Read: The Best American Poetry (2020) by David Lehman, edited by Paisley Rekdal
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Independence Day reminds us that despite challenging times, there is power in the American creative spirit to help inspire hope. DAN AHWA
The popular anthology series gets an update for the new decade featuring some of the year’s most remarkable poems and poets. This year’s version is guest-edited by Utah’s poet laureate, Paisley Rekdal, whom the Los Angeles Times called “a poet of observation and history [who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries”.
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