The Best American Poetry 2015
Guest Editor Sherman Alexie,
Series Editor David Lehman

* Poets. * Places of poems' first publication.

Poets of
The Best American Poetry 2015

Of the 75 poets whose work is included, see our web pages on:

Favorite poems include:

At the end of the book, 46 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
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.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 6 8 5 6 2 3 1 1 0 0
16 10+4=14 10 10+5=15 13 11 9 12 16 11 0
16 10+4=14 10+4=14 10+5=15 18 17 18 10 13 12 7
10 10+8=18 10+4=14 10+7=17 16 21 13 21 15 14 30
6 9 10+3=13 9+2=11 11 15 19 16 15 23 20
2 3 2 7 5 4 6 8 6 10 5
0 1 4 2 6 5 6 6 6 3 12
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Places of first publication before poems appeared in
The Best American Poetry 2015

Acknowledges first appearance in 60 publications, which is the highest (with 2014 and 2005) for the last eleven years:

2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005

Places of first publication for this collection are:

  1. Able Muse
  2. Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day (The)
  3. Alaska Quarterly Review
  4. American Poetry Review (The)
  5. Atlantic Monthly (The)
  6. Awl (The)
  7. Beltway Poetry Quarterly
  8. Birdfeast
  9. Blackbird (an on-line journal)
  10. Burrow Press Review
  11. Carolina Quarterly (The)
  12. Cincinnati Review (The)
  13. Colorado Review
  14. Columbia Poetry Review
  15. Conduit
  16. Court Green
  17. Denver Quarterly
  18. Fence
  19. Fruita Pulp
  20. Georgia Review (The)
  21. Granta
  22. Harper's
  23. Hopkins Review (The)
  24. Iowa Review (The)
  25. Journal (The)
  26. Kenyon Review (The)
  27. Kinfolks Quarlerly
  28. Lemon Hound
  29. Literary Review (The)
  30. Manhattan Review (The)
  31. Muzzle
  32. New Criterion (The)
  33. New Ohio Review
  34. New Yorker (The)
  35. Ninth Letter
  36. PANK
  37. Paris Review (The)
  38. Pleiades
  39. PMS poemmemoirstory
  40. Poetry
  41. Poetry Daily
  42. Poetry Northwest
  43. Post Road
  44. Powder Keg
  45. Prairie Schooner
  46. Public Space (A)
  47. Rattle
  48. Rumpus (The)
  49. Southampton Review (The)
  50. Southern Review (The)
  51. Southwest Review
  52. Subtropics
  53. 32 Poems
  54. Threepenny Review (The)
  55. Tupelo Quarterly
  56. Unsplendid
  57. upstreet
  58. Verse Daily
  59. Volta (The)
  60. West Branch

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