"Best New Poets 2017" is here!
I can’t believe I finally get to hold this in my hands! Best New Poets 2017 is officially out, and my poem is inside—and sideways! (The lines were too long for it to fit in a normal-sized book. Hm, gotta think about that when I'm writing these things.)
Come celebrate with me and five brilliant poets from this anthology on Jan. 26, when we'll read at Open Books in Seattle at 7 p.m. Learn more about the event and RSVP on Facebook here.
Update: You can also check out an update I wrote after the Best New Poets reading.
These are the poets I'll be reading with on Jan. 26:
Sarah Bates has an MFA in Poetry from Northern Michigan University and currently teaches at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Meridian, Seneca Review, Poor Claudia, Hotel Amerika, Colorado Review, Rattle, and The Normal School, among others.
Christina Im is a Korean-American writer and student from Portland, Oregon. A Best of the Net nominee, she was named a 2017 Finalist in Writing (Poetry) by the National YoungArts Foundation. Her poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Adroit Journal, and The Blueshift Journal, among others. In addition, her work has been recognized by Bennington College, Hollins University, Princeton University, and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Her poem “Meanwhile in America” was selected by Natalie Diaz for inclusion in Best New Poets 2017.
Alyssa Ogi is a writer and adjunct instructor in Portland, OR. She received her MFA from the University of Oregon, and her poetry can be found in The Crab Orchard Review, burntdistrict, and other journals.
Caitlin Roach is a poet from California currently living in the Southwest. She earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Provost Fellow and a recipient of a Postgraduate Fellowship. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2017, Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, West Branch, Copper Nickel, The Journal, Prelude, Handsome, and The Iowa Review. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she is an assistant professor-in-residence. More information can be found at caitlinroach.com.
Amanda Turner is the author of the chapbook Of Nectar, selected and introduced by A. Van Jordan for the 2015 Poetry Society of America ChapbookFellowship. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, she has taught poetry writing and composition at Santa Clara University and has served as an assistant poetry editor for Poetry Northwest. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, The Western Humanities Review, COLUMBIA: A Journal of Literature and Art, The Sycamore Review, Fourteen Hills, and other publications. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and daughter.