A Shortlist of Modern and
Contemporary Poetry
Thomas Library Holdings
Poets of the Academy
of American Poets (and then some)
Poets By Alphabetical Order
Ai
Vice: New & Selected Poems
(National Book Award Winner 1999)
Aiken,
Conrad
Alexie,
Sherman
The Business Of Fancydancing :
Stories And Poems / by Sherman Alexie
c1992
First Indian On The Moon /
Sherman Alexie c1993
The
Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven c1993
Old Shirts & New Skins / by
Sherman Alexie c1993
Reservation Blues
Amichai,
Yehuda
Ammons,
A. R.
Briefings;
Poems Small And Easy [1971]
Collected Poems, 1951-1971
[1972]
Corsons Inlet : A Book Of Poems
[1965]
Diversifications : Poems [1975]
Garbage [1993] (National Book Award Winner 1993)
The Snow Poems [1977 ]
Angelou,
Maya
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Conversations With Maya Angelou
/ edited By Jeffrey M. [1989 ]
Gather Together In My Name
[1974]
The Heart Of A Woman / Maya Angelou
[1981]
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings [1970, c1969]
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
[1975]
On The Pulse Of Morning [1993]
Ashbery,
John
Houseboat Days : Poems / by
John Ashbery [1977]
Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror : Poems
[1975 ]
Shadow Train : Poems / John
Ashbery [1981]
Some Trees / John Ashbery [1978, c1956]
The Tennis Court Oath; A Book Of Poems
[1962]
Auden,
W. H.
Baca,
Jimmy Santiago
Black
Mesa Poems / Jimmy Santiago Baca [1989]
Immigrants In Our Own Land
& Selected Early Poems
Baraka,
Amiri
Black
Music / LeRoi Jones [I.E. I. A. Baraka [1980 ]
Black Music [1967 ]
Blues People : Negro Music In White
America [1963]
Daggers And Javelins : Essays,
1974-1979
The Dead Lecturer : Poems
[1964]
Four Black Revolutionary Plays, All
Praises To The Black Man [1969]
Home : Social Essays [1966 ]
Bishop,
Elizabeth
Collected prose
Complete poems, 1927-1979
One Art : Letters / Elizabeth
Bishop ; Selected And Edited By Robert Giroux 1994
Poems
[1983]
Brodsky,
Joseph
Less Than One : Selected Essays
[1986]
Watermark
Brooks,
Gwendolyn
Selected Poems & Beckonings
Beckonings c1975
A Capsule Course In Black
Poetry Writing
Children Coming Home c1991
Family c1970
Maud Martha, A Novel.
The Near-Johannesburg Boy, And
Other Poems c1986
Primer For Blacks
Beatty,
Paul
Becker,
Robin
Beckman,
Joshua
Bell,
Marvin
Ardor c1994-
The Escape Into You : A Sequence / Marvin
Bell 1994
Iris
Of Creation : Poems 1990
Old Snow Just Melting : Essays And
Interviews 1983
Dream / Marvin Bell ; Paintings By
Mary Powell
Selections. / 1994
Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See
Wednesday : Selected Poems, 1966-1997
Berry,
Wendell
The Broken Ground c1964
Clearing : Poems c1977
The Country Of Marriage [1973]
Essays. / Selections 1981
November Twenty-Six, Nineteen Hundred
Sixty-Three c1964
Openings : Poems [1968]
Berryman,
John
77 Dream Songs [1964]
Berryman's Sonnets [1967]
Collected poems, 1937-1971
Delusions, Etc. Of John Berryman [1972]
The Freedom Of The Poet c1976
Henry's Fate & Other Poems, 1967-1972
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest :
308 Dream Songs [1968]
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet : [Poem /
with Pictures By Ben [1956]
Love & Fame [1972]
Poems c1989
Recovery
Short Poems
Bidart,
Frank
Bishop,
Elizabeth
Ballad
Of The Burglar Of Babylon 1969
Brazil c1962
Collected prose
The
Complete Poems
One Art : Letters
Prose Works
Bly,
Robert
The Morning Glory : Prose Poems
1975
The Sea And The Honeycomb : A
Book Of Poems
Silence In The Snowy Fields :
Poems [1962]
This Tree Will Be Here For A Thousand
Years
What The Fox Agreed To Do :
Four Poems
Bogan,
Louise
The Blue Estuaries : Poems,
1923-1968
Collected Poems [1959, c1954]
Boland,
Eavan
In A Time Of Violence / Eavan
Boland c1994
Outside History : Selected Poems,
1980-1990
Booth,
Philip
Available Light c1976
The Islanders
Margins; A Sequence Of New And
Selected Poems
Relations : Selected Poems,
1950-1985
Brock-Broido, Lucy
Brodsky,
Joseph
Less
Than One : Selected Essays
Watermark
Brooks,
Gwendolyn
Beckonings : Poems c1975
Riot
c1969
Selected Poems c1963
To Disembark c1981
Very Young Poets c1983
Children Coming Home c1991
Family Pictures [1970]
The Near-Johannesburg Boy, And
Other Poems
Carruth,
Hayden
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
(National Book Award Winner 1996)
Cervantes,
Lorna Dee
Emplumada
Chin,
Marilyn
Cisneros,
Sandra
Clifton,
Lucille
Good Woman : Poems And A
Memoir, 1969-1980
Next : New Poems
Collins,
Billy (Current Poet
Laureate of the U.S.A.)
Picnic Lightning (at
Springfield Public Library)
Clampitt,
Amy
Clifton,
Lucille
Clover,
Joshua
Coleman,
Wanda
Cooper,
Jane
Maps & Windows; Poems
[1974]
The Weather Of Six Mornings
c1969
Crane,
Hart
The Bridge : A Poem c1932
The Collected Poems Of Hart Crane
Correspondence. / Selections
Creeley,
Robert
Away
c1976
Collected poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975
Echoes
For Love : Poems, 1950-1960
The Island [1963]
Later c1979
Life & Death 1998
Memory Gardens 1986
Cruz,
Victor Hernandez
Cullen,
Countee
Color
Copper Sun
The Medea And Some Poems
On These I Stand; An Anthology
Of The Best Poems Of Countee Cullen
Cummings,
E. E.
73 Poems [1963]
Collected Poems
Complete Poems, 1913-1962
A Concordance To The Complete
Poems Of E. E.
Doolittle,
Hilda (H.D.)
Collected Poems Of H.D c1925
The Gift
Hedylus
Helen In Egypt
Deming,
Alison Hawthorne
Derricotte,
Toi
Di
Piero, W. S.
Dickey,
James
Buckdancer's Choice : Poems [1965]
The Central Motion : Poems,
1968-1979
Deliverance c1970
Drowning With Others : Poems [1962]
The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory,
Madness, Buckhead, And Mercy 1970
Falling, May Day Sermon, And
Other Poems c1981
Helmets, Poems
Dickinson,
Emily
Collected poems of Emily
Dickinson
Hymns.
Letters Of Emily Dickinson
Love Poems
Dobyns,
Stephen
(several books at Springfield
Public Library)
Doty,
Mark
Atlantis
(Springfield Public Library)
Sweet
Machine (Springfield Public Library)
Dove,
Rita
Selected Poems
Thomas And Beulah : Poems (Pulitzer Prize Winner 1987)
The
Yellow House On The Corner : Poems
Dubie,
Norman
Duhamel,
Denise
The Star-Spangled Banner
[computer file] / Denise Duhamel (an electronic book accessible through the
World Wide Web through EZRA
Dunbar,
Paul Laurence
Poems
c1993
Duncan,
Robert
Bending The Bow c1968
Fictive Certainties : Essays
Ground Work : Before The War
Ground Work II : In The Dark /
Robert Duncan
The Opening Of The Field
Poems. / Selections c1993
Prose. / Selections c1995
Roots And Branches : Poems
[1964]
Dunn,
Stephen
Different Hours (Pulitzer Prize
Winner 2001)
Eady,
Cornelius
Erdrich,
Louise
Baptism
of Desire : Poems
Eliot,
T. S.
Collected Poems, 1909-1962
Emanuel,
Lynn
Eshleman,
Clayton
Espada,
Martín
Forché, Carolyn
Frost, Robert
Fulton, Alice
Gallagher, Tess
Galvin, James
Gander, Forrest
Gilbert, Sandra M.
Ginsburg,
Allen
Giovanni, Nikki
Glück,
Louise
The House On Marshland
The Triumph Of Achilles
The
Wild Iris (Pulitzer Prize Winner 1994)
Graham,
Jorie
Hybrids Of Plants And Of Ghosts
The Dream of the
Unified Field (Pulitzer Prize Winner
1996)
Graves, Robert
Guest, Barbara
Gunn, Thom
Hacker, Marilyn
Hadas, Rachel
Hall, Donald
Harjo, Joy
Hass,
Robert
Field
Guide
Praise
Hayden, Robert
Heaney,
Seamus
Field Work : [Poems]
North
Poems And A Memoir
The Rattle Bag
The Spirit Level
Hecht, Anthony
Hejinian, Lyn
Hirsch, Edward
Hoagland, Tony
Hollander, John
Hongo, Garrett
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Housman, A. E.
Howe, Susan
Hudgins, Andrew
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, Ted
Hugo, Richard
Jarman, Mark
Jarrell, Randall
Jeffers, Robinson
Justice, Donald
Kaufman, Bob
Kelly, Brigit Pegeen
Kennedy, X. J.
Kenyon, Jane
Kinnell,
Galway
Body
Rags : [Poems]
The Past
Kizer, Carolyn
Knight,
Etheridge
Belly Song And Other Poems
Poems
Koch, Kenneth
Komunyakaa,
Yusef
I
Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
Neon
Vernacular (Pulitzer Prize Winner 1994)
Kumin, Maxine
Kunitz, Stanley
Passing Through: The Later
Poems (National Book Award Winner 1995)
Larkin,
Philip
The
Whitsun Weddings : Poems
The Less
Deceived : Poems
Laux, Dorianne
Lee, Li-Young
Levertov,
Denise
To Stay Alive
Relearning the Alphabet
The Sorrow Dance: Poems
Poems,
1960-1967
O Taste
and See : New Poems
Levine,
Phillip
7 Years
From Somewhere : Poems
What
Work Is : Poems (National Book Award
Winner 1991)
Simple Truth (n/a Thomas
Library) (Pulitzer Prize Winner 1995)
Levis, Larry
Lorde, Audre
Lowell, Amy
Lowell, Robert
Loy, Mina
Lux, Thomas
Mackey, Nathaniel
MacLeish, Archibald
Mariani, Paul
McClatchy, J. D.
McHugh, Heather
McKay, Claude
McPherson, Sandra
Meredith,
William
Effort
at Speech: New & Selected Poems (National
Book Award Winner 1997)
Merrill, James
Merwin,
W.S.
The Moving
Target : Poems
The
Compass Flower : Poems
Miles, Josephine
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Moore,
Marianne
Collected Poems (National Book Award Winner 1952)
Moss, Thylias
Mueller, Lisel
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (Pulitzer Prize Winner 1997)
Muske, Carol
Nelson, Marilyn
Nemerov, Howard
Neruda, Pablo
Nye, Naomi Shihab
O'Hara, Frank
Olds, Sharon
The Father
The Gold Cell : Poems
The Dead
and the Living : Poems
Oliver,
Mary
The
River Styx, Ohio, and Other poems
White
pine : Poems and Prose Poems
Twelve
Moons
(n/a)
New and Selected Poems (National Book
Award Winner 1992)
Olson, Charles
Ondaatje, Michael
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin
Palmer, Michael
Pastan,
Linda
A
Fraction of Darkness : Poems
The Five
Stages of Grief : Poems
Aspects
of Eve : Poems
Paz,
Octavio
A Draft
of Shadows, and Other Poems
Early
Poems, 1935-1955
Peacock, Molly
Phillips, Carl
Piercy, Marge
Pinsky,
Robert
The
Figured Wheel : New and Collected Poems
Plath,
Sylvia
Ariel
The
Colossus & Other Poems
Plumly, Stanley
Poe, Edgar Allan
Ponsot, Marie
Pound, Ezra Reed, Ishmael
Revell, Donald
Rich,
Adrienne
The
Dream of a Common Language : Poems, 1974-1977
(&
several additional titles)
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Roethke,
Theodore
Words for the Wind (National Book Award Winner 1959)
Rogers, Pattiann
Rukeyser, Muriel
Sanchez, Sonia
Sandburg, Carl
Santos, Sherod
Sarton, May
Sexton, Anne
Shange, Ntozake
Shapiro, Karl
Simic, Charles
The
World Doesn't End : Prose Poems (Pulitzer
Prize Winner 1990)
Return to
a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk : Poems
Simpson, Louis
Snyder, Gary
Soto, Gary
St. John, David
Stafford,
William
Traveling
Through the Dark : Poems
Stories
that Could be True : New and Collected Poems
Stein, Gertrude
Stern,
Gerald
This
Time: New and Selected Poems (National
Book Award Winner 1998)
Stevens,
Wallace
The Auroras of Autumn (National
Book Award Winner 1951)
Collected
Poems (National Book Award Winner 1955)
Strand,
Mark
The Monument
Blizzard of One (Springfield
Public Library) (Pulitzer Prize Winner
1999)
Swenson, May
Tate,
James
A
Worshipful Company of Fletchers (National
Book Award Winner 1994)
Selected Poems (Pulitzer Prize Winner 1992) (OhioLink)
Twichell, Chase
Wagoner, David
Wakoski, Diane
Walcott, Derek
Walker, Alice
Warren,
Robert Penn
Promises:
Poems, 1954-1956 (National Book Award
Winner 1958)
Wheatley, Phillis
Whitman, Walt
Wilbur, Richard
Things of This World : Poems (National Book Award Winner 1957)
Walking
to Sleep : New Poems and Translations
Williams, C. K.
Repair: Poems (Pulitzer
Prize Winner 2000)
Williams,
William Carlos
Asphodel,
that greeny flower & other love poems
The
Desert Music : and other poems
Pictures from Brueghel and
Other Poems : Including The Desert Music & Journey to Love
Paterson: Book III and Selected
Poems (National Book Award Winner 1950)
Wright, C. D.
Wright, Charles
Black
Zodiac (Pulitzer Prize Winner 1998)
(Springfield Public Library)
Wright,
James
The
Branch Will Not Break: Poems
Saint
Judas : Poems
Yeats, W. B.
Young, Dean
Recent Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.
Mark Strand 1990-91
The Monument
Joseph Brodsky 1991-92
Mona Van Duyn 1992-93
Merciful
disguises; published and unpublished poems c1973
Rita Dove 1993-95 (see titles
above)
Robert Hass 1995-97 (see titles
above)
Robert Pinsky 1997 (see titles
above)
Pulitzer Prize Winners in Poetry
2002 Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
2001
Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
2000 Repair: Poems by C. K.
Williams
1999 Blizzard of One * by Mark Strand
1998 Black Zodiac* by Charles Wright
1997 Alive Together: New and
Selected Poems* by Lisel Mueller
1996 The Dream of the Unified
Field* by Jorie Graham
1995 Simple Truth* by Philip Levine
1994 Neon Vernacular* by Yusef Komunyakaa
1993 The Wild Iris* by Louise Gluck
1992 Selected Poems* by James
Tate
1991 Near Changes* by Mona Van
Duyn
1990 The World Doesn't
End* by Charles Simic
1989 New and Collected
Poems* by Richard Wilbur, also won in
1957
1988 Partial Accounts: New and
Selected Poems by William Meredith*
1987 Thomas and Beulah* by Rita
Dove
1986 The Flying Change* by
Henry Taylor
1985 Yin by Carolyn Kizer*
1984 American Primitive* by
Mary Oliver
1983 Selected Poems* by Galway Kinnell
1982 The Collected Poems by
Sylvia Plath*
1981 The Morning of the Poem by
James Schuyler*
1980 Selected Poems by Donald Justice*
1979 Now and Then: Poems
1976-1978 by Robert Penn Warren*,
Warren also won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958
1978 Collected Poems* by Howard
Nemerov
1977 Divine Comedies by James Merrill Out of Print
1976 Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror* by John Ashbery
1975
Turtle Island* by Gary Snyder
1974 The
Dolphin by Robert Lowell*, winner 1947
1973 Up
Country by Maxine Kumin*
1972 Collected Poems* by James
Wright
1971 The Carrier of
Ladders by William S. Merwin*
1970 Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard*
1969 Of Being Numerous by George Oppen*
1968 The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht*
1967 Live or Die by Anne Sexton*
1966 Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart*
1965 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman*
1964 At the End of the Open
Road by Louis Simpson*
1963 Pictures From
Breughel by William Carlos Williams*
1962 Poems by Alan Dugan
1961 Times Three: Selected
Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley
1960
Heart's Needle by William Snodgrass
1959
Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley
Kunitz*
1958
Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren*, Warren won the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry again in 1979
1957
Things of This World by Richard Wilbur*
, also won in 1989
1956
Poems-North & South by Elizabeth
Bishop*
1955
Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens*
1954 The
Waking by Theodore Roethke*
1953 Collected Poems,
1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish* MacLeish also won the Pulitzer Prize for
Poetry in 1933
1952 Collected Poems by Marianne Moore*
1951 Complete Poems by Carl
Sandburg*, Sandburg shared the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with Margaret Widdemer
in1919
1950
Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
National Book Award Winners
2002 Ruth Stone for In the Next Galaxy
Finalists:
Harryette Mullen, Sleeping with the Dictionary
Sharon Olds, The Unswept Room
Alberto Ríos, The Smallest Muscle in the
Human Body
Ellen
Bryant Voigt, Shadow of Heaven
2001
Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and
Complete Poetry
Finalists:
Agha
Shahid Ali, Rooms Are Never
Finished
Wanda Coleman, Mercurochrome
Cornelius Eady, Brutal Imagination
Gail Mazur, They Can't Take That Away From Me
2000
Lucille Clifton Blessing
the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1998-2000
Finalists:
Kim
Addonizio, Tell Me
Galway Kinnell, New Selected Poems
Kenneth Koch, New Addresses:
Poems
Bruce Smith, The
Other Lover