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Jen (jppoetryreader) | 1944 comments Mod
I'm still nibbling on the Malala anthology and I've started on Best American Poetry. This may end up being a year of anthologies. A couple of weeks ago, I found myself wondering if there were any good decade anthologies for 2000-2009 or 2010-2019.

Back in 80s & 90s, Jack Myers and Roger Weingarten edited, New American Poets of the 90s and New American Poets of the 80s. I found them enjoyable anthologies and helpful for finding poets I wanted to explore further. However that particular project doesn't appear to have continued into the 21st Century.

In my search, I've found a smattering of other anthologies focusing on poetry of this century that I may check out. Feel free to suggest any to me.


message 2: by Jen (last edited Dec 11, 2022 08:53PM) (new)

Jen (jppoetryreader) | 1944 comments Mod
1. Malala, an anthology
2. I Will Pass Even to Acheron by Amanda Newel
3. Poetry 180 ed. Billy Collins
4. To Those Who Were Our First Gods by Nickole Brown
5. Imago, Dei by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose (I added my brief review to Alarie's already started discussion of this chapbook)
6. Conversation Pieces, ed. Kurt Brown & Harold Schechter
7. Answering Back, ed. Carol Ann Duffy
8. 100 Best-Loved Poems, ed. Philip Smith
9. Smoke from This Altar by Louis L'Amour
10. The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses by Banjo Patterson
11. The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, trans. Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell
12. The Failure of Certain Charms by Gordon Henry, Jr.
13. Mid-Life Chrysler by TJ McGuire
14. The Land by Vita Sackville-West
15. Stephane Mallarme: Collected Poems and Other Verse, trans. E.H. and A.M. Blackmore
16. Talking Like the Rain, ed. X.J. & Dorothy M. Kennedy, ill. Jane Dyer
17. James Wright: Selected Poems, ed. Robert Bly & Anne Wright
18. The Crooked Inheritance by Marge Piercy
19. Till I End My Song, ed. Harold Bloom
20. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, ed. JD McClatchy
21. Best American Poetry 2021, ed. Tracy Smith
22. Poets of the New Century, ed. Roger Weingarten & Richard Higgerson

First time in years I've completed this challenge. It felt good. Time to start planning 2023.


message 3: by Jen (last edited Jul 20, 2022 06:20PM) (new)

Jen (jppoetryreader) | 1944 comments Mod
Reminders for 2023:
Dig out Wordsworth and give him a go for 2023.

As of July 2022, Wordsworth is now my bathroom read, which is to say I won't finish him until 2023--unless I graduate him out of the bathroom, which I will plan to do if I reach this year's goal before the end of the year.


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