The Best American Poetry 1995
Encyclopedia
The Best American Poetry 1995, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman
and by guest editor Richard Howard
.
For this edition of the series, Howard announced that "poets whose work has appeared three or more times in this series are here and now ineligible, as are all seven former editors of the series" .
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 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...
.
For this edition of the series, Howard announced that "poets whose work has appeared three or more times in this series are here and now ineligible, as are all seven former editors of the series" .
Poets and poems included
| Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
| Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C... |
"Bored" | 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,... |
| Sally Ball Sally Ball Sara Louise "Sally" Ball is an American poet, editor, and professor. She is the author of Annus Mirabilis . Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Rivendell, Slate, Threepenny Review,... |
"Nocturnal" | 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... |
| 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,... |
"Mr. X" | 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... |
| Stephanie Brown | "Schadenfreude" | American Poetry Review |
| Lewis Buzbee Lewis Buzbee Lewis Buzbee is a San Francisco based author and poet.He is "a fourth generation California native on his mother’s side, and a Dust Bowl Okie on his father’s." -Work:... |
"Sunday, Tarzan in His Hammock" | 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... |
| Cathleen Calbert Cathleen Calbert Cathleen Calbert is an American poet and writer, author of five poetry collections, most recently, Sleeping with a Famous Poet . Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1995, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, Ms. Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Daily,... |
"The Woman Who Loved Things" | Harvard Review |
| Rafael Campo Rafael Campo Rafael Campo Pomar was President of El Salvador 12 February 1856 - 1 February 1858. Campo was elected president on 30 January 1856. He turned over power to his vice president, Francisco Dueñas, on 12 May of the same year, but resumed the presidency on 19 July... |
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" | 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... |
| William Carpenter William Carpenter William Carpenter may refer to:*William Carpenter , water colours of India*William Carpenter , Australian politician*William Carpenter, writer, American author... |
"Girl Writing a Letter" | Iowa Review |
| Nicholas Christopher Nicholas Christopher -Background:Christopher graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. He teaches at Columbia University. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. His novels can be considered as magic realist... |
"Terminus" | The Paris Review |
| Jane Cooper Jane Cooper -Life and career:Cooper was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, spent her early childhood in Jacksonville, Florida, and then moved with her family to Princeton in the mid-1930s. She attended Vassar College from 1942 to 1944, and earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1946. In 1953–54... |
"The Infusion Room" | American Poetry Review |
| James Cummins James Cummins James Cummins is an American poet.- Biography :Cummins teaches at the University of Cincinnati and is the curator of the Elliston Poetry Collection. He is married to the poet and art critic, Maureen Bloomfield... |
"Sestina" | The Paris Review |
| Olena Kalytiak Davis Olena Kalytiak Davis Olena Kalytiak Davis is an American poet.She is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, And Other Off-And-Back Handed Importunities . Her first book, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing, won the Brittingham Prize... |
"Thirty Years Rising" | 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... |
| Lynn Emanuel Lynn Emanuel Lynn Collins Emanuel is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections include Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook .... |
"Film Noir: Train Trip Out of Metropolis" | The Antioch Review |
| Elaine Equi Elaine Equi Elaine Equi is an American poet.Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois and grew up in the Chicago area. Since 1988 she has lived in New York with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts programs at City College of New York and The New School... |
"Sometimes I Get Distracted" | 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... |
| Irving Feldman Irving Feldman Irving Feldman Irving Feldman Irving Feldman (born on 22 September 1928 in Brooklyn, New York is an American poet and professor of English.-Academic career:Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his university education... |
"Terminal Laughs" | 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... |
| Donald Finkel Donald Finkel Donald Alexander Finkel was an American poet best known for his unorthodox styles and "curious juxtapositions".-Life:... |
"In the Clearing" | 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... |
| Aaron Fogel Aaron Fogel -Life:He was raised in New York City.He graduated from Columbia University, Cambridge University, and Columbia University, with a Ph.D.,Fogel has been on the faculty at Boston University since 1978.... |
"The Printer's Error" | The Stud Duck |
| Richard Frost | "For a Brother" | 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... |
| Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression... |
"Salutations to Fernando Pessoa" | 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... |
| Peter Gizzi Peter Gizzi Peter Gizzi is an award-winning American poet and renowned editor of the American poet Jack Spicer. He attended Brown University, New York University and the State University of New York at Buffalo.-Life and career:... |
"Another Day on the Pilgrimage" | apex of the M |
| Jody Gladding Jody Gladding Jody Gladding is an American translator and poet.Gladding, who also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College, is the author of four books of poetry, one of which is a letterpress edition and one of which is a chapbook. She also has been involved in two performance/installations in... |
"Asparagus" | 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... |
| Elton Glaser Elton Glaser -Life:He is a native of New Orleans, teaches at the University of Akron, and edits the Akron Series in Poetry.He lives in Akron, Ohio.-Awards:* 2002 Marlboro Prize in Poetry for his poem, "Meditation in Blue and White"* 2002 Crab Orchard Award-Works:* *... |
"Undead White European Male" | 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.... |
| Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth is an American poet born January 31, 1948 in Chicago. He is known for his prolific production, his gregarious tone, his eclectic interests and his distinctive 'talky' style. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and won the National Book Critics Circle award in 1991 and 2001, the only... |
"A Still Life, Symbolic of Lines" | 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... |
| Beckian Fritz Goldberg | "Being Pharaoh" | 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.... |
| Laurence Goldstein Laurence Goldstein Laurence Goldstein is a poet, editor, and professor in the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1943, he received a B.A. from UCLA in 1965 and a PhD from Brown University in 1970... |
"Permissive Entry: A Sermon on Fame" | The Tampa Review |
| Barbara Guest Barbara Guest Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson was an American poet and prose stylist. Guest first gained recognition as a member of the first generation New York School of poetry.... |
"If So" | Princeton University Library Chronicle |
| Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York.... |
"Days of 1992" | 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... |
| Judith Hall | "St. Peregrinus' Cancer" | Western Humanities Review |
| Anthony Hecht Anthony Hecht Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work.-Early years:Hecht was born in New York... |
"Prospects" | 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... |
| Edward Hirsch Edward Hirsch Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published eight books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems , which brings together thirty-five years of work. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial... |
"Unearthly Voices" | 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.... |
| 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,... |
"Against the Literal" | The Georgia Review The Georgia Review The Georgia Review is an award-winning, nationally respected literary journal founded in 1947 that includes poetry, art, fiction, essays and reviews. It won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1986 and the National Magazine Award for Essay in 2007... |
| Andrew Hudgins Andrew Hudgins Andrew Hudgins is an American poet.His book The Never-Ending: New Poems was a finalist for the National Book Awards, After the Lost War: A Narrative received the Poetry Prize; and Saints and Strangers , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.He is also the author of a book of essays, The... |
"Seventeen" | The Southern Review |
| T. R. Hummer | "Apocatastasis Foretold in the Shape of a Canvas of Smoke" |
Sewanee Theological Review |
| 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.... |
"All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer" | The Massachusetts Review |
| Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey is a prize–winning American poet who has lived in both Europe and the United States and whose work is strongly influenced by the Greek and Roman past. He often looks to the classical world for inspiration with themes which have included loss, loneliness, nostalgia and modern... |
"Sonogram" | 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... |
| Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Ashley Kizer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism.-Life and work:... |
"On a Line from Valery" | Princeton University Library Chronicle |
| Wayne Koestenbaum Wayne Koestenbaum Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University... |
"1975" | 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... |
| John Koethe John Koethe John Koethe is an American poet and essayist. Originally from San Diego, California, he was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University, and is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.... |
"Falling Water" | Western Humanities Review |
| 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... |
"Troubling the Water" | Urbanus |
| Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982.-Early years:... |
"Getting the Message" | 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... |
| Lisa Lewis Lisa Lewis Lisa Lewis is an American poet, who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.-Life:She graduated from University of Houston, with a PhD.She teaches at Oklahoma State University.-Awards:... |
"Bridget" | American Poetry Review |
| Rachel Loden | "My Night with Philip Larldn" | B City |
| James Longenbach James Longenbach James Longenbach is an American critic and poet. His early critical work focused on modernist poetry , but he writes extensively about contemporary poetry, too, and has authored four books of poems: Threshold, Fleet River, Draft of a Letter, and The Iron Key... |
"What You Find in the Woods" | 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... |
| Robert Hill Long | "Refuge" | Manoa |
| Gail Mazur | "Fracture Santa Monica" | 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... |
| J. D. McClatchy | "My Mammogram" | 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... |
| 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... |
"And What Do You Get" | Urbanus |
| Susan Musgrave Susan Musgrave Susan Musgrave is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California to Canadian parents, and currently lives in British Columbia, dividing her time between Sidney and the Queen Charlotte Islands.... |
"Exchange of Fire" | Nimrod |
| Charles North Charles North Charles North is an American poet, essayist and teacher. Described by the poet James Schuyler as “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” he has received two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, an Individual Artist’s Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts,... |
"Shooting for Line" | Hanging Loose |
| Geoffrey O'Brien Geoffrey O'Brien Geoffrey O'Brien is an American poet, editor, book and film critic, translator, and cultural historian. In 1992, he joined the staff of the Library of America as Executive Editor, becoming Editor-in-Chief in 1998.-Biography:... |
"The Interior Prisoner" | Hambone Hambone (magazine) -External links:* at the Chimurenga Library... |
| Jacqueline Osherow Jacqueline Osherow Jacqueline Osherow is an American poet, and Distinguished Professor at University of Utah.-Life:She was raised in Philadelphia.She graduated from Radcliffe College with a BA magna cum laude, and from Princeton University with a PhD.... |
"Late Night Tete-a-Tete with a Moon in Transit" |
Western Humanities Review |
| Molly Peacock Molly Peacock Molly Peacock is an American-Canadian poet, essayist and creative nonfiction writer. She is an alumna of Binghamton University.-Career:... |
"Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?" | The Paris Review |
| 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.... |
"Toys" | Boston Phoenix |
| Marie Ponsot Marie Ponsot Marie Ponsot, née Birmingham is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.-Life:Ponsot was born in Brooklyn, New York, but along with her brother grew up in Jamaica, Queens. She was already writing poems as a child, some of which were published in the Brooklyn Daily... |
"Old Mama Saturday" | Western Humanities Review |
| Bin Ramke Bin Ramke Lloyd Binford Ramke is an American poet and editor.-Life:He graduated from at Louisiana State University, from University of New Orleans, and from Ohio University with a Ph.D.He taught at Columbus College.... |
"How Light Is Spent" | Pequod |
| Katrina Roberts | "How Late Desire Looks" | Harvard Magazine |
| Michael J. Rosen Michael J. Rosen Michael J. Rosen is an American author of a variety of novels, ranging from children’s picture books to adult poetry, and editor of several anthologies varying almost as broadly in content... |
"The Night Before His Parents' First Trip to Europe His Mother Writes a Letter 'To Our Children'" |
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... |
| Kay Ryan Kay Ryan Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. Ryan was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate, from 2008 to 2010... |
"Outsider Art" | 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:... |
| Mary Jo Salter Mary Jo Salter Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.-Life:... |
"The Age of Reason" | 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... |
| Tony Sanders Tony Sanders -External links:... |
"Transit Authority" | 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... |
| Stephen Sandy | "Threads" | The Paris Review |
| Grace Schulman Grace Schulman -Life:She studied at Bard College, and graduated from American University in 1955, and from New York University with a Ph.D.She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY... |
"The Present Perfect" | 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... |
| Robyn Selman | "Avec Amour" | The American Voice |
| 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... |
"Manufacturing " | 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.... |
| Reginald Shepherd Reginald Shepherd Reginald Shepherd was an American poet, born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. He died of cancer in Penascola, Florida, in 2008.-Biography:... |
"Brotherhood" | 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... |
| Angela Sorby Angela Sorby -Life:She was born in Seattle, Washington and teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her main teaching areas are American literature and creative writing and main academic interests are American poetry, popular culture, and children's literature.... |
"Museum Piece" | Kansas Quarterly |
| Laurel Trivelpiece Laurel Trivelpiece -Life:Trivelpiece worked in her youth as fruit-picker and later, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelors degree in English Literature, as an editor and copy-writer for Macys and other department stores in the San Francisco Bay Area... |
"The Nursery" | Witness |
| Paul Violi Paul Violi Paul Randolph Violi was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Splurge, Fracas, The Curious Builder, Likewise, and most recently Overnight... |
"Scatter" | 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... |
| Arthur Vogelsang | "The Nose, the Grand Canyon, and the Sixties" |
The Antioch Review |
| 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.... |
"Walt Whitman Bathing" | 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... |
| Charles H. Webb Charles Harper Webb Charles Harper Webb is an American poet, professor, psychotherapist and former singer and guitarist. His most recent poetry collection is Shadow Ball . His honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in The Best American... |
"The Shape of History" | 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... |
| Ed Webster | "San Joaquin Valley Poems: 1969" | Western Humanities Review |
| David Wojahn David Wojahn David Wojahn is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in the low residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts... |
"Homage to Ryszard Kapuściński" | 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... |
| Jay Wright Jay Wright (poet) Jay Wright is an African-American poet, playwright, and essayist. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he currently lives in Bradford, Vermont. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim... |
"The Cradle Logic of Autumn" | 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... |
| Stephen Yenser Stephen Yenser Stephen Yenser is an American poet. He is also a literary critic who has written books on James Merrill, Robert Lowell, and an assortment of contemporary poets and co-literary executor with J.D. McClatchy for James Merrill... |
"Blue Guide" | The Paris Review |
External links
- Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared