The Best American Poetry 2013
Guest Editor Denise Duhamel,
Series Editor David Lehman

* David Lehman's Introductory Essay. * Poets. * Places of poems' first publication.

Introductory Essays to
The Best American Poetry 2013

David Lehman: Series Editor

Denise Duhamel: Guest Editor

Poets of
The Best American Poetry 2013

Of the 76 poets whose work is included (74 have one poem each while one poem has two authors), see our web pages on:

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
2013 issue
[omits 8 DTS]
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 0 0
8 5 6 2 3 1 1 0 0
10 10+5=15 10+3=13 10+1=11 9 10+2=12 10+6=16 10+1=11 0
10+4=14 10+5=15 10+6+2=18 10+7=17 10+8=18 10 10+3=13 10+2=12 7
10+4=14 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
10+3=13 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
2 7 5 4 6 8 6 10 5
4 2 6 5 6 6 6 3 10+2=12
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Places of first publication before poems appeared in
The Best American Poetry 2013

Acknowledges first appearance in 55 publications, which is the slightly higher than the mean of 51 for the last nine years and third highest in that period:

2013 issue 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. ANGI
  2. Alaska Quarterly Review
  3. American Poetry Review (The)
  4. American Scholar (The)
  5. Antioch Review (The)
  6. Awl (The)
  7. Barrow Street
  8. Believer (The)
  9. Boston Review
  10. Carbon Copy Magazine
  11. Columbia Poetry Review
  12. Common (The)
  13. Conduit
  14. Court Green
  15. Ecotone
  16. FIELD
  17. Fifth Wednesday Journal
  18. Five Points
  19. Georgia Review (The)
  20. Granta
  21. Gulf Coast
  22. Gulfshore Life
  23. Hanging Loose
  24. Harper's
  25. Harpur Palate
  26. Harvard Review
  27. House Organ
  28. jubliat
  29. Los Angeles Review (The)
  30. MAKE
  31. MiPOesias
  32. Mid-American Review
  33. Nation (The)
  34. New American Writings
  35. New England Review
  36. New Ohio Review
  37. New Yorker (The)
  38. PEN America
  39. Ploughshares
  40. Plume
  41. Poetry
  42. Poetry Daily
  43. Poetry London
  44. Public Space (A)
  45. Redivider
  46. River Styx
  47. Slate
  48. Southampton Review (The)
  49. Southern Review (The)
  50. Southwest Review
  51. Subtropics
  52. Terrain.org
  53. Verse Daily
  54. Virginia Quarterly Review (The)
  55. Vitrine: a printed museum

Links and Books


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