btw archive dot org is SUCH a treasury when it comes to out-of-print poetry anthologies… i am having the time of my life, truly ❣️
some of my bookmarks:
against forgetting: twentieth-century poetry of witness,
postwar polish poetry (edited by czesław miłosz!),
poems for the millennium: the university of california book of modern & postmodern poetry vol 1 + vol 2,
essential pleasures: a new anthology of poems to read aloud,
poems that make grown women cry + poems that make grown men cry,
the oxford book of short poems,
a book of women poets from antiquity to now,
first loves: poets introduce the essential poems that capitivated and inspired them (so many literary greats!),
the poets’ grimm: 20th century poems from grimm fairy tales,
disenchantments: an anthology of modern fairy tale poetry,
arthur, the greatest king: an anthology of modern arthurian poems,
chapters into verse: poetry in english inspired by the bible,
killer verse: poems of murder and mayhem,
poetry in medicine: an anthology of poems about doctors, patients, illness, and healing,
a mind apart: poems of melancholy, madness, and addiction,
friendship poems + marriage poems + motherhood poems + fatherhood poems,
billy collins’ poetry 180 + 180 more,
good poems + good poems for hard times
the penguin book of… modern african poetry + irish poetry + japanese verse + hebrew verse + love poetry + sick verse (sic!)














