Notable Books - Poetry

2008

 

A New Hunger

Bosselaar, Laure-Anne

In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus

X.J. Kennedy

2007

Famous

Kathleen Flenniken

Burning Wycliff

Thom Satterlee

William Henry Harrison and Other Poems

David R. Slavitt

2006

American Sublime

Elizabeth Alexander

Streets in their own ink

Stuart Dybek

2005

• The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 Nikki Giovanni
• Delights and Shadows Ted Kooser

2004

• Alabanza: New and Selected poems, 1982 - 2002 Martin Espada

2003

• Poems Seven: New and complete poetry Alan Dugan
• The Painted bed Donald Hall
• Bellocq's Ophelia Natasha Trethewey

2002

• Sailing alone around the room Billy Collins
• What the ice gets: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916 Melinda Mueller

2001

• Beowulf: A New Translation Seamus Heaney
• Collected poems of Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz
• Learning human: Selected poems Les Murray

2000

• Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 Seamus Heaney
• Diasporadic Patty Seyburn

1999

• Sweet machine Mark Doty
• Without Donald Hall
• Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes
• After all: Last poems William Matthews

1998

• Primate Behavior Sarah Lindsay
• What are big girls made of? Marge Piercy
• The Bounty Derek Walcott