The Best American Poetry 2019

The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry-"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets)-now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.

Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, "The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today...While readers...