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CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY
As the poet J. D. McClatchy notes in his introduction to The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, "for poetry in English, this has been the American century. . . . [American] poetry from World War II until the present has proved diverse, intrepid, spirited, and surprising." American poets in the last half of the 20th century have spanned the spectrum from the modernists who turned away from traditional verse forms and styles, to the highly experimental poets of the 1960s, to the New Formalists in the 1980s, who returned to metrical verse and rhyme. The following list begins with some anthologies of contemporary American poetry and continues with an alphabetical list of some American poets of the last half of the 20th century. The library has books by all of these poets, which can be found by searching in the catalog using the poet's name as author. If you need help finding works by a specific poet, or finding a particular type of poetry, please ask at the reference desk.
ANTHOLOGIES
The Best American Poetry (Annual) (811 BES)
Celebrations: A New Anthology of Black American Poetry (811.08 CEL)
El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry (811.5408 COR)
Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms: 85 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on their Poems (811.5408 ECS)
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (811.5408 EVE)
The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (811.5408 LON)
The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry (811.54 MAD)
The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (811.5408 NEW)
The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry (811.5408 OCH)
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (811.54 UNS)
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (811.508 VIN)
POETS
Indicates the poet is part of the Lannan Literary Series of videos featuring interviews and readings by contemporary authors.
*Indicates the poet is a Pulitzer Prize winner, followed by the year of the award.(BT 11/97, CLB 08/03)
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