The Best American Poetry 2025

The Best American Poetry 2025Guest edited by Terence WinchNEA Fellow and editor of the pick of the week on the Best American Poetry blogthe 2025 edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman, celebrating more than three decades of poetic excellence. For thirty eight years, The Best American Poetry series has won widespread acclaim as the nations most influential and vital poetry anthology. BAP, which has inspired similar ventures abroad, has garnered plaudits

Soon Hazel is dragged into the glamor and romance of a court where everyone has something to hide

into the shagbark / hickory

But Harriett’s life is far from over—in fact

She wants to graduate from high school and go to college

to female pleasure

Fred decides throwing herself into work might actually be what's best for her

who ran from the scene

promises to be just as delightful as summers past—except

flawed characters

and beauty of fungi to life as never before

is under siege

risking and even giving their lives for science