The Best American Poetry

The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.Each year, this series presents essential American verse and the poets. The best American poetry has appeared in this venerable collection for over twenty-five years.""Best American Poetry" remains one of the most popular and best-selling poetry books published each year."
History.
The series, begun by David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, each year contributes a foreword focusing on the state of contemporary poetry. The book titles in the series always follow the format of the first, changing only the year.
A compendium for the first decade of the series has also been published, "The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988–1997." It has seventy-five best poems from the previous ten anthologies. In 2013,It published "The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (2013)" which have 100 poems from the series' history.
Selection Process.
In 1988,the rules for the selection of the poems were laid down by Lehman.