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Best American Poetry

www.bestamericanpoetry.com · a site they built themselves

Read them at www.bestamericanpoetry.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Best American Poetry publishes writing at www.bestamericanpoetry.com, a site they built themselves. Last published December 2008. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index.

1 writer vouch

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 18

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 18, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured
Front page
34 KB, 3 scripts, 80 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
present
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 24 other sites, 1 platforms
Found
2026-09-08, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

opaltogel1dolantogel1skwslot1salter6setiawd1gokutogel1sprezzatura2mary370journeyman3fizz3stalling4pinsky4orthodoxy5whence6

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches1 writer in the index

1 writer in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Vandal Poem of the25 sites outside the indexBest American Poetry
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: no optimization at all · vouched by one other writer

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 726,282 in the top million domains.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No description written for search engines and no schema. Nothing on the page was built to be found.
  • Some tracking is present.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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