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Below is a list of new poetry titles that will be published in spring 2009 by the sponsors of National Poetry Month. Browse the list by poet, title, or press. Click on a title to get more information and a sample poem. Support your local bookseller by searching for poetry-friendly bookstores by State at the National Poetry Map, or buy the book online at Amazon.com.

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Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic & Postromantic Poetry
University of California Press
edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud
W.W. Norton
edited by Robert Pinsky

American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry
W.W. Norton
edited by Cole Swensen and David St. John
 

The New North: Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland
Wake Forest University Press
edited by Chris Agee

Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose
City Lights Publishers
edited by Chad Sweeney

Beats at Naropa
Coffee House Press
edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright
 

The Best American Poetry 2008
Scribner
edited by Charles Wright, David Lehman (Series Editor)

Black Dog, Black Night
Milkweed Editions
edited by Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover

River of Words: Young Poets & Artists on the Nature of Things
Milkweed Editions
edited by Pamela Michael, with an introduction by Robert Hass
 

Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese
New Directions
translated by Kenneth Rexroth

Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese
New Directions
translated by Kenneth Rexroth

Poems from the Women's Movement
Library of America
edited by Honor Moore
 

Selected Poems
Wake Forest University Press
by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

Face
Hanging Loose Press
by Sherman Alexie

The Veiled Suite
W.W. Norton
by Agha Shahid Ali
 

Getting Lost in a City Like This
Hanging Loose Press
by Jack Anderson

Scattered Papers of Penelope
Graywolf Press
by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

Versed
Wesleyan University Press
by Rae Armantrout
 

John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987
Library of America
by John Ashbery

Selected Poems / Poemas Selectos
New Directions
by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Paris Spleen
Wesleyan University Press
by Charles Baudelaire
 

This Nest, Swift Passerine
Tupelo Press
by Dan Beachy-Quick

Take It
Wave Books
by Joshua Beckman

Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems
Coffee House Press
by Bill Berkson
 

Romanticism
W.W. Norton
by April Bernard

The Second Spirit of the Night
Cavankerry Press
by Bhisham Bherwani

And
BOA Editions
by Michael Blumenthal
 

Slamming Open the Door
Alice James Books
by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

The Plath Cabinet
Four Way Books
by Catherine Bowman

Mistaken for Song
Persea Books
by Tara Bray
 

And So
Four Way Books
by Joel Brouwer

Close Calls with Nonsense
Graywolf Press
by Stephen Burt

With Mouths Open Wide: New and Selected Poems
Milkweed Editions
by John Caddy
 

History of Hurricanes
Northwestern University Press
by Teresa Cader

Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems
New Directions
by Ernesto Cardenal

Collected Poems
Wake Forest University Press
by Ciaran Carson
 

Zero at the Bone
New Issues Press
by Stacie Cassarino

Continuum
W.W. Norton
by Nina Cassian

The Unfinished Poems
Alfred A. Knopf
by C. P. Cavafy
 

Collected Poems
Alfred A. Knopf
by C. P. Cavafy

Voices
BOA Editions
by Lucille Clifton

Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008
City Lights Publishers
by Norma Cole
 

On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems
Hanging Loose Press
by Jayne Cortez

The King's Question
Graywolf Press
by Brian Culhane

Orpheus on the Red Line
Tupelo Press
by Theodore Deppe
 

End of the West, The
Copper Canyon Press
by Michael Dickman

Sonata Mulattica
W.W. Norton
by Rita Dove

Ka-Ching!
University of Pittsburgh Press
by Denise Duhamel
 

What Goes On
W.W. Norton
by Stephen Dunn

See Jack
University of Pittsburgh Press
by Russell Edson

The Glass House
Louisiana State University Press
by Daniel Mark Epstein
 

Tryst
Oberlin College Press
by Angie Estes

Usher
W.W. Norton
by B. H. Fairchild

Poetry As Insurgent Art
New Directions
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
 

Rising
Four Way Books
by Farrah Field

Haywire
Bright Hill Press
by Rachel Contreni Flynn

Answering the Ruins
Northwestern University Press
by Gregory Fraser
 

As Is
Copper Canyon Press
by James Galvin

Delivered
Persea Books
by Sarah Gambito

Skirmish
Graywolf Press
by Dobby Gibson
 

The Dance Most of All
Alfred A. Knopf
by Jack Gilbert

Rooms and Their Airs
Milkweed Editions
by Jody Gladding

To Be Read in 500 Years
Graywolf Press
by Albert Goldbarth
 

Winter Tenor
Alice James Books
by Kevin Goodan

Sea Change
Ecco / HarperCollins
by Jorie Graham

All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems
Graywolf Press
by Linda Gregg
 

My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge
Ecco / HarperCollins
by Paul Guest

The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
Wesleyan University Press
by Barbara Guest

Selected Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Thom Gunn
 

Odes and Elegies
Wesleyan University Press
by Friedrich Hölderlin

All-Night Lingo Tango
University of Pittsburgh Press
by Barbara Hamby

In Search of Small Gods
Copper Canyon Press
by Jim Harrison
 

Kurosawa's Dog
Oberlin College Press
by Dennis Hinrichsen

The Whole Nine Yards
Louisiana State University Press
by Daniel Hoffman

Selected Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Michael Hofmann
 

The Winter Sun
Graywolf Press
by Fanny Howe

Home Remedies
Louisiana State University Press
by Sarah Kennedy

Sunny Wednesday
Wave Books
by Noelle Kocot
 

Awayward
BOA Editions
by Jennifer Kronovet

Reading Novalis in Montana
Milkweed Editions
by Melissa Kwasny

Without Wings
Cavankerry Press
by Laurie Lamon
 

Virgil and the Mountain Cat: Poems
University of California Press
by David Lau

Or to Begin Again
Penguin
by Ann Lauterbach

The Heaven-Sent Leaf
BOA Editions
by Katy Lederer
 

Hallelujah Blackout
Milkweed Editions
by Alex Lemon

If the Delta Was the Sea
Hanging Loose Press
by Dick Lourie

Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works
University of California Press
by Jackson Mac Low
 

Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems
Wake Forest University Press
by Louis MacNeice

Looking House
Graywolf Press
by Fred Marchant

A Million in Prizes
New Issues Press
by Justin Marks
 

The Spoils
Coffee House Press
by Ted Mathys

Mercury Dressing
Alfred A. Knopf
by J. D. McClatchy

Seven Notebooks
Ecco / HarperCollins
by Campbell McGrath
 

Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Ecco / HarperCollins
by Campbell McGrath

Painting Rain
Wake Forest University Press
by Paula Meehan

Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea
New Directions
by Dunya Mikhail
 

The Book of Props
Milkweed Editions
by Wayne Miller

Poemland
Wave Books
by Chelsey Minnis

Complete Lineups
Hanging Loose Press
by Charles North
 

Coal Mountain Elementary
Coffee House Press
by Mark Nowak

Bad River Road
Sarabande Books, Inc.
by Debra Nystrom

A Toast in the House of Friends
Coffee House Press
by Akilah Oliver
 

Lost Alphabet
Copper Canyon Press
by Lisa Olstein

How Beautiful the Beloved
Copper Canyon Press
by Gregory Orr

The Mother/Child Papers
University of Pittsburgh Press
by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
 

The Currency
Four Way Books
by Paul Otremba

Darwin: A Life in Poems
Alfred A. Knopf
by Ruth Padel

Pacific Shooter
Louisiana State University Press
by Susan Parr
 

Inseminating the Elephant
Copper Canyon Press
by Lucia Perillo

Waiting for the Alchemist
Louisiana State University Press
by Mark Perlberg

Zong!
Wesleyan University Press
by M. NourbeSe Philip
 

Speak Low
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Carl Phillips

Dirt Angels
New Issues Press
by Donald Platt

Chronic
Graywolf Press
by D. A. Powell
 

Infinite Beginnings
Bright Hill Press
by Lucyna Prostko

Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch
W.W. Norton
by Dahlia Ravikovitch

All Odd and Splendid
Wesleyan University Press
by Hilda Raz
 

The Warrior
Penguin
by Frances Richey

The Dangerous Shirt
Copper Canyon Press
by Alberto Ríos

Poems 1959-2009
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Frederick Seidel
 

Hilarity
New Issues Press
by Patty Seyburn

The Beginning of the Fields
Tupelo Press
by Angela Shaw

A Monster's Notes
Alfred A. Knopf
by Laurie Sheck
 

My Floating Mother, City
New Directions
by Kazuko Shiraishi

Rough Cradle
Alice James Books
by Betsy Sholl

Houses Are Fields
Louisiana State University Press
by Taije Silverman
 

Struggling Times
BOA Editions
by Louis Simpson

The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems
Louisiana State University Press
by David R. Slavitt

Word Comix
W.W. Norton
by Charlie Smith
 

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
Wesleyan University Press
by Jack Spicer

We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Cavankerry Press
by Pamela Spiro Wagner

The One and Only Human Galaxy
Hanging Loose Press
by Elizabeth Swados
 

The Gingko Light
Copper Canyon Press
by Arthur Sze

The Ghost Soldiers
Ecco / HarperCollins
by James Tate

Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008
Louisiana State University Press
by Eleanor Ross Taylor
 

Sight Map
University of California Press
by Brian Teare

The Waker's Corridor
Louisiana State University Press
by Jonathan Thirkield

Endpoint and Other Poems
Alfred A. Knopf
by John Updike
 

Lucy
Sarabande Books, Inc.
by Jean Valentine

]Open Interval[
University of Pittsburgh Press
by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Archicembalo
Tupelo Press
by G. C. Waldrep
 

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
University of California Press
by Keith Waldrop

Several Gravities
Siglio Press
by Keith Waldrop

Skunk Night Sonnets
Bright Hill Press
by Daniel Waters
 

Assorted Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Susan Wheeler

The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth
Tupelo Press
by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

The King
W.W. Norton
by Rebecca Wolff
 

Sestets
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Charles Wright

An Aquarium
Graywolf Press
by Jeffrey Yang

In Such Hard Times
Copper Canyon Press
by Wei Ying-wu
 

Circa
Hanging Loose Press
by Hannah Zeavin
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