Poetry in America is flourishing in this new millennium and asking serious questions of itself: Is writing marked by gender and if so, how? What does it mean to

“A fine and selective anthology that’s also a critical introduction to some of the most provocative, and some of the most original, poetry out there.” —

This collection of 16 essays discusses the broad relationship of women poets to the American literary tradition

This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general publ

North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language is an important new addition to the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like th