The Best American Poetry 2005
Guest Editor Paul Muldoon
Series Editor David Lehman

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Poets: Adam Zagajewski. Aleda Shirley. Billy Collins. Billy Collins exercise. Snorri's Edda. Carl Dennis. Charles Atkinson. Corey Marks. Franz Wright. Gary Young. Galway Kinnell. The Gawain Poet. Jack Gilbert. Jane Hirshfield. J. Zimmerman. J. Zimmerman (haiku). J. Zimmerman (tanka). Jorie Graham. Karen Braucher. Kay Ryan. Laureate Poets: Britain; USA. Louise Glück. Len Anderson. Li-Young Lee. Linda Pastan. Nordic Skalds. Pulitzer Poetry Prize (U.S.A). Richard Hugo. Robert Bly. Sara Teasdale. Snorri's Edda. Stephen Dunn. Ted Kooser. W.S. Merwin.

Books of Poetry Form.

BAP: Series Editor David Lehman. The Best American Poetry: 2006; Guest Editor Billy Collins. The Best American Poetry: 2005; Guest Editor Paul Muldoon.

David Lehman's Introductory Essay. Poets. First publication for poems.

Introductory Essays to
The Best American Poetry 2005

BUY: The Best American Poetry 2005 Guest Editor Paul Muldoon, Series Editor David Lehman

The Best American Poetry 2005 begins with an essay by the series editor, David Lehman, introducing this year's guest editor, Paul Muldoon.

David Lehman:

• Began The Best American Poetry series in 1988. The controversial Best of the title probably helped the series get even more press than the worthiness of the contents.
• Continues as the series editor.
• Selected Paul Muldoon as the 2005 guest editor.

Paul Muldoon:

In his brief (three-page) 2005 introductory essay: Muldoon says that the editing of the anthology was a chore though it developed into "a cherishing of the heart of American poetry". So let us leave him in that place of sideways condescension.

How much more interesting is the essay by Billy Collins for The Best American Poetry: 2006.

Poets of
The Best American Poetry 2005.

BUY: The Best American Poetry 2005, Guest Editor Paul Muldoon, Series Editor David Lehman

This collection is edited by Paul Muldoon.

Of the 75 poets whose work is included, we have web pages on:

• Chase Twichell.
• Galway Kinnell.
• James Tate.
• Jane Hirshfield.
• Kay Ryan.
• Linda Pastan.
• Stephen Dunn.

Some of Muldoon's choices have a clever trick to them that makes them Muldonish: Example include:

• "Seesaws" by Samuel Hazo. Almost every poet (including Muldoon) has one such poem of reorganized colloquial expressions in her/his portfolio.

A large number are surreal.

First publication for poems of
The Best American Poetry 2005.

BUY: The Best American Poetry 2005, Guest Editor Paul Muldoon, Series Editor David Lehman

Acknowledges first publications in:

1. American Letters & Commentary
2. American Poetry Review
3. The American Scholar
4. Antioch Review
5. The Atlantic Monthly
6. Barrow Street
7. Beloit Poetry Journal
8. BOMB
9. Boston Review
10. Cincinnati Review
11. Conduit
12. Court Green
13. Crazyhorse
14. CROWD
15. Denver Quarterly
16. 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry
17. Epoch
18. Fence
19. Gastronomica
20. Good Food
21. Gulf Coast
22. Hanging Loose
23. The Hudson Review
24. Image
25. In Posse Review
26. Insurance Magazine
27. The Iowa Review
28. Jacket
29. jubilat
30. LIT
31. The Los Angeles Review
32. Michigan Quarterly Review
33. Mudfish
34. New American Writing
35. The New Criterion
36. New England Review
37. New Letters
38. New York Quarterly
39. The New Yorker
40. Notre Dame Review
41. Open City
42. The Paris Review
43. Pleiades
44. Pleine Marge
45. Ploughshares
46. PN Review
47. Poetry
48. Poetry Daily
49. POOL: A Journal of Poetry
50. Runes
51. Salt
52. Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics
53. Shankpainter
54. Shenandoah
55. Slate
56. Sycamore Review
57. 32 Poems
58. Verse Daily
59. Virginia Quarterly Review
60. Yale Review

Links and Books.

Links and Books.

• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of Britain
• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.
• Best Poems by the Best Poets - Some Lists of Winners.
• Other Books of Poetry Form.

Related pages: Books of Poetry Form. Alphabetic list of poetry forms and related topics. Poetry Home. How to Write Poetry.

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