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Poetry

Poets - Contemporary

Alexie, Sherman Angelou, Maya Ashberry, John Bell, Marvin Bly, Robert Brodsky, Joseph Bukowski, Charles Cisneros, Sandra Collins, Billy Dickey, James Doty, Mark Dove, Rita Gluck, Louise Hall, Donald Heaney, Seamus Hughes, Ted Justice, Donald Koch, Kenneth Kunitz, Stanley Larkin, Philip Neruda, Pablo O'Hara, Frank Oliver, Mary Palmer, Michael Pinsky, Robert Shange, Ntozake Simic, Charles Strand, Mark Tate, James Walcott, Derek

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Poets - Early/Mid 20th Century

Aiken, Conrad Auden, W. H. Benet, Stephen Vincent Berryman, John Bishop, Elizabeth Brooke, Rupert Cummings, E. E. Eliot, T. S. Frost, Robert Ginsberg, Allen Graves, Robert Hughes, Langston Jeffers, Robinson Lorca, Fredrico Garcia Lowell, Robert Masters, Edgar Lee Millay, Edna St. Vincent Moore, Marianne Nash, Ogden Owen, Wilfred Parker, Dorothy Pasternak, Boris Plath, Sylvia Pound, Ezra Rilke, Rainer Maria Roethke, Theodore Sandburg, Carl Sexton, Anne Stevens, Wallace Szymborska, Wislawa Thomas, Dylan Valery, Paul Warren, Robert Penn Williams, William Carlos Yeats, W. B.

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Poets - 19th Century

Apollinaire, Guillaume Arnold, Matthew Baudelaire, Charles Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Byron, Lord Carroll, Lewis Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Dickinson, Emily Emerson, Ralph Waldo Hardy, Thomas Hopkins, Gerald Manley Housman, A. E. Keats, John Kipling, Rudyard Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Poe, Edgar Allan Rimbaud, Arthur Shelley, Percy Bysshe Tennyson, Lord Alfred Verlaine, Paul Whitman, Walt Wilde, Oscar Wordsworth, William

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Poets - 18th Century

Blake, William Burns, Robert Pope, Alexander Smart, Christopher

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Poets - 17th Century

Bacon, Francis Donne, John Herbert, George Jonson, Ben Marvell, Andrew Milton, John Suckling, John

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Poets - Medieval/Renaissance

Beowulf Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy Chaucer, Geoffrey. Caneterbury Tales Marlowe, Christopher Shakespeare, William Spenser, Edmund

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Poets - Ancient

Epic of Gilgamesh Homer Horace Ovid Virgil

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Poetry Anthologies

Best American Poetry yearly collection Good Poems eclectic and accessible Making of a Poem demonstrating the various forms Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry 20th Century Norton Anthology of Poetry classics through the years Postmodern American Poetry mid-late 20th century, avant-garde The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry mid-late 20th Century The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry contemporary, mostly translated works

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Periodicals

Magazine - General Interest

Atlantic Monthly New Yorker

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Magazine - Literary

3 am Agni American Poetry Review Bellingham Review Black Warrior Review Boulevard Chicago Review Colorado Review Conjunctions Crazyhorse CutBank Drunken Boat failbetter Florida Review Gettysburg Review Iowa Review Iowa Review Kenyon Review Literal Latte Missouri Review Missouri Review mudlark New England Review Nimrod Open City Paris Review Partisan Review Ploughshares Poetry Prairie Schooner Quarterly West Shenandoah Southern Review Swink Tin House TriQuarterly Witness X CLMP litmag list X Poets & Writers litmag list Zyzzyva

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Magazine - Literary Scene

Bloomsbury Review Poetry Today Poets & Writers Writer's Chronicle X Links to Lit Blogs

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Reference

Craft Books

New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics comprehensive encyclopedia Corn, Alfred. The Poem's Heartbeat overview of prosody Drury, John. Creating Poetry overview of poetry craft Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter& Poetic Form in-depth look at meter and form Hollander, John. Rhyme's Reason the forms explained (in their own style) Packard, William. Poet's Dictionary poetic terms defined and illustrated Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet a classic, advice on poetry writing