The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.

The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman

David Lehman

David Lehman is a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry series. He teaches at The New School in New York City.-Career:...

 in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general editor of the series, each year contributes a foreword focusing on the state of contemporary poetry, and each year the edition's guest editor also contributes an introduction. The book titles in the series always follow the format of the first, changing only the year: for instance, "The Best American Poetry 1988

The Best American Poetry 1988

The Best American Poetry 1988, the first volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor John Ashbery, who chose one of his own poems among the group of 75.-Lehman's forward:...

".

According to the Academy of American Poets Web site, "Best American Poetry remains one of the most popular and best-selling poetry books published each year and the series continues to provide a bird's-eye view of the breadth of American poetry."

A compendium for the first decade of the series has also been published, The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997

The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997

The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Harold Bloom, who chose the poems....

, guest-edited by literary critic Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom is an American writer and literary critic, and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his unique and controversial theories of poetic influence, and his prodigious literary output, particularly for a literary...

, who selected what he regarded as the seventy-five best poems from the previous ten anthologies.

Guest editors

The guest editors of the series, by year:

• 2011: Kevin Young
  Kevin Young
  Kevin Young may refer to:*Kevin Young , American athlete*Kevin Young , American baseballer*Kevin Young , English footballer...
  
  
• 2010: Amy Gerstler
  Amy Gerstler
  Amy Gerstler is an American poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - The True Bride and Dearest Creature, .Described by the Los...
  
  
• 2009
  The Best American Poetry 2009
  The Best American Poetry 2009, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by poet David Wagoner, guest editor, who made the final selections, and David Lehman, the general editor for the series....
  
  : David Wagoner
  David Wagoner
  David Russell Wagoner is an American poet who has written many poetry collections and ten novels. Two of his books have been nominated for National Book Awards....
  
  
• 2008: Charles Wright
  Charles Wright (poet)
  Charles Wright is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award (19830 for...
  
  
• 2007
  The Best American Poetry 2007
  The Best American Poetry 2007, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by poet Heather McHugh, guest editor, who made the final selections, and David Lehman, the general editor for the series....
  
  : Heather McHugh
  Heather McHugh
  -Life:Heather McHugh, a poet, translator, and educator, was born in San Diego, California, to Canadian parents, John Laurence, a marine biologist, and Eileen Francesca . They raised McHugh in Gloucester Point, Virginia. There, her father directed the marine biological laboratory on the York River...
  
  
• 2006
  The Best American Poetry 2006
  The Best American Poetry 2006, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman , and poet Billy Collins, guest editor....
  
  : Billy Collins
  Billy Collins
  Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
  
   †
• 2005
  The Best American Poetry 2005
  The Best American Poetry 2005, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Paul Muldoon....
  
  : Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
  
  
• 2004
  The Best American Poetry 2004
  The Best American Poetry 2004, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by general editor David Lehman. The guest editor for the year was Lyn Hejinian....
  
  : Lyn Hejinian
  Lyn Hejinian
  Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life , as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry .-Life:Hejinian was born in the San...
  
  
• 2003
  The Best American Poetry 2003
  The Best American Poetry 2003, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa....
  
  : Yusef Komunyakaa
  Yusef Komunyakaa
  Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly...
  
  
• 2002
  The Best American Poetry 2002
  The Best American Poetry 2002, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman, with poems chosen by guest editor Robert Creeley.The first print run for the book was 30,000....
  
  : Robert Creeley
  Robert Creeley
  Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...
  
  
• 2001
  The Best American Poetry 2001
  The Best American Poetry 2001, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Robert Hass.One of the poems Hass chose for the volume was by his wife, Brenda Hillman....
  
  : Robert Hass
  Robert Hass
  Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...
  
   †

• 2000
  The Best American Poetry 2000
  The Best American Poetry 2000 , a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Rita Dove....
  
  : Rita Dove
  Rita Dove
  Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "U.S. Poet Laureate"...
  
   †
• 1999
  The Best American Poetry 1999
  The Best American Poetry 1999, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Robert Bly.-Poets and poems included:-External links:* , with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared...
  
  : Robert Bly
  Robert Bly
  Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.-Life:Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, to Jacob and Alice Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving...
  
  
• 1998
  The Best American Poetry 1998
  The Best American Poetry 1999, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor John Hollander.-Poets and poems included:-External links:...
  
  : John Hollander
  John Hollander
  John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...
  
  
• Best of the Best: '88-'97
  The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997
  The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Harold Bloom, who chose the poems....
  
  : Harold Bloom
  Harold Bloom
  Harold Bloom is an American writer and literary critic, and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his unique and controversial theories of poetic influence, and his prodigious literary output, particularly for a literary...
  
  
• 1997
  The Best American Poetry 1997
  The Best American Poetry 1997, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor James Tate.-Poets and poems included:-External links:* , with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared...
  
  : James Tate
  James Tate (writer)
  James Tate is an American poet whose work has earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
  
  
• 1996
  The Best American Poetry 1996
  The Best American Poetry 1996, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Adrienne Rich.-Poets and poems included:-External links:...
  
  : Adrienne Rich
  Adrienne Rich
  Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...
  
  
• 1995
  The Best American Poetry 1995
  The Best American Poetry 1995, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Richard Howard....
  
  : Richard Howard
  Richard Howard
  Richard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...
  
  

• 1994
  The Best American Poetry 1994
  The Best American Poetry 1994, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor A. R. Ammons.-Poets and poems included:-External links:* , with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared...
  
  : A. R. Ammons
• 1993
  The Best American Poetry 1993
  The Best American Poetry 1993, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Louise Glück.-Poets and poems included:-External links:...
  
  : Louise Glück
  Louise Glück
  Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
  
   †
• 1992
  The Best American Poetry 1992
  The Best American Poetry 1992, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Charles Simic....
  
  : Charles Simic
  Charles Simic
  Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
  
   †
• 1991
  The Best American Poetry 1991
  The Best American Poetry 1991, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Mark Strand.-Poets and poems included:-Most-represented publications in this volume:...
  
  : Mark Strand
  Mark Strand
  Mark Strand is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.- Biography :...
  
   †
• 1990
  The Best American Poetry 1990
  The Best American Poetry 1990, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Jorie Graham. The book contains seventy-five poems with a range of poet-authors from a college freshman to the 1990 United States Poet Laureate...
  
  : Jorie Graham
  Jorie Graham
  Jorie Graham is an American poet. The U.S. Poetry Foundation suggests "She is perhaps the most celebrated poet of the American post-war generation". She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position...
  
  
• 1989
  The Best American Poetry 1989
  The Best American Poetry 1989, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Donald Hall.One of the poems Hall selected for this edition was written by his wife, Jane Kenyon...
  
  : Donald Hall
  Donald Hall
  Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...
  
   †
• 1988
  The Best American Poetry 1988
  The Best American Poetry 1988, the first volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor John Ashbery, who chose one of his own poems among the group of 75.-Lehman's forward:...
  
  : John Ashbery
  John Ashbery
  John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
  
  

† editors who (as of 2007) have also been U.S. poets laureate

Rules and process

In his 1988 foreword to the first edition of the series, Lehman laid out the following rules:

• Lehman would select a poet each year to serve as guest editor;
• Each year's guest editor would make the final selection of poems;
• Each year's anthology would have poems from the previous calendar year (the 1988 anthology, for instance, would include only poems published in 1987);
• There would be fifty to seventy-five poems in each annual anthology (in fact, there have always been 75 poems);
• The guest editor could select as many as three poems by an individual poet;
• Poets would be asked to submit brief biographical information and, at their option, given the opportunity to write a bit about the poem chosen ("its form or its occasion or the method of composition or any other feature worth remarking on");
• The poems could come from magazines, including large-circulation periodicals and small presses, and in rare instances from books by individual poets;
• For poems that had first appeared more than a year in the past but which had been reprinted in a magazine during the previous calendar year, Lehman decided to have no rule ("To such questions, the anthologist's ever-ready response is: you just play it by ear");
• Foreign poets residing in the United States, "especially in cases where the poet has come to seem a vital presence in a particular American community", would be eligible to appear, and so John Ash
  John Ash (writer)
  John Ash is an expatriate British poet and writer.His lifelong interest in Byzantium is a major theme which runs through his poetry, fiction and travel writing, along with family friends and the three major cities he has lived in...
  
  , Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , and Derek Walcott
  Derek Walcott
  Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
  
   all made it into the 1988 edition.

Lehman also wrote that he had set some tasks for himself as series editor:

• To maintain continuity from year to year;
• to enforce "such rules as there are";
• to assist the guest editor, in particular by helping find poetry for the guest editor to look over;
• to pick the guest editor.

John Ashbery selected a poem by the series editor for inclusion in the inaugural volume of The Best American Poetry. In his introduction to the 1989 volume, Donald Hall noted that, "The series editor declined to be included." The series editor's own poems have not appeared in subsequent volumes.

In Lehman's foreword to the 1992 book, he noted that translations are ineligible.

Sources of poems

As of 2007, the following literary journals, magazines, and periodicals have published poems that have been chosen for inclusion in The Best American Poetry:

• The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
  
• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• Collection
• The American Poetry Review
  The American Poetry Review
  The American Poetry Review is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint.Founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg, APR has always been published from editorial offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Berg is one of three editors, along with David Bonanno and Elizabeth...
  
  
• The Paris Review
• Ploughshares
  Ploughshares
  Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...
  
  
• Yale Review
  Yale Review
  The Yale Review is the self-proclaimed oldest literary quarterly in the United States. It is published by Yale University.It was founded originally in 1819 as The Christian Spectator. At its origin it was published to support Evangelicalism, but over time began to publish more on history and...
  
  
• New American Writing
  New American Writing
  New American Writing is a once-a-year American literary magazine emphasizing contemporary American poetry, including a range of innovative contemporary writing. The magazine is published in association with San Francisco State University. New American Writing is published by OINK! Press, a...
  
  
• The Atlantic Monthly
  The Atlantic Monthly
  The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,...
  
  
• The New Republic
  The New Republic
  The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
  
  
• Boulevard
  Boulevard (magazine)
  Boulevard magazine, published by St. Louis University, is an American literary magazine that publishes award-winning prose and poetry. Boulevard has been called "one of the half-dozen best literary journals" by Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman in The Philadelphia Inquirer.- Overview :Richard Burgin...
  
  
• The Kenyon Review
  The Kenyon Review
  The Kenyon Review is a Literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959...
  
  
• New England Review
  New England Review
  The New England Review is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. Founded in New Hampshire in 1978 by poet, novelist, editor and professor Sydney Lea and poet Jay Parini, it was published as New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly from 1982 , until 1991 as a formal...
  
  
• The Threepenny Review
  The Threepenny Review
  The Threepenny Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1980. It is published in Berkeley, California by founding editor Wendy Lesser. Maintaining a quarterly schedule , it offers fiction, memoirs, poetry, essays and criticism to a readership of 10,000...
  
  
• The Gettysburg Review
  The Gettysburg Review
  The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Work appearing in the magazine often is reprinted in "best-of" anthologies and receives awards....
  
  
• Grand Street
• The Iowa Review
  The Iowa Review
  The Iowa Review is an American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews.Founded in 1970, this magazine is issued three times a year, during the months of April, August, and December. Originally, it was released on a quarterly basis. This frequency of publication lasted...
  
  
• Michigan Quarterly Review
  Michigan Quarterly Review
  The Michigan Quarterly Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.The quarterly publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to...
  
  
• TriQuarterly
  TriQuarterly
  TriQuarterly Online is a not-for-profit American literary magazine published twice a year at Northwestern University that features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, literary essays, reviews, a blog, and graphic art....
  
  
• Boston Review
  Boston Review
  Boston Review is a bimonthly American political and literary magazine. The magazine covers, specifically, political debates, literature, and poetry...
  
  
• Colorado Review
  Colorado Review
  Colorado Review is a major American literary journal published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.The journal presents the annual Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction...
  
  
• Callaloo
• Hanging Loose
• The Southern Review
• Verse
• Western Humanities Review
• AGNI
  AGNI (magazine)
  AGNI is an American literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, interviews, and artwork twice a year in print and biweekly online from its home at Boston University...
  
  
• Antaeus
  Antaeus
  Antaeus in Greek and Berber mythology was a half-giant, the son of Poseidon and Gaia, whose wife was Tinjis. Antaeus had a daughter named Alceis or Barce.-Mythology:...
  
  
• Barrow Street
  Barrow Street (magazine)
  Barrow Street is a twice-a-year American poetry magazine founded in 1998 and based in New York City. The small journal has published prominent poets and its poems have been reprinted in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry series....
  
  
• Denver Quarterly
  Denver Quarterly
  The Denver Quarterly is a literary journal based at the University of Denver. Founded in 1966 by novelist John Williams.-Best American Short Stories:...
  
  
• Hambone
  Hambone (magazine)
  -External links:* at the Chimurenga Library...
  
  
• Shenandoah
  Shenandoah (magazine)
  Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review is a major literary magazine published by Washington and Lee University.- History :Originally a student-run quarterly, Shenandoah has evolved into a triannual literary journal edited by author R. T...
  
  
• Southwest Review
  Southwest Review
  The Southwest Review is a literary journal published quarterly, based on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas. It is the third oldest literary quarterly in the United States of America . The current editor-in-chief is Willard Spiegelman.The journal was formerly known as the...
  
  
• Antioch Review
  Antioch Review
  The Antioch Review is an American literary magazine established in 1941 at Antioch College in Ohio. One of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States, it publishes fiction, essays and poetry from both emerging and established authors.The magazine continues to publish...
  
  
• Conjunctions
  Conjunctions
  Conjunctions, is a biannual American literary journal based at Bard College. It was founded in 1981 and is currently edited by Bradford Morrow....
  
  
• FIELD
  FIELD (magazine)
  FIELD magazine is a twice-yearly literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and focusing on contemporary poetry and poetics....
  
  
• The New Criterion
  The New Criterion
  The New Criterion is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books...
  
  
• Partisan Review
  Partisan Review
  Partisan Review was an American political and literary quarterly published from 1934 to 2003, though it suspended publication between October 1936 and December 1937.-Overview:...
  
  
• Beloit Poetry Journal
• Five Points
• The Hudson Review
  The Hudson Review
  The Hudson Review is a quarterly journal of literature and the arts. It was founded in 1947 in New York by William Ayers Arrowsmith, Joseph Deericks Bennett, and George Frederick Morgan. The first issue was introduced in the spring of 1948...
  
  
• The New York Review of Books
  The New York Review of Books
  The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...
  
  
• Sulfur
  Sulfur (magazine)
  Sulfur magazine was an influential, small literary magazine founded in 1981 by poet and award-winning translator Clayton Eshleman and ran for 46 issues until the spring of 2000...
  
  
• Georgia Review
• New Letters
  New Letters (magazine)
  New Letters, the name it has been published under since 1970, is one of the oldest literary magazines in the United States and continues to publish award-winning poems and fiction.-History & Editors:...
  
  
• SHINY
  Shiny
  Shiny is the debut album from Johannesburg-based indie pop band The Bang. The album was released in September 2005. The album's cover art was designed by Daniel Levi, who has directed music videos for Interpol and Massive Attack...
  
  
• Another Chicago Magazine (ACM)
• Epoch
  Epoch (magazine)
  Epoch is a three-times-a-year American literary magazine founded in 1947 and published by Cornell University. The widely respected magazine has published well-known authors and award-winning work including stories reprinted in The Best American Short Stories series and poems later included in The...
  
  
• O.blek
  O-blek
  o•blék: a journal of language arts was a small literary magazine founded by Peter Gizzi who co-edited it with Connell McGrath. The magazine published a number of poems often not in the mainstream but recognized for their excellence...
  
  
• Seneca Review
• Green Mountains Review
  Green Mountains Review
  Green Mountains Review is a literary journal that publishes biannually out of Johnson State College in Vermont and is headed by founder and senior editor, Neil Shepard.Past contributors of note include Agha Shahid Ali, Jacob M...
  
  
• Ontario Review
• POOL
  Pool
  -Pools of water:*Swimming pool, an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming*Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings:...
  
  
• The World
• The Virginia Quarterly Review
  The Virginia Quarterly Review
  The Virginia Quarterly Review is a literary magazine in the United States. It was founded in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman...
  
  
• Chicago Review
  Chicago Review
  The Chicago Review is a literary magazine published four times per year in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. It was founded in 1946. Three stories published in the Chicago Review have won the O. Henry Prize...
  
  
• Cincinnati Review
• Crab Orchard Review
• Exquisite Corpse
• Fence
  Fence magazine
  Fence is a print and online literary publication containing both original work and critical and journalistic coverage of what may be largely termed "experimental" or "avant garde" material...
  
  
• jubilat
  Jubilat
  jubilat is a widely-distributed American poetry journal published by the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst...
  
  
• No
• Tin House
  Tin House
  Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The Tin House magazine was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically appealing and free of the stale substance...
  
  
• The Alaska Quarterly Review
  The Alaska Quarterly Review
  The Alaska Quarterly Review is a biannual literary journal founded in 1980 by Ronald Spatz and James Liszka at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Ronald Spatz serves as editor-in-chief...
  
  
• American Letters and Commentary
• Chelsea
  Chelsea (magazine)
  Chelsea was a small American, twice-a-year literary magazine based in New York City. The influential journal, edited for many years by Sonia Raiziss, published poetry, prose, book reviews and translations with an emphasis on translations, art, and cross-cultural exchange.-History:In 1958, The...
  
  
• Crazyhorse
  Crazyhorse (magazine)
  Crazyhorse is an American magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, and essays. It is published twice yearly by the Department of English and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina...
  
  
• Fine Madness
• Harvard Review
  Harvard Review
  The Harvard Review is a literary magazine published by the Harvard University library system.Its origins can be dated to 1986, when Stratis Haviaras, the curator of the libraries' poetry room founded a magazine called Erato to publicize poetry room authors.The first issue included a poem by Seamus...
  
  
• Many Mountains Moving
• Pleiades
  Pleiades (magazine)
  Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing is a literary semiannual, non-profit publisher of contemporary American poetry, fiction, essays, and extensive reviews of recent small/university press titles. First published in . The journal is published by the University of Central Missouri's English and...
  
  
• Prairie Schooner
• Sentence
• Witness
  Witness (magazine)
  Witness is a literary and issue-oriented magazine published by the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. Each issue includes fiction, poetry, memoir, and literary essays. The magazine has been honored with ten grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and writings from the journal have been...
  
  
• 88
• Black Warrior Review
  Black Warrior Review
  The Black Warrior Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1974 and based at the University of Alabama. Work appearing in BWR has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize collection, The Best American Short Stories , Best American Poetry, New Stories from the South. The Spring 1978 issue...
  
  
• Connecticut Review
• Cream City Review
• LIT
• Mississippi Review
• Mudfish
• The Nation
  The Nation
  The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
  
  
• North American Review
  North American Review
  The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to J. H. Smyth, who had purchased the magazine, being unmasked as a Japanese...
  
  
• Ohio Review
• Pequod
• Poetry New York
• Raritan Quarterly Review
  Raritan Quarterly Review
  Raritan is a well-regarded literary journal that publishes poetry, fiction and essays. The journal is based at Rutgers University in New Jersey...
  
  
• River Styx
  River Styx Magazine
  River Styx was launched in St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. in 1975 after earlier poetry readings and musical sessions among enthusiasts had begun in the early 1970s. The magazine is produced three times a year and is available in bookshops and other outlets and by subscription...
  
  
• Skanky Possum
  Skanky Possum
  Skanky Possum is a twice-a-year poetry journal and small book-publishing imprint in Austin, Texas. Edited by Hoa Nguyen and her husband, Dale Smith, it has published some of the best cutting-edge poetry in America, featuring both well known names and up-and-coming poets...
  
  
• The Hat
• Urbanus
• can we have our ball back?
• ZYZZYVA
  Zyzzyva (magazine)
  Zyzzyva is a triannual magazine of writers and artists. It places an emphasis on showcasing emerging voices and never before published writers in addition to the already established. Based in San Francisco, it began publishing in 1985. ZYZZYVAs slogan is "The Last Word," referring to "zyzzyva", the...
  
  

• Aerial
  Aerial (magazine)
  Aerial is an influential poetry magazine edited by Rod Smith and published by Aerial/Edge based in Washington, D.C.. Along with the magazine, "Aerial/Edge" publishes Edge Books. The first issue of Aerial appeared in 1984...
  
  
• American Poet
• BOMB
  Bomb
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• Boston Phoenix
  The Phoenix (newspaper)
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• Columbia Poetry Review
• Conduit
• Facture
• Gulf Coast
  Gulf Coast of the United States
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• Indiana Review
  Indiana Review
  Indiana Review ' is a small, student-run literary magazine at Indiana University. Founded in 1976, it has a circulation of about 2,000.A biannual review, IR publishes essays, fiction, graphic arts, interviews, poetry, and reviews...
  
  
• LUNA
  LUNA
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• Margie
• Massachusetts Review
• Meridian
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• Quarterly West
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• Salmagundi
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• Temblor
• Third Coast
• Tyuonyi
• 32 Poems
  32 poems
  32 Poems Magazine is a literary magazine, founded in the American states of Maryland and Texas in 2003, that has published poems from writers around the world.-Beginning:...
  
  
• American Voice
• Atlanta Review
• Blue Sofa
• Boston Book Review
• Brooklyn Review
• Café Review
• can we have our ball back?
• Court Green
  Court Green
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• CROWD
  Crowd
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• DCPoetry Anthology 2003
• Double Take
  Double Take
  Double take may refer to:*Double Take , an Australian sketch comedy*Double Take , a 1998 thriller*Double Take , a 2001 comedy*"Double Take" , a Code Lyoko episode...
  
  
• Extracts from Pelican Bay
• Fulcrum
  Fulcrum (annual)
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• Gargoyle
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• Harvard Magazine
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• Hotel Amerika
• In Time
  In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003
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• London Review of Books
  London Review of Books
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• Lyric
  Lyric
  Lyric may refer to:* Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view* Lyric, from the Greek language, a song sung with a lyre* Lyrics, the composition in verse which is sung to a melody to constitute a song...
  
  
• Manoa
  Manoa
  thumb|240px|right|Vintage shot of University of Hawaii, Manoa240px|thumb|right|Vintage photo of Manoa ValleyMānoa is a valley and a residential neighborhood of Honolulu CDP of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; the community is approximately three miles east and inland from...
  
  
• Mid-American Review
  Mid-American Review
  Mid-American Review is an international literary journal dedicated to publishing contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translations. Founded in 1981, MAR is a publication of the Department of English and the College of Arts & Sciences at Bowling Green State University...
  
  
• New York Quarterly
  New York Quarterly
  The New York Quarterly is a popular contemporary American poetry magazine. Established by William M. Packard in 1969, Rolling Stone Magazine has called the NYQ "the most important poetry magazine in America."- History :...
  
  
• The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  
• Northwest Review
• Notre Dame Review
• Open City
  Open city
  In war, in the event of the imminent capture of a city, the government/military structure of the nation that controls the city will sometimes declare it an open city, thus announcing that they have abandoned all defensive efforts....
  
  
• Painted Bride Quarterly
  Painted Bride Quarterly
  Painted Bride Quarterly is a Philadelphia-based literary magazine.Established in 1973 by Louise Simons and R. Daniel Evans, the magazine is based in Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. It is staffed by a mix of volunteer editors and changing student staff...
  
  
• Parnassus
  Mount Parnassus
  Mount Parnassus, also Parnassos , is a mountain of limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers scenic views of the surrounding olive groves and countryside. According to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs,...
  
  
• PMS
• Poet Lore
  Poet Lore
  Poet Lore is an English-language literary magazine based in Bethesda, Maryland. Established in 1889, Poet Lore is the oldest continuously published poetry magazine in the United States....
  
  
• Poetry Flash
  Poetry Flash
  Poetry Flash is a literary magazine and website based in the San Francisco Bay Area; it has been called "an institution in the Bay Area's literary culture". It publishes literary reviews, poetry, interviews, and essays as well as an extensive calendar of literary activities on the west coast of...
  
  
• Poetry Northwest
  Poetry Northwest
  Poetry Northwest was founded as a quarterly, poetry-only journal in 1959 by Errol Pritchard, with Carolyn Kizer, Richard Hugo, and Nelson Bentley as co-editors...
  
  
• Princeton University Library Chronicle
• Provincetown Arts
• Rattapallax
• RATTLE
  RATTLE
  RATTLE is an award-winning poetry magazine based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1994, the magazine is published by the Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation. Established writers such as Philip Levine, Jane Hirshfield, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Gregory Orr, and others have appeared in RATTLE,...
  
  
• Rhino
• River City
  River City
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• Santa Monica Review
• Sewanee Review
  Sewanee Review
  The Sewanee Review is a literary journal established in 1892 and the oldest continuously published periodical of its kind in the United States. It incorporates original fiction and poetry, as well as essays, reviews, and literary criticism...
  
  
• Sewanee Theological Review
• Slate
  Slate (magazine)
  Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
  
  
• Solo
• Subtropics
  Subtropics
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• The Canary
• Tikkun
  Tikkun (magazine)
  Tikkun is a quarterly English-language magazine, published in the United States, that analyzes American and Israeli culture, politics, religion and history from a leftist-progressive viewpoint, and provides commentary about Israeli politics and Jewish life in North America...
  
  
• The Times Literary Supplement
  The Times Literary Supplement
  The Times Literary Supplement is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation.-History:...
  
  
• Volt
  Volt
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• Xconnect
• 26
  26
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• 3rd Bed
• Acorn
  Acorn
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• Alkali Flats
• American Scholar
• Americas Review
• Antennae
• apex of M
• Arshile
• Ascent
  Ascendency
  Ascendency is a quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network. Ascendency is derived using mathematical tools from information theory...
  
  
• Aufgabe
• Avec
• B City
• Bitter Oleander
• Blasts!
• Bombay Gin
• Bookforum
  Bookforum
  Bookforum is a New York-based magazine devoted to books and the discussion of literature. It is edited by Albert Mobilio, Chris Lehmann, , and Michael Miller.-History: Bookforum was launched in 1994 as a literary supplement to Artforum...
  
  
• Boondoggle
  Boondoggle
  Boondoggle or boon doggle may refer to:* Boondoggle , term for a scheme that wastes time and money* Scoubidou, a knotting and plaiting craft known in the U.S. as "boondoggle"...
  
  
• Bridge
  Bridge
  A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
  
  
• Brilliant Corners
  Brilliant Corners
  Brilliant Corners is a 1957 album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk. It was his third album for the Riverside label and the first, for this label, to include his own compositions. The complex title track required over a dozen takes in the studio, and is considered one of his most difficult...
  
  

• Broadway
• Chain
  Chain
  A chain is a sequence of connected links.Chain may also refer to:Chain may refer to:* Necklace - a jewelry which is worn around the neck* Mail , a type of armor made of interlocking chain links...
  
  
• Clockwatch Review
• Common Ground
• Common Sense
  Common sense
  Common sense is defined by Merriam-Webster as, "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts." Thus, "common sense" equates to the knowledge and experience which most people already have, or which the person using the term believes that they do or should have...
  
  
• Cortland Review
• Croonenbergh's Fly
• Crux
  Crux
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• Deluxe Rubber Chicken
• Disbelief
  Disbelief
  Disbelief is a metal band from Hesse, Germany. Their music is rooted in death metal, but has melancholic tendencies.- Biography :...
  
  
• Drum Voices Review
• Ecopoetics
• Ecotone
  Ecotone
  An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes but different patches of the landscape, such as forest and grassland. It may be narrow or wide, and it may be local or regional...
  
  
• Empathy
  Empathy
  Empathy is the capacity to recognize and, to some extent, share feelings that are being experienced by another sapient or semi-sapient being. Someone may need to have a certain amount of empathy before they are able to feel compassion. The English word was coined in 1909 by E.B...
  
  
• Endicott Review
• Evansville Review
• Failbetter
  Failbetter
  failbetter is a quarterly online literary magazine.-Founding:Founded in 2000 by Thom Didato and David McLendon, the magazine originally evolved from a Brooklyn-based reading series that featured many writers from the Gordon Lish school of writing. McLendon left failbetter in 2003 to pursue his own...
  
  
• Farmer's Market
• Faucheuse
• Figdust
• Formalist
  Formalism (art)
  In art theory, formalism is the concept that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by its form--the way it is made, its purely visual aspects, and its medium. Formalism emphasizes compositional elements such as color, line, shape and texture rather than realism, context, and content...
  
  
• Fourteen Hills
  Fourteen Hills
  Fourteen Hills is the San Francisco State University MFA program literary magazine. Founded in 1994, it publishes poetry, fiction, short plays, and literary nonfiction...
  
  
• Free Lunch
  TANSTAAFL
  "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" is a popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing. The acronyms TANSTAAFL and TINSTAAFL are also used...
  
  
• Gastronomica
  Gastronomica
  Gastronomica is a quarterly academic journal published by the University of California Press. It was established in 2001 and is currently edited by Darra Goldstein. Gastronomica covers the history, literature, representation, and cultural impact of food....
  
  
• Germ
  The Germ (periodical)
  The Germ was a periodical established by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to disseminate their ideas. It was not a success, only existing for four issues between January and April 1850....
  
  
• Glass Technology
• Harper's Magazine
  Harper's Magazine
  Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010...
  
  
• Hayden's Ferry Review
  Hayden's Ferry Review
  Hayden's Ferry Review is a well-regarded internationally distributed American literary magazine, published semi-annually by Arizona State University. Founded in 1986, the Review is headquartered in the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU...
  
  
• Heavy Daughter Blues
• Hotel Lautreamont
• How(ever)
• Image
  Image
  An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:...
  
  
• In Posse Review
• Insurance Magazine
• Iodine Poetry Review
• Jacket
  Jacket
  A jacket is a hip- or waist-length garment for the upper body. A jacket typically has sleeves, and fastens in the front. A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and less insulating than a coat, which is outerwear...
  
  
• Journal of Family Life
• Kalliope
  Calliope
  In Greek mythology, Calliope was the muse of epic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and is now best known as Homer's muse, the inspiration for the Odyssey and the Iliad....
  
  
• La Petite Zine
• Lingo
  Lingo
  , Chris Hernandez is an American Christian rap artist, producer, and label owner-Early years:Lingo was born to Richard and Carmen Hernandez in Dallas, TX. Born into a faith based and God fearing family, Lingo knew the Lord at a young age...
  
  
• Literal Latte
  Literal Latte
  Literal Latte is a bi-monthly literary journal based in New York City and edited by Jenine Gordon Bockman. It was founded in June 1994. The journal published its last print edition in July 2003, but has continuously maintained an online version since November 1996...
  
  
• Literary Imagination
• Longhouse
  Long house
  A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe and North America....
  
  
• Los Angeles Review
• Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
  Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
  Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a literary journal, first published in 1998, edited by Dave Eggers. The first issue featured only works rejected by other magazines, but thereafter the journal began to include pieces written with McSweeney's in mind. McSweeney’s has since published works by...
  
  
• MiPoesias
• Mungo vs. Ranger
• Nebraska Review
  Nebraska Review
  The Nebraska Review was a leading American literary magazine, based at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska. The magazine was founded in 1972 by Richard Duggan and published until 2003.-Notable contributors:*John Addiego*Jacob M...
  
  
• New Millennium Writings
  New Millennium Writings
  New Millennium Writings is an American literary magazine published in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1996 by Don Williams, a prize-winning journalist and fiction writer who currently serves as editor. The magazine carries fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction by up-and-coming writers...
  
  
• Nightsun
• Nimrod
  Nimrod
  Nimrod means "Hunter"; was a Biblical Mesopotamian king mentioned in the Table of Nations; an eponym for the city of Nimrud.Nimrod can also refer to any of the following:*Nimród Antal, a director...
  
  
• Occident
  Western world
  The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident , is a term referring to the countries of Western Europe , the countries of the Americas, as well all countries of Northern and Central Europe, Australia and New Zealand...
  
  
• OnTheBus
• ’Pataphysics
  ’Pataphysics
  Pataphysics is a philosophy or pseudophilosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. The term was coined and the concept created by French writer Alfred Jarry , who defined 'pataphysics as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties...
  
  
• Patterson Literary Review
• Pharos
  Pharos
  Pharos may refer to:Lighthouses:* The Pharos of Alexandria, a tower built on the island of Pharos that became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World* The Pharos, either of two Roman lighthouses built at Dubris...
  
  
• Phoebe
  Phoebe
  Phoebe or Phebe is a female given name , meaning "bright and shining" deriving from Greek 'phoibos' .-Mythology:*Phoebe , one of the Titans*Phoebe, one of the Heliades*Phoebe , the daughter of Leucippus...
  
  
• Poetry East
• Poetry Project Newsletter
• Potomac Review
  Potomac Review
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• Pressed Wafer
• Prose Poem
  Prose poetry
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• Quarter After Eight
• Rapidfeed
• Rapture
  Rapture
  The rapture is a reference to the "being caught up" referred to in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, when the "dead in Christ" and "we who are alive and remain" will be caught up in the clouds to meet "the Lord"....
  
  
• Rosebud
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  A rosebud is the bud of a rose flower. The word may refer to:-Arts:* A plot device in the film Citizen Kane* "Rosebud" , an episode of the television comedy The Simpsons, parodying Citizen Kane...
  
  
• Ruins
  Ruins
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• Sacramento News & Review
• Sal Mimeo
• Salt
  Salt
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• Salt Hill
  Salt Hill
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• Shankpainter
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• Sonora Review
  Sonora Review
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• Spinning Jenny
  Spinning jenny
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• Spoon River Poetry Review
• Spoon River Quarterly
• Stud Duck
• Sun
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• Sycamore Review
  Sycamore review
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• Talisman
  Talisman
  Talisman have several meanings:*TalismanBooks and novels* The Talisman , a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott* The Talisman , a novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub...
  
  
• Tampa Review
  Tampa Review
  The Tampa Review is a literary magazine produced at The University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. It was founded in 1964 as the Tampa Poetry Review and changed to its current name in 1988....
  
  
• Tar River Poetry
  Tar River Poetry
  Tar River Poetry is a literary journal published by East Carolina University . Published twice a year , the 64-page journal consists of submitted written works of poetry, critical essays, and book reviews. The journal is named for the Tar River, which runs through Greenville, NC...
  
  
• Tarpaulin Sky
  Tarpaulin Sky Press
  Tarpaulin Sky Press is a small press publisher of hybrid texts as well as poetry and prose. Founded by Christian Peet in 2006 and based in Grafton, Vermont, the company produces full-length books, chapbooks, trade paperbacks, hand-bound books, and a literary journal that appears in online and paper...
  
  
• The Texas Observer
  The Texas Observer
  The Texas Observer is an American political newsmagazine published bi-weekly and based in Downtown Austin, Texas. The non-profit magazine is nonpartisan, but the publication has historically been an advocate for liberal politics...
  
  
• Texas Review
• The Butcher Shop
• The Progressive
  The Progressive
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• the tiny
  The Tiny
  The Tiny is a Swedish band consisting of pianist and vocalist Ellekari Larsson, cellist Leo Svensson, and double bassist Johan Berthling . Larsson's DetErMine Records distributes the band's albums in Sweden, while they are signed to Eyeball Records in the United States...
  
  
• Tor House Newsletter
• Van Gogh's Ear
• Vocabula Review
• Volcano Inside
• Washington Post Magazine
  The Washington Post
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• Waterstone
  Sharpening stone
  Sharpening stones, water stones or whetstones are used to grind and hone the edges of steel tools and implements. Examples of items that may be sharpened with a sharpening stone include scissors, scythes, knives, razors and tools such as chisels, hand scrapers and plane blades...
  
  
• Webber Studies
• Willow Springs

Critical reception of the series

According to the Academy of American Poets Web site, "[t]he Best American Poetry series has become one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world." The Academy Web site called the introductions to the collection by the guest editors, as well as Lehman's "state-of-poetry" forewords, "indespensible." As a whole, the anthologies "seem to capture the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry."

However, the Academy article also noted that the series and its editors are "often criticized for their selections and assessments (common complaints include the exclusion of experimental poets, lack of diversity, and allegiance to poetry's "old guard") [...]"

External links

• Best American Poetry series archive

External links

• http://bestamericanpoetry.com/index.php Best American Poetry series Web site