Shanna Compton is the author of ''Down Spooky,'' a collection of poems published by Winnow Press in October 2005, and the editor of ''GAMERS: Writers, Artists & Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels,'' an anthology of essays on the theme of video games, published by Soft Skull Press in 2004. From 2002-2005, she served as the editor of ''Lit'' magazine at

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, and has also edited several poetry collections and novels for Brooklyn, NY-based Soft Skull Press. Compton has also curated multiple poetry reading series in New York City and currently runs a poetry micropress called ''Half Empty/Half Full''. She maintains a frequently updated web site and poetry

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. She was thanked for her suggestions by

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, series editor of

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 genera ...

in the acknowledgements sections of the

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and

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editions. A poem of hers was selected to appear in

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