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Poetry Library Guide

This guide provides library and internet resources for the finding, reading, and writing poetry as well as criticism on it.

Finding Poetry Worldwide

This section offers a sampling of poetry, mostly in English, worldwide.

Introductions to World Poetry

A Chorus for Peace by Marilyn Arnold (Editor); Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill (Editor); Kristen Tracy (Editor)
ISBN: 0877458111
Publication Date: 2002
The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry by Ilya Kaminsky; Susan Harris; Words Without Words Without Borders
ISBN: 9780061583247
Publication Date: 2010
Forms of a World by Walt Hunter
ISBN: 0823282228
Publication Date: 2019
Haiku Poetics in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Poetry by Jeffrey Johnson
ISBN: 9780739148761
Publication Date: 2011
Poetry in a Global Age by Jahan Ramazani
ISBN: 9780226730004
Publication Date: 2021
The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries by Terry V. F. Brogan (Editor)
ISBN: 9780691001685
Publication Date: 1996
The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries by Roland Greene (Editor); Stephen Cushman (Editor)
ISBN: 9781400880638
Publication Date: 2016
Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry by Mark Willhardt (Editor); Alan Parker (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415163552
Publication Date: 2001
World Beat: International Poetry Now from New Directions by Eliot Weinberger (Editor)
ISBN: 9780811216517
Publication Date: 2006
World Poetry by Katharine Washburn (Editor); John S. Major (Editor); Clifton Fadiman
ISBN: 9780393041309
Publication Date: 2000

Podcasts

European Poets

Critical Survey of Poetry: European Poets by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
ISBN: 9781587657603
Publication Date: 2011

World Poets

Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
ISBN: 9781587657627
Publication Date: 2011