To abet your observance
of National Poetry Month,
I offer an alphabet of poets
and an armful of anthologies.
Appleman, Philip
Bilgere, George
Carruth, Hayden
Digges, Deborah
Erdrich, Louise
Fargnoli, Patricia
Gilbert, Jack
Harrison, Jim
Ignatow, David
Jenkins, Louis
Kirby, David
Longchamps, Guy W.
Merwin, W.S.
Nemerov, Howard
Ostriker, Alicia
Padgett, Ron
Roethke, Theodore
Schneider, Pat
Tate, James
Updike, John
Violi, Paul
Wagoner, David
Yeats, William Butler
Ziegler, Alan
American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds
Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud
—Julie