FIU Professor Denise Duhamel has guest edited
The Best American Poetry 2013, just published by Scribner. The Best American Poetry series has been hailed as “an essential purchase” (
The Washington Post) and "a 'best' anthology that really lives
up to its title" (
Chicago Tribune). In
her introduction, Denise talks about her year of reading as many literary
magazines as possible. "The task may have strained my eyes to the
point where I am a now a certified wearer of reading glasses, but it also made
me very much present and engaged. In his lecture at Ohio University’s
Spring Literary Festival in 2012, Richard Rodriguez (echoing the syntax of St.
Augustine’s “Those who sing pray twice”) said, “Those who
write live twice.” I would add that those who
read also live twice. . ." The
anthology includes seventy-fve poems, thirty-four of which were written by
newcomers never before anthologized in the series. For the first time a
collaborative poem appears in The Best American poetry pages. On November 15 at 7 pm at The Betsy Hotel on Miami Beach, Denise Duhamel and series
editor David Lehman will host
The Best American Poetry 2013 reading featuring
Florida contributors Campbell McGrath, Jesse Millner, Emma Trelles, and Maureen
Seaton.
