The Best American Poetry 2008
Guest Editor Charles Wright,
Series Editor David Lehman

* Poets. * Places of first publication.

Introductory Essays to
The Best American Poetry 2008.

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Includes poems by:

David Lehman:

Selection criteria by editor Charles Wright for
The Best American Poetry 2008

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Notice the mode (most common) of the birth decades of the poets:

In the 2008 issue, quick glances at birth dates give this approximation:

Decade
of birth.
2008 issue. 2007 issue. 2006 issue. 1995 issue.
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 1 0 0
12 10+6=16 10+1=11 0
10 10+3=13 10+2=12 7
21 10+5=15 10+4=14 10+10+10=30
16 10+5=15 10+10+3=23 10+10=20
8 6 10 5
6 6 3 10+2=12
0 1 0 0
0 0 0 0

Poets of
The Best American Poetry 2008.

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Of the 75 poets whose work is included (one poems each), we have web pages on:

Best of these Best include:

Places of first publication before poems appeared in
The Best American Poetry 2008

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Acknowledges first publications in only 45 publications. This is

Places of first publication for the 2008 collection are:

  1. 32 poems
  2. ABZ
  3. AGNI
  4. American Poetry Review
  5. The American Scholar
  6. Barrow Street
  7. Bird Dog
  8. Brilliant Corners
  9. Crazyhorse
  10. FIELD
  11. Five Points
  12. Fulcrum
  13. Gulf Coast
  14. Harvard Review
  15. The Hudson Review
  16. The Iowa Review
  17. The Kenyon Review
  18. LIT
  19. London Review of Books
  20. Lyric
  21. Meridian
  22. The Nation
  23. New American Writing
  24. New England Review
  25. The New York Review of Books
  26. The New Yorker
  27. Notre Dame Review
  28. The Paris Review
  29. Phoebe
  30. Ploughshares
  31. Poetry
  32. Prairie Schooner
  33. Quarterly West
  34. Raritan
  35. Rivendell
  36. Runes
  37. Sentence
  38. Sewanee Theological Review
  39. The Sienese Shredder
  40. The Southern Review
  41. storySouth
  42. Subtropics
  43. Verse
  44. Virginia Quarterly Review
  45. VOLT

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