Whether Quan Barry and Dan Chiasson writing of nothingness in the continental key, or reflections by Katrina Vandenberg and Ben Lerner on art and language, or Morri Creech’s and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ meditations on the American past, this landmark volume offers an unique – and youthful – window on “the ample and important field of contemporary American poetry” (H.L. Hix, from the “Introduction”).

Featuring Sherman Alexie, Kazim Ali, Craig Arnold, Quan Barry, Stephen Burt, Dan Chiasson, Morri Creech, Jenny Factor, Lilah Hegnauer, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Devin Johnston, Bhanu Kapil, David Keplinger, Ben Lerner, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lisa Olstein, Kevin Prufer, Mary Quade, Paisley Rekdal, Tracy K. Smith, Juliana Spahr, A.E. Stallings, Donna Stonecipher, Mary Szybist, Diane Thiel, Natasha Trethewey, Katrina Vandenberg, Christian Wiman, Kevin Young, and Rachel Zucker.

This publication is part of an international literary exchange between the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States.