Best New Poets 2008 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the country’s top literary magazines and writing programs, as well as some two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online competition. The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality of poetry as it’s being practiced today.

Distributed for the Samovar Press in cooperation with Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia

Former Poet Laureate of the United States, Mark Strand is Professor of English at Columbia University. His many honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is New Selected Poems.