Poets on Poetry Reading Order
by Joy Harjo
Reading Order
Four Poets on Poetry
1959
Modern Russian Poets on Poetry
1976
Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-76
1978
Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews
1978
Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation
1978
To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living
1980
Open Between Us
1980
Thinking About Morality )
1980
Talking All Morning
1980
Pot Shots at Poetry
1981
The Old Poetries and the New
1981
A Company of Poets
1981
Don't Ask
1981
Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place
1982
The Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977-81
1982
Claims for Poetry
1982
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
1983
Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt
1983
Collected Prose
1983
Writing Like a Woman
1983
Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews
1983
A Ballet for the Ear: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews
1983
Platonic Scripts
1984
Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews
1984
A Local Habitation: Essays on Poetry )
1985
No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose
1985
You Must Revise Your Life
1986
A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry
1986
Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88
1988
Reviews and Essays, 1936-55
1988
Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-87
1988
Curiosities
1989
Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties
1990
Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures
1990
Wonderful Words, Silent Truth
1990
Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry
1990
Poems Are Hard to Read
1990
Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays
1991
The Line Forms Here
1992
Suicides and Jazzers
1993
Words to Create a World
1993
Plow Naked
1993
Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview
1993
Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews
1993
Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry
1994
Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems
1994
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller
1995
The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry
1995
Death to the Death of Poetry
1995
Poetry Now - Poets on Poetry
1995
Poetry's Old Air
1995
The Big Question
1995
Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur
1995
Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews
1996
The Art of Poetry
1996
The Spiral of Memory
1996
Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen
1996
A World That Will Hold All the People
1996
The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose
1997
A Commonplace Book
1997
Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s
1997
The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle
1997
Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self
1997
The Glass Anvil
1997
Orphan Factory
1997
Five looks at Elizabeth Bishop
1998
Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation
1998
Poetry and Consciousness
1998
An Introduction to Rhyme
1998
Made with Words
1998
All the Rage
1998
An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill
1998
Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays
1998
The Poetry of Everyday Life
1998
Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray
1999
The Route as Briefed
1999
Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95
1999
Responsive Reading
1999
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
2000
Poetry at One Remove
2000
Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic
2000
Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams
2000
The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets
2000
The Gazer Within
2001
The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews
2001
Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85
2001
Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry
2001
Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry
2002
A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large
2002
The Castle of Perseverance
2002
So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews
2002
Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity
2002
A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs
2003
The Metaphysician in the Dark
2003
Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry
2003
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life
2003
Fables of Representation
2004
Selected Prose
2004
Poetry and What is Real
2004
Memory Piano
2006
The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry
2006
The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language
2007
Power and Possibility
2007
Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes
2007
Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007
2008
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
2008
On Burning Ground
2009
Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues
2009
Poetics of Dislocation
2009
The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
2010
Coming After: Essays on Poetry
2010
A Martian Muse
2010
The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive
2010
Orange Alert
2010
Unauthorized Voices
2010
Two Minds of a Western Poet
2011
The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose
2011
Noise That Stays Noise: Essays
2011
Available Surfaces: Essays on Poesis
2012
Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory
2014
Yes, There Will Be Singing
2014
Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems
2014
The Necropastoral
2014
From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry
2015
Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand
2015
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine
2015
The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks
2016
How Long Have You Been With Us?: Essays on Poetry
2016
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
2017
The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays toward Poetry
2017
The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays
2017
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics
2017
Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice
2018
Someone Shot My Book
2018
The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance
2018
The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls: Essays on the Cultural Life of Poetry
2019
From the Valley of Bronze Camels
2022
A Beat Beyond
2022
Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel
2022
To Go Into the Words
2023
Ghosts and the Overplus
2024
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)
2024
How to Draw a Circle
2024