[New-Poetry] Meitner at Best American Poetry blog

[David Graham]

Jim Finnegan has wondered if poetry blogs are dying out.  I don't know,
though surely the attrition rate seems high among ones I sporadically
follow.  Maybe the halflife of a blog is short, and there are new ones going
up to make up the difference.  I wonder if anyone knows.

Anyway, I wanted to mention one of the small handful of poetry blogs that I
check regularly, and which has been very faithful in putting up new content
daily.  It's The Best American Poetry blog, but it actually has rather
little to do, on a day-to-day basis, with the book series of that name.  I
gather that David Lehman is nominally in charge, but he doesn't post much.
Rather, there is a rotating crew of "guest bloggers," who each take a week
to put up content.  Plus quite a few other ad hoc guests.  A fair amount of
information posted isn't directly related to poetry, but for me that's a
good thing.  

This week's guest blogger is Erika Meitner, a younger poet (2nd book just
appeared) that I've been following with interest the past few years.

Here is her first posting:

http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2010/11/put-on-y
our-yarmulka-by-erika-meitner.html

Erika Meitner, Guest Blogger Nov 28-Dec 4

This week we welcome Erika Meitner as our guest blogger.  Erika is the
author of Inventory at the All-night Drugstore and Ideal Cities, which was
selected by Paul Guest as a 2009 National Poetry Series winner, and
published in August by HarperCollins.  Her poems have appeared most recently
in Tin House, The New Republic, VQR, APR, and on Slate.com.  She is an
assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the
MFA program, and is completing her doctorate in religious studies at the
University of Virginia.  Her next book of poems, Makeshift Instructions for
Vigilant Girls, is due out in 2011 from Anhinga Press.  Find out more about
Erika Meitner here.

Welcome, Erika. 
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