Don Bogen: The latest annual Best American Poetry anthology is just out, and The Cincinnati Review is keeping up its tradition of being well represented. Five of our contributors let us know their poems had been accepted and were duly praised on the website, but it turns out there were actually seven poems from our pages in the anthology. I guess we made the same mistake as Wordsworth, but, as far as I know, none of our contributors is lying in the churchyard. Here they are:
Julianna Baggott, “For Furious Nursing Baby”
Joseph Chapman, “Sparrow”
Joy Katz, “Death Is Something Entirely Else”
James Kimbrell, “How to Tie a Knot”
Eric Pankey, “Sober Then Drunk Again”
Dean Rader, “Self-Portrait as Dido to Aeneas”
Don Russ, “Girl with Gerbil”
Now for some stats: Seven is a record for us–we are tied with The New Yorker for the highest number of poems in the anthology. Since this year’s edition includes seventy-five poems from forty different journals, The Cincinnati Review is coming in at just under 10% of the total work in the anthology. Of literary magazines associated with colleges and universities, our closest competitor is New England Review with four poems; The Gettysburg Review had two poems, The Southern Review and The Kenyon Review a poem each. Congratulations to the poets we’ve published, to the grad-student volunteers who read for us, to Managing Editor Nicola Mason, and to the Assistant and Associate Editors involved in the two issues from which work was chosen: Peter Grimes, Heather Hamilton, Christian Moody, and Matt McBride. Great job, all!
