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Everyman's meets Twitter. Most anthologies gather poems already written. This is a crowd-sourced compilation of new poems, inspired by a tweet that linked the anthologist to an historical document. It's a compendium of new works by sixty-five poets, including some of the most celebrated working today. For poetry lovers and lovers of history.
About the author
Helen Klein Ross is a poet and novelist whose work has appeared in
The New Yorker,
The Los Angeles Times,
The New York Times,
Salmagundi, and in
The Iowa Review, where it won the 2014 Iowa Review award in poetry. Her writing has been anthologized in
Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (2008),
Best of Gigantic (2015), and in
SHORT: Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms (Persea Books, 2013). Her admiration for those editors has increased during the creation of this anthology.
Helen is the author of two novels and 16,400 tweets. Her most recent book is
What Was Mine (Simon & Schuster / Gallery, 2016).
She graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA from The New School. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and Salisbury, CT.
Summary
Everyman's meets Twitter. Most anthologies gather poems already written. This is a crowd-sourced compilation of new poems, inspired by a tweet that linked the anthologist to an historical document. It's a compendium of new works by sixty-five poets, including some of the most celebrated working today. For poetry lovers and lovers of history.
