The Best American Poetry 2009
Guest Editor David Wagoner,
Series Editor David Lehman

* Poets. * Places of first publication.

Introductory Essays to
The Best American Poetry 2009.

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David Lehman:

Selection criteria by editor David Wagoner for The Best American Poetry 2009

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

In the 2006 to 2009 issues, quick glances at birth dates give this approximation:

Decade
of birth.
2009 issue
(Estimated for Pastan
and Sleigh who
decline to state).
2008 issue. 2007 issue. 2006 issue. 1995 issue.
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
3 1 1 0 0
9 10+2=12 10+6=16 10+1=11 0
10+8=18 10 10+3=13 10+2=12 7
10+3=13 10+10+1=21 10+5=15 10+4=14 10+10+10=30
10+9=19 10+6=16 10+5=15 10+10+3=23 10+10=20
6 8 6 10 5
6 6 6 3 10+2=12
0 0 1 0 0
0 0 0 0 0

Poets of
The Best American Poetry 2009

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

Best of these "Best" poems include:

Places of first publication before poems appeared in
The Best American Poetry 2009

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Acknowledges first publications in 57 publications:

2009 issue 2008 issue 2007 issue 2006 issue 2005 issue

Places of first publication for the 2009 collection are:

  1. AGNI
  2. Alaska Quarterly Review
  3. American Literary Review
  4. American Poetry Review
  5. The American Scholar
  6. Antioch Review
  7. Asheville Poetry Review
  8. Barrow Street
  9. Callaloo
  10. CALYX
  11. Cimaron Review
  12. The Cincinnati Review
  13. Fence
  14. FIELD
  15. Five Points
  16. Fulcrum
  17. The Georgia Review
  18. The Gettysburg Review
  19. Gulf Coast
  20. Harper's
  21. The Hudson Review
  22. Image
  23. Indiana Review
  24. The Iowa Review
  25. Jacket
  26. The Journal
  27. The Kenyon Review
  28. La Petite Zine
  29. London Review of Books
  30. Margie: The American Journal of Poetry
  31. Measure
  32. Mid-American Review
  33. The Missouri Review
  34. The Nation
  35. The New Criterion
  36. New England Review
  37. The New Republic
  38. The New York Quarterly
  39. The New Yorker
  40. No Tell Motel
  41. OCHO
  42. Painted Bride Quarterly
  43. The Paris Review
  44. Parnassus: Poetry in Review
  45. Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing
  46. Ploughshares
  47. Poet Lore
  48. Poetry
  49. Prairie Schooner
  50. Provincetown Arts
  51. Salthill
  52. Shenandoah
  53. The Southern Review
  54. Southwest Review
  55. Third Coast
  56. Vanitas
  57. The Virginia Quarterly Review

Links and Books

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