The Best American Poetry 2024

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Renowned poet Mary Jo Salter, whose command of verse forms and high intelligence is universally acknowledged, selects the poems for the 2024 edition of The Best American Poetry, a best anthology that really lives up to its title (Chicago Tribune).

The Best American Poetry series has been one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world (Academy of American Poets) since 1988. Each volume presents a curated selection of the years most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering unique insight into their work.

Here, guest editor Mary Jo Salter, whose own poems display a sublime wit driven by a compulsion to confront the inexplicable (James Longenbach), has picked seventy-five poems that capture the dynamism of American poetry today. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that assess the current state of American poetry, and this years edition is certain to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the most important poetry anthology of our time.

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David Lehman, the series editor ofThe Best American Poetry, editedTheOxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry includeThe Morning Line,When a Woman Loves a Man,andThe Daily Mirror.The most recent of his many nonfiction books isThe Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Mary Jo Salter is Professor Emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she taught from 2007 to 2022. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, all published by Knopf, including most recently The Surveyors and Zoom Rooms. Former poetry editor of The New Republic, coeditor of three editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1996, 2005, and 2018), and editor of Amy Clampitts selected and collected poems, Salter is also an essayist, a lyricist, and a childrens book author. She lives in Baltimore.