Best American Poetry Series

Best American Poetry Series

The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.

Read more about Best American Poetry Series:  Background, Guest Editors, Rules and Process, Critical Reception of The Series

Famous quotes containing the words american, poetry and/or series:

    First in booze, first in shoes, and last in the American League.
    —Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence—this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)