The 50 Poems Now anthology was something that the poetry editor at Knopf came up with as an idea, and reached out to me to see if I was interested in executing it. If you read the introduction to the anthology then I explain the process.
...And actually I don't know very many poets--in fact I regularly correspond by email with a grand total of...zero. So the vast majority of the poets in the anthology are people I've never met, a few I'd never heard of. In the future, maybe don't assume the worst.
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