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David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His eleven books of poetry include The Morning Line, Playlist, Poems in the Manner Of, New and Selected Poems, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York. Matthew Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Father's Day, as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. In 2016-2017 he held the annually rotating position of editor of the poetry column for The New York Times Magazine. He teaches in the MFA program and English department at Saint Mary's College of California. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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