Congratulations to the fifty emerging poets selected by Mary Szybist for inclusion in Best New Poets 2016! We’re pleased to share that Moriah Cohen‘s poem “Snow Downgraded to Nuisance on the Narrow Street,” originally published in the Winter 2016 Issue of The Adroit Journal, made the list.
Other than in The Adroit Journal, Moriah Cohen’s poetry has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hoot: A Mini Literary Magazine on a Postcard, Word Riot, Baltimore Review, and Narrative, where she took runner-up in their 30 Below Contest in 2013. She has an MFA from Rutgers University’s Newark Campus. Currently, she lives in New Jersey with her two sons.
We’re cheering (loudly) for all sixteen Adroit writers selected for Best New Poets 2016:
Kaveh Akbar
“Fugu”
Contributor
Kenzie Allen
“In Which I Become (Tiger Lily)”
Contributor
Anders Carlson-Wee
“To the Fingerless Man in Banff”
Contributor
Stephanie Cawley
“Mary Shelly”
Contributor
Moriah Cohen
“Snow Downgraded to Nuisance on the Narrow Street”
Contributor
Jesse De Angelis
“American Spacesuit”
Poetry Reader
Cara Dees
“Vigil Hemming In”
Contributor
Patrick James Errington
“White Lies”
Contributor
Jackson Holbert
“Elegy”
Poetry Editor
John James
“Poem around Which Everything is Structured”
Contributor
Peter LaBerge
“The Newcomers”
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Max McDonough
“Makeshift Bildungsroman”
Contributor
Jessica Poli
“Milkstone”
Contributor
Charif Shanahan
“Song”
Contributor
Talin Tahajian
“Remedies”
Poetry Editor
Matthew Wimberley
“Poem Ending with Infinity on the Glass”
Contributor
Last year, ten Adroit writers were selected for inclusion, including Ian Burnette for his Adroit poem “Harvests.” To view this year’s full list, visit the Best New Poets website here.
