Kimberly Ann Lyons’s “Coffee with Lavender” Is a Best American Poetry 2023 Pick!

Big news! Kimberly Ann Lyons’s “Coffee with Lavender,” which we published last year, has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2023 (Scribner Books)!

Kudos, Kimberly Ann Lyons! And big thanks to editors Elaine Equi and David Lehman!

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026). His fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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