David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. He has written such nonfiction books as Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.
Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed the nineteenth United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard. She is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi and the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where she also directs the Creative Writing Program. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia, Native Guard, and Thrall. She is also the author of a book of creative nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
"The Best American Poetry series has become one of the mainstays of
the poetry publication world. For each volume, a guest editor is
enlisted to cull the collective output of large and small literary
journals published that year to select 75 of the year's 'best'
poems. The guest editor is also asked to write an introduction to
the collection, and the anthologies would be indispensable for
these essays alone; combined with [David] Lehman's'state-of-poetry'
forewords and the guest editors' introductions, these anthologies
seem to capture the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American
poetry."--Academy of American Poets
"For the small community of American poets, the Best American
Poetry is the Michelin Guide, the Reader's Digest, and the Prix
Goncourt."-- "L'Observateur"
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