Matthew Dickman

Best New Poets 2012: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers - Best New Poets Matthew Dickman

Marc Notes: Entering its sixth year, 'Best New Poets' has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. This annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. Biographical Note: Matthew Dickman is the author of "All-American Poem, " which won the 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the inaugural May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His poetry has appeared in the "Missouri Review" and the "New Yorker."Table of Contents: About Best New Poets -- Introduction / Matthew Dickman -- Black Hole Owners Association / Sean Bishop -- Alice Considers History / Sophia G. Starmack -- Lyrics to the Radiator's Hymn / Lexa Hillyer -- Rough Draft of a Poem About Heartbeats / Michael Martin Shea -- Score for the New Cotillion / Allyson Paty -- As a Debutante I Adjusted My Hatpin / Jennifer Moore -- Meds / Erin Ganaway -- Salvation History / Bradley Harrison -- Circle / Christine Stroik Stocke -- Intrinsic Marimbas / Daniel Meltz -- Months After the Crash, the Blind Aerobatic Pilot Speaks / Jenny Gropp Hess -- Maggie Leaves the Underworld / Janet McNally -- Self-Portrait in Unfinished Letters / Victoria Lynne McCoy -- A Compendium of Photographs: L'inconnue de la Seine / Chuck Carlise -- Thursdays in the Faubourg Marigny / Michele Poulos -- Black Icarus / Harry Bauld -- On the Isle of Erytheia / Timothy Daniel Welch -- Taking Care / Cate Lycurgus -- Tabernacle for an Adolescence / Corey Van Landingham -- O Anchor / Matthew Nienow -- I Promised Her My Hands Wouldn't Get Any Larger / Oliver Bendorf -- Homosexuality / Tory Adkisson -- The Measure of Vessel and Nerve / Aviva Englander Cristy -- Why My Mother is Afraid of Heights / Shevaun Brannigan -- Saint Wrench / Jeff Oaks -- Ocean Quahog / Ross White -- For Anna on the Day a Man Flashed Her on the Beach / Paul Hlava -- Again, Let's Do It Again / Meghan Privitello -- What To Expect When You Become A Motel Balcony / Sarah Green -- No Such Thing as Acceptance / Meggie Monahan -- Story with a Heart-Shaped Hole in It / Michael Roche -- Bodega / Gale Marie Thompson -- Double Acrostic for Francis Ponge / Martin Rock -- Ode to Stretch Armstrong / Ben Purkert -- The Dwarf Hamster / Rebecca Bauman -- What to Say When You Come Home to Find Him Wearing Your Clothes / Kasandra Larsen -- Colors Developed by Sherwin-Williams Laboratories But Rejected by Marketing / John Savoie -- Beekeeper Outside Escanaba, Michigan / Hannah Baker-Siroty -- Mosquito Hawk / Colin Pope -- Family Portrait / Kelly Michels -- As If / Mia Ayumi Malhotra -- Albania / Elizabeth T. Gray -- Erytheia / Theadora Siranian -- Stemma / Jane Wong -- Break / Terry Lucas -- Appalachian Homecoming / Chris Tanseer -- Northern Corn / Anders Carlson-Wee -- Oxen on the Last Day / Patrick Haas -- Until Bullets Turn to Rain Against Your Flesh / Martin Arnold -- Fidelity / Christopher Nelson -- Contributors' Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Participating Magazines -- Participating Writing Programs. Publisher Marketing: Entering its seventh 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. Praise for earlier editions: "[These poets] prove that American poetry has the strength and vision to move beyond the MFA environment in order to reshape and reflect past traditions."-- "Bloomsbury Review" "This collection stands out among the crowd claiming to represent emergent poets. Much of the editing and preliminary reading was done by emerging poets themselves, which results in an anthology that's fresh and eclectic, and may actually represent a significant portion of the best new poetry being written by the next generation.... [ "Best New Poets"] assures the reader that poetry, even in a generation of text messaging and MP3 players, is still alive and well. The youthfulness of the anthology, combined with the wide scope of its contents, is apparent in the poems, which are edgy and daring."-- "Virginia Quarterly Review" Distributed for the Samovar Press in cooperation with Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia

Contributor Bio:  Dickman, Matthew Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem, winner of the May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the coauthor with Michael Dickman of 50 American Plays. He lives in Portland, Oregon.