals are forcing young...
The only publication of its kind, Best New Poets is an annual anthology of poetry by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poe...
Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize Free Verse Editions, Edited by Jon Thompson "In these precise, dream-like poems, Eric Pankey peers through the clarifying lens of metaphor and parable to meditate on mystery, human sympathy and the divine. Here, the shifting image of fire both articulates and consumes our sense of the vastness of history and the ineffable nature of divinity. Elsewhere, a lemon, "transformed by one's attention to it, is a spark pent up in a barn, is long shadows on a glacier. The lemon waits to be recognized like the inscrutable event of a miracle." Or later, writing on...
Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize Free Verse Editions, Edited by Jon Thompson "In these precise, dream-like poems, Eric Pankey peers through the ...
