Best New Poets 2010: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

Claudia Emerson, Jeb Livingood

Samovar Press, 2010 - Literary Collections - 160 pages

Entering its fifth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the country?s top literary magazines and writing programs, as well as some two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online competition. The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality of poetry as it is being practiced today.

Distributed for the Samovar Press in cooperation with Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia

About the author

Claudia Emerson was born on January 13, 1957 in Chatham, Virginia. She received a bachelor's of arts degree in English at the University of Virginia in 1979 and a master's degree in fine arts in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1991. Her collections of poetry included Pharaoh, Pharaoh; Pinion: An Elegy; Figure Studies: Poems; Secure the Shadow; The Opposite House; and Impossible Bottle. She received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2006 for Late Wife. She served as Virginia's poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. She taught at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg and at Virginia Commonwealth University. She died on December 4, 2014 from complications associated with colon cancer at the age of 57.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Best New Poets 2010: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers; Best New Poets Series
• Editors: Claudia Emerson, Jeb Livingood
• Contributor: Jeb Livingood
• Publisher: Samovar Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0976629658, 9780976629658
• Length: 160 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / General; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)