The Best American Poetry 2011
Guest Editor Kevin Young,
Series Editor David Lehman

* Kevin Young's Introductory Essay.
* Poets. * Places of first publication.

Introductory Essays to
The Best American Poetry 2011

David Lehman: Series Editor

Kevin Young: Guest Editor

Poets of
The Best American Poetry 2011

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

Best of the "Best" poems include:

At the end of the book, 44 pages are allocated for poets' comments. Often a poet's comments considerably illuminate — or are even more interesting than — the poem.

Birth Decades of the Poets

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

In the 2006 to 2011 issues, quick glances at birth dates give this approximation:

Decade
of birth.
2011 issue. 2010 issue. 2009 issue. 2008 issue. 2007 issue. 2006 issue. 1995 issue.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 2 3 1 1 0 0
10+3=13 10+1=11 9 10+2=12 10+6=16 10+1=11 0
10+6+2=18 10+7=17 10+8=18 10 10+3=13 10+2=12 7
10+6=16 10+10+1=21 10+3=13 10+10+1=21 10+5=15 10+4=14 10+10+10=30
9+2=11 10+5=15 10+9=19 10+6=16 10+5=15 10+10+3=23 10+10=20
5 4 6 8 6 10 5
6 5 6 6 6 3 10+2=12
0 0 0 0 1 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Places of first publication before poems appeared in
The Best American Poetry 2011

Acknowledges first publications in 53 publications, which is also the mean of totals for the previous five years

2011 issue 2010 issue 2009 issue 2008 issue 2007 issue 2006 issue 2005 issue

Places of first publication for the 2011 collection are:

  1. 32 Poems
  2. AGNI
  3. American Poetry Review (The)
  4. American Scholar (The)
  5. Atlantic (The)
  6. At Length
  7. Believer (The)
  8. Beloit Poetry Journal
  9. Black Warrior Review
  10. Boston Review
  11. Boulevard
  12. Cave Wall
  13. Cincinnati Review (The)
  14. Court Green
  15. Denver Quarterly
  16. DMQ Review
  17. Ecotone
  18. Green Mountains Review
  19. Gulf Coast
  20. Hanging Loose
  21. Iowa Review (The)
  22. Iron Horse Literary Review
  23. jubilat
  24. Kenyon Review (The)
  25. LIT
  26. Literary Review (The)
  27. London Review of Books
  28. Maggy
  29. McSweeny's
  30. Michigan Quarterly Review
  31. Nation (The)
  32. New Criterion (The)
  33. New England Review
  34. New Ohio Review
  35. New South
  36. New Yorker (The)
  37. New York Quarterly (The)
  38. Paris Review (The)
  39. Ploughshares
  40. Poetry
  41. Poetry Daily
  42. Post Road
  43. Prairie Schooner
  44. Rattle
  45. River Styx
  46. Salmagundi
  47. Sentence
  48. Sewanee Review (The)
  49. Southwest Review
  50. Sycamore Review
  51. upstreet
  52. Virginia Quarterly Review (The)
  53. Yale Review (The)

Links and Books

Links and Books.


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