Mary Jo Salter is Professor Emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she taught from 2007 to 2022. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, all published by Knopf, including most recently The Surveyors (2017) and Zoom Rooms (2022). Former poetry editor of The New Republic, coeditor of three editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1996, 2005, and 2018), and editor of Amy Clampitt's selected and collected poems, Salter is also an essayist, a lyricist, and a children's book author.
She lives in Baltimore. David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, New and Selected Poems, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.
She lives in Baltimore. David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, New and Selected Poems, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.
