Anthologies Featuring Writing by Kyle Dargan
THIS IS THE HONEY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY BLACK POETS
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, and Nikki Giovanni, This Is the Honey is a rich and abundant offering of language from the poets giving voice to generations of resilient joy, “each incantation,” as Mahogany L. Browne puts it in her titular poem, is “a jubilee of a people dreaming wildly.”
This essential collection, in the tradition of Dudley Randall’s The Black Poets and E. Ethelbert Miller’s In Search of Color Everywhere, contains poems exploring joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise. Jacqueline A.Trimble likens “Black woman joy” to indigo, tassels, foxes, and peacock plumes. Tyree Daye, Nate Marshall, and Elizabeth Acevedo reflect on the meaning of “home” through food, from Cuban rice and beans to fried chicken gizzards. Clint Smith and Cameron Awkward-Rich enfold us in their intimate musings on love and devotion. From a “jewel in the hand” (Patricia Spears Jones) to “butter melting in small pools” (Elizabeth Alexander), This Is the Honey drips with poignant and delightful imagery, music, and raised fists.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, and Nikki Giovanni, This Is the Honey is a rich and abundant offering of language from the poets giving voice to generations of resilient joy, “each incantation,” as Mahogany L. Browne puts it in her titular poem, is “a jubilee of a people dreaming wildly.”
This essential collection, in the tradition of Dudley Randall’s The Black Poets and E. Ethelbert Miller’s In Search of Color Everywhere, contains poems exploring joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise. Jacqueline A.Trimble likens “Black woman joy” to indigo, tassels, foxes, and peacock plumes. Tyree Daye, Nate Marshall, and Elizabeth Acevedo reflect on the meaning of “home” through food, from Cuban rice and beans to fried chicken gizzards. Clint Smith and Cameron Awkward-Rich enfold us in their intimate musings on love and devotion. From a “jewel in the hand” (Patricia Spears Jones) to “butter melting in small pools” (Elizabeth Alexander), This Is the Honey drips with poignant and delightful imagery, music, and raised fists.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
BEYOND THE EARTH'S EDGE: THE POETRY OF SPACEFLIGHT
Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight is a trailblazing anthology of poetry that spans from the dawn of the space age to the imagined futures of the universe.
Tracing an arc of literary skepticism during the Apollo era and before to a more curious, and even hopeful, stance today, Beyond Earth’s Edge includes diverse perspectives from poets such as Robert Hayden, Rae Armantrout, N. Scott Momaday, Adrienne Rich, Tracy K. Smith, Ray Bradbury, May Swenson, Pablo Neruda, and many other engaging poetic voices. Beyond Earth’s Edge vividly captures the violence of blastoff, the wonders seen by Hubble, and the trajectories of exploration to Mars and beyond through a wide array of lyric celebrations, somber meditations, accessible narratives, concrete poems, and new forms of science fiction. With the dawn of the New Space movement, continued interest in Mars, and renewed excitement about returning to the Moon, Beyond Earth’s Edge is a giant leap toward bridging poetry and science.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight is a trailblazing anthology of poetry that spans from the dawn of the space age to the imagined futures of the universe.
Tracing an arc of literary skepticism during the Apollo era and before to a more curious, and even hopeful, stance today, Beyond Earth’s Edge includes diverse perspectives from poets such as Robert Hayden, Rae Armantrout, N. Scott Momaday, Adrienne Rich, Tracy K. Smith, Ray Bradbury, May Swenson, Pablo Neruda, and many other engaging poetic voices. Beyond Earth’s Edge vividly captures the violence of blastoff, the wonders seen by Hubble, and the trajectories of exploration to Mars and beyond through a wide array of lyric celebrations, somber meditations, accessible narratives, concrete poems, and new forms of science fiction. With the dawn of the New Space movement, continued interest in Mars, and renewed excitement about returning to the Moon, Beyond Earth’s Edge is a giant leap toward bridging poetry and science.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY: 250 YEARS OF STRUGGLE & SONG
A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present
Only now, in the 21st century, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of voices, some familiar, others recently rescued from neglect. Here, in this unprecedented anthology expertly selected by poet and scholar Kevin Young, this precious living heritage is revealed in all its power, beauty, and multiplicity.
Publisher: Penguin / Random House
A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present
Only now, in the 21st century, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of voices, some familiar, others recently rescued from neglect. Here, in this unprecedented anthology expertly selected by poet and scholar Kevin Young, this precious living heritage is revealed in all its power, beauty, and multiplicity.
Publisher: Penguin / Random House
TURN IT UP!: MUSIC IN POETRY FROM JAZZ TO HIP-HOP
This almost 400-page anthology is made up of 88 poets (the number of keys on the piano) and 175 poems, which are split up into three sections based on genre: jazz, blues and rock, and hip-hop. Although there have been a few collections of poetry about jazz or rock or hip-hop, none have crossed all the musical genres. Turn It Up! allows the reader to see the progression of poems about different styles of music, and how they may overlap, and how the diction and syntax and subject matter changes over time.
Publisher: Green Writers Press / Sundog Poetry Center
This almost 400-page anthology is made up of 88 poets (the number of keys on the piano) and 175 poems, which are split up into three sections based on genre: jazz, blues and rock, and hip-hop. Although there have been a few collections of poetry about jazz or rock or hip-hop, none have crossed all the musical genres. Turn It Up! allows the reader to see the progression of poems about different styles of music, and how they may overlap, and how the diction and syntax and subject matter changes over time.
Publisher: Green Writers Press / Sundog Poetry Center
MORE TRULY AND MORE STRANGE: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems
Our rampant selfie-taking moment (via Snapchat, Tinder, and YouTube, e.g.) showcases what American poetry has expressed for centuries: a national impulse for self-portraiture. This stylish anthology collects astonishing self-portrait poems—brilliantly divided into smart, revealing sections—from the mid-twentieth century through today.
By experiencing the various ways that our greatest poets re-render and distort themselves, we see America’s glorious struggle with defining itself. John Ashbury, Stephanie Burt, Lucie Brock-Broido, Natalie Diaz, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Donika Kelly, Gregory Pardlo, Sylvia Plath, Carl Phillips, Mark Strand, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Charles Wright, and many others.
Publisher: Persea Books / Penguin
Our rampant selfie-taking moment (via Snapchat, Tinder, and YouTube, e.g.) showcases what American poetry has expressed for centuries: a national impulse for self-portraiture. This stylish anthology collects astonishing self-portrait poems—brilliantly divided into smart, revealing sections—from the mid-twentieth century through today.
By experiencing the various ways that our greatest poets re-render and distort themselves, we see America’s glorious struggle with defining itself. John Ashbury, Stephanie Burt, Lucie Brock-Broido, Natalie Diaz, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Donika Kelly, Gregory Pardlo, Sylvia Plath, Carl Phillips, Mark Strand, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Charles Wright, and many others.
Publisher: Persea Books / Penguin
HERE: POEMS FOR THE PLANET
HERE: Poems for the Planet is a lovesong to a planet in crisis. Summoning a chorus of over 125 diverse poetic voices, this anthology approaches the impending environmental crisis with a sense of urgency and hopefulness. Now more than ever is the time for this book as it seeks to galvanize readers, students, teachers, philanthropists and everyday people to address the realities of climate change head on and become individual catalysts for change. Here looks at the world with a renewed sense of courage, fighting fear that so often leads to indifference and cynicism. The anthology also includes an activist guide, created in tandem with the Union of Concerned Scientists, and an introduction by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. With these poems, we hope you will see with new eyes what the astronauts saw the first time they peered down from space at our tiny world.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
HERE: Poems for the Planet is a lovesong to a planet in crisis. Summoning a chorus of over 125 diverse poetic voices, this anthology approaches the impending environmental crisis with a sense of urgency and hopefulness. Now more than ever is the time for this book as it seeks to galvanize readers, students, teachers, philanthropists and everyday people to address the realities of climate change head on and become individual catalysts for change. Here looks at the world with a renewed sense of courage, fighting fear that so often leads to indifference and cynicism. The anthology also includes an activist guide, created in tandem with the Union of Concerned Scientists, and an introduction by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. With these poems, we hope you will see with new eyes what the astronauts saw the first time they peered down from space at our tiny world.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
BULLETS INTO BELLS: POETS AND CITIZEN'S RESPOND TO GUN VIOLENCE
Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Martín Espada, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ocean Vuong, and Juan Felipe Herrera. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, such as Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, Senator Chris Murphy, or Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, or from gun violence survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings. The result is a persuasive and moving testament to the urgent need for gun control. The collection features an introduction by acclaimed novelist Colum McCann, whose organization, Narrative 4, is committed to supporting the book. Poets Yusef Komunyakaa, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Robert Hass, and Brenda Hillman have composed entirely new poems for this project. The collection also features work from Jane Hirshfield, Ada Limón, Natalie Diaz, and Danez Smith.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Martín Espada, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ocean Vuong, and Juan Felipe Herrera. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, such as Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, Senator Chris Murphy, or Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, or from gun violence survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings. The result is a persuasive and moving testament to the urgent need for gun control. The collection features an introduction by acclaimed novelist Colum McCann, whose organization, Narrative 4, is committed to supporting the book. Poets Yusef Komunyakaa, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Robert Hass, and Brenda Hillman have composed entirely new poems for this project. The collection also features work from Jane Hirshfield, Ada Limón, Natalie Diaz, and Danez Smith.
Publisher: Beacon Press
MISREPRESENTED PEOPLE: POETIC RESPONSES TO TRUMP'S AMERICA
The poets anthologized in Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America bear witness to, rage against, and defy the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and authoritarian impulses that have always surrounded us, but that are incarnated in the 45th president. At a time when large swaths of the nation, and of the world, have succumbed to a reality television ontology, the poems collected in this volume offer the terra firma of imaginative empathy only available to us through poetry. This anthology contains work from a variety of aesthetic stances, from poets whose personal backgrounds reflect the vibrant multiplicity of our democratic vistas at their most resplendent. These voices counter alternative facts and fake news with the earned communion and the restorative utterance of the lyric and of the narrative. Proceeds from this anthology will be donated to The National Immigration Law Center.
Publisher: New York Quarterly Books
The poets anthologized in Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America bear witness to, rage against, and defy the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and authoritarian impulses that have always surrounded us, but that are incarnated in the 45th president. At a time when large swaths of the nation, and of the world, have succumbed to a reality television ontology, the poems collected in this volume offer the terra firma of imaginative empathy only available to us through poetry. This anthology contains work from a variety of aesthetic stances, from poets whose personal backgrounds reflect the vibrant multiplicity of our democratic vistas at their most resplendent. These voices counter alternative facts and fake news with the earned communion and the restorative utterance of the lyric and of the narrative. Proceeds from this anthology will be donated to The National Immigration Law Center.
Publisher: New York Quarterly Books
THE GOLDEN SHOVEL ANTHOLOGY
The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes.
The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly encoded to enable both a horizontal reading of the new poem and vertical reading down the right-hand margin of Brooks’s original. An array of writers—including Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Nikki Giovani, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets.
Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes.
The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly encoded to enable both a horizontal reading of the new poem and vertical reading down the right-hand margin of Brooks’s original. An array of writers—including Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Nikki Giovani, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets.
Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
READ AMERICA(S): AN ANTHOLOGY
With this anthology, the Locked Horn Press editors offer a collection of poetry and commentary that attempts to grapple with the complexities of America(s). Our hope is that these poems will inspire readers to ask: what is/are America(s)? What are its boundaries? Where is it? Is it real? What language does it speak? Am I a part of it? Apart from it? Read America(s)includes poetry by Elizabeth Acevedo, Derrick Weston Brown, Jericho Brown, Jennifer Chang, Cynthia Cruz, Kyle Dargan, Meg Day, Natalie Diaz, Camille Dungy, Tarfia Faizullah, Carmen Giménez Smith, francine j. harris, Bob Hicok, Lizz Huerta, Ishion Hutchinson, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Ilya Kaminsky, Thomas Lux, Adrian Matejka, Erika Meitner, Michael Mlekoday, David Mura, Angel Nafis, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Patrick Rosal, Craig Santos Perez, Matthew Shenoda, Richard Siken, Brian Teare, Truth Thomas, Brian Turner, Sarah Vap, Monika Zobel and numerous other poets.
Publisher: Locked Horn Press
With this anthology, the Locked Horn Press editors offer a collection of poetry and commentary that attempts to grapple with the complexities of America(s). Our hope is that these poems will inspire readers to ask: what is/are America(s)? What are its boundaries? Where is it? Is it real? What language does it speak? Am I a part of it? Apart from it? Read America(s)includes poetry by Elizabeth Acevedo, Derrick Weston Brown, Jericho Brown, Jennifer Chang, Cynthia Cruz, Kyle Dargan, Meg Day, Natalie Diaz, Camille Dungy, Tarfia Faizullah, Carmen Giménez Smith, francine j. harris, Bob Hicok, Lizz Huerta, Ishion Hutchinson, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Ilya Kaminsky, Thomas Lux, Adrian Matejka, Erika Meitner, Michael Mlekoday, David Mura, Angel Nafis, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Patrick Rosal, Craig Santos Perez, Matthew Shenoda, Richard Siken, Brian Teare, Truth Thomas, Brian Turner, Sarah Vap, Monika Zobel and numerous other poets.
Publisher: Locked Horn Press
THE BREAKBEAT POETS: NEW AMERICAN POETRY IN THE AGE OF HIP-HOP
Just as blues influenced the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz influenced the Black Arts Movement, Hip-Hop’s musical and cultural force has shaped the aesthetics of and given rise to a new generation of American poets.
Edited by poets Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall and Quraysh Ali Lansana,The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop is the first anthology of poetry from the Hip-Hop generation. Featuring over 70 poets, spanning four decades and representing scenes from across the country, the BreakBeat Poets are multi-generational and multi-racial. They are the real-life documentarians of the late 20th and 21st century, employing traditional and wildstyle poetics to narrate a new country and city landscape.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Just as blues influenced the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz influenced the Black Arts Movement, Hip-Hop’s musical and cultural force has shaped the aesthetics of and given rise to a new generation of American poets.
Edited by poets Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall and Quraysh Ali Lansana,The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop is the first anthology of poetry from the Hip-Hop generation. Featuring over 70 poets, spanning four decades and representing scenes from across the country, the BreakBeat Poets are multi-generational and multi-racial. They are the real-life documentarians of the late 20th and 21st century, employing traditional and wildstyle poetics to narrate a new country and city landscape.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2014
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the enormously popular young adult series A Series of Unfortunate Events, takes over as editor for this volume. He will work with the students of 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs to compile new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and other category-defying gems.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the enormously popular young adult series A Series of Unfortunate Events, takes over as editor for this volume. He will work with the students of 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs to compile new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and other category-defying gems.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
THE NEW CENSUS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY
"What these poets are saying is that we are as old as our language and yet we are young as what we need to say. We rehearse these versions of ourselves: we celebrate our own and everyone else’s birth. Every good line isn’t our own. The world is large. What isn’t ours? Ask who can think of themselves without thinking of Whitman. And who can think of Whitman without thinking of themselves? Contemporary American poetry is big. It is loud and innovative and mutating, and its poets are busy doing the work we need to remember what its like to be here in the first place." ~Columbia Poetry Reviews
Publisher: Rescue Press
"What these poets are saying is that we are as old as our language and yet we are young as what we need to say. We rehearse these versions of ourselves: we celebrate our own and everyone else’s birth. Every good line isn’t our own. The world is large. What isn’t ours? Ask who can think of themselves without thinking of Whitman. And who can think of Whitman without thinking of themselves? Contemporary American poetry is big. It is loud and innovative and mutating, and its poets are busy doing the work we need to remember what its like to be here in the first place." ~Columbia Poetry Reviews
Publisher: Rescue Press
THE HIDE-AND-SEEK MUSE: ANNOTATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY
"In his Introduction to The Hide-and-Seek Muse, Nick Flynn refers to the book as a kind of personal breviary: 'Everything, it seems, is a daily practice, or at least everything that matters to me. I get the sense that this book in your hands could become part of a daily practice . . . could be a way to infuse poetry into every moment, or to simply reveal how it is already infused, if we can find the thresholds.' Portable enough to carry along or to heft while reading in bed or bath, The Hide-and-Seek Muse is the kind of book that lends itself to all manner of delving—a quick dip in to savor one poem, or a longer foray into a section on poetry and illness, or poetry and the seasons. The book is structured to reward what Anne Carson would call the dabbling, 'promiscuous reader' as well as the reader who wants to read from start to finish." ~Lisa Spaar, editor
Publisher: Drunken Boat Media
"In his Introduction to The Hide-and-Seek Muse, Nick Flynn refers to the book as a kind of personal breviary: 'Everything, it seems, is a daily practice, or at least everything that matters to me. I get the sense that this book in your hands could become part of a daily practice . . . could be a way to infuse poetry into every moment, or to simply reveal how it is already infused, if we can find the thresholds.' Portable enough to carry along or to heft while reading in bed or bath, The Hide-and-Seek Muse is the kind of book that lends itself to all manner of delving—a quick dip in to savor one poem, or a longer foray into a section on poetry and illness, or poetry and the seasons. The book is structured to reward what Anne Carson would call the dabbling, 'promiscuous reader' as well as the reader who wants to read from start to finish." ~Lisa Spaar, editor
Publisher: Drunken Boat Media
ANGLES OF ASCENT: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
More than seventy poets are represented in this innovative new anthology of African American poetry since the 1960s. This is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to political, social, and economic struggles, and instead devote themselves to the art of their poems and to the ideas they embody. These poets bear witness to the interior landscapes of their own individual selves or examine the private or personal worlds of invented personae and, therefore, of human beings living in our modern and postmodern worlds.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
More than seventy poets are represented in this innovative new anthology of African American poetry since the 1960s. This is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to political, social, and economic struggles, and instead devote themselves to the art of their poems and to the ideas they embody. These poets bear witness to the interior landscapes of their own individual selves or examine the private or personal worlds of invented personae and, therefore, of human beings living in our modern and postmodern worlds.
Publisher: W. W. Norton