Best new poets 2008 : 50 poems from emerging writers
Mark Strand (Editor), Jeb Livingood
Suitable for poets and poetry lovers, this annual anthology includes poems which 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 poems submitted through an open online competition.
Print Book, English, 2008
Samovar Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2008
Best new poets, 2008
Collections
xiv, 146 pages ; 21 cm
9780976629634, 0976629631
230956928
Second-skin rhinestone-spangled nude soufflé chiffon gown / Landon Godfrey
Adorable siren, do you love the damned? / Anna Journey
It takes a pillage to sing a strom song / Aby Kaupang
Difficulties / Tracey Knapp
Counting down the night / Darren Morris
Brackish rhapsody / Christopher Louvet
Adjectives of order / Alexandra Teague
Notes from the Target Committee / Cynthia Lowen
Watching fire / Drew Blanchard
Rainlight / Lisa Ottiger
The David Lee Roth fuck poem with language from Van Halen I, 1984, and The first letter of the Apostle Paul to the Church at Corinth / Steve Kistulentz
Pima Road notebook (II) / Keith Ekiss
Global warming / Heidi Johannesen Poon
Clouds and mountains / Michael Bazzett
Shiny shiny / Paul Longo
Hiding again in London / Adam Day
RFI (Request for information) / Angie Mazakis
Bedroom community / S.E. Smith
Mattress shopping / Charlotte Savidge
Before the spring in which the forsythia bloom and she unravels all her chambers, mother writes / Eva Hooker
After her stroke, our family remembers the hurricane / Kerri French
Strike up the band / Marcia Popp
Poinsettias / Luke Johnson
Personality state: prophet / Jennifer Militello
Mystery not always unkind / Clint Frakes
Nebraska / Seth Abramson
On a pose of virgil's / Zach Savich
Virginitiphobia / Patrick Ryan Frank
Rescue / Rebecca Morgan Frank
Cesar Vallejo is dead / Brady Rhoades
Survivor / Diana Woodcock
Everything from that point on / Rhett Iseman Trull
January / Melanie Carter
Hildegard of Bingen / Mary Kiolbasa
The lover / Karen Rigby
Love song for manga / Angela Vogel
Porn / Ethan Stebbins
You could call it a shift / Weston Cutter
Sabbath for a dry season / Anne Marie Rooney
I went / Will Smiley
The boar roast / Lisa McCullough
Directing the happy times / Chloë Honum
Ladies' arm wrestling match at the Blue Moon Diner / Jenny Johnson
The present / Brian Christian
Boethius in New Jersey / Michael Davis
Traveling by train / Malachi Black
Other prohibited items / Martha Greenwald
At the Barbecue Joint, Taylor, Texas / Abraham Burickson
The thing you might not understand / Josephine Yu
Momento Mori / Jonathan Rice