The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is madeup exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. Thepoems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that havebeen nominated by the country's top literary magazines and writing programs, as wellas some two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online competition.The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspectiveavailable on the continuing vitality of poetry as it's being practicedtoday. "Distributed for the Samovar Press incooperation with Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University ofVirginia