Poets on Poetry Books in Order
142
Books
1959
First Book
2024
Latest Book
66
Years
Below you'll find the complete list of Poets on Poetry books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
1
Four Poets on Poetry (By: Don Cameron Allen)
Buy on Amazon1959
2
Modern Russian Poets on Poetry (By: Carl R. Proffer)
Buy on Amazon1976
3
Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-76 (By: Donald Hall)
Buy on Amazon1978
4
Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews (By: Galway Kinnell)
Buy on Amazon1978
5
Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation (By: William Stafford)
Buy on Amazon1978
6
To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living (By: Maxine Kumin)
Buy on Amazon1980
7
Open Between Us (By: David Ignatow,Ralph J. Mills)
Buy on Amazon1980
8
Thinking About Morality ) (By: William K. Frankena)
Buy on Amazon1980
9
Talking All Morning (By: Robert Bly)
Buy on Amazon1980
10
Pot Shots at Poetry (By: Robert Francis)
Buy on Amazon1981
11
The Old Poetries and the New (By: Richard Kostelanetz)
Buy on Amazon1981
12
A Company of Poets (By: Louis Simpson)
Buy on Amazon1981
13
Don't Ask (By: Philip Levine)
Buy on Amazon1981
14
Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place (By: John Meade Haines)
Buy on Amazon1982
15
The Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977-81 (By: Donald Hall)
Buy on Amazon1982
16
Claims for Poetry (By: Donald Hall)
Buy on Amazon1982
17
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 (By: Philip Larkin)
Buy on Amazon1983
18
Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt (By: Marge Piercy)
Buy on Amazon1983
19
Collected Prose (By: James Wright,Anne Wright)
Buy on Amazon1983
20
Writing Like a Woman (By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker)
Buy on Amazon1983
21
Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews (By: Marvin Bell)
Buy on Amazon1983
22
A Ballet for the Ear: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews (By: A. Poulin Jr.,JohnLogan)
Buy on Amazon1983
23
Platonic Scripts (By: Donald Justice)
Buy on Amazon1984
24
Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews (By: Hayden Carruth)
Buy on Amazon1984
25
A Local Habitation: Essays on Poetry ) (By: John Frederick Nims)
Buy on Amazon1985
26
No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose (By: Anne Sexton,Steven E. Colburn)
Buy on Amazon1985
27
You Must Revise Your Life (By: William Stafford)
Buy on Amazon1986
28
A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry (By: Tess Gallagher)
Buy on Amazon1986
29
Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88 (By: Donald Hall)
Buy on Amazon1988
30
Reviews and Essays, 1936-55 (By: James Reidel,Weldon Kees)
Buy on Amazon1988
31
Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-87 (By: Charles Wright)
Buy on Amazon1988
32
Curiosities (By: William Matthews)
Buy on Amazon1989
33
Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties (By: Tom Clark)
Buy on Amazon1990
34
Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures (By: Nicholas Delbanco)
Buy on Amazon1990
35
Wonderful Words, Silent Truth (By: Charles Simic)
Buy on Amazon1990
36
Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry (By: James McCorkle)
Buy on Amazon1990
37
Poems Are Hard to Read (By: William Meredith)
Buy on Amazon1990
38
Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays (By: Amy Clampitt)
Buy on Amazon1991
39
The Line Forms Here (By: David Lehman)
Buy on Amazon1992
40
Suicides and Jazzers (By: Hayden Carruth)
Buy on Amazon1993
41
Words to Create a World (By: Daniel Hoffman)
Buy on Amazon1993
42
Plow Naked (By: Fred Chappell)
Buy on Amazon1993
43
Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview (By: Thom Gunn)
Buy on Amazon1993
44
Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews (By: Robert Creeley)
Buy on Amazon1993
45
Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry (By: Alan Williamson)
Buy on Amazon1994
46
Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems (By: Gregory Orr)
Buy on Amazon1994
47
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller (By: Charles Simic)
Buy on Amazon1995
48
The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry (By: Mary Kinzie)
Buy on Amazon1995
49
Death to the Death of Poetry (By: Donald Hall)
Buy on Amazon1995
50
Poetry Now - Poets on Poetry (By: Kerrie Pateman)
Buy on Amazon1995
51
Poetry's Old Air (By: Marianne Boruch)
Buy on Amazon1995
52
The Big Question (By: David Lehman)
Buy on Amazon1995
53
Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur (By: Richard W. Tillinghast)
Buy on Amazon1995
54
Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews (By: Charles Wright)
Buy on Amazon1996
55
The Art of Poetry (By: Kenneth Koch)
Buy on Amazon1996
56
The Spiral of Memory (With: Laura Coltelli)
Buy on Amazon1996
57
Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen (By: PhilipBooth)
Buy on Amazon1996
58
A World That Will Hold All the People (By: Suzanne Gardinier)
Buy on Amazon1996
59
The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose (By: Elizabeth Spires,Josephine Jacobsen)
Buy on Amazon1997
60
A Commonplace Book (By: Douglas Crase)
Buy on Amazon1997
61
Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s (By: Jonathan Holden)
Buy on Amazon1997
62
The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle (By: Allen Grossman)
Buy on Amazon1997
63
Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self (By: Carol Muske-Dukes)
Buy on Amazon1997
64
The Glass Anvil (By: Andrew Hudgins)
Buy on Amazon1997
65
Orphan Factory (By: Charles Simic)
Buy on Amazon1997
66
Five looks at Elizabeth Bishop (By: Anne Stevenson)
Buy on Amazon1998
67
Poetry and Consciousness (By: C.K. Williams)
Buy on Amazon1998
68
An Introduction to Rhyme (By: PeterDale)
Buy on Amazon1998
69
Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation (By: William Stafford,Paul Merchant,Vincent Wixon)
Buy on Amazon1998
70
Made with Words (By: May Swenson)
Buy on Amazon1998
71
All the Rage (By: William Logan)
Buy on Amazon1998
72
An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill (By: W.S. Milne)
Buy on Amazon1998
73
Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays (By: Anne Stevenson)
Buy on Amazon1998
74
The Poetry of Everyday Life (By: John Hollander)
Buy on Amazon1998
75
Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray (By: Tess Gallagher,Greg Simon)
Buy on Amazon1999
76
The Route as Briefed (By: James Vincent Tate)
Buy on Amazon1999
77
Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 (By: Geoffrey Paul O'Brien)
Buy on Amazon1999
78
Responsive Reading (By: Edward Hirsch)
Buy on Amazon1999
79
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (By: Yusef Komunyakaa,Radiclani Clytus)
Buy on Amazon2000
80
Poetry at One Remove (By: John Koethe)
Buy on Amazon2000
81
Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker)
Buy on Amazon2000
82
Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams (By: Rachel Hadas)
Buy on Amazon2000
83
The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets (By: Ron Padgett)
Buy on Amazon2000
84
The Gazer Within (By: James Marshall,Larry Levis,Andrew Miller,David St John,John Venable)
Buy on Amazon2001
85
The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews (By: Stanley Plumly,William Matthews,Sebastian Matthews)
Buy on Amazon2001
86
Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85 (By: Philip Larkin)
Buy on Amazon2001
87
Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (By: Linda Gregerson)
Buy on Amazon2001
88
Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (By: Mark Jarman)
Buy on Amazon2002
89
A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large (By: Stephen Yenser)
Buy on Amazon2002
90
The Castle of Perseverance (By: Thomas M. Disch)
Buy on Amazon2002
91
So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews (By: Philip Levine)
Buy on Amazon2002
92
Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity (By: David Alan Mura)
Buy on Amazon2002
93
A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs (By: Charles Simic)
Buy on Amazon2003
94
The Metaphysician in the Dark (By: Charles Simic)
Buy on Amazon2003
95
Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry (By: Dana Gioia)
Buy on Amazon2003
96
Fables of Representation (By: Paul Hoover)
Buy on Amazon2004
97
Selected Prose (By: John Ashbery)
Buy on Amazon2004
98
Poetry and What is Real (By: Richard W. Tillinghast)
Buy on Amazon2004
99
Memory Piano (By: Charles Simic)
Buy on Amazon2006
100
The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (By: John Yau)
Buy on Amazon2006
101
The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language (By: Laura (Riding) Jackson,John Nolan)
Buy on Amazon2007
102
Power and Possibility (By: Elizabeth Alexander)
Buy on Amazon2007
103
Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (By: Ed Dorn,Joseph Richey,Peter Michelson)
Buy on Amazon2007
104
Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007 (By: Alfred Corn)
Buy on Amazon2008
105
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (By: Reginald Shepherd)
Buy on Amazon2008
106
On Burning Ground (By: Sandra M. Gilbert)
Buy on Amazon2009
107
Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues (By: A.R. Ammons,Zofia Burr)
Buy on Amazon2009
108
Poetics of Dislocation (By: Meena Alexander)
Buy on Amazon2009
109
The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self (By: Annie Ridley Crane Finch)
Buy on Amazon2010
110
Coming After: Essays on Poetry (By: Alice Notley)
Buy on Amazon2010
111
A Martian Muse (By: Reginald Shepherd,Robert Philen)
Buy on Amazon2010
112
The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive (By: Martín Espada)
Buy on Amazon2010
113
Orange Alert (By: Mohammed Kazim Ali)
Buy on Amazon2010
114
Unauthorized Voices (By: Marilyn Hacker)
Buy on Amazon2010
115
Two Minds of a Western Poet (By: David Mason)
Buy on Amazon2011
116
The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose (By: Lawrence Joseph)
Buy on Amazon2011
117
Noise That Stays Noise: Essays (By: Cole Swensen)
Buy on Amazon2011
118
Available Surfaces: Essays on Poesis (By: T.R. Hummer)
Buy on Amazon2012
119
Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory (By: Natasha Sajé)
Buy on Amazon2014
120
Yes, There Will Be Singing (By: Marilyn Krysl)
Buy on Amazon2014
121
Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (By: Boojkdl ajdp)
Buy on Amazon2014
122
The Necropastoral (By: Joyelle McSweeney)
Buy on Amazon2014
123
From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (By: David Wojahn)
Buy on Amazon2015
124
Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (By: Bruce Bond)
Buy on Amazon2015
125
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine (By: Kazim Ali)
Buy on Amazon2015
126
The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (By: Aaron Shurin)
Buy on Amazon2016
127
How Long Have You Been With Us?: Essays on Poetry (By: Khaled Mattawa)
Buy on Amazon2016
128
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (By: Yusef Komunyakaa,Radiclani Clytus)
Buy on Amazon2017
129
The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays toward Poetry (By: Marianne Boruch)
Buy on Amazon2017
130
The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays (By: Garrett Hongo)
Buy on Amazon2017
131
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics (By: Rigoberto González)
Buy on Amazon2017
132
Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice (By: Claudia Keelan)
Buy on Amazon2018
133
Someone Shot My Book (By: Julie Carr)
Buy on Amazon2018
134
The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (By: Philip Metres)
Buy on Amazon2018
135
The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls: Essays on the Cultural Life of Poetry (By: Tony Hoagland)
Buy on Amazon2019
136
From the Valley of Bronze Camels (By: Jane Miller)
Buy on Amazon2022
137
A Beat Beyond (By: Major Jackson,Amor Kohli)
Buy on Amazon2022
138
Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel (By: Lucy Jane Miller)
Buy on Amazon2022
139
To Go Into the Words (By: Norman Finkelstein)
Buy on Amazon2023
140
Ghosts and the Overplus (By: Christina Pugh)
Buy on Amazon2024
141
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It) (By: Nathaniel Perry)
Buy on Amazon2024
142
How to Draw a Circle (By: Dan Beachy-Quick)
Buy on Amazon2024
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Poets on Poetry series is publication order: 1. Four Poets on Poetry (By: Don Cameron Allen) (1959), 2. Modern Russian Poets on Poetry (By: Carl R. Proffer) (1976), 3. Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-76 (By: Donald Hall) (1978), 4. Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews (By: Galway Kinnell) (1978), 5. Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation (By: William Stafford) (1978), and 137 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Poets on Poetry series by Joy Harjo contains 142 books. The series began in 1959 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Poets on Poetry series is written by Joy Harjo. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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