The Best American Poetry 2000 [SEP] editor
The Best American Poetry 2000
The Best American Poetry 2000 (), a volume in "The Best American Poetry series", was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Rita Dove.
In her introduction, Dove defended the idea that poets should be politically committed: "[W]e poets cannot afford to shit ourselves away in our convalescent homes, boning our specialized fools, while the barbarians — no matter if they are religious fanatics, materialistic profitmongers, crazy silver-tongued niggas sleeping in libraries, or merely
A Collection of North American Prose Poetry", and "Beloit Fiction Journal".
Johnson is the founder and editor of" The Prose Poem: An International Journal", and the editor of "The Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal" (White Pine Press, 2000). He is contributing editor to "American Poetry Review", "Web del Sol", and "Slope", and teaches creative writing and children's literature at Providence College, Rhode Island, where he lives with his