American Poets Project Reading Order

Walt Whitman(By: Walt Whitman)

1892

Edgar Allan Poe(By: Richard Wilbur)

1909

Theodore Roethke(By: )

1969

A. R. Ammons(By: David Lehman,A.R. Ammons)

1977

William Carlos Williams(By: William Carlos Williams)

1984

Edna St. Vincent Millay(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)

1991

Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems(By: Carl Sandburg)

1996

Yvor Winters(By: Thom Gunn,Yvor Winters)

1999

Karl Shapiro(By: John Updike,Karl Shapiro)

2003

Poets of World War II(By: Various,Harvey Shapiro)

2003

American Wits(By: John Hollander)

2003

John Greenleaf Whittier(By: John Greenleaf Whittier)

2004

Kenneth Fearing(By: Robert Polito,Kenneth Fearing)

2004

Muriel Rukeyser(By: Muriel Rukeyser)

2004

John Berryman(By: Kevin Young,John Berryman)

2004

Poets of the Civil War(By: J.D. McClatchy)

2005

Emma Lazarus(By: Emma Lazarus)

2005

Edith Wharton(By: Edith Wharton)

2005

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks(By: Gwendolyn Brooks,Elizabeth Alexander)

2005

Cole Porter(By: Robert Kimball,Cole Porter)

2006

Louis Zukofsky(By: Louis Zukofsky,Charles Bernstein)

2006

Kenneth Koch(By: Ron Padgett,Kenneth Koch)

2007

American Sonnets(By: David Bromwich)

2007

James Agee(By: James Agee,Andrew Hudgins)

2008

Poems from the Women's Movement(By: Honor Moore)

2009

Ira Gershwin(By: Robert Kimball,Ira Gershwin)

2009

Lyrics of the First Great Popular Songs(By: Stephen Collins Foster,Ken Emerson)

2010

Countee Cullen(By: Major Jackson,Countee Cullen)

2010

Amy Lowell(By: Honor Moore)

2012