Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book SynopsisA collection of creative writing and art about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by people from vulnerable populations. Bringing together artwork, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, Essential Voices shares the perspectives of people from vulnerable populations as they were affected by COVID-19 in 2020, before the release of the vaccine. The pieces in this volume represent a range of writers and artists, some from international locations, whose work may be less likely to be seen because of race, ethnicity, or current legal status. Contributors include individuals who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, or seniors; those who are immunocompromised or undocumented; those working in medicine, food service, factories, and sanitation; and parents who were unable to work from home, along with individuals who were being held in correctional facilities or facing mental health concerns. This multigenre collection preserves the history of the pandemic by documenting and publishing these essential voices. Essential Voices will be of interest to readers who want to consider the diverse lived experiences of people during the pandemic when outcomes were most uncertain. It will also be useful for teachers, students, activists, and policy makers in a variety of settings, including government, hospitals, prisons, homeless shelters, colleges, art schools, and secondary schools.Trade Review “The work is emotionally moving. The attention to the quotidian, lived experiences of those affected offers unique insights into a global catastrophe that has turned precious lives and deaths into statistics. . . . An important cultural response.”—Darius Bost, author of Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence “This is a text of powerful firsthand accounts that capture the current context in critical and intersectional ways that are attentive to how individual lives are shaped by structural realities. It is important that these voices are engaged.”—Nana Osei-Kofi, Oregon State University Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword |Maria del Guadalupe Davidson Introduction Acknowledgments Fear: It lives in droplets Monster under Me Fiction |Nathan Blalock Table of Contents for a Manual of Pandemic Response Protocols Poetry |Rasha Abdulhadi The Worst of Times Essay |Frances Ogamba Essentials Poetry |Maria James-Thiaw Recipe for Troubled Times Poetry |Linda Parsons Night Guard Poetry |Linda Parsons Pandemic Pandemonium Poetry |Kenneth Moore Even the Robins Know Poetry |Robert Okaji Distance: As we moan into the phone How Corona Evolves or Makes Us Evolve, or We Have to Evolve Together Poetry |Xiaoly Li Sequestered Alone Poetry |Joan Hofmann To whom it may concern, Letter and Poetry |Alyce Copeland Love in the Time of Corona Poetry |John Cuetara What We Know about the Fatalities Fiction |Lisa Michelle Moore Do Lockdowns Ever End? Poetry |Diego Islas Wish You Were Here Poetry |Joan Goodreau Comfort Poetry |Celeste Blair Didn’t We Once Call It Love? Poetry |E. Ethelbert Miller The Cheat Poetry |Rayna Momen How I’ve Survived This Long, Part 3 Poetry |Kasha Martin Gauthier What it’s like to get married in prison during a pandemic Essay |Christopher Blackwell Mask: A parachute that catches my breath Invisi dis ability in COVID Times Essay |Catherine Young Corona Spring Poetry |Deborah DeNicola Unmasked Poetry |Faiza Anum The Fabric of Society Fiction |Alice Benson Masked Poetry |Christine Rhein Melt Down Poetry |Mary K O’Melveny May 6, 2020 Poetry |Kevin McLellan Barriers Essay |Robbie Gamble fromThe Quarantinas Poetry |Stephanie Lenox Labor: Warnings on the floor Bezos Knows Poetry |Ranney Campbell We Are Family: A Lesson Learned as an On-line English Teacher during COVID-19 Essay |Maya Lear Brewer Line Speed Poetry |Ben Gunsberg Staying Socially and Politically Active while Socially Distancing: Making the Issues around COVID-19 Part of One’s Activism Essay |C. Liegh McInnis Essential Medical Workers Are to Report to Duty Poetry |Michele Bombardier These Hands Fiction |Z. S. Roe Postcard from Pandemic Poetry |Robert Okaji A Classroom Hums in Wait. Poetry |Vanessa Chica Ferreira Sickness: My stomach charlie-horsed My COVID Story Essay |Brett L. Massey Essentially Unseen Poetry |Lavinia Kumar Nudge Poetry |Phrieda Bogere Elegy Poetry |Bianca Alyssa PÉrez I Cut Up My Hillary T-shirt to Make aCOVID Mask Poetry |Joan E. Bauer A Story of Constantine, COVID-19, and Pandora Fiction |Waliyah Oladipo New Age Poetry |Robert J. Levy Alcohol Woman Poetry |Deidra Suwanee Dees Grief: Interjected like a comma Elegy, Interrupted Poetry |Emily Ransdell My Mother Whispers, Doesn’t He Look So Peaceful Poetry |Bianca Alyssa PÉrez A Sonnet for the Living Poetry |Bianca Alyssa PÉrez #covidclarity Essay |Marcelle Mentor Trapped Poetry |Deidra Suwanee Dees Love, Coronavirus Poetry |Lisa Suhair Majaj A Poet Attempts to Homeschool, Week 6: Fractions Poetry |Kasha Martin Gauthier Evaporating Villanelle during a Time of Pandemic Poetry |Jen Karetnick A Day in the Life Essay |Eric Ebers What You Want to Say Poetry |Maria Rouphail Zoom Funeral Poetry |Laura Glenn For Jon, Who Died Because of Time Poetry |Rayna Momen Survival: Remember every surface you touch Essential Nonessentials in Lockdown Poetry |Katy Giebenhain The Eaters Fiction |Danielle Lauren Off-Script Poetry |Monserrat Escobar Arteaga Heroes Fiction |Mark Brazaitis 15 Mar 2020—A (a roll in the hand is worth two on the shelf) Haiku Poetry |Peter Joel We Will Sing of Gone Bodies Some Days from Now Poetry |Blessing Omeiza Ojo In Times of Quarantine Poetry |Rosalie Hendon Halmoni’s Kimchi Pancakes Recipe |Elia Min COVID Curriculum Essay |Dominique Traverse Locke Monkeys Poetry |Fabiyas M V Justice and Reckoning: Colonial co-morbidities How to Make White Supremacy Generative/How to Survive a Pandemic Essay |Ahimsa Timoteo BodhrÁn Blackout Poetry |Thomas Beckwith The Marrow-Sucking Grip of Immigration Injustice Poetry |Kim Denning White Poetry |Roan Davis we’ve been here before Poetry |Liseli A. Fitzpatrick Crosstown Poetry |Ahimsa Timoteo BodhrÁn My Uncertain Story Essay |Noe Hernandez Em Ontvlecetv / Invaded Poetry |Deidra Suwanee Dees POV Poetry |Jameka Hartley The Home of the Brave Poetry |David Antonio Reyes Things I Never Told You Poetry |Steve Ramirez Environment and Place: Let the river turn the stone Lines before Lockdown Poetry |Lisa Suhair Majaj hymn Poetry |Caroline Furr May Shivers Poetry |Lukpata Lomba Joseph For the emptiers have emptied them out Poetry |Alan Smith Soto While the World Fell Apart around Us Poetry |Aimee Nicole COVID Spring Comes to Southeast Pennsylvania Poetry |Kenneth Pobo 2020 Poetry |Yuan Changming Folded Up Poetry |donnarkevic Social Distance Poetry |Fred Shaw Austin Poetry |Jeffrey Taylor Hope: Beyond sorrow there’s a gardenia tree During quarantine, I embrace myself as a long-hauler, Poetry |Jen Karetnick Magdalena Poetry |Deborah “Deby” Rodriguez Too Loud to Sleep Essay |Natalie Mislang Mann When the Games Return Poetry |E. Ethelbert Miller Wasted Essay |Celeste Blair This Is Not the End of the World Poetry |Darius Atefat-Peckham Touch Screen Fiction |Mohini Malhotra Notes Contributors About the Editors

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Book SynopsisA Louisville Poets Anthology edited by Louisville native and acclaimed Horsepower author Joy Priest.Conceived in the aftermath of city-wide protests in 2020, Once a City Said showcases the polyvocal communities of Louisville, Kentucky, a city celebrated for its bourbon, basketball, and horseracing, but long fraught with racial injustice, police corruption, and social unrest.Priest takes the city’s narrative out of the mouths of politicians, news anchors, and police chiefs, and puts it into the mouths of poets. What emerges is an intimate report of a city misshapen by segregation, tourism, and ruptures in the public trust. Featuring thirty-seven acclaimed and emerging poets—including Mitchell L. H. Douglas, Erin Keane, Ryan Ridge, and Hannah L. Drake—Once a City Said archives the traditions and icons, the landmarks and spirits, the portraits and memories of Derby City.This publication is supported by individual donors who gave to the 2021 Fund for the Arts ArtsMatch campaign. Matching funds were made possible by Fund for the Arts in partnership with LG&E and KU Foundation. Trade ReviewBook Riot, "Reflecting on Spring's Poetry"Book Riot, "Recent Poetry Releases to Add to Your Collections in Anticipation of the Sealey Challenge"Still: The Journal, “Books in Brief: Summer 2023”"An atmospheric sense of place emerges through the collection’s distinct voices and perspectives....While 'Derby City' is mostly known for its horse racing (as well as bourbon and basketball), it is also a meeting place of language and history. As Priest writes in her foreword, the anthology aims at 'recover[ing] those poetic histories and communities in the poems that follow on Louisville’s collective traditions and icons, places and protests, spirits and songs, portraits and memories.' It more than succeeds."—Publishers Weekly"This compassionate exploration of community and home, Kentucky history and memory, and race and resilience moved me."—Connie Pan for Book Riot, "Recent Poetry Releases to Add to Your Collections in Anticipation of the Sealey Challenge""Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology is a sweeping rebuke of a city turned talking point in which more than three dozen poets seek to disrupt outside perceptions of Louisville. . . . At its core, Once a City Said is a deliberate act of resistance, an insistence that outsiders make space for the lived experiences of those who call Louisville home, a vital reminder of the power inherent in refusing to relinquish our collective voices despite all efforts to silence us."—Ronnie K. Stephens, The Poetry Question"'A city can't run from itself.. try it & see how far you get.' True enough, poet Erin Keane. But can anyone pin a city down? Can someone bring in three-dozen voices that limn Louisville's limits as precisely but in more dimensions as all the 'You Are Entering' signs around its perimeter? Joy Priest accepted the challenge, editing the new anthology Once a City Said. Among her own contributions is a barefaced and bitter contemplation of the racial divide between her father and her grandfather. In themed sections, the book considers the convoluted history of evolving neighborhoods and neighbors, the pleasures and confoundedness of local culture and traditions."—T.E. Lyons, LEO Weekly"Sometimes hidden, always remarkable, this is the story of Louisville."—Carmichael's Bookstore“Once A City Said is not only overflowing with brilliance and beauty in terms of language, world-crafting, and a harmonious collision of voices, but it is also a work overflowing with generosity. To offer a reader the breadth of talent that a place can hold is to allow a reader to restructure that place in their own world. This is a mighty collection of work that I believe will endure for generations.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times-bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest “Louisville represent! I’m excited to see that Joy Priest has compiled a textured range of contemporary River City voices that capture the traditions, protests, memories, and spirit that is uniquely Louisville. This anthology is an engaging read that spans voices, styles, and experiences. A wonderful accomplishment that says once and for all that Louisville has its own dazzling slice of Kentucky’s literary legacy.”—Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate and author of Perfect Black "Poignant, heartbreaking and uplifting, this collection of poetry is something wonderful to live with, grapple with and absorb for generations to come."—Edward Lee, chef and winner of the James Beard Award for Buttermilk Graffitti Table of ContentsIn the Shadow of the Spires: A ForewardTraditions & IconsBop: Ohio River/River CityJean Rabin Gives Africa The Bird Directions to Colonel Sanders’ Grave Ghost Signs, Flea Market Ceremonial for The World Dainty Championship My City Saw the First Black Athlete Millionaire, Jockey Isaac Murphy, and Afterward the Winning Jockeys Were WhiteLouisville is Also the #1 Producer of Disco Balls in the World (Home to the Last Disco Ball Maker) Hot Brown Derby Dennis Cooper Racing Stables Our Derby An Ode to South LouisvilleWestend New Year Replaced Place & Protest We Were Here In Which an Entrepreneur is the Mayor State of Denial Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over witch-auk & me stop over in my hometown The Reckoning Community Battleground State, or In an interview with Dawn Gee, Mayor Greg Fischer says his hands are tied regarding the murder of Breonna Taylor On Finding a Crisp Apple in Louisville’s West End Al Green Was a Preacher Rubbertown Recycling Neighborhoods Iroquois Park My South End Neighbors As Preston Street Moves South to Highway east broadway, or on catching TARC (transit authority of river city) uptown Spirit & Song fleur-de-lis After Everyone Is Gone The Past Doesn’t Burst into Song Like It Used To Drunk and Longing in Louisville NEW MOON TO-DO LIST, OR, I LEFT MY BEST SEASON IN LOUISVILLE STEAD February 15th Ceramic Jesus Winning Colors, 1988 Midnight at the Quarterpole Bar and Lounge One Year Sober Southern Drawl I Will Tell You What Joy Is For Hamza “Travis” Nagdy The Way Out Is the Way Through from STROLL from STROLL Portrait & Memory Frail Where There is Smoke Ode to KentuckySport of Kings When the Wind CameAbecedarian for Alzheimer’s Heritage Growing Hands Kentucky, September Years I’ve Slept Right ThroughThe Milk Hours Off Dwight Road Double Aortic Arch Autobiography When My Sister Told Me to Let Her Alone Roses In the Eyes, Oblivious To The ThornsBUCK-SHOT Owensboro, Kentucky, Late Last June

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Book SynopsisReflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality, justice, freedom, equality, democracy, family, health, love, hate, economics, history, medicine, science, social justice, the environment, art, food, sanity – the book features contributions by Evie Shockley, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Jackson, Ulla Berg, Grace Lynne Haynes, Jordan Casteel, and President Jonathan Holloway, among others. This book, through its rich and imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise and personal narrative, brings readers into the hearts and minds of not just the Rutgers community but the world. Contributors include: Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Ulla D. Berg, Stephanie Bonne, Stephanie Boyer, Kimberly Camp, Jordan Casteel, Kelly-Jane Cotter, Mark Doty, David Dreyfus, Adrienne E. Eaton, Katherine C. Epstein, Leah Falk, Paul G. Falkowski, Rigoberto González, James Goodman, David Greenberg, Angelique Haugerud, Grace Lynne Haynes, Leslieann Hobayan, Jonathan Holloway, James W. Hughes, Naomi Jackson, Amy Jordan, Vikki Katz, Mackenzie Kean, Robert E. Kopp, Christian Lighty, Stephen Masaryk, Louis P. Masur, Revathi V. Machan, Yalidy Matos, Belinda McKeon, Susan L. Miller, Yehoshua November, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary E. O’Dowd, Katherine Ognyanova, David Orr, Gregory Pardlo, Steve Pikiell, Teresa Politano, en Purkert, Nick Romanenko, Evie Shockley, Caridad Svich, and Didier William​.Trade Review"In Reflections on the Pandemic: Covid and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed, stories of personal experience and scholarly expertise shine light on the intricacies of the pandemic years...[it] covers a range of topics that were relevant to the pandemic, including science, health, racial injustice, environmental issues, politics, relationships, mortality and more." * New Jersey Monthly *“The accounts within this volume tell the story of the COVID-19 pandemic and its complex intersection with every facet of our lives. Our shared trauma, loss, resilience, and hope are reflected in its pages. I thank the Rutgers community for these important reflections and for all they did to propel us through those difficult days.” -- Governor Phil Murphy of New JerseyTable of Contents Preface Reflections in a COVID Photograph by Jonathan Holloway pantoum: 2020 by Evie Shockley Mercy (As If) by Mark Doty Writing My Last Book by Rigoberto González Taking the Court by Steve Pikiell The New Normal by Revathi V. Machan Emerging Not Stronger or Weaker but Different by Stephanie Bonne Looking for a Better End Game by Mary E. O’Dowd Pandemic Dispatches (East Africa–North America) by Angelique Haugerud War of the World: How Humans Became a Destructive Force of Nature by Paul G. Falkowski Jared (2020) by Jordan Casteel Reflections on Being Human in the Twenty-First Century by Yalidy Matos Risking Delight in the Middle of a Pandemic by Yehoshua November Days of 2020: Fear without Knowledge by Mark Doty A Litany for Survival by Naomi Jackson Sojourner Truth, Founding Mother by Grace Lynne Haynes A Letter to Juneteenth on the Embodied History of Life in 2020 by Gregory Pardlo We Cannot Escape History by Louis P. Masur Paying Attention by James Goodman A Reckoning with Names: Signs, Symbols, and the Meanings of History by David Greenberg The COVID States Project: Empowering a National Response by Katherine Ognyanova I’ve Missed You (2021) by Didier William Burning Bologna, 2021 by Susan L. Miller Pandemic Theology: “Bliss and Grief” by Susan L. Miller Kid’s Cloth Face Mask from Cat & JackTM by Belinda McKeon Call the Midwife by Leah Falk Slap Roti and the Story of New York City by Marc Aronson From The Journal of a Therapy Cat by Joyce Carol Oates Black and Gray by Teresa Politano Playing with Anxiety by Christian Lighty Virtual Class #219, March 2021, 2:50 p.m.–4:10 p.m.by Mackenzie Kean It’s Harder for Extroverts by Kelly-Jane Cotter The Old Has Passed Away, Behold, The New Has Come (2 Corinthians 5:17) by Stephen Masaryk Rutgers Spit Test by Nick Romanenko Connectivity, Connection, and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Vikki Katz and Amy Jordan The Faculty Parent: Juggling Parenting, Teaching, Research, and Writing in Uncertain Times by Patricia Akhimie Resiliency, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, and Reinvention by David Dreyfus COVID-19 and Spaces of Confinement by Ulla D. Berg STOP! (2021) by Stephanie Boyer The Climate Crisis and the University by Robert E. Kopp 2020: A New Jersey Economy Reinvented by James W. Hughes Work in the Pandemic and Beyond by Adrienne E. Eaton The Tolling Bell by Katherine C. Epstein Stagecoach Mary by Kimberly Camp On Racism in Museums by Kimberly Camp STYLE Bird by Grace Lynne Haynes Meet Me at the Theater at the End of the World: Thirteen Illuminations and an Afterglow by Caridad Svich What Kind of Pain by Leslieann Hobayan Be Still by Leslieann Hobayan Sorrow by David Orr The Only Replacement by Ben Purkert Acknowledgments Notes Contributors Text Permissions

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Book SynopsisReflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality, justice, freedom, equality, democracy, family, health, love, hate, economics, history, medicine, science, social justice, the environment, art, food, sanity – the book features contributions by Evie Shockley, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Jackson, Ulla Berg, Grace Lynne Haynes, Jordan Casteel, and President Jonathan Holloway, among others. This book, through its rich and imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise and personal narrative, brings readers into the hearts and minds of not just the Rutgers community but the world. Contributors include: Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Ulla D. Berg, Stephanie Bonne, Stephanie Boyer, Kimberly Camp, Jordan Casteel, Kelly-Jane Cotter, Mark Doty, David Dreyfus, Adrienne E. Eaton, Katherine C. Epstein, Leah Falk, Paul G. Falkowski, Rigoberto González, James Goodman, David Greenberg, Angelique Haugerud, Grace Lynne Haynes, Leslieann Hobayan, Jonathan Holloway, James W. Hughes, Naomi Jackson, Amy Jordan, Vikki Katz, Mackenzie Kean, Robert E. Kopp, Christian Lighty, Stephen Masaryk, Louis P. Masur, Revathi V. Machan, Yalidy Matos, Belinda McKeon, Susan L. Miller, Yehoshua November, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary E. O’Dowd, Katherine Ognyanova, David Orr, Gregory Pardlo, Steve Pikiell, Teresa Politano, en Purkert, Nick Romanenko, Evie Shockley, Caridad Svich, and Didier William​.Trade Review"In Reflections on the Pandemic: Covid and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed, stories of personal experience and scholarly expertise shine light on the intricacies of the pandemic years...[it] covers a range of topics that were relevant to the pandemic, including science, health, racial injustice, environmental issues, politics, relationships, mortality and more." * New Jersey Monthly *“The accounts within this volume tell the story of the COVID-19 pandemic and its complex intersection with every facet of our lives. Our shared trauma, loss, resilience, and hope are reflected in its pages. I thank the Rutgers community for these important reflections and for all they did to propel us through those difficult days.” -- Governor Phil Murphy of New JerseyTable of Contents Preface Reflections in a COVID Photograph by Jonathan Holloway pantoum: 2020 by Evie Shockley Mercy (As If) by Mark Doty Writing My Last Book by Rigoberto González Taking the Court by Steve Pikiell The New Normal by Revathi V. Machan Emerging Not Stronger or Weaker but Different by Stephanie Bonne Looking for a Better End Game by Mary E. O’Dowd Pandemic Dispatches (East Africa–North America) by Angelique Haugerud War of the World: How Humans Became a Destructive Force of Nature by Paul G. Falkowski Jared (2020) by Jordan Casteel Reflections on Being Human in the Twenty-First Century by Yalidy Matos Risking Delight in the Middle of a Pandemic by Yehoshua November Days of 2020: Fear without Knowledge by Mark Doty A Litany for Survival by Naomi Jackson Sojourner Truth, Founding Mother by Grace Lynne Haynes A Letter to Juneteenth on the Embodied History of Life in 2020 by Gregory Pardlo We Cannot Escape History by Louis P. Masur Paying Attention by James Goodman A Reckoning with Names: Signs, Symbols, and the Meanings of History by David Greenberg The COVID States Project: Empowering a National Response by Katherine Ognyanova I’ve Missed You (2021) by Didier William Burning Bologna, 2021 by Susan L. Miller Pandemic Theology: “Bliss and Grief” by Susan L. Miller Kid’s Cloth Face Mask from Cat & JackTM by Belinda McKeon Call the Midwife by Leah Falk Slap Roti and the Story of New York City by Marc Aronson From The Journal of a Therapy Cat by Joyce Carol Oates Black and Gray by Teresa Politano Playing with Anxiety by Christian Lighty Virtual Class #219, March 2021, 2:50 p.m.–4:10 p.m.by Mackenzie Kean It’s Harder for Extroverts by Kelly-Jane Cotter The Old Has Passed Away, Behold, The New Has Come (2 Corinthians 5:17) by Stephen Masaryk Rutgers Spit Test by Nick Romanenko Connectivity, Connection, and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Vikki Katz and Amy Jordan The Faculty Parent: Juggling Parenting, Teaching, Research, and Writing in Uncertain Times by Patricia Akhimie Resiliency, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, and Reinvention by David Dreyfus COVID-19 and Spaces of Confinement by Ulla D. Berg STOP! (2021) by Stephanie Boyer The Climate Crisis and the University by Robert E. Kopp 2020: A New Jersey Economy Reinvented by James W. Hughes Work in the Pandemic and Beyond by Adrienne E. Eaton The Tolling Bell by Katherine C. Epstein Stagecoach Mary by Kimberly Camp On Racism in Museums by Kimberly Camp STYLE Bird by Grace Lynne Haynes Meet Me at the Theater at the End of the World: Thirteen Illuminations and an Afterglow by Caridad Svich What Kind of Pain by Leslieann Hobayan Be Still by Leslieann Hobayan Sorrow by David Orr The Only Replacement by Ben Purkert Acknowledgments Notes Contributors Text Permissions

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Book SynopsisThe 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year’s most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte’s words, “beautiful and serene” in their surfaces with an underlying “sense of an unknown vastness.” In The Best American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young.Trade Review“This annual anthology touches on Covid, George Floyd and much else that’s timely and timeless, with work from Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes, Ada Limón and others.”--The New York Times

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Book SynopsisMatthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are “for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings” (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry.Trade Review“Want to read more contemporary poetry but don’t know where to begin? For expert curation and variety, you can’t do better than 'The Best American Poetry 2022,' edited this year by Matthew Zapruder…Zapruder strikes just the right note in his introduction…He finds encouragement—and motivation—in fine writing."—Ron Charles, the Washington Post

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Book SynopsisThe Poetry Book Society Spring Bulletin for 2018 features writing from Spring Choice poet Sophie Collins regarding Who Is Mary Sue?, as well as pieces from Recommended poets Hannah Sullivan, Kaveh Akbar, Robin Robertson and Phoebe Power. These are accompanied by comments from the selectors and numerous extracts from their works. The selectors also provide pieces on the Recommended Translation Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku, the Special Commendation Selected Poems 1971-2017 by Laurie Duggan, and the Pamphlet Choice Bottle by Ramona Herdman. Eighteen short reviews of poetry books for Spring reading complete the publication, along with a catalogue of works available for purchase (PBS Members receive 25% discount on all titles!)

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Book SynopsisOur Summer 2018 Bulletin is a bumper issue, with gorgeous cover art by Emma Holliday! Along with articles on Choice Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo and our Recommendations, we have not one but two Special Commendations, our next Wild Card Choice selected by Anthony Anaxagorou, and featured poetry by the winners of our student poetry competition, judged by Sam Buchan-Watts. We also have our regular short review slots, many of these penned by guest and student reviewers, and a comprehensive listing of new poetry publications. This is essential summer reading!

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Book SynopsisThe final issue in our new horizons set of covers, the art for the Autumn Bulletin was kindly provided by local painter Ivan Lindsay. This edition features pieces by both selectors and poets for the PBS Choice The Illegal Age by Ellen Hinsey, recommendations As Slow as Possible by Kit Fan, playtime by Andrew McMillan, The Distal Point by Fiona Moore, and Feral by Kate Potts. The Special Commendation is To the Many, a collection of the works of Lola Ridge. The Recommended Translation is Poems by Sextus Propertius, translated by Patrick Worsnip. The Pamphlet Choice is Fishtank by Selima Hill, and the Wild Card is Us by Zaffar Kunial. The remainder of the Bulletin is packed with poetry excerpts and eighteen short reviews of other upcoming titles.

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Book SynopsisThis edition features pieces by both selectors and poets for the PBS Choice The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus, recommendations Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie, The Weather in Normal by Carrie Etter, The Healing Next Time by Roy McFarlane, and The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe. The Special Commendation is The Coming of the Little Green Man. The Recommended Translation is David Constantine's translation of the works of Friedrich Holderlin. The Pamphlet Choice is The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry, and the Wild Card is Rabbit by Sophie Robinson. The remainder of the Bulletin is packed with poetry excerpts and eighteen short reviews of other upcoming titles

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Book SynopsisThe Poetry Book Society's quarterly poetry magazine featuring sneak preview poems, exclusive interviews with major worldwide poets, reviews and extensive listings. The Spring Bulletin 2019 features Rachael Allen, Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, Rebecca Tamas, Amish Trivedi, Jane Yeh, Marilyn Hacker, Mariano Peyrou, Igor Klikovac, Fiona Benson. You may like to consider our membership options to get your Bulletin and books every quarter.

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Book SynopsisJubiläumsausgabe der Literaturanthologie JENNY Die Jubiläumsausgabe der Anthologie für zeitgenössische Literatur JENNY, herausgegeben von Studierenden des Instituts für Sprachkunst der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, ist dem Thema InTransparenz gewidmet. In vielfältigen literarischen Genres wird ausgelotet, was sich mit dem Konzept InTransparenz be- und überschreiben lässt. JENNY. Ausgabe 10 rückt auch die eigene redaktionelle Arbeit in den Fokus – und wirft einen kritischen Blick auf den Literaturbetrieb und den eigenen institutionellen Rahmen. In einem experimentellen Interviewteil wird die redaktionelle Kontrolle an einen Chatbot namens Jenny übertragen – der in Gesprächen mit einer Verlegerin, einem Schriftsteller und Übersetzer und einem Mitarbeiter der Magistratsabteilung für Einwanderung der Stadt Wien Interessantes zutage fördert. Eine besondere Ausgabe der Anthologie für zeitgenössische Literatur JENNY anlässlich des 10-Jahr-Jubiläums Schwerpunktthema InTransparenz – in der eigenen Arbeit und im Literaturbetrieb Aufwendige und innovative Gestaltung und Ausstattung

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Book SynopsisKiss, kiss, bye-bye! New language art JENNY, the anthology of contemporary literature, is sporting a new look, entering its 11th year of publication in style. Our grandmothers always assured it that “it all works out in the end,” even as memories fade with time. Things that are too shiny eventually lose their luster, powdered cheeks grow dusty, and even the most carefully applied rouge is liable to be blown away by a fresh summer breeze. What remains is residual heat, stale air, and texts – about conventions, suppression, and the past that melts through the heat to the surface of the present. But also: the attempt to breathe, to take up space, and kiss sunken cheeks awake. Issue 11 of JENNY ponders in a somewhat morbid, unapologetically queer-feminist, and thoroughly Viennese manner the issue of graduations and new beginnings. Some things remain while others emerge. Issue 11 of the literary anthology JENNY, published annually by students at the Institute for Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna JENNY combines tradition with a new look and contains 15 fresh texts Selected texts by innovative authors – poetry, essays, prose, and cross-genre language art

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