David Wojahn, “Still Life: Stevens’s Wallet on a Key West Hotel Dresser” from AGNI. Reprinted by permission of the poet.
Kevin Young, “Hive” from Brown. © 2018 by Kevin Young. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Also appeared on Poem-a-Day.
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ABOUT THE EDITORS
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MAJOR JACKSON is the author of five collections of poetry: The Absurd Man, Roll Deep, Holding Company, Hoops, and Leaving Saturn, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He is the editor of the Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems and Renga for Obama: An Occasional Poem. He is the poetry editor of the Harvard Review.
DAVID LEHMAN, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include Poems in the Manner Of, New and Selected Poems, Yeshiva Boys, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.
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John Ashbery, editor, The Best American Poetry 1988
Jorie Graham, editor, The Best American Poetry 1990
Mark Strand, editor, The Best American Poetry 1991
Charles Simic, editor, The Best American Poetry 1992
Louise Glück, editor, The Best American Poetry 1993
A. R. Ammons, editor, The Best American Poetry 1994
Richard Howard, editor, The Best American Poetry 1995
Adrienne Rich, editor, The Best American Poetry 1996
James Tate, editor, The Best American Poetry 1997
Harold Bloom, editor, The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988–1997
John Hollander, editor, The Best American Poetry 1998
Robert Bly, editor, The Best American Poetry 1999
Rita Dove, editor, The Best American Poetry 2000
Robert Hass, editor, The Best American Poetry 2001
Robert Creeley, editor, The Best American Poetry 2002
Yusef Komunyakaa, editor, The Best American Poetry 2003
Lyn Hejinian, editor, The Best American Poetry 2004
Paul Muldoon, editor, The Best American Poetry 2005
Billy Collins, editor, The Best American Poetry 2006
Heather McHugh, editor, The Best American Poetry 2007
David Wagoner, editor, The Best American Poetry 2009
Amy Gerstler, editor, The Best American Poetry 2010
Kevin Young, editor, The Best American Poetry 2011
Mark Doty, editor, The Best American Poetry 2012
Robert Pinsky, editor, The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition
Denise Duhamel, editor, The Best American Poetry 2013
Terrance Hayes, editor, The Best American Poetry 2014
Sherman Alexie, editor, The Best American Poetry 2015
Edward Hirsch, editor, The Best American Poetry 2016
Natasha Trethewey, editor, The Best American Poetry 2017
Dana Gioia, editor, The Best American Poetry 2018
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