Poetry by Individual Poets

The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) - written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after, or so the poet cl...

In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Steads new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, remembering old...

There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive ...

The Waste Land is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, ...

Into the Woods takes us to imaginary wild woodland in the centre of London. In this story the woodsman, the wild girl and the widow Mary live in a ...

With rhetorical estrangements that recall John Ashbery, and rhythms and ambitions that recall Wallace Stevens and Walt Whitman, the voice in these ...

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle A...

The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (18551912)the founder of modern Italian poetry...

A fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining formsIn Stet, poet...

A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as memorable (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review) and impres...

Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly r...

This is the second collection from a Brooklyn poet whose work many readers will know from the New Yorker. Jessica Greenbaum's narrative poems, in w...

Chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon to relaunch the prestigious Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets under his editorship, The Ete...

The first publication of the unknown poetry of a major twentieth-century sculptorIn 1955, long before he became famous for his abstract metal sculp...