American poets project

A collection of 120 poems about World War II, featuring selections by sixty-two American poets including veterans of the armed forces, conscientious objectors, draft resistors, and others who experienced the conflict as civilians.

An anthology of sonnets written by American poets over the course of two centuries, including selections by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Conrad Aiken, Richard Eberhart, and many others.

Contains a collection of selected poems by American poet Theodore Roethke, including children's poems and writings from his notebooks.

Contains selections of witty verse written by thirty-six authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Robert Frost, Christopher Morley, Dorothy Parker, and Ogden Nash, arranged chronologically from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century.

Presents a selection of poems by twentieth-century American poet Muriel Rukeyser in which she explores issues of politics, sexuality, imagination, family life, and technological change.

Presents approximately 140 poems by twentieth-century American poet William Carlos Williams and includes an introduction by poet Robert Pinsky and an index of titles and first lines.

Collects more than one hundred poems by American poet, journalist, and crime novelist Kenneth Fearing on urbanization and the increasingly media-filled culture.

Presents a collection of poems from Jewish American writer Emma Lazarus, the author of the poem "The New Colossus" that is inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Presents forty-five works by nineteenth-century American poet John Greenleaf Whittier, including "Snow-Bound," his long poem about his New England childhood; his popular ballad "Skipper Ireson's Ride"; and such anti-slavery works as "Songs of Slaves in the Desert" and "The Hunters of Men.".

Presents a selection of poems by American modernist poet Amy Lowell.