"My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry is a collection of poetry from young Buffalo writers. The poems in this anthology capture the energy and creative output from the city's thriving slam, alt-lit, spoken word, language poetry, academic, and publishing communities. These communities often function separately, they have their own spaces and vocabularies, and their contributions to the literary and language arts are radically different -- but as different as they are, the young poets in this collection are enmeshed. They trade places and ideas, share stages and projects, and support each other's endeavors. The poets in this collection have a few simple commonalities that bind them: young poets who inherited a language shaped by a city, they've gone on to shape a city's language. It is a book that hopes to explore that city and that language". --back cover