Please excuse this poem

de Brett Fletcher Lauer, Lynn Melnick

Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right nowfull of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of the rape joke ; sharing the tender moments at the start of a love affair: these poems tell the world as they see it.