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A crucial flare in the dark: The National Poetry Series wants you!
Young writers, working mainly in deep private, even if they are in an MFA program, even if they have found their way to a coterie as some poets do, feel themselves when they are…
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On “Divine” by Kim Addonizio
Denise Duhamel picked Kim Addonizio's Divine for The Best American Poetry 2013. On composing Divine, Addonizio writes: “My brother once commented, ‘Now I get how writers work. You’re magpies.’ Which we both understood to…
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On “Stupid Sandwich” by Nathan Anderson
Guest editor Denise Duhamel picked Nathan Anderson's Stupid Sandwich for the Best American Poetry 2013. Of Stupid Sandwich, Anderson writes: “This poem started when a few lines (a shadowy echo of what would become…
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On “Pachyderm” by Sherman Alexie
Denise Duhamel picked Sherman Alexie's "Pachyderm" for The Best American Poetry 2013. On composing "Pachyderm" Alexie writes: “Lying in a university town hotel, unable to sleep, I watched a National Geographic documentary about elephants.…
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A Selection of Contemporary Australian Poems (Week 10)
Mark Mark finished it himself, choosing midnightand a garbage littered swamp. He scrawled a noteand stuffed it in a pocket: ‘Like shooting a dog.The Vibrations. Someone…
