“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.” —

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

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

The ideal introduction to the current generation of American poets

Presents over two hundred poems written by American women poets, drawn from a period that ranges from the colonial era through the twentieth century.