PLEASE EXCUSE THIS POEM

100 award-winning poets in their 20s and 30s. A diverse collection of voices, styles, and backgrounds. Please Excuse this Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation is a groundbreaking, life-changing antholgy that speaks directly to the heart of the teenager and New Adult experience, smashing through boundries with every book that is sure to be carried in backpacks, hip pockets, and into the classroom.

One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred different points of view.

Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right now—full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of “the rape joke”; sharing the tender moments at the start of a love affair: these poems tell the world as they see it.

Please Excuse This Poem is not your typical anthology. It’s the kind of book a teenager (or college student) will pick up and devour. Not stuffy, not dated, but tuned in. The poems deal with all of the intense issues modern teenagers face, from sexuality to economic inequality to finding one’s place in the world.

Editors Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick have crafted a book that is a must-read for those wanting to know the future of poetry. With an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché, Please Excuse This Poem has the power to change the way you look at the world. It is The Best American Nonrequired Reading—in poetry form.