Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin - Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century

Suggested Reading


Reading List of Anthologies


  • Aizenberg, Susan and Erin Belieu, eds. The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.




  • Allen, Donald, ed. The New American Poetry, 1945 – 1960. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.




  • Allen, Donald and George F. Butterick, eds. The Postmoderns: The New American Poetry Revised. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1982.




  • Carroll, Paul, ed. The New Young American Poets. Chicago, IL: Big Table, 1968.




  • Chang, Victoria. Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004.




  • Collier, Michael, ed. The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2000.




  • Costanzo, Gerald and Jim Daniels, eds. American Poetry: The Next Generation. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000.




  • Davis, Jordan and Sarah Manguso, eds. Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books. Honolulu, HI: Subpress, 2004.




  • Jarnot, Lisa, Leonard Schwartz and Chris Stroffolino, eds. An Anthology of New (American) Poets. Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House, 1998.




  • LaFemina, Gerry and Daniel Crocker, eds. Poetry 30: Thirty Something Thirty-Something American Poets. DuBois, PA: Mammoth Books, 2005.




  • Lauer, Brett Fletcher and Aimee Kelly, eds. Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets. Florence, MA: Verse Press, 2004.




  • Leary, Paris and Robert Kelly, eds. A Controversy of Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1965.




  • Lehman, David, series ed. Best American Poetry. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company. (All editions, from 1988 to the present.)




  • Lehman, David and Star Black, eds. The KGB Bar Book of Poems. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2000.




  • Liu, Timothy, ed. Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry. Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House Publishers, 2000.




  • McClatchy, J.D. ed The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry. New York, NY: Random House, 2003.




  • Poulin, A. and Michael Waters, eds. Contemporary American Poetry. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin. 7th ed. 2000.




  • Prufer, Kevin, ed. The New Younger American Poets. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.




  • Rankine, Claudia and Juliana Spahr, eds. American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.




  • Shepherd, Reginald, ed. The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2004.




  • Smith, Dave and David Bottoms, eds. The Morrow Anthology of Younger Poets. New York, NY: William Morrow, 1985.




  • Walsh, William. Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary Poets from 1951-1977. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006.




  • Young, Kevin, ed. Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2000.