Recommended Reading
Guides and Essays:
An Exaltation of Forms Edited by Annie Finch and Kathrine Lore Varnes
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Dictionary of Poetic Terms Edited by Jack Myers
The Art of Series on Graywolf Press with Various Editors
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics by Lewis Turco
A Poets Guide to Poetry by Mary Kinzie
The Practice of Poetry by Robin Behn
The Sounds of Poetry by Robert Pinsky
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
Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation Edited by H.L. Hix
Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets Edited by Todd F. Davis
Close Calls with Nonsense by Stephen Burt
Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry Edited by W.N. Herbert and Matthew Hollis
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
American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry Edited by David St. John and Cole Swenson
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South Edited by Nikky Finney
Home is Where: An Anthology of African American Poetry from the Carolinas Edited by Kwame Dawes
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century Edited by E. Ethelbert Miller
The 100 Best Poems of All Time Edited by Leslie Pockell
A Book of Luminous Things Edited by Czeslaw Milosz
Poetry Speaks Expanded Edition
Poetry:
Through the Gloreita Pass by Lavonne Adams
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Collected Poems of A.R. Ammons
Temper by Beth Bachmann
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
Stars of the Night Commute by Ana Božičević
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
The Paris Poems by Suzanne Burns
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
Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney
The Book of Monsters by Keith Flynn
Blind Huber by Nick Flynn
Some Ether 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
The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck
Numbskull Sutra by S.A. Griffin
Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes
Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
Lighthead by Terrence Hayes
Time and Materials by Robert Hass
King Log by Geoffrey Hill
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
Anticipate the Coming Reservoir by John Hoppenthaler
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
Leaving Saturn by Major Jackson
Hoops by Major Jackson
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
Slaves to Do These Things by Amy King
Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa
Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser
Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers
Hum by Ann Lauterbach
What We Carry by Dorianne Laux
Facts About the Moon by Dorianne Laux
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
Light, Moving by Carolyn Miller
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
Checking Out by Tim Peeler
Goat in the Snow by Emily Pettit
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems by Robert Pinsky
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
White Time by David Smith
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
Strange Movie Full of Death by Scott Wannberg
Darling Vulgarity by Michael Waters
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
RATTLE
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