Additional Poetry Resources

Norton Anthology of Poetry
ed. Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy (W.W. Norton & Company, 4th edition, 1996)

Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
ed. Paul Hoover (W.W. Norton & Company, 1994)

Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry
ed. Monica De La Torre, et al.; bilingual anthology (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry
ed. Michael S. Harper (Vintage, 2000)

The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry
ed. Eliot Weinberger, et al. (New Directions, 2003)

Poetry Speaks
ed. Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby (Sourcebooks Media Fusion, 2001): book and CD of poets reading their work

Best American Poetry 2003
ed. David Lehman (Scribner, 2003)

A Book of Luminous Things
ed. Czeslaw Milosz (Harvest Books, 1998) Nobel laureate chooses 300 of his favorite world poems that are "short, clear, readable, and...realistic, that is, loyal toward reality and attempting to describe it as concisely as possible."

Other Resources

Poet’s Market, 2004
( Writers Digest Books; a new edition is published each year): useful reference for poets seeking publication