next time i teach i'm going to use the third edition of helen vendler's poems, poets, poetry: an introduction and anthology, which comes out in october.
65 new poems make it one of the most inclusive introductory collections available. New additions include:
important canonical poets such as John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and Elizabeth Bishop;
well-known 20th century poets such as Charles Simic, Margaret Atwood, and Lucie Brock-Broido;
culturally diverse poets such as Victoria Chang, Eduardo Corral, Terrance Hayes, Srikanth Reddy;
new contemporary voices such as Shara McCallum, D.A. Powell, and Timothy Donnelly.
chills went down my spine when i found my poem in the table of contents. how cool is that?? freaking cool, i tell you!!!
Now, I just need to publish my first book. Ha.
12 comments:
Felicidades!
Holy cow, E! That is so, so cool!!!
One more reason to adore the divine Ms V
Congratulations!
That's excellent!
SWEET!
Congrats, Eduardo, but was this the first you knew? Surely the publishers contacted you — even paid you?
You're in some incredible company. The ultimate company. Congratulations. If I were you, I wouldn't be able to stop screaming, "Helen Vendler knows I exist! Helen Vendler knows I exist!"
That's what I was thinking, Diane.
You didn't know about this, Eduardo?
First Ploughshares and now this? Hmmmm...
Eduardo, that's fantastic! Many congratulations!
Congratulations! This is wonderful news!
thanks, guys and gals! use the anthology and teach my poem. ha.
diane and keith,
i'm a terrible prose writer; my post does make it sound like i didn't know about it, but i did know my poem had been picked for the anthology.
one of the readers for the anthology contacted me about a year and a half ago and asked me to send some poems. i sent some poems; she forwarded the poems to mizz vendler. and she picked one. simple as that.
Congratulations, Eduardo! Woohoo!
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