Best New Poets 2013 BY Brenda Shaughnessy Jazzy Danziger Meg Day




Best New Poets 2013





Best New Poets 2013 Praise for earlier editions 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


  • Title: Best New Poets 2013

  • Author: Brenda Shaughnessy Jazzy Danziger Meg Day

  • ISBN: 9780976629689

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  • Format: Paperback







  • Praise for earlier editions 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, whichPraise for earlier editions 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 Best New Poets assures the reader that poetry, even in a generation of text messaging and MP3 players, is still alive and well The youthfulness of the anthology, combined with the wide scope of its contents, is apparent in the poems, which are edgy and daring Virginia Quarterly Review Entering its eighth 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.








    • Best New Poets 2013 BY Brenda Shaughnessy Jazzy Danziger Meg Day














      Brenda Shaughnessy Jazzy Danziger Meg Day







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  • Brenda Shaughnessy Jazzy Danziger Meg Day
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    Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California She received her B.A in literature and women s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she earned an M.F.A at Columbia University.She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar Copper Canyon Press, 2008 , winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1999 , which was nominated for the PEN Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Norma Farber First Book Award Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Bomb, Boston Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.About her work, the poet Richard Howard writes The resonance of Shaughnessy s poems is that of someone speaking out of an ecstasy and into an ecstasy, momentarily pausing to let us in on the fun, the pain Shaughnessy is the recipient of a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Japan U.S Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine and currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University and Eugene Lang College at the New School.






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