McNally Jackson Books

Best New Poets is an audaciously named annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers, published by the University of Virginia Press. The 2009 collection is edited by Kim Addonizio, who has selected poems from nominations made by literary magazines and writing programs, as well as an open Internet competition.
This... Wednesday, to celebrate the anthology, we'll be featuring more amazing young poets than you can handle. Seriously, I don't know if you have the poetic chops. We have ten readers in, each one ready to smack the syllables clean out of your mouth. Check out our line-up below.

Sally Dawidoff's poems have appeared most recently in River Styx, Barrow Street, and BOMB. She teaches poetry workshops in New York.

Alex Dimitrov holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. His poems and reviews have appeared in Southwest Review, Poets & Writers, Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, and The Portland Review among others. He is the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City.

Caitlin Doyle spent 2008-2009 as the Writer-In-Residence at St. Albans School in Washington, DC, teaching Creative Writing classes while working on her debut poetry collection. Caitlin recently earned her MFA from Boston University. She has received residency fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Warwick Review, Measure, The Boston Review, Rattle, Hanging Loose Press, Calyx, Unsplendid, The Louisville Review and others.

Caitlin Dube lives in New York City. She holds a BA in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard, and an MFA from Columbia University.

Adam Giannelli is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. He is the editor of High Lonesome: On the Poetry of Charles Wright (Oberlin College Press, 2006). His poetry has appeared in the American Literary Review, Smartish Pace, and Phoebe.

Michael J. Grabell's poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry 2009, the Southwest Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Rattle, Borderlands and the Sow's Ear Poetry Review. He is an investigative reporter for ProPublica, a journalism nonprofit in New York, and mentors students in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University. Originally from New Jersey, he studied creative writing at Princeton University. He now lives in Brooklyn, with his wife Laura and their beloved potted plants.

Rebecca Keith holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She has received honors from the Atlantic Monthly and BOMB Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2008 Laurel Review/GreenTower Press Midwest Chapbook Series Award. Her work has appeared most recently in The Laurel Review and Storyscape Journal, and she is a founder and curator of the Mixer reading series in New York City.

Stephanie Rogers grew up in Middletown, Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. In 2007, she received her MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time nominee for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Her work also appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Southern Review, Pleiades, and Cream City Review, among others. In 2008, she and Amber Leab co-founded the feminist film review website Bitch Flicks.

David Silverstein is a NYC-area based artist. He has been awarded an Academy of American Poets prize, a Deus Loci White Mice prize, and has been published in several journals, including The Amherst Review, New School's LIT, and Pank. More of his work can be seen at AnotherPointlessProduction.com.

Eric Weinstein’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of online and print publications, including Best New Poets 2009, Wheelhouse Magazine, and Prick of the Spindle, where he currently serves as poetry editor. His poems have been nominated for inclusion in the annual Pushcart Prize anthology and have won several awards, including the Anne Flexner Award in poetry. A native of Nashua, New Hampshire, he currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.Read More