The Best American Poetry 2012
Guest Editor Mark Doty,
Series Editor David Lehman

* Mark Doty's Introductory Essay.
* Poets. * Places of first publication.

Introductory Essays to
The Best American Poetry 2012

David Lehman: Series Editor

Mark Doty: Guest Editor

Poets of
The Best American Poetry 2012

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:

From 2006 to the current issue, quick glances at birth dates give this approximation:

Birth
decade
2012 issue
[omits 3 DTS]
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 0 0
5 6 2 3 1 1 0 0
10+5=15 10+3=13 10+1=11 9 10+2=12 10+6=16 10+1=11 0
10+5=15 10+6+2=18 10+7=17 10+8=18 10 10+3=13 10+2=12 7
10+7=17 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 9+2=11 10+5=15 10+9=19 10+6=16 10+5=15 10+10+3=23 10+10=20
7 5 4 6 8 6 10 5
2 6 5 6 6 6 3 10+2=12
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Places of first publication before poems appeared in
The Best American Poetry 2012

Acknowledges first appearance in 41 publications, which is the lowest it has been in eight years

2012 issue 2011 issue 2010 issue 2009 issue 2008 issue 2007 issue 2006 issue 2005 issue

Places of first publication for this collection are:

  1. American Poetry Review (The)
  2. Antioch Review (The)
  3. Barrow Street
  4. Beloit Poetry Journal
  5. Boston Review
  6. Cincinnati Review (The)
  7. Colorado Review (The)
  8. Common (The)
  9. Conduit
  10. Five Points
  11. Gettysburg Review (The)
  12. Granta
  13. Green Mountains Review
  14. Gulf Coast
  15. Harvard Review
  16. Hudson Review (The)
  17. Kenyon Review (The)
  18. Lambda Literary Review
  19. Literary Review (The)
  20. Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations
  21. Memorious
  22. Nation (The)
  23. New American Writings
  24. New England Review
  25. New Ohio Review
  26. New Yorker (The)
  27. Ploughshares
  28. Poetry
  29. Poetry Daily
  30. Prairie Schooner
  31. River Styx
  32. Salmagundi
  33. Seneca Review
  34. Southern Review (The)
  35. Southwest Review
  36. Subtropics
  37. Threepenny Review (The)
  38. Tin House
  39. Umbrella
  40. Witness
  41. Zoland Poetry

Links and Books


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