Dear Amy,

I'd love to get a copy of the .pdf to possibly adopt/review.



Best,

J.R. 

JoNelle Toriseva

Assistant Professor of English

Director of English & Communication Arts

SUNY-GCC

B255, Humanities

One College Road

Batavia, NY 14020

Phone: (585) 343-0055 ext. 6627

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Subject: Bettering American Poetry (Vol 2) - Classroom Adoption / Review?



As a teacher, I work to remove the implication that poetry is written only by the famous, the privileged, the dead, the removed.



I want my students to read "I want to feed my heart to the birds" (Siaara Freeman) and to suddenly be enthralled, to read "I chase Mr. Twain and pray for / our bodies exist for a reason. Another woman has your name" (Chia-Lun Chang) and realize poetry is here for them too, to read "...as the teacher / instructs, 'English only'; / & my grandmother / is an essay / on shame..." (Ariana Brown) and think, "poetry can challenge everything" and to read "there is no word for a body / that belongs nowhere" (Chrysanthemum Tran) and recognize poems say things like nothing else.



This volume does that. And more. Please contact me if you are interested in receiving a pdf sampler of Bettering American Poetry -Volume 2<https://www.betteringamericanpoetry.com/> to consider for classroom adoption or potentially to review.









The new anthology includes work from these marvelous poets:



George Abraham / Steven Alvarez / Ruth Awad / Cameron Awkward-Rich / Ari Banias / Samiya Bashir / Zeina Hashem Beck / Destiny O. Birdsong / Ariana Brown / Jericho Brown / Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello / Kayleb Rae Candrilli / Chia-Lun Chang / Hayan Charara / Leila Chatti / Chen Chen / 최Lindsay / Tiana Clark / Joey De Jesus / Demian DinéYazhi´ / jayy dodd / Anaïs Duplan / Tafisha A. Edwards / Justine el-Khazen / Siaara Freeman / Shamala Gallagher / Suzi F. Garcia / Hafizah Geter / torrin a. greathouse / Jacq Greyja / Paul Guest / Minal Hajratwala / Allison Hedge Coke / Marwa Helal / KOKUMỌ / Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada / Sade LaNay / Cecelia Rose LaPointe / Henry Wei Leung / Sarah Maria Medina / Kamilah Aisha Moon / Hieu Minh Nguyen / Christina Olivares / Wale Owoade / Xandria Phillips / Gabriel Ramirez / Justin Phillip Reed / Patrick Rosal / Nicole Sealey / Jess X. Snow / Christopher Soto / Nomi Stone / Lisa Summe / Chrysanthemum Tran / Lena Khalaf Tuffaha / Moss Angel the Undying / Vickie Vértiz / Vanessa Angelica Villarreal / Nikki Wallschlaeger / Rachel Jamison Webster / Candace Williams





The co-editors of the current Bettering anthology are:





Kaveh Akbar / jayy dodd / Joshua Jennifer Espinoza / Muriel Leung / Camille Rankine / Michael Wasson







With our best wishes,





Amy, Héctor and Sarah



https://www.betteringamericanpoetry.com/

<https://www.betteringamericanpoetry.com/>







Praise for Bettering American Poetry, Volume 2:





This anthology and its squad of editors better American poetry by gathering a diverse formation of poets who inspire us to read across difference, speak against power, and breathe through struggle.



-Craig Santos Perez, author of from unincorporated territory [lukao]



Bettering American Poetry is an explosive revelation of the arriving generation of American poets—arriving from every part of the landscape, bringing energies, gifts, and ways of seeing and saying of every kind. Plunge into its pages. See/hear the news of who we are.



-Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World



Thank you, editors, thank you, authors for utterly rearranging my cells. This is the only anthology with the word "American" I want to be a part of. A series I will return to, giddy. How desperately I need to experience how big a poem can be—what a gift you've given us—I'm beaming at you, poets—brutal and honey, whiplash and cry.



-TC Tolbert, author of Gephyromania and co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics



Some anthologies are important. Some are important and necessary. Resistance on every level to what is considered normal and acceptable is both important and necessary. It is the only way to breathe. This gathering helps us breathe. We need all the help we can get.



-John Yau, author of The Wild Children of William Bake(2017) and the forthcoming Bijoux in the Dark (2018)