The Best American Poetry 2006, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman

David Lehman

David Lehman is a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry series. He teaches at The New School in New York City.-Career:...

 (general editor), and poet Billy Collins

Billy Collins

Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...

, guest editor.

The volume received some negative reviews. Ray McDaniel in The Constant Critic wrote that "Collins’s introduction to the Best American Poetry 2006 is indisputably bullshit ... The problem, however, is not the bullshit itself, but the consequence of the bullshit for the poems unfortunate enough to meet Collins’s criteria, some of which are good, and don’t deserve to be esteemed by Collins, who has once more refused to give us any reason to believe he is something more than an idiot, halfway to an idiot's best guess at clever." http://www.constantcritic.com/archive.cgi?rev=Ray_McDaniel&name=The%20Best%20American%20Poetry%202006. A review in the RATTLE

RATTLE

RATTLE is an award-winning poetry magazine based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1994, the magazine is published by the Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation. Established writers such as Philip Levine, Jane Hirshfield, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Gregory Orr, and others have appeared in RATTLE,...

by G. Tod Stone stated that "[w]hat establishment-order literati like Lehman and Collins are succeeding in doing, more than anything else, is keeping American poetry from being the best." http://www.rattle.com/ereviews/bap2006.htm

On the other hand, and more positively, James Owens wrote in the Pedestal Review that "[r]eaders who care about poetry need The Best American Poetry 2006. Get it. Read it. Just don’t stop there." http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/Content/cb.asp?cbid=5124; writing in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Marion K. Stocking, remarked that "f a selection of the poets in Collins’s collection went on the road with their poems they should be reading to packed houses.". http://www.bpj.org/poems/bksbrief_57-2.html

Poets and poems included

Poet	Poem	Publication(s) where poem previously appeared
Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio is an award-winning American poet and novelist.-Life:Addonizio is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie....	"Verities"	Poetry Poetry (magazine) Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately...
Dick Allen Dick Allen Richard Anthony Allen is a former Major League Baseball player and R&B singer. He played first and third base and outfield in Major League Baseball and ranked among his sport's top offensive producers of the 1960s and early 1970s...	"See the Pyramids Along the Nile"	Boulevard Boulevard (magazine) Boulevard magazine, published by St. Louis University, is an American literary magazine that publishes award-winning prose and poetry. Boulevard has been called "one of the half-dozen best literary journals" by Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman in The Philadelphia Inquirer.- Overview :Richard Burgin...
Craig Arnold Craig Arnold Craig Arnold was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, Shells , was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets...	from "Couple from Hell"	Barrow Street Barrow Street (magazine) Barrow Street is a twice-a-year American poetry magazine founded in 1998 and based in New York City. The small journal has published prominent poets and its poems have been reprinted in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry series....
John Ashbery John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...	"A Worldly Country"	The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
Jesse Ball Jesse Ball Jesse Ball is an American poet and novelist. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short prose, and drawings.-Education and Early Interests:...	"Speech in a Chamber"	The Paris Review
Krista Benjamin Krista Benjamin Krista Benjamin is an American poet and writer. Her poem, “Letter from My Ancestors” was selected by Guest Editor Billy Collins for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2006. Additional poems and stories appear in The Sun, Margie, Minnesota Review, Pearl , and Phoebe, among other journals...	"Letter from My Ancestors"	Margie
Ilya Bernstein	"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"	Fulcrum
Gaylord Brewer	"Apologia to the Blue Tit"	River Styx
Tom Christopher Tom Christopher Tom Christopher is an American artist known for his expressionist urban paintings, mostly of New York City.Critics generally have received his work in a positive light; it has been described as “exploring the many aspects of man’s struggle in an urban environment” with “a blaze of expressionistic...	"Rhetorical Figures"	Hayden's Ferry Review Hayden's Ferry Review Hayden's Ferry Review is a well-regarded internationally distributed American literary magazine, published semi-annually by Arizona State University. Founded in 1986, the Review is headquartered in the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU...
Laura Cronk	"Sestina for the Newly Married"	LIT LIT LIT is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:* Lambda Iota Tau, an honor society in literature* Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur* Liaoning Institute of Technology, China* Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland...
Carl Dennis Carl Dennis Carl Dennis , an American poet and educator. His book Practical Gods won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.-Life and work:...	"Our Generation"	The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review is a Literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959...
Stephen Dobyns Stephen Dobyns Stephen J. Dobyns is an American poet and novelist born in Orange, New Jersey, and residing in Westerly, RI.-Life:Was born on February 19, 1941 in Orange, New Jersey to Lester L., a minister, and Barbara Johnston...	"Toward Some Bright Moment"	American Poetry Review
Denise Duhamel Denise Duhamel -Background:Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at Bucknell University...	"Please Don't Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen"	Columbia Poetry Review
Stephen Dunn Stephen Dunn Stephen Dunn is an American poet. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dunn completed his B.A. in English at...	"The Land of Is"	The Georgia Review The Georgia Review The Georgia Review is an award-winning, nationally respected literary journal founded in 1947 that includes poetry, art, fiction, essays and reviews. It won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1986 and the National Magazine Award for Essay in 2007...
Beth Ann Fennelly	"Souvenir"	Shenandoah Shenandoah (magazine) Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review is a major literary magazine published by Washington and Lee University.- History :Originally a student-run quarterly, Shenandoah has evolved into a triannual literary journal edited by author R. T...
Megan Gannon	"List of First Lines"	Third Coast
Amy Gerstler Amy Gerstler Amy Gerstler is an American poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - The True Bride and Dearest Creature, .Described by the Los...	"For My Niece Sidney, Age Six"	American Poetry Review
Sarah Gorham Sarah Gorham Sarah Gorham is an American poet, writer and publisher.She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1954. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her BA in 1976 from Antioch College....	"Bust of a Young Boy in the Snow"	Five Points
George Green George Green George Green was a British mathematical physicist who wrote An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism...	"The Death of Winckelmann"	The New Criterion The New Criterion The New Criterion is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books...
Debora Greger Debora Greger Debora Greger is an award-winning American poet as well as a visual artist.She was raised in Richland, Washington....	"My First Mermaid"	The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review is a Literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959...
Eamon Grennan Eamon Grennan Eamon Grennan is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He was the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College until his retirement in 2004....	"The Curve"	Five Points
Daniel Gutstein Daniel Gutstein Dan Gutstein is an American writer who has published two collections of writing, non/fiction and Bloodcoal & Honey , as well as poetry, fiction shorts, fiction, drama, and memoir widely in literary magazines, and who has taught poetry and fiction writing, composition, and...	"Monsieur Pierre est mort"	Rhino
R. S. Gwynn R. S. Gwynn R. S. Gwynn is an American poet, and anthologist associated with New Formalism.-Life:He graduated from Davidson College in 1969, where he won the Vereen Bell Award for creative writing twice, played varsity football on a dubious knee, and was a member of the school's championship team on the...	from "Sects from A to Z"	Poetry Poetry (magazine) Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately...
Rachel Hadas Rachel Hadas Rachel Hadas is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent essay collection is Classics: Essays , and her most recent poetry collection is The Ache of Appetite . Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants, the O.B...	"Bird, Weasel, Fountain"	The Cincinnati Review
Mark Halliday Mark Halliday Mark Halliday is a noted American poet, professor and critic. He is author of five collections of poetry, most recently Keep This Forever...	"Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women"	Michigan Quarterly Review Michigan Quarterly Review The Michigan Quarterly Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.The quarterly publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to...
Jim Harrison Jim Harrison James "Jim" Harrison is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway...	"On the Way to the Doctor's"	New Letters New Letters (magazine) New Letters, the name it has been published under since 1970, is one of the oldest literary magazines in the United States and continues to publish award-winning poems and fiction.-History & Editors:...
Robert Hass Robert Hass Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...	"The Problem of Describing Color"	The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
Christian Hawkey Christian Hawkey Christian Hawkey is an American poet.-Life and work:Christian Hawkey graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst....	"Hour"	CROWD
Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...	"Talk"	Gulf Coast
Bob Hicok Bob Hicok -Life:Hicok is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business...	"My career as a director"	The Gettysburg Review The Gettysburg Review The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Work appearing in the magazine often is reprinted in "best-of" anthologies and receives awards....
Katia Kapovich Katia Kapovich Katia Kapovich is a Russian poet now living in the United States. She writes in both Russian and English.-Life and career:...	"The Ferry"	Harvard Review Harvard Review The Harvard Review is a literary magazine published by the Harvard University library system.Its origins can be dated to 1986, when Stratis Haviaras, the curator of the libraries' poetry room founded a magazine called Erato to publicize poetry room authors.The first issue included a poem by Seamus...
Laura Kasischke	"At Gettysburg"	New England Review New England Review The New England Review is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. Founded in New Hampshire in 1978 by poet, novelist, editor and professor Sydney Lea and poet Jay Parini, it was published as New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly from 1982 , until 1991 as a formal...
Joy Katz Joy Katz Joy Katz is an American poet, who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.She is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, The Garden Room...	"Just a second ago"	The Cincinnati Review
David Kirby David Kirby (poet) David Kirby is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University . His most recent book is The Temple Gate Called Beautiful, published in 2008 by Alice James Books...	"Seventeen Ways from Tuesday"	Subtropics Subtropics The subtropics are the geographical and climatical zone of the Earth immediately north and south of the tropical zone, which is bounded by the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, at latitudes 23.5°N and 23.5°S...
Jennifer L. Knox	"The Laws of Probability in Levittown"	The Hat
Ron Koertge	"Found"	Iodine Poetry Journal
John Koethe John Koethe John Koethe is an American poet and essayist. Originally from San Diego, California, he was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University, and is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee....	"Sally's Hair"	The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review is a Literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959...
Mark Kraushaar	"Tonight"	The Gettysburg Review The Gettysburg Review The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Work appearing in the magazine often is reprinted in "best-of" anthologies and receives awards....
Julie Larios	"Double Abecedarian: Please Give Me"	The Georgia Review The Georgia Review The Georgia Review is an award-winning, nationally respected literary journal founded in 1947 that includes poetry, art, fiction, essays and reviews. It won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1986 and the National Magazine Award for Essay in 2007...
Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux is an American poet.-Biography:Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the University of Oregon...	"Demographic"	The Alaska Quarterly Review The Alaska Quarterly Review The Alaska Quarterly Review is a biannual literary journal founded in 1980 by Ronald Spatz and James Liszka at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Ronald Spatz serves as editor-in-chief...
Reb Livingston	"That's Not Butter"	MiPoesias
Thomas Lux Thomas Lux -Biography:Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. He was, according to those who knew him in high school, very good at baseball,...	"Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals"	Five Points
Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...	"Blenheim"	Five Points
Marilyn Nelson Marilyn Nelson Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator and children's book author. She is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks.-Early life:...	"Albert Hinckley"	The Cincinnati Review
Richard Newman Richard Newman Richard Newman is a voice actor with numerous voice roles in Transformers cartoons.-Career:Newman started his career in voice acting in Beast Wars voicing Rhinox and the Vok...	"Briefcase of Sorrow"	Crab Orchard Review
Mary Oliver Mary Oliver Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...	"The Poet with His Face in His Hands"	The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
Danielle Pafunda	"Small Town Rocker"	The Canary
Mark Pawlak Mark Pawlak Mark Pawlak is a Polish-American poet and educator.-Early years:Mark Pawlak was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1948, into an ethnic Polish working class family...	"The Sharper the Berry"	New American Writing New American Writing New American Writing is a once-a-year American literary magazine emphasizing contemporary American poetry, including a range of innovative contemporary writing. The magazine is published in association with San Francisco State University. New American Writing is published by OINK! Press, a...
Bao Phi Bao Phi Bao Phi, a Vietnamese American spoken word artist, writer and community activist living in Minnesota.Bao Phi was born in Sai Gon, Viet Nam, the youngest son to two mixed blood Chinese and Vietnamese parents who raised him in the Phillips neighborhood of South Minneapolis.A graduate of Macalester...	"Race"	Michigan Quarterly Review Michigan Quarterly Review The Michigan Quarterly Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.The quarterly publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to...
Donald Platt Donald Platt (poet) Donald Platt is a poet and professor of English at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Recently, he was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.-Bibliography:...	"Two Poets Meet"	Iowa Review
Lawrence Raab Lawrence Raab -Life:He graduated from Middlebury College, in 1968 and from Syracuse University with an MA, in 1972.He taught at American University 1970-71, University of Michigan, and Williams College 1976 to present...	"The Great Poem"	Nightsun
Betsy Retallack	"Roadside Special"	Endicott Review
Liz Rosenberg Liz Rosenberg Liz Rosenberg is an American poet, novelist, children's book author, and book reviewer. She is currently a professor of English at Binghamton University, and in previous years has taught at Colgate University, Sarah Lawrence College, Hamilton College, Bennington College, and Hollins College...	"The Other Woman's Point of View"	The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review is a Literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959...
J. Allyn Rosser J. Allyn Rosser Jill Allyn Rosser , who published under J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American poet.-Life:She grew up in Sparta, New Jersey....	"Discounting Lynn"	failbetter.com Failbetter failbetter is a quarterly online literary magazine.-Founding:Founded in 2000 by Thom Didato and David McLendon, the magazine originally evolved from a Brooklyn-based reading series that featured many writers from the Gordon Lish school of writing. McLendon left failbetter in 2003 to pursue his own...
Kay Ryan Kay Ryan Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. Ryan was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate, from 2008 to 2010...	"Thin"	Poetry Poetry (magazine) Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately...
Mary Jo Salter Mary Jo Salter Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.-Life:...	"A Phone Call to the Future"	The Georgia Review The Georgia Review The Georgia Review is an award-winning, nationally respected literary journal founded in 1947 that includes poetry, art, fiction, essays and reviews. It won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1986 and the National Magazine Award for Essay in 2007...
Vejay Sheshadri	"Memoir"	The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
Alan Shapiro Alan Shapiro Alan Shapiro is an American poet and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of nine poetry books, including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and The Dead Alive and Busy. He received the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles...	"Misjudged Fly Ball"	The Cincinnati Review
Charles Simic Charles Simic Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...	"House of Cards"	The Virginia Quarterly Review The Virginia Quarterly Review The Virginia Quarterly Review is a literary magazine in the United States. It was founded in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman...
Gerald Stern Gerald Stern Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...	"Homesick"	Ecotone Ecotone An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes but different patches of the landscape, such as forest and grassland. It may be narrow or wide, and it may be local or regional...
James Tate James Tate (writer) James Tate is an American poet whose work has earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...	"The Loser"	Crazyhorse Crazyhorse (magazine) Crazyhorse is an American magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, and essays. It is published twice yearly by the Department of English and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina...
Sue Ellen Thompson	"Body English"	Connecticut Review
Tony Towle Tony Towle Tony Towle is a native New Yorker and poet. He began writing poetry in 1960 and John Ashbery has referred to him as "one of the New York School's best-kept secrets"-Personal life:Towle currently lives in New York City with actress, Diane Tyler...	"Misprision"	LIT LIT LIT is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:* Lambda Iota Tau, an honor society in literature* Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur* Liaoning Institute of Technology, China* Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland...
Alison Townsend Alison Townsend -Life:She grew up in New York. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.Her work has appeared in Calyx, Clackamas Literary Review, Fourth Genre, New Letters, The North American Review, and The Southern Review....	"What I Never Told You About the Abortion"	Margie
Paul Violi Paul Violi Paul Randolph Violi was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Splurge, Fracas, The Curious Builder, Likewise, and most recently Overnight...	"Counterman"	Shiny International
Ellen Bryant Voigt Ellen Bryant Voigt Ellen Bryant Voigt is an American poet. She has published six collections of poetry and a collection of craft essays. Her poetry collection Shadow of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and Kyrie was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poetry has been...	"Harvesting the Cows"	The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review is a Literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959...
David Wagoner David Wagoner David Russell Wagoner is an American poet who has written many poetry collections and ten novels. Two of his books have been nominated for National Book Awards....	"The Driver"	Margie
Charles Harper Webb Charles Harper Webb Charles Harper Webb is an American poet, professor, psychotherapist and former singer and guitarist. His most recent poetry collection is Shadow Ball . His honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in The Best American...	"Prayer to Tear the Sperm-Dam Down"	The Atlanta Review
C. K. Williams C. K. Williams Charles Kenneth Williams is an American poet. Senior poet Paul Muldoon has described him as “one of the most distinguished poets of his generation.” -Biography:...	"Ponies"	The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,...
Terence Winch Terence Winch -Biography:Terence Patrick Winch was born in New York City in 1945. He grew up in an Irish neighborhood in the Bronx, the child of Irish immigrants. In 1971, he moved to Washington, DC, where he became involved with the Mass Transit readings in Dupont Circle. He published the first issue of Mass...	"Sex Elegy"	Verse
Susan Wood	"Gratification"	Five Points
Franz Wright Franz Wright -Background:Wright graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category....	"A Happy Thought"	FIELD FIELD (magazine) FIELD magazine is a twice-yearly literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and focusing on contemporary poetry and poetics....
Robert Wrigley Robert Wrigley Robert Wrigley is an American poet and educator.His most recent book is Beautiful Country'. Other collections include Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems Lives of the Animals ; Reign of Snakes ; In the Bank of Beautiful Sins ; What My Father Believed ; Moon in a...	"Religion"	The Gettysburg Review The Gettysburg Review The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Work appearing in the magazine often is reprinted in "best-of" anthologies and receives awards....
David Yezzi David Yezzi David Dalton Yezzi is an American poet, actor and executive editor of The New Criterion.Yezzi is a former associate editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review and a former poetry editor at The New Criterion....	"The Call"	New England Review New England Review The New England Review is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. Founded in New Hampshire in 1978 by poet, novelist, editor and professor Sydney Lea and poet Jay Parini, it was published as New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly from 1982 , until 1991 as a formal...
Dean Young Dean Young (poet) Dean Young is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derives influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets,...	"Clam Ode"	POOL

External links

• Best American Poetry 2006 Web page
• Best American Poetry Web site
• http://www.bpj.org/poems/bksbrief_57-2.html Marion K. Stocking's review in The Beloit Poetry Journal