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American Poets Project Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of American Poets Project books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the American Poets Project series? Start with "Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)" (1892) and follow publication order through all 29 books.
The complete American Poets Project reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication 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
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: )
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
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