The Best American Poetry 2021

by David LEHMAN (Editor), Tracy K. Smith (Editor)

Other authors: Rosa Alcalá (Contributor), Lauren K Alleyne (Contributor), Jabari Asim (Contributor), Joshua Bennett (Contributor), Destiny O. Birdsong (Contributor) — 70 more, Susan Briante (Contributor), Jericho Brown (Contributor), Christopher Buckley (Contributor), Victoria Chang (Contributor), Chen Chen (Contributor), Su Cho (Contributor), Ama Codjoe (Contributor), Henri Cole (Contributor), Billy Collins (Contributor), Adam O. Davis (Contributor), Kwame Dawes (Contributor), Toi Derricotte (Contributor), Jay Deshpande (Contributor), Natalie Diaz (Contributor), Alex Dimitrov (Contributor), Rita Dove (Contributor), Camille T. Dungy (Contributor), Louise Erdrich (Contributor), Kathy Fagan (Contributor), Chanda Feldman (Contributor), Nikky Finney (Contributor), Louise Gluck (Contributor), Nancy Miller Gomez (Contributor), Jorie Graham (Contributor), Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Contributor), francine j. harris (Contributor), Terrance Hayes (Contributor), Edward Hirsch (Contributor), Ishion Hutchinson (Contributor), Didi Jackson (Contributor), Major Jackson (Contributor), Amaud Jamaul Johnson (Contributor), Yusef Komunyakaa (Contributor), Dana Levin (Contributor), Ada Limon (Contributor), James Longenbach (Contributor), Warren C. Longmire (Contributor), Emily Lee Luan (Contributor), Dora Malech (Contributor), Sally Wen Mao (Contributor), Francisco Marquez (Contributor), Hannah Marshall (Contributor), Shane McRae (Contributor), Lupe Mendez (Contributor), Francine Merasty (Contributor), Yesenia Montilla (Contributor), Kamilah Aisha Moon (Contributor), Stanley Moss (Contributor), dg nanouk okpik (Contributor), Cecily Parks (Contributor), Patrick Phillips (Contributor), Roger Reeves (Contributor), Ed Roberson (Contributor), Margaret Ross (Contributor), Angbeen Saleem (Contributor), Nicole Sealey (Contributor), Evie Shockley (Contributor), Darius Simpson (Contributor), Patricia Smith (Contributor), Monica Sok (Contributor), Adrienne Su (Contributor), Arthur Sze (Contributor), Paul Tran (Contributor), Phuong T. Vuong (Contributor), John Sibley Williams (Contributor), L. Ash Williams (Contributor), Shelley Wong (Contributor), John Yau (Contributor), Monica Youn (Contributor), Kevin Young (Contributor)

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"Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene" in their surfaces with an underlying "sense of an unknown vastness." In The Best American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young." --Provided by publisher.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
LEHMAN, David	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Smith, Tracy K.	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Alcalá, Rosa	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Alleyne, Lauren K	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Asim, Jabari	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bennett, Joshua	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Birdsong, Destiny O.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Briante, Susan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brown, Jericho	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Buckley, Christopher	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Chang, Victoria	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Chen, Chen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cho, Su	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Codjoe, Ama	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cole, Henri	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Collins, Billy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Davis, Adam O.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dawes, Kwame	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Derricotte, Toi	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Deshpande, Jay	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Diaz, Natalie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dimitrov, Alex	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dove, Rita	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dungy, Camille T.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Erdrich, Louise	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Fagan, Kathy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Feldman, Chanda	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Finney, Nikky	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gluck, Louise	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gomez, Nancy Miller	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Graham, Jorie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Griffiths, Rachel Eliza	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
harris, francine j.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hayes, Terrance	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hirsch, Edward	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hutchinson, Ishion	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Jackson, Didi	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Jackson, Major	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Johnson, Amaud Jamaul	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Komunyakaa, Yusef	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Levin, Dana	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Limon, Ada	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Longenbach, James	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Longmire, Warren C.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Luan, Emily Lee	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Malech, Dora	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Mao, Sally Wen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Marquez, Francisco	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Marshall, Hannah	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
McRae, Shane	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Mendez, Lupe	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Merasty, Francine	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Montilla, Yesenia	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Moon, Kamilah Aisha	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Moss, Stanley	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
okpik, dg nanouk	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Parks, Cecily	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Phillips, Patrick	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Reeves, Roger	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Ross, Margaret	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Saleem, Angbeen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sealey, Nicole	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Shockley, Evie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Simpson, Darius	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Smith, Patricia	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sok, Monica	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Su, Adrienne	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sze, Arthur	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Tran, Paul	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Vuong, Phuong T.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Williams, John Sibley	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Williams, L. Ash	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Wong, Shelley	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Yau, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Youn, Monica	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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"Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene" in their surfaces with an underlying "sense of an unknown vastness." In The Best American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young." --Provided by publisher.

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