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:

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:

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.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 14 6 8 5 6 2 3 1 1 0 0
6 16 14 10 15 13 11 9 12 16 11 0
9 16 14 14 15 18 17 18 10 13 12 7
13 10 18 14 17 16 21 13 21 15 14 30
11 6 9 13 11 11 15 19 16 15 23 20
5 2 3 2 7 5 4 6 8 6 10 5
2 0 1 4 2 6 5 6 6 6 3 12
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:

2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005

Places of first publication for this collection are:

  1. 32 Poems
  2. Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day (The)
  3. Alaska Quarterly Review
  4. American Poets
  5. American Poetry Review (The)
  6. Birmingham Poetry Review
  7. Boston Review
  8. Brilliant Corners
  9. Cherry Tree
  10. Common (The)
  11. Connotation Press
  12. Copper Nickel
  13. Crab Orchard Review
  14. Georgia Review (The)
  15. Gettysburg Review (The)
  16. Green Mountains Review
  17. Greensboro Review (The)
  18. Gulf Coast
  19. Harvard Review
  20. Hínchas de Poesía
  21. Hopkins Review (The)
  22. Image
  23. jubliat
  24. Literary Review (The)
  25. London Review of Books
  26. Los Angeles Review of Books
  27. Miramar
  28. New England Review
  29. New Letters
  30. New Ohio Review
  31. New Yorker (The)
  32. New York Times Magazine (The)
  33. Paperbag
  34. Paris Review (The)
  35. Parnassus
  36. Ploughshares
  37. Poetry
  38. Poetry Daily
  39. Prairie Schooner
  40. Ragazine
  41. Raritan
  42. River Styx
  43. Southern Review (The)
  44. Subtropics
  45. Sycamore Review
  46. Tahoma Literary Review
  47. Tin House
  48. Valley Voices
  49. Virginia Quarterly Review
  50. Waxwing
  51. Yale Review (The)

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