From the Publisher: This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem-the hybrid-a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration....

From its humble beginnings at Chicago's Green Mill Tavern to an annual convergence featuring hundreds of poets from more than 50 cities, poetry slams - the Olympics of Poetry - have become a cultural phenomenon. This book documents ten years of these unprecedented literary events with details on hosting your own slam, winning strategies, tips for memorization, and other informative essarys, as well as 100 of the best slam-winning poems ever!

Contains selections written by over 150 women authors from English-speaking countries. Ranges from the fourteenth century to the present.

From the Publisher: The result of a collaboration between Sydney's Macquarie University and International PEN Sydney Centre, and funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Research Council, The Literature of Australia gathers the most distinctive and most significant of the nation's writing. Highlights include: Coverage of over two hundred years of literature in all genres, from the 1700s to the present, and over 500 entries from...

"Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer 'We Want it All : An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics' as an experiment into how far literature, written from an identitarian standpoint, can go as a fellow traveler with social movements and revolutionary demands. Writing in dialogue with emancipatory political movements, the intergenerational writers assembled here imagine an altogether overturned world in poems that pursue the particular and multiple...