The most complete and authoritative anthology of 19th century American poetry ever published
“Capacious, comprehensive, wide-ranging, and judiciously fair, the Library of America anthology presents the…
“John Hollander’s American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century is a wonder. It is also a work of amazing and quite tactful, almost invisible, erudition.” — Robert Haas
“This is a historic achievement. Kevin Young has given us the most expansive anthology of African American poetry to date, magnificent in its breadth and scholarly in its depth. Including the well-known and the forgotten, this astonishing…
“John Berryman (1914–72) has one of the most idiosyncratic voices in American poetry. That voice, which is everywhere on display in a new Selected Poems, capably edited by Kevin Young, is by turns quirky and whimsical, brilliantly…
“Capacious, comprehensive, wide-ranging, and judiciously fair, the Library of America anthology presents the great body of American poetry in the century of the Louisiana Purchase, the Alamo, the Civil War, the expansion of the western…
“A pleasant surprise. . . . Ron Padgett provides an excellent introduction to Koch, both as person and as poet.”—The Quarterly Conversation
“Ammons (1926–2001) was a difficult figure to pin down. While unassociated with any particular poetic school or group, he picked up threads from Whitman, Williams, Frost and Stevens, weaving them into poetry all his own: equal parts pastoral…
“In his brilliant introduction, Edward Hirsch calls the Selected Poems a ‘spiritual autobiography,’ and as we chart Roethke’s development, we share in those moments of sublime ecstasy when boundaries between the self and the…
“Just how groundbreaking is this latest installment of the Library of America series? It is so, first and foremost, by its very existence. The only other early American poetry anthology currently in print is—get ready for this—a recent…
“Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced.” — Library Journal
“The 2012 publication of Jack Kerouac’s Collected Poems as a volume in the Library of America is cause for celebration: now a substantial body of poetry by the renowned author of On the Road and other novels will…
“Zukofsky is extraordinary reading, and perhaps because it is being published in the context of ‘American’ writers, the echoes of American literary history are difficult to evade.”—Rain Taxi
“Edward Hirsch is the most endearing of guides to the ecstasies of reading poetry.” —Susan Sontag
“Poe is so frequently reprinted that another selection can’t possibly seem fresh. Reading him with the guidance of Wilbur, however, helps one think about him again. . . . [Wilbur] appends selections from Poe’s writings about poetics to…
“McClatchy’s selection has not only breadth of representation but fine choices within forms, causes, and poets.”—Sewanee Review
“Something entirely new grows up out of that rich darkness”: David Naimon on Ursula K. Le Guin’s mesmerizing poetry
Acclaimed Poets and Scholars Contribute Readings, Commentary, and Essays to latinopoetry.org
Register Now: The Heart of American Poetry, an online course with Edward Hirsch
Library of America to launch Latino Poetry initiative with a major grant from the NEH
From Edward Hirsch, an “intensely personal” attempt to define the American experience through poetry
Applications Open for Public Programs Celebrating Latino Poetry
Listen: “The Republic of Verse” now open to all who will hear
John Ashbery translates Rimbaud’s Illuminations, “the book that made poetry modern”
Some helpful links for students at home: Part II—Literature and poetry resources
Library of America offers grants to libraries to celebrate African American poetry
Watch: Poets, actors, and others launch Lift Every Voice with rousing online event
Amanda Gorman, Robin Coste Lewis star in latest online celebration of Black poetry
Amy Lowell, “Spring Day”
Library of America launches nationwide celebration of African American poetry with major online event and new website
Bringing Poetry Off the Page: Letras Latinas Interviews LOA’s Susana Plotts-Pineda
“Living Well, Writing Well”: Poet Ron Padgett on the Centennial of His Friend and Mentor Kenneth Koch
75 Organizations Receive Grants Under LOA’s Latino Poetry Initiative
John Hollander (1929–2013)
Radio special hosted by Meryl Streep honors women who forever changed American poetry
A Tremendous Continental Mixturao: Celebrating Latino Poetry
