Best American Poetry 2025 Amanda Peters keeping your mind off your

keeping your mind off your shoes and on the job

Sam spots a bear swimming the dark waters of the channel

And that changes everything between us

This is the next to tallest in a group of four

and maybe even to break a few rules every once in a while

Best American Poetry 2025 Amanda Peters keeping your mind off yourGuest edited by Terence Winch NEA Fellow and editor of the pick of the week on the Best American Poetry blog the 2025 edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman, celebrating more than three decades of poetic excellence. For thirty eight years, The Best American Poetry series has won widespread acclaim as the nation's most influential and vital poetry anthology. BAP, which has inspired similar ventures abroad, has garnered plaudits