Brenda Shaughnessy, guest editor | “How It Kept On”
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0976629689 | Pages: 117 | Samovar Press/Meridian, January 13, 2014
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
