These New American Poets Are The Best Until 2012

As we all know, there can only be 50 Best New Poets in America per year. Don't hate the players, hate the FDA for creating that lousy poetry food pyramid in the first place.

And so we have this year's announcement of the Best New Poets, as selected by D.A. Powell.

To winnow this winnowing even winnowier, the folks over at Flavorwire have compiled the BEST of the best! One minute you have fifty best new American poets and then BOOM! Ten! Each entry comes with an author photo, a bio, and a blurb supreme.

For example (With a disclaimer first, of course):

The anthology will feature 50 new poems by 50 emerging poets, each chosen from a selection of work nominated by literary magazines and writing programs or submitted by the poets themselves. Eager for a whiff of our future poet laureate or literary game changer, we sifted through the internet for work by the talented poets to get ourselves a sneak peek of what we can expect from Best New Poets 2011. While we liked almost everything we found, we did hit upon ten poets whose work we particularly loved, whom we will now deem, based on our own subjective tastes, of course, the Best of the Best New Poets of 2011. Click through to check out our picks, but don’t be shy — there are 40 more poets whose work is just waiting to be explored.

And then, the example:

Brittany Cavallaro, “At the Illinois State Fair”

There is not a single spare word in Cavallaro’s poems: each sends a chill down our spine, each well-coiled phrase pulsing with significance. Her dark, literary-minded work pieces together a world that is somehow desperately pretty while being hopelessly fraught and inevitably disastrous.

You can read more after the jump.