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Home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays that explain how and why each poet chose a poem as their "personal best." The anthology offers a provocative and surprising range of responses in which readers will find poetic context for the life of a poem and revelatory insight into the unique, personal experiences that shape the writing process itself. Including works from a wide variety of voices both new and well-established, Personal Best is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.
About the Author
Erin Belieu was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and received graduate degrees in poetry and literature from The Ohio State University and Boston University. She is the author of Infanta, winner of the National Poetry Series; One Above & One Below, which received the Midland Authors Prize; Black Box, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Slant Six, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was chosen as a New York Times' critics' 10 favorite books of 2014. Her most recent book, Come-Hither Honeycomb, is published in February 2021. All of her poetry collections are published by Copper Canyon Press. Her poems have appeared in places such as The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Slate, Tin House, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Willow Springs, and The New York Times, and have been selected for multiple appearances in The Best American Poetry anthology series. Belieu is a well known political activist in the literary world and founder of the literary resistance network, Writers Resist. Belieu was for many years the poetry and managing editor at AGNI magazine, and was the founding editor of Hotel Amerika. Belieu teaches for the MFA/Ph.D. writing program at University of Houston, as well as the low residency MFA program at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
