Edited by Dana Teen Lomax
Gualala Arts (2022)
The Beautiful: Poets Reimagine a Nation highlights the United States’ foremost poets, one from each U.S. state, district, commonwealth, and territory, all celebrating the beauty around them. The result is a multi-generational, multimedia anthology of a deeply personal nature, one filled with collective wisdom.
Praise for The Beautiful:
"Each author here, each photographer here, each moment here can change our lives." — Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate
Review:
"This is an untraditional offering, and entries range widely in type and scope; the collective effort is both peripatetic and profound. An optimistic, wise collection that offers the pleasures of discovery." — Kirkus Reviews
edited by Dana Teen Lomax
Black Radish Books (2014)
Creative Work Fund Grant Recipient; Winner of the 2014 Johns Hopkins University Press Lion & Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry
Review:
A collection of original prose and poetry that ranges from thoughtful to provocative and from experimental to really far-out. Poet and mother Lomax assembled these avant-garde writings from contributors around the country as a showcase for their talents and to encourage children to literally take their own pencils outside proscribed boundaries. Adventurous writings for literary risk-takers and thrill-seekers. — Kirkus Reviews
Edited by Michael Cross and Andrew Rippeon
Queue Books (2008)
Review:
“A relentless refrain heard all throughout Building is a Process / Light is an Element: Essays and Excursions for Myung Mi Kim, edited by Michael Cross and Andrew Rippeon, comes from a line in [Myung Mi Kim’s] Dura: ‘Propose: constant translation.’ This proposal fills the book with those attempting to document their own impressions of Kim’s inquiries of, off, and on the page.” —
Francisco "Kokoy" Guevara
Edited by Devorah Major
City Lights (2002)
Poetry. In conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library, poet laureate devorah major made a public appeal for poems that explored the realities of people’s lives in a city as tough and tragic as it is beautiful and exhilarating. This anthology collects the best of this poetry by celebrated writers, schoolchildren with fresh eyes, homeless people and students, perceptive elders and working people from every ethnicity and class. A cross section of the city’s voices offers a passionately experienced response to the city, the nation and the world.
Edited by Lauren Schiffman
Crack Press (2002)
Poetry by Stefani Barber, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Elise Ficarra, Jean Lieske, Lauren Schiffman, Sarah Rosenthal, Nicole Stefanko, and Erin Wilson.
Praise for hinge:
“BOAS forges and makes available a revolutionary model of intimacy, response, thinking, and community . . . This book is not a document. Rather, it documents with ardor, with responsibility, the confluence of writing and everyday life.” — Myung Mi Kim
”In hinge eight poets invent a place between narration and disjunction and speak from that hyper aware and dislodged position. Their porous poems travel everywhere in language that excites the breath / uttering that name. Like Adam, they name the world, and less oppressively!” — Robert Glück
”hinge is the site of imagination, experience, intellection, and emotion with an infrastructure of binding conversation . . [The book] presents a radically new set of relations between the work of individuals and the work of the collective. Don’t miss it!” — Norma Cole
Review:
“hinge questions our ability to know anything for sure, at the same time demonstrating a great belief in writing's usefulness in the search for meaning. Perhaps writing can never truly hold the chaos of the mind, or make sense of the thousand memories and sensations that shake us each moment. But … [I]t can provide a path for searching, a way to navigate between shifting unknowns and between past and present.”
— Rebecca Gopoian
