Recommended Reading
Guides and Essays:
An Exaltation of Forms Edited by Annie Ridley Crane Finch and Kathrine Lore Varnes
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Dictionary of Poetic Terms
A Poets Guide to Poetry by Mary Kinzie
The Practice of Poetry by Robin Behn
The Book of Rhymes: Poetics of Hip-Hop by Adam Bradley
The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry by Adam Kirsch
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
The Paris Review Interviews Volume 1
Anthologies:
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
The Essential Haiku Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa Edited by Robert Hass
The Black Poets Edited by Dudley Randal
Good Poems Edited By Garrison Keillor
Staying Alive Edited by Neil Astley
Being Alive Edited by Neil Astley
The 100 Best Poems of All Time Edited by Leslie Pockell
A Book of Luminous Things Edited by Czeslaw Milosz
Poetry Speaks Expanded Edition
Def Poetry Jam Vol. 1 – 3 on DVD
Poetry:
Through the Gloreita Pass by Lavonne Adams
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Collected Poems of A.R. Ammons
Mules of Love by Ellen Bass
The Human Line by Ellen Bass
Collected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
Edgar Allan Poe and the Jukebox by Elizabeth Bishop
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
Before OnStar by Sarah Carson
Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
The Afflicted Girls by Nicole Cooley
Thrity Seven Years from the Stone by Mark Cox
Across the Blue Chasm by Howard L. Craft
Midland by Kwame Dawes
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
Prufrock and Other Observations by T.S. Eliot
Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
Telling Tales of Dusk by Terri K. Erickson
Bright, Burning Fuse by Melanie Faith
Duties of the Spirit by Patricia Fargnoli
The World is Round by Nikky Finney
The Book of Monsters by Keith Flynn
Blind Huber by Nick Flynn
Sonnets and Songs by Magaret Fuller
The Complete Poems of Robert Frost
Grendel by John Gardner
Comments Without Cosmos by Ricki Garni
Ararat by Louise Gluck
Numbskull Sutra by S.A. Griffin
Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes
Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
Time and Materials by Robert Hass
King Log by Geoffrey Hill
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
Birds of Djakarta by Jean Jones
Tornado by Jean Jones
Rise by A. Van Jordan
MACNOLIA by A. Van Jordan
Quantum Lyrics by A. Van Jordan
The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa
Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser
Suites by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Collected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Bandit Letters by Sarah Messer
Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz
The New Lost Blues by Carter Monroe
Ocean Avenue by Malena Mörling
Astoria by Malena Mörling
Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970 by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
he Unswept Room by Sharon Olds
House of Light by Mary Oliver
Blood River by Tim Peeler
Fresh Horses by Tim Peeler
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
That Little Something by Charles Simic
My Noseless Entourage by Charles Simic
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Life According to Motown by Patricia Smith
Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder
Everything is Burning by Gerald Stern
Selected Poems by Mark Strand
Talking to My Body by Anna Swir
Capturing the Dead by Daniel Nathan Terry
Bellocq’s Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey
Native Gaurd by Natasha Trethewey
Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey
The Great Enigma by Tomas Tranströmer
Alight by Scott Urban
Re-entry by Michael White
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams
The Kingdom of the Subjunctive by Suzanne Wise
Eternal Enemies by Adam Zagajewski
Magazines and Lit. Journals:
Poets and Writers
Writer’s Digest
New York Quarterly
The Kenyon Review
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