Recommended Poetry Reading for the New Millennium
Mary Jo Bang, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon (Grove Press, 2004)
Joshua Beckman, Shake (Wave Books, 2006)
Erin Belieu, Black Box (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
David Berman, Actual Air (Open City Books, 1999)
Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours (Vintage Contemporaries, 2000)
Olena Kalytiak Davis, shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities (Bloomsbury/Tin House, 2003)
Brandon Downing, Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005)
Nick Flynn, Some Ether (Graywolf Press, 2000)
Daisy Fried, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006)
Alice Fulton, Cascade Experiment (W.W. Norton, 2004)
Amy Gerstler, Ghost Girl (Penguin Books, 2004)
Jorie Graham, Overlord (Ecco, 2006)
Matt Hart, who's who vivid (Slope Editions, 2005)
Matthea Harvey, Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf Press, 2004)
Christian Hawkey, The Book of Funnels (Verse Press, 2004)
Terrence Hayes, Wind in a Box (Penguin Books, 2006)
Thomas Heise, Horror Vacui (Sarabande Books, 2006)
Brenda Hillman, Cascadia (Wesleyan UP, 2001)
Tony Hoagland, What Narcissism Means to Me (Graywolf Press, 2003)
Christine Hume, Alaskaphrenia (New Issues, 2004)
Joanna Klink, Circadian (Penguin, 2007)
Jennifer L. Knox, A Gringo Like Me (Soft Skull Press, 2005)
Alex Lemon, Mosquito (Tin House Books, 2006)
Ben Lerner, The Lichtenberg Figures (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)
Sarah Manguso, Siste Viator (Four Way books, 2006)
Jane Mayhall, Sleeping Late on Judgment Day (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)
Raymond McDaniel, Murder [A Violet] (Coffee House Press, 2004)
Simone Muench, Lampblack & Ash (Sarabande Books, 2005)
Maggie Nelson, Jane (A Murder) (Soft Skull Press, 2005)
Alice Notley, Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin Books, 1998)
Danielle Pafunda, Pretty Young Thing (Soft Skull Press, 2005)
D.A. Powell, Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2004)
Claudia Rankine, Don't Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf Press, 2004)
Paisley Rekdal, Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington UP, 2002)
Matthew Rohrer, Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007)
Tessa Rumsey, The Return Message (W.W. Norton, 2005)
Richard Siken, Crush (Yale UP, 2004)
Priscilla Sneff, o woolly city (Tupelo Press, 2006)
Bruce Snider, The Year We Studied Women (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
Susan Stewart, Columbarium (The University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Sarah Vap, American Spikenard (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
Catherine Wagner, Macular Hole (Fence Books, 2004)
Mark Wunderlich, Voluntary Servitude (Graywolf Press, 2004)
Mark Yakich, Unrelated Individuals Forming A Group Waiting to Cross (Penguin Books, 2004)
Dean Young, Embyoyo (McSweeney's, 2007)
Rachel Zucker, The Last Clear Narrative (Wesleyan UP, 2004)