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BETTERING AMERICAN POETRY IS AN ONGOING ACT OF RESISTANCE AND CELEBRATION.

BETTERING AMERICAN POETRY VOLUME 3 IS THE THIRD PROJECT IN THIS ANTHOLOGY SERIES, AND INCLUDES WORK BY:

Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie / Alfredo Aguilar / Kenzie Allen / Zaina Alsous / Hala Alyan / Nico Amatour / Kimberly Quiogue Andrews / Byron F. Aspaas / Zeina Azzam / denise bell / Anselm Berrigan / Julian Talamantez Brolaski / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo / Dorothy Chan / K-Ming Chang / Yujane Chen / Jennifer S. Cheng / Tiana Clark / Karla Cordero / Diana Marie Delgado / Trace DePass / Marcella Durand / Safia Elhillo / Hazem Fahmy / Roberto Carlos Garcia / Jacqui Germain / torrin a. greathous / Marwa Helal / Sakinah Hofler / Chloe Honum / Ashaki M. Jackson / Millissa Kingbird / E.J. Koh / Michael Leong / Keegan Lester / Casandra López / Sheila Maldonado / Albert Mobilio / Laura Mullen / Noor Ibn Najam / Nkosi Nkululeko / Isobel O’Hare / Precious Okoyomon / Kwame Opoku-Duku / Catalina Ouyang / Ösel Jessica Plante / Julian Randall / Linette Reeman / Hannah Rego / Jess Rizkallah / Raquel Salas Rivera / Maggie Smith / Dareen Tatour / Yermiyahu Ahron Taub / Paul Tran / Gena Turovskaya / Vanessa Angélica Villarreal / Joshua Whitehead / Tiffany Wu / John Yau / Timothy Yu / Joyce Zhou

Volume 3 Editors – George Abraham, Chen Chen, Sarah Clark, Kenning Jean-Paul García, Amy King, Hector Héctor Ramírez, Candace Williams, Erika T. Wurth, John Yau

Words of Support –

Bettering American Poetry is a poetic battle cry for resistance. Comprised of captivating voices that transcend borders and defy the limits of our time, this anthology rattles readers awake with scintillating truth and tough love.

–Jamia Wilson, Executive Director of the Feminist Press

Imagine this. A calling of our names, a murmuring of our ghosts, a shouting in our blood. Thank you, dear editors and poets, for burning through to bone, for acknowledging our cuts, for naming our skeletal struggles. Thank you for this edge of safety, for this bit of home.

–Ching-In Chen, author of The Heart’s Traffic and recombinant (winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Trans Poetry)

Here lives poetry that resembles a sticky dance floor. Poetry that is at once terraformed music and primal shout and wet kiss and sweaty palm. The “American” in Bettering American Poetry is a kind of ghoulish placeholder for whichever more rebellious, more enlivening world comes next. Pay close attention to the future maps and manifestos and mantras these poets have dreamed up. Join them in the club, in the brown/black/feminist/decolonial commons, in which everyone is where they are supposed to be.

–Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of This Wound is a World, winner of the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize

“A world in which more than one anthology annually presents the poems their editors loved best is better than a world in which readers have to wait many years for the odd tome-like anthology to appear and attempt to define contemporary poetry. These anthologies help readers to understand what’s happening in poetry, and they especially help beginning poets to recognize the community they are joining. Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3 includes work by some of the most exciting poets writing today, and—and this is of the utmost importance—it makes poetry’s visible community larger.”

–Shane McCrae, author of The Gilded Auction Block and In the Language of My Captor

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