Volume 2 is now in process, for publication winter 2007.

Poets in Volume 2: Sandra Alcosser, Jack Anderson, Philip Appleman, Ivan Arguelles, Rane Arroyo, Mary Jo Bang, Ellen Bass, Luis Benitez, Robert Bly, Marianne Boruch, Daniel Bourne, Andrea Budy, Mairead Byrne, Nick Carbo, Maxine Chernoff, Tom Clark, Joshua Clover, Andrei Codrescu, Martha Collins, Shanna Compton, Stephen Corey, Alfred Corn, Barbara Crooker, James Cushing, Catherine Daly, linh dinh, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Edward Field, Forrest Gander, Robert Gibb, Sandra Gilbert, Diane Glancy, Kenneth Goldsmith, Noah Eli Gordon, Stephen Herz, H L Hix, Anselm Hollo, Janet Holmes, Kent Johnson, Marilyn Kallet, Ilya Kaminsky, Robert Kelly, Amy King, Jennifer Knox, Ted Kooser, Greg Kuzma, Ben Lerner, Haki Madhubhuti, David Mason, Gail Mazur, Joyelle McSweeney, Robert Mezey, Leslie Miller, Roger Mitchell, Judith Moffett, Carol Moldaw, K. Salem Mohammed, William Mohr, Jennifer Moxley, Lisel Meuller, Eileen Myles, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Charles North, Kate Northrop, Mwatabu Okantah, Carole Oles, Jena Osman, Alicia Ostriker, Linda Pastan, Simon Perchik, Bob Perelman, Roger Pfingston, Marge Piercy, Katha Pollitt, David Ray, Judy Ray, Alberto Rios, Jane Robinson, Robert Ronnow, Jerome Rothenberg, Jerome Sala, Dennis Schmitz, Grace Schulman, Lloyd Schwartz, Purvi Shah, David Shapiro, Reginald Shepherd, Dale Smith, Thomas Smith, Kevin Stein, Carolyn Stoloff, Eileen Tabias, Thom Tammaro, Tony Tost, Diane Wakoski, Diane Ward, Barrett Watten, Miller Williams, A. D. Winans, Mark Wizniewski, Carolyne Wright

From the Editor's Preface to Poet's Bookshelf 1:

"When I was studying for my MFA I was required to read 25 books, of my choosing, per semester. Once, I asked one of my professors to give me some suggestions and she gave me a list of 30 or so writers that she thought I should read. I didn’t know if these were writers that were personally important to her, or if they were simply writers she thought might become important to me, but, either way, I thought it was a great list. Soon after, I got the idea for this book and began asking leading contemporary poets to respond to these prompts:

1) Please list 5-10 books that have been most “essential” to you, as a poet.
2) Please write some comments about your list. You may want to single out specific poems or passages from the books, discuss how you made your decisions or provide thoughts about the importance of these books in your life. Feel free to write as much as you would like.

I mentioned that the primary audience for the book might be younger poets, but that I believed many people would be interested. I asked a variety of poets because I wanted to represent a wide range of contemporary poetry."

A Review of PB1

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