Best New Poets

The Best New Poets series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing fifty poems from poets without a previously published collection. The first edition of the series appeared in 2005, and was published, as all later editions have been, by Samovar Press. In 2006, the University of Virginia Press began distributing the anthology.

Poems are nominated for the series by creative writing programs and literary magazines, though poets can also self-nominate through an online submission system. The poems to be included in the anthology are selected by a guest editor. Previous guest editors include George Garrett (2005), Eric Pankey (2006), Natasha Trethewey (2007), Mark Strand (2008), Kim Addonizio (2009), Claudia Emerson (2010), D. A. Powell (2011), Matthew Dickman (2012), Brenda Shaughnessy (2013), and Dorianne Laux (2014). The 2015 edition will be guest edited by Tracy K. Smith.

The series, begun by essayist and University of Virginia lecturer Jeb Livingood in 2005 and edited by poet Jazzy Danziger since 2011, has published a number of notable writers since its inception, including Diana Vlavianos, Deborah Ager, Craig Blais, Christina Duhig, Cynthia Lowen, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Jennifer Militello, Kerri French, Seth Abramson, Stephanie Rogers, Rhett Iseman Trull, Anna Journey (2008 National Poetry Series winner), Zach Savich (2008 Iowa Poetry Prize winner), Michael McGriff (2007 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winner), Julie Larios (2006 Pushcart Prize winner), recent Stegner Fellows Keith Ekiss, Robin Ekiss, Martha Greenwald, Dina Hardy, Peter Kline, and Kimberly Grey, as well as Tarfia Faizullah, Ocean Vuong, sam sax, Leila Chatti, Phillip B. Williams, and Peter LaBerge. To date, the youngest poet to be included in the series is Talin Tahajian, who was first included in the 2014 edition at the age of eighteen.

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