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Best American Poetry 1995
''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". Poets and poems included See also * 1995 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *February 16 – It is announced that 300 poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been discovered. *February 17 – Sot ... Notes External links Web page for contents of the book with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared {{DEFAULTSORT:Best American Poetry 1995, The Best American Poetry series 1995 poetry books American poetry anthologies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best American Poetry Series
''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general editor of the series, each year contributes a foreword focusing on the state of contemporary poetry, and each year the edition's guest editor also contributes an introduction. The book titles in the series always follow the format of the first, changing only the year: for instance, ''The Best American Poetry 1988''. According to the Academy of American Poets Web site, "''Best American Poetry'' remains one of the most popular and best-selling poetry books published each year and the series continues to provide a bird's-eye view of the breadth of American poetry." Academy of American Poets Web site, Web page/artic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa Review
''The Iowa Review'' is an American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews. History and profile Founded in 1970, ''Iowa Review'' is issued three times a year, during the months of April, August, and December. Originally, it was released on a quarterly basis. This frequency of publication lasted until its fourteenth year. It is published at The University of Iowa in Iowa City. According to former editor David Hamilton, ''The Iowa Review'' has a circulation of about 3,000, of which 1,000-1,500 are distributed to major bookstore chains. The reading period for unsolicited submissions occurs between August and October in fiction and poetry and August and November in nonfiction, whereas contest submissions for the Iowa Review Awards are read in January. In addition to space dedicated in the December issue to the Iowa Review Awards winners, the magazine has recently featured work from The University of Iowa's biannual ''NonfictioNow'' conference and from w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Finkel
Donald Alexander Finkel (October 21, 1929 – November 15, 2008) was an American poet best known for his unorthodox styles and "curious juxtapositions". Life Finkel was born in New York City on October 21, 1929. He grew up in the Bronx, and aspired to be a sculptor as a youth. He attended the University of Chicago, only to be expelled for smoking marijuana. Finkel attended Columbia University, where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1952. He earned a master's degree in English from Columbia in 1953.Fox, Margalit"Donald Finkel, 79, Poet of Free-Ranging Styles, Is Dead" ''The New York Times'', November 20, 2008. Accessed November 22, 2008. He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, prior to accepting a faculty position at Washington University in St. Louis in 1960. He taught at Washington University until 1991, and was poet-in-residence emeritus there until his death. Mr. Finkel’s wife, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale Review
''The Yale Review'' is the oldest literary journal in the United States. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It was founded in 1819 as ''The Christian Spectator'' to support Evangelicalism. Over time it began to publish more on history and economics and was renamed ''The New Englander'' in 1843. In 1885 it was renamed ''The New Englander and Yale Review'' until 1892, when it took its current name ''The Yale Review''. At the same time, editor Henry Wolcott Farnam gave the periodical a focus on American and international politics, economics, and history. The modern history of the journal starts in 1911 under the editorship of Wilbur Cross. Cross remained the editor for thirty years, throughout the magazine's heyday. Contributors during this period, according to the ''Review's'' website, included Thomas Mann, Henry Adams, Virginia Woolf, George Santayana, Robert Frost, José Ortega y Gasset, Eugene O'Neill, Leon Trotsky, H. G. Wells, Thomas Wolfe, John Mayna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Feldman
Irving Feldman (born September 22, 1928) is an American poet and professor of English. Academic career Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his university education. After an undergraduate education at the City College of New York (B.A., 1950), Feldman completed his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1953. His first academic appointments were at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Lyon in France. Returning to the continental United States in 1958, he taught at Kenyon College until 1964, when he was appointed professor of English at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he was eventually appointed Distinguished Professor of English; he retired from teaching in 2004. Published works * ''Works and Days'' (1961), Little, Brown Book Group. * ''The Pripet Marshes'' (1965), Viking. * ''Magic Papers'' and Other Poems (1970), Harper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New American Writing
''New American Writing'' is an annual American literary magazine emphasizing contemporary American poetry, including a range of innovative contemporary writing. ''New American Writing'' is published by OINK! Press, a nonprofit organization. The magazine appears in early June each year. It was first published in 1986. Editors The publication is edited by poets Paul Hoover, editor of ''Postmodern American Poetry'', and Maxine Chernoff. Contributors John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Charles Simic, Jorie Graham, Denise Levertov, Hilda Morley, August Kleinzahler, Ann Lauterbach, Ned Rorem, Wanda Coleman, Nathaniel Mackey, Barbara Guest, Marjorie Perloff, Michael Palmer, Lyn Hejinian, and Charles Bernstein. Cover Art Alex Katz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, and Fairfield Porter. Other anthologies Work from the magazine has appeared in the annual The Best American Poetry series and also in the annual Pushcart Anthology. Special issues * Supplement of Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Equi
Elaine Equi (born 1953) 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 City 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. Widely published, her poems have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''American Poetry Review'', and numerous volumes of ''The Best American Poetry''. In April 2007 Coffee House Press published ''Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems''. Also in 2007 she edited a special section for ''Jacket Magazine'': The Holiday Album: Greeting Card Poems For All Occasions. FAMILY She is a second cousin of Albert Guidi of Chicago. Works * ''Federal Woman'' (Danaides, 1978) * ''Shrewcrazy'' (Little Caeser, 1981) *''The Corners of the Mouth'' (Iridescence, 1986) * ''Accessories'' (Figures, 1988) * ''Views Without Rooms'' (Hanuman Books, 1989) * ''Surface Tension'' (Coffee House, 1989) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Antioch Review
''The Antioch Review'' is an American literary magazine established in 1941 at Antioch College in Ohio. The magazine was published on a quarterly basis. One of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States prior to it being put on hiatus by the college in 2020, it published fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging and established authors. About ''The Antioch Review'' was founded in 1940 by small group of Antioch College faculty who sought to establish a forum for the voice of liberalism in a world facing the forces of fascism and communism. The first publication was released in 1941. In its early years, it was edited by collective, among whom were Paul Bixler and George Geiger, and later Paul Rohmann. The magazine continued to publish despite the 2008-2011 closing of Antioch College (which reopened in 2011). While its pages have been populated by innumerous academics, ''The Antioch Review'' does not publish footnotes, thus their contributions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Emanuel
Lynn Collins Emanuel (born March 14, 1949) is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections are ''Then, Suddenly—'' and ''Noose and Hook'' (University of Pittsburgh Press). She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also won the 1992 National Poetry Series Open Competition for ''The Dig,'' and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including ''Parnassus,'' ''The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Slate'' and ''Ploughshares,'' and in anthologies including '' The Best American Poetry'' anthologies in 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2000, and the ''Oxford Book of American Poetry'' (Oxford University Press, 2006). Emanuel is Director of the Writing Program, and Director of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, and a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 (known as "MQR" for short) publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to its Web site. Starting in 1979, with a special issue on the subject of "The Moon Landing and Its Aftermath", one issue each year is given over entirely to a special theme. MQR's special issues include "The Automobile and American Culture," "Detroit: An American City," "Contemporary American Fiction," "The Female Body," "The Male Body," and "Bridges to Cuba". In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, David M. Halperin, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Sergio Troncoso, Elizabeth Gaffney, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Olena Kalytiak Davis (born September 16, 1963) is a Ukrainian-American poet. Davis is the author of five poetry collections, her most recent being ''Late Summer Ode''. Her collection ''The Poem She Didn't Write And Other Poems'' (2014, Copper Canyon Press) was a 2014 Lannan Literary Selection. Her first book, ''And Her Soul Out Of Nothing,'' won the Brittingham Prize (University of Wisconsin Press). Her second book, the cult classic ''shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities'' (2003, Tin House Books), was republished by Copper Canyon Press in 2014. Her honors include a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry and a 1996 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in poetry. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including ''AGNI,'' ''A Small Number'', ''New England Review, Tin House, Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review, Field, Indiana Review, Post Road Magazine'' and in anthologies including ''Best American Poetry 1995'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cummins (poet)
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 (''Error and Angels'', University of South Carolina, 1997). They have two daughters. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry series in The Best American Poetry 1994, 1994, The Best American Poetry 1995, 1995, The Best American Poetry 1998, 1998, and The Best American Poetry 2005, 2005. Series editor David Lehman thanked Cummins for "useful suggestions" in the The Best American Poetry 2005, 2005 and The Best American Poetry 2006, 2006 editions of the series. Published books *''Portrait in a Spoon'' (University of South Carolina, 1997) *''The Whole Truth'' (North Point, 1986; Carnegie Mellon, 2003) *''Then and Now'' (Swallow Press, 2004) *''Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man'' (Soft Skull Press, 2005, with David Lehman and Archie Rand). *''Still Some Cake'' (Carn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |