Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, a Graywolf Anthology

Raised by Wolves is a unique and vibrant gathering of poems from Graywolf Press's fifty years. The anthology is conceived as a community document: fifty Graywolf poets have selected fifty poems by Graywolf poets, offering insightful prose reflections on their selections. What arises is a choral arrangement of voices and lineages across decades, languages, styles, and divergences, inspiring a shared vision for the future.

Included here are established and emerging poets, international poets and poets in translation, and many of the most significant poets of our time. There are extraordinary pairings: Tracy K. Smith on Linda Gregg
Vijay Seshadri on Tomas Transtrmer, translated by Robert Bly
Natalie Diaz on Mary Szybist
Diane Seuss on D. A. Powell
Elizabeth Alexander on Christopher Gilbert
Ilya Kaminsky on Vnus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker
Mai Der Vang on Larry Levis
Layli Long Soldier on Solmaz Sharif
Solmaz Sharif on Claudia Rankine. In these poets' championing of others, fascinating threads emerge: Stephanie Burt writes on Monica Youn, who selects Harryette Mullen, who writes on Liu Xiaobo, translated by Jeffrey Yang, who chooses Fanny Howe, who writes on Carl Phillips, who selects Danez Smith, who chooses Donika Kelly, who writes on Natasha Trethewey.

With an introduction by Graywolf publisher Carmen Gimnez, Raised by Wolves is an echoing outward of poetry's possibilities.