1965: Harriet Richardson Wipes Galway Kinnell’s Face after State Troopers Beat Him with a Billy Club
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“1965: Harriet Richardson Wipes Galway Kinnell’s Face after State Troopers Beat Him with a Billy Club” from The Best American Poetry 2022, ed. Matthew Zapruder, series editor David Lehman.
Published by Scribner on September 13, 2022.
Copyright © 2022 by Vievee Francis.
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Vievee Francis was born in San Angelo, Texas, in 1963. Her books of poetry include Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Ptess, 2006), Horse in the Dark (winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize for a second collection; Northwestern University Press, 2016), Forest Primeval (winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy Award and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; TriQuarterly, 2015), and The Shared World (Northwestern, 2022). Her work has appeared in five previous editions of The Best American Poetry and in Angles ef Ascent: A Norton Anthology ef Contemporary African American Poetry. She has been a poet-in-residence for the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. In 2009 she received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and in 2010, a Kresge Fellowship. A former associate editor of Callaloo, she is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).
Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.
For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are “for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings” (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.
“Want to read more contemporary poetry but don’t know where to begin? For expert curation and variety, you can’t do better than The Best American Poetry 2022, edited this year by Matthew Zapruder…Zapruder strikes just the right note in his introduction…He finds encouragement—and motivation—in fine writing."
—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
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