The Best American Poetry 1994
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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.
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:...
and by guest editor A. R. Ammons.
Poets and poems included
| Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
| Dick Allen Dick Allen (poet) Dick Allen is an American poet, literary critic and academic born in Troy, New York who is serving a five-year term as poet laureate of the state of Connecticut from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2015.... |
"A Short History of the Vietnam War Years" | 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.... |
| Tom Andrews Tom Andrews (poet) Tom Andrews was an American poet and critic.He grew up in West Virginia. He graduated from Hope College and the University of Virginia with an M.F.A.-Awards:* Iowa Poetry Prize, for The Hemophiliac’s Motorcycle ... |
"Cinema Vérité" | 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.... |
| 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... |
"Myrtle" | 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... |
| Burlin Barr | "Tremendous Mood Swings" | Grand Street |
| Cynthia Bond | "What You Want Means What You Can Afford" |
Ascent |
| Catherine Bowman Catherine Bowman Catherine Bowman is an American poet.Her most recent poetry collection is The Plath Cabinet , and her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Best American Poetry, TriQuarterly, River Styx, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Times, Crazy Horse,... |
"Demographics" | TriQuarterly |
| George Bradley George Bradley (poet) George Bradley is an American poet, editor, and fiction writer whose work is characterized by formal structure, humor, and satirical narrative.-Life:He attended the Hill School, Yale University, and the University of Virginia.... |
"The Fire Fetched Down" | The Paris Review |
| Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles... |
"me against the world" | Urbanus |
| Rebecca Byrkit | "The Only Dance There Is" | 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... |
| Amy Clampitt Amy Clampitt -Life:Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920 of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Grinnell College she began a study of English literature that eventually led her to poetry. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from... |
"A Catalpa Tree on West Twelfth Street" | 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... |
| Michelle T. Clinton Michelle T. Clinton -CDs:*Michèlle T. Clinton and Wanda Coleman: “Black Angels”, New Alliance Records, NAR CD 031, 1988.-External links:... |
"Tantrum Girl Responds to Death" | 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... |
| James Air (GCA) | "Sestina" | The Paris Review |
| Ramola Dharmaraj | "full of rain, the word" | 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... |
| Thomas M. Disch Thomas M. Disch Thomas Michael Disch was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W... |
"The Cardinal Detoxes: A Play in One Act" | 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... |
| Mark Doty Mark Doty Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested... |
"Difference" | 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... |
| Denise Duhamel Denise Duhamel -Background:Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at Bucknell University... |
"Bulimia" | Poet Lore |
| Tony Esolen | "Northwestern Mathematics" | Fine Madness |
| Richard Fischer | "Life Drawing" | Poetry Poetry (magazine) Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately... |
| Alice Fulton Alice Fulton Alice Fulton is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.- Biography :Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York, the youngest of three daughters. Her father was the proprietor of the historic Phoenix Hotel, and her mother was a visiting nurse. She began writing poetry in high school... |
"The Priming Is a Negligee" | 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... |
| Allison Funk | "After Dark" | Poetry Poetry (magazine) Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately... |
| 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... |
"In the Hotel" | 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... |
| Debora Greger Debora Greger Debora Greger is an award-winning American poet as well as a visual artist.She was raised in Richland, Washington.... |
"The Frog in the Swimming Pool" | 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... |
| 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:... |
"Another Elegy" | Iowa Review |
| Forrest Hamer Forrest Hamer Forrest Hamer is an American poet, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Rift . His first collection, Call & Response, won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and his second, Middle Ear , received the Northern California Book Award... |
"Getting Happy" | 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... |
| 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... |
"The Polar Circle" | Grand Street |
| Roald Hoffmann Roald Hoffmann Roald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.-Escape from the Holocaust:... |
"Deceptively Like a Solid" | Glass Technology |
| 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... |
"Variations on a Fragment by Trumball Stickney" |
The Paris Review |
| Janet Holmes Janet Holmes Janet Holmes is an American poet, professor, and the director of Ahsahta Press. She is author of six poetry collections, most recently, The ms of m y kin , and has had her poems published in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard,... |
"The Love of the Flesh" | Tar River Poetry |
| Paul Hoover Paul Hoover Paul Hoover is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as New York School and language poetry.... |
"Baseball" | Another Chicago Magazine |
| 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... |
"A Lost Art" | Poetry Poetry (magazine) Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately... |
| Phyllis Janowitz | "The Necessary Angel" | River Styx |
| Mark Jarman Mark Jarman Mark F. Jarman is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper throughout the 1980s... |
"Unholy Sonnets" | 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... |
| Alice Jones Alice Jones Alice Jones is an American poet, physician, and psychoanalyst. Her most recent collection of poetry is Gorgeous Mourning . Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Boston Review, The Denver Quarterly, and Chelsea... |
"The Foot" | ZYZZYVA Zyzzyva Zyzzyva is a genus of tropical American weevil often found in association with palms. It is a snouted beetle. "Zyzzyva" is the last word in many English-language dictionaries.... |
| Rodney Jones Rodney Jones Rodney Jones is an American poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter I.B... |
"Contempt" | 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... |
| Brigit Pegeen Kelly Brigit Pegeen Kelly Brigit Pegeen Kelly is an award-winning American poet.-Life:She is married to , a poet and fiction writer.She taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College.... |
"Courting the Famous Figures at the Grotto of Improbable Thought" |
Northwest Review |
| Caroline Knox Caroline Knox Caroline Knox is an American poet based in Massachusetts. She is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Quaker Guns , and forthcoming, Nine Worthies... |
"A Rune" | Fine Madness |
| Kenneth Koch Kenneth Koch Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77... |
"One Train May Hide Another" | 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... |
| Dionisio D. Martínez Dionisio D. Martinez Dionisio D. Martinez , is a Cuban-born poet who grew up speaking Spanish, raised first in Spain, then in the United States.His work appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New Republic, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review.He... |
"Avant-Dernieres Pensees" | Seneca Review |
| J. D. McClatchy | "Found Parable" | 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... |
| Jeffrey McDaniel Jeffrey McDaniel Jeffrey McDaniel is an American poet. He has published four books of poetry, most recently 'The Endarkenment' . He is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts... |
"Following Her to Sleep" | 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... |
| James McManus James McManus James "Jim" McManus is an American poker player, teacher and writer living in Kenilworth, Illinois.-Poker and Positively Fifth Street:... |
"Spike Logic" | Salmagundi Salmagundi Salmagundi is a salad dish, originating in the early 17th century in England, comprising cooked meats, seafood, vegetables, fruit, leaves, nuts and flowers and dressed with oil, vinegar and spices. There is some debate over the meaning and origin of the word... |
| James Merrill James Merrill James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies... |
"Family Week at Oracle Ranch" | 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... |
| W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from... |
"One of the Lives" | 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... |
| Stephen Paul Miller Stephen Paul Miller Stephen Paul Miller is an American poet and academic. He has written five books of poetry, one critical volume, and co-edited two critical collections.... |
"I Was on a Golf Course the Day John Cage Died of a Stroke" |
Poetry New York |
| Jenny Mueller | "Allegory" | 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... |
| Harryette Mullen Harryette Mullen Harryette Mullen is an American poet, short story writer, and literary scholar. She was born in Florence, Alabama, grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and attended graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As of 2008, she lives in Los... |
"From Muse & Drudge" | 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... |
| Brighde Mullins Brighde Mullins -Life:She graduated from the Yale School of Drama and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with MFA's.She taught at San Francisco State University, Brown University, Harvard University, CalArts, and currently teaches at University of Southern California where she is also the director of USC's Master of... |
"At the Lakehouse" | 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... |
| Fred Muratori | "Sensible Qualities" | No Roses Review |
| Sharon Olds Sharon Olds -Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad... |
"The Knowing" | American Poetry Review |
| Maureen Owen Maureen Owen Maureen Owen is an American poet, editor, and biographer.-Life:Owen trained horses in her youth and traveled in the Racing Fair Circuit along with her family. They lived in California during winters. Owen attended Seattle University and San Francisco State University. In 1965, she moved to Japan,... |
"Them" | Poetry New York |
| Kathleen Peirce Kathleen Peirce Kathleen Peirce is an American poet. -Life:She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. She currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, for the Texas State University MFA... |
"Divided Touch, Divided Color" | 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... |
| Carl Phillips Carl Phillips Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.... |
"A Mathematics of Breathing" | 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... |
| Lloyd Schwartz Lloyd Schwartz Lloyd Schwartz is an American poet who is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston... |
"Pornography" | The Paris Review |
| Frederick Seidel Frederick Seidel -Career:In 1962, his first book, Final Solutions, was chosen by a jury of Louise Bogan, Stanley Kunitz, and Robert Lowell for an award sponsored by the 92nd Street Y, with a $1,500 prize... |
"Pol Pot" | American Poetry Review |
| Alan Shapiro Alan Shapiro Alan Shapiro is an American poet and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of nine poetry books, including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and The Dead Alive and Busy. He received the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles... |
"The Letter" | 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... |
| Angela Shaw | "Courtesan" | Chelsea |
| 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:... |
"Read Your Fate" | 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... |
| W. D. Snodgrass | "Snow Songs" | 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... |
| Elizabeth Spires Elizabeth Spires -Life:She was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, and in many other literary magazines and anthologies, She lives in Baltimore with her... |
"The Robed Heart" | Iowa Review |
| A. E. Stallings A. E. Stallings Alicia Elsbeth Stallings is an American poet and translator. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow-Background:Stallings was raised in Decatur, Georgia and studied classics at the University of Georgia and University of Oxford. She is an editor with the Atlanta Review. In 1999, Stallings moved... |
"Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
| 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 :... |
"The Mysterious Maps" | 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... |
| Sharan Strange Sharan Strange -Life:She grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She graduated from Harvard College, and from Sarah Lawrence College with an MFA.She is a contributing and advisory editor of Callaloo and cofounder of the Dark Room Collective.... |
"Offering" | Callaloo The Callaloo Journal Callaloo was founded in 1976 by its current editor, Charles Henry Rowell, when he was teaching at Southern University . He originally described the fledgling periodical as a “Black South Journal,” whose function was to serve as a publication outlet for marginalized writers in the racially... |
| May Swenson May Swenson Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson was an American poet and playwright... |
"Sleeping with Boa" | The 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... |
| Janet Sylvester | "Modern Times" | 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... |
| 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... |
"Like a Scarf" | 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... |
| Patricia Traxler | "Death of a Distant In-Law" | 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... |
| William Wadsworth William Wadsworth William Wadsworth was an officer in the New York State militia, before and during the War of 1812. As a Brigadier General, he commanded the New York militia contingent in the American army at the Battle of Queenston Heights. He waived his right to command over Lieutenant Colonel Winfield Scott, of... |
"The Snake in the Garden Considers Daphne" | The Paris Review |
| Kevin Walker | "My Talk with an Elegant Man" | The Bridge |
| Rosanne Wasserman | "Putting in a Word" | 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... |
| Bruce Weigl Bruce Weigl Bruce Weigl is an American contemporary poet who teaches at Lorain County Community College. Weigl enlisted in the United States Army shortly after his 18th birthday and spent three years in the service. He served in the Vietnam War from December 1967 to December 1968 and received the Bronze Star... |
"The One" | American Poetry Review |
| Joshua Weiner Joshua Weiner -Life:He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, taught at the Writing Program at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and at Northwestern University.He lives in Washington, D.C., and teaches at University of Maryland, College Park.... |
"Who They Were" | 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... |
| Henry Weinfield | "Song for the In-Itselfand For-Itself" | Poetry New York |
| Michael White | "Camille Monet sur son lit de mort" | 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... |
| Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.... |
"A Digression" | 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... |
| Dean Young Dean Young (poet) Dean Young is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derives influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets,... |
"Upon Hearing of My Friend's Marriage Breaking Up" |
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... |
External links
- Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared