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Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each vo... Read More about The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series)

"A document of not only how to make a poem, but how to live in a world where language often fails us." --Ada Lim n, U.S. Poet Laureate Matthew Zapruder had an idea: to write a poem as slowly and intentionally as possible, to preserve its drafts, and record the painstaking, elusively transcendent stu... Read More about Story of a Poem: A Memoir

From one of contemporary poetry’s most playful and original minds, an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century hopes and disillusions.“Your dreams have no hidden agenda to be wise they are made to be forgotten so something can be known” I Love Hearin... Read More about I Love Hearing Your Dreams: Poems

As seen in the The New York Times Book Review "In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder's fifth collection grapples with fatherhood as well as larger questions of influence and inheritance and obligation." --The New York Times ... Read More about Father's Day

From one of contemporary poetry's most playful and original minds, an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century disillusions."Your dreams have no hidden agenda to be wise they are made to be forgotten so something can be known" I Love Hearing Your Drea... Read More about I Love Hearing Your Dreams: Poems

This Fiftieth Anniversary edition celebrates one of the most ground-breaking books in American poetry. When first published in 1967, W.S. Merwin's The Lice was ground-breaking. Its visionary urgency directly engaged the nexus of aesthetics and morality, exerting an immediate and lasting effect on th... Read More about The Lice