''The Best American Poetry 1995'', a volume in ''
The Best American Poetry series
''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.
Background
The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...
'', was edited by
David Lehman
David Lehman (born June 11, 1948[David Lehman]
at poets.org) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and li ...
and by guest editor
Richard Howard.
For this edition of the series, Howard announced that "poets whose work has appeared three or more times in this series are here and now ineligible, as are all seven former editors of the series".
Poets and poems included
See also
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1995 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
*February 16 – It is announced that 300 poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been discovered.
*February 17 – Sot ...
Notes
External links
Web page for contents of the book with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
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