The Best American Poetry 2016
Guest Editor Edward Hirsch,
Series Editor David Lehman
Poets.
Places of poems' first publication.
Poets of
The Best American Poetry 2016
Of the 75 poets whose work is included,
see our web pages on:
Favorite poems include:
- Denise Duhamel's "Humanity 101".
- Alexis Rhone Fancher's "When I turned fourteen, my mother's sister
took me to lunch and said:".
- Tony Hoagland's "Bible Study".
- Garrett Hongo's "I Got Heaven ...".
- Major Jackson's "Aubade".
- Julie Kane's "As If".
- Philip Levine's "More Than You Gave".
-
Best of issue:
Robin Coste Lewis' "On the Road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari",
a nine-page multilayered poem.
- Debra Marquart's "Lament".
- Cate Marvin's "High School in Schuzou".
- Hai-Dang Phan's "My Father's 'Norton Introduction to Literature,'
Third Edition (1981)".
At the end of the book, 54 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:
- For the 2016 issue (guest editor Edward Hirsch): the mode is the 1950's
(returning to a value for the 2014, 2012, 1995, and other issues);
the median is about 1965.
Omits date for 23 poets who declined-to-state their birth year.
Birth years range from 1928 to the 1980's.
- For the 2015 issue (guest editor Sherman Alexie): the mode is the 1960's and 1970's;
the median is about 1967.
Omits date for twelve (12!!) poets who declined-to-state their birth year.
Birth years range from 1937 to 1989.
- For the 2014 issue (guest editor Terrance Hayes): the mode is the 1950's; the median is the early 1960's.
Omits date for ten (10!!) poets who declined-to-state their birth year.
Birth years range from 1927 to 1986.
- For the 2013 issue (guest editor
Denise Duhamel): median 1960.
Omits date for three DTS poets (declined-to-state birth year)
- For the 2012 issue (guest editor Mark Doty): again the mode returns to an earlier decade: the 1950s.
Omits date for three DTS poets (declined-to-state birth year):
Steve Heighton, Brenda Hillman, and Rick Bardot.
- For the 2011 issue (guest editor Kevin Young): the mode is the 1960s (after taking into account the four
coy poets who declined to state their birth year for BAP despite their birth years being published
on the Web; two are from the 1940s and two from the 1960s).
- For the 2010 issue (guest editor Amy Gerstler): again the mode returns to an earlier decade: the 1950s.
- For the 2009 issue (guest editor David Wagoner): bimodal with the 1940s (as for the 2006 issue)
and the 1960s (the strongest represented that the 60s have been).
- For the 2008 issue (guest editor Charles Wright)
the mode returns to an earlier decade: the 1950s.
- For the 2007 issue (guest editor Heather McHugh) it vaulted forward three decades to the 1970s.
- For the 2006 issue (guest editor Billy Collins, b. 1941), it was the 1940s.
From 2006 to the current issue, quick glances at birth dates give this approximation:
Birth
decade
| 2016 issue
[omits 23 DTS]
| 2015 issue
[omits 12 DTS]
| 2014 issue
[omits 10 DTS]
| 2013 issue
[omits 8 DTS]
| 2012 issue
[omits 3 DTS]
| 2011 issue.
| 2010 issue.
| 2009 issue.
| 2008 issue.
| 2007 issue.
| 2006 issue.
| 1995 issue.
|
|
2000s
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
|
1990s
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
|
1980s
| 6
| 14
| 6
| 8
| 5
| 6
| 2
| 3
| 1
| 1
| 0
| 0
|
|
1970s
| 6
| 16
| 14
| 10
| 15
| 13
| 11
| 9
| 12
| 16
| 11
| 0
|
|
1960s
| 9
| 16
| 14
| 14
| 15
| 18
| 17
| 18
| 10
| 13
| 12
| 7
|
|
1950s
| 13
| 10
| 18
| 14
| 17
| 16
| 21
| 13
| 21
| 15
| 14
| 30
|
|
1940s
| 11
| 6
| 9
| 13
| 11
| 11
| 15
| 19
| 16
| 15
| 23
| 20
|
|
1930s
| 5
| 2
| 3
| 2
| 7
| 5
| 4
| 6
| 8
| 6
| 10
| 5
|
|
1920s
| 2
| 0
| 1
| 4
| 2
| 6
| 5
| 6
| 6
| 6
| 3
| 12
|
|
1910s
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
|
Places of first publication before poems appeared in
The Best American Poetry 2016
Acknowledges first appearance in 60 publications,
which is the highest (with 2014 and 2005) for the last eleven years:
Places of first publication for this collection are:
- 32 Poems
- Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day (The)
- Alaska Quarterly Review
- American Poets
- American Poetry Review (The)
- Birmingham Poetry Review
- Boston Review
- Brilliant Corners
- Cherry Tree
- Common (The)
- Connotation Press
- Copper Nickel
- Crab Orchard Review
- Georgia Review (The)
- Gettysburg Review (The)
- Green Mountains Review
- Greensboro Review (The)
- Gulf Coast
- Harvard Review
- Hínchas de Poesía
- Hopkins Review (The)
- Image
- jubliat
- Literary Review (The)
- London Review of Books
- Los Angeles Review of Books
- Miramar
- New England Review
- New Letters
- New Ohio Review
- New Yorker (The)
- New York Times Magazine (The)
- Paperbag
- Paris Review (The)
- Parnassus
- Ploughshares
- Poetry
- Poetry Daily
- Prairie Schooner
- Ragazine
- Raritan
- River Styx
- Southern Review (The)
- Subtropics
- Sycamore Review
- Tahoma Literary Review
- Tin House
- Valley Voices
- Virginia Quarterly Review
- Waxwing
- Yale Review (The)
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