Best New Poets is an annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers. This year's guest editor is Mark Strand, and he will select 50 poems from from nominations made by literary magazines and writing programs, as well as an Open Internet Competition. All poems are submitted online through ManuscriptHub.com. That system will begin taking entries for Best New Poets 2008 between April 15 and June 5, 2008.

Each February, we contact writing programs and literary magazines with instructions on how to nominate their writers. By April 15, we contact the nominated poets and ask them to upload their work. So, if you've just had a poem published in a magazine or are enrolled in a creative writing program, you might consider asking them to nominate you.

However, there's also the Open Internet Competition, which is open to all writers who have not published a book-length collection of poetry, and takes nominations from April 15 to June 5 each spring/summer. Unlike the magazine and program nominations, the Open Competition requires a reading fee of $3.50. Click here for details.