American Poets Continuum Reading Order
Reading Order
Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton)
1987
Next(By: Lucille Clifton)
1987
The City in Which I Love You(By: Li-Young Lee)
1990
Quilting(By: Lucille Clifton)
1991
What We Carry(By: Dorianne Laux)
1994
Red Suitcase(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
1994
The Terrible Stories(By: Lucille Clifton)
1996
Fuel(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
1998
Tell Me(By: Kim Addonizio)
2000
Blessing the Boats(By: Lucille Clifton)
2000
Smoke(By: Dorianne Laux)
2000
Book of My Nights(By: Li-Young Lee)
2001
Mules of Love(By: Ellen Bass)
2002
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande(By: Ray Gonzalez)
2002
Love Song with Motor Vehicles(By: Alan Michael Parker)
2003
The Owner of the House(By: Louis Simpson)
2003
The Orchard(By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly)
2004
The Rooster's Wife(By: Russell Edson)
2005
Postcards from the Interior(By: Wyn Cooper)
2005
You & Yours(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
2005
Darling Vulgarity(By: Michael Waters)
2006
Not for Specialists(By: W.D. Snodgrass)
2006
Slope of the Child Everlasting(By: Laurie Kutchins)
2007
Sleeping With Houdini(By: Nin Andrews)
2007
The Fortieth Day(By: Kazim Ali)
2008
Elephants & Butterflies(By: Alan Michael Parker)
2008
Voices(By: Lucille Clifton)
2008
And(By: Michael Blumenthal)
2009
Carpathia(By: Cecilia Woloch)
2009
Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone(By: Matthew Shenoda)
2009
Sharp Stars(By: Sharon Bryan)
2009
Chaos is the New Calm(By: Wyn Cooper)
2010
Long Lens(By: Peter Makuck)
2010
Burning of the Three Fires(By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont)
2010
Diwata )(By: Barbara Jane Reyes)
2010
Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2010
Kingdom Animalia(By: Aracelis Girmay)
2011
Your Father on the Train of Ghosts(By: G.C. Waldrep,John Gallaher)
2011
Ennui Prophet(By: Christopher Kennedy)
2011
Transfer(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
2011
Gospel Night(By: Michael Waters)
2011
The Hands of Strangers(By: Janice N. Harrington)
2011
True Faith(By: Ira Sadoff)
2012
The Reindeer Camps(By: Barton Sutter)
2012
To Keep Love Blurry(By: Craig Morgan Teicher)
2012
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010(By: Kevin Young,Toni Morrison,Lucille Clifton,Michael S. Glaser)
2012
Theophobia(By: Bruce Beasley)
2012
The Book of Goodbyes(By: Jillian Weise)
2013
No Need of Sympathy(By: Fleda Brown)
2013
Refuge(By: Adrie Kusserow)
2013
Birth Marks(By: Jim Daniels)
2013
There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick(By: Michael Teig)
2013
The Keys to the Jail(By: Keetje Kuipers)
2014
All You Ask For is Longing(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2014
What He Took(By: Wendy Mnookin)
2014
Copia(By: Erika Meitner)
2014
The Chair(By: Richard Garcia)
2014
In a Landscape(By: John Gallaher)
2014
Fanny Says(By: Nickole Brown)
2015
Testament(By: G.C. Waldrep)
2015
Why God is a Woman(By: Nin Andrews)
2015
Broken Hallelujahs(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2015
Antidote for Night(By: Marsha De LA O)
2015
I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance(By: Rick Bursky)
2015
Beautiful Wall(By: Ray Gonzalez)
2015
The Black Maria(By: Aracelis Girmay)
2016
Celestial Joyride(By: Michael Waters)
2016
Whereso(By: Karen Volkman)
2016
Struggling Times(By: Louis Simpson)
2016
The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech(By: Stephen Dobyns)
2016
The End of Pink(By: Kathryn Nuernberger)
2016
Primitive(By: Janice N. Harrington)
2016
Mandatory Evacuation(By: Makuck Peter)
2016
The Trembling Answers(By: Craig Morgan Teicher)
2017
Bye-Bye Land(By: Christian Barter)
2017
Sky Country(By: Christine Kitano)
2017
The Smoke of Horses(By: Charles Rafferty)
2017
All Soul Parts Returned(By: Bruce Beasley)
2017
The Second O of Sorrow )(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2018
Holy Moly Carry Me(By: Erika Meitner)
2018
Clues from the Animal Kingdom )(By: Christopher Kennedy)
2018
Dresses from the Old Country )(By: Laura Read)
2018
In Country(By: HughMartin)
2018
The Tiny Journalist(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
2019
All Its Charms(By: Keetje Kuipers)
2019
Night Angler(By: Geffrey Davis)
2019
The Human Half
2019
Cyborg Detective(By: Jillian Weise)
2019
On the Shores of Welcome Home(By: Bruce Weigl)
2019
Rue(By: Kathryn Nuernberger)
2020
Year of the Dog(By: Deborah Paredez)
2020
Let's Become a Ghost Story(By: Rick Bursky)
2020
Brand New Spacesuit(By: John Gallaher)
2020
Mercy(By: Lucille Clifton)
2020
How to Carry Water(By: Lucille Clifton,Aracelis Girmay)
2020
Caw(By: Michael Waters)
2020
Letters to a Young Brown Girl(By: Barbara Jane Reyes)
2020
Mother Country(By: Elana Bell)
2020
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World(By: Kendra DeColo)
2021
The Naomi Letters(By: Rachel Mennies)
2021
Diamonds(By: Camille Guthrie)
2021
Useful Junk(By: Erika Meitner)
2022
Field Notes from the Flood Zone(By: Heather Sellers)
2022
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud(By: Dustin Pearson)
2022
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency(By: Chen Chen)
2022
A Tinderbox in Three Acts(By: Cynthia Dewi Oka)
2022
Little Mr. Prose Poem(By: Charles Simic,Russell Edson,Craig Morgan Teicher)
2022
The Dug-Up Gun Museum(By: Ben Follows)
2022