New York: Columbia University Press, (2001). First edition - A book which lives up to its title - this is an extraordinary collection of nearly 400 poems by more than 100 different writers, both among the most recognized poets as well as new voices in contemporary verse. Among the poets included are Ai, Elizabeth Alexander, Jane Kenyon, Marilyn Chin, Rita Dove, Ann Lauterbach, Carolyn Forch, Leslie Scalapino, Julia Alvarez, Lucille Clifton, Alice Fulton, Tess Gallagher, Amy Gerstler, Jane Hirschfield, Heather McHugh, Alice Notley, Lucia Perillo, Marie Ponsot, Mary Jo Salter, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C. D. Wright, and many others. Foreword by Eleanor Wilner, introduction by the editors. Notes on contributors, index. xxix, 464 pp. ISBN: 0-231119631.

New York: Henry Holt, (1994.). Anthology containing the works of over 100 modern American poets, including Martin Espada, Paul Beatty, Sapphire, Ntozake Shange, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Luis Rodriguez, Eileen Myles, Wanda Coleman, Thulani Davis, Victor Hernadez Cruz, Patricia Spears Jones, David Henderson, Sandra Maria Esteves, Patricia Smith, Luis J. Rodriguez and many others. The selected works were all first performed at New York City's Nuyorkian Poets' Cafe --- founded by poets Miguel Algarin, Miguel Pinero, and others. 1994 American Book Award Winner. Notes on the poets, 514 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-32576.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.). A collection featuring 75 poets. 39 appearing for the first time in this anthology. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Amy Clampitt, Mark Doty, Carl Philips, W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds and many others. David Lehman is the series editor. Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-671899481.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.). A collection featuring 75 poets. 39 appearing for the first time in this anthology. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Amy Clampitt, Mark Doty, Carl Philips, W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds and many others. David Lehman is the series editor. Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-671899481.

New York: Scribner, (2004.). First edition - A collection of poems, "diverse in form, tone, style, stance and subject matter." Foreword by David Lehman, the series editor and an introduction by guest editor Lyn Hejinian. Contributors include Kim Addonizzio, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Jane Hirshfield, Alice Notley and many others. Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-74325757X.

New York: Scribner, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Introduction by Clare Coss. SIGNED by Marilyn Hacker at her poem "Runaways Cafe II." Includes contributions from more than 80 contemporary lesbian poets - Chrystos, Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Paula Gunn Allen, Dorothy Allison, Michelle Cliff, Kate Rushin, and many more. Brief biographies and photographs of the contributors. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-684814463.

New York: Scribner, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems, "diverse in form, tone, style, stance and subject matter." Foreword by David Lehman, the series editor and an introduction by guest editor Rita Dove. Contributors include Kim Addonizzio, Brenda Hillman, A. R. Ammons, Lucille Clifton, Carolyn Kizer, Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Gary Soto and many others. SIGNED by TWO poets: Billy Collins at "Man Listening to Disc" and Gary Soto at "Chit-Chat with the Junior League Women." Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-684-81451X.

New York: Scribner, (1996.). SIGNED - A collection of 75 poems, reflecting the diversity of America - from Sherman Alexie and Margaret Atwood through to Diane Wakoski and Ray A. Youngbear. SIGNED by THREE poets at their poems: Marilyn Chin at "Cauldron", Gary Soto at "Fair Trade" and Luis Urrea at "Ghost Sickness." Also includes contributions from Alicia Ostriker (on the Holocaust,); Wang Ping (on the deaths of Chinese stowaways); as well as Jean Valentine, Carl Phillips, Reynolds Price, William Dickey, Jane Kenyon, James Merrill and Jean Starr and many others. David Lehman is the series editor.Õ Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-684-81451X.

New York: Scribner, (1997.). SIGNED - A collection of 75 poems, reflecting the diversity of America - from Sherman Alexie and Ai through to Lewis Warsh and Charles Wright. Also includes contributions from Jorie Graham, Allen Ginsberg, Derek Walcott, Jayne Cortez, Donald Hall and many others. David Lehman is the series editor.Õ SIGNED by THREE poets - Billy Collins at "Lines Lost Among Trees," Gillian Conoley at " The Sky Drank In." and Dana Gioia at "The Litany." Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-684-81451X.

Berkeley, CA: Dremen, 1973. SIGNED - Poems by Ann Dunn, Irene Friis, Judith Goren, Barbara Gravelle, Susan Griffin, Elizabeth Gross, Emily Katherine Harris, Anna Hartmann, Sherry Hollingsworth, Faye Kicknosway, Jeanne Lance, Judith McCombs, Susan MacDonald, Suellen Mayfield, Katharine Morton, Rachel Nahem, Betsy Orient, Maureen Owen, Marsha Peterson, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Margriet Schaye, Michele Stepto, Kathleen Teague, Pamela Victorine, and Elena Wilkinson. SIGNED by Susan Griffin at her poem "Is the air political today?" Notes on the contributors. Printed lithographically by Eric Rasmussen at the Rainbow Zenith Press. 86 pp. plus colophon.

Durham, NH: Oyster River Press, (1999). First edition - "A satisfying harvest of one of New Hampshire's most surprising bounties: poetry." introduction by Maxine Kumin and contributions from Jennifer White, Julia Older, Charles Simic, Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall, and more. Notes on contributors. 96 pp. ISBN: 1-88229159X.

Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press, (2000). First edition - The first part of this anthology features "poems by 26 leading poets (some written especially for this volume) followed by the poets' own reflections on the Jewish and American aspects of their work. The second half of the book gathers ten wide-ranging essays on the history and scope of Jewish American poetry, offering an unprecedented introduction to its Yiddish and Sephardic heritage, its distinctive poetics of commentary, its Kabbalists, its feminists, and more." Among the contributors are Marilyn Hacker, Philip Levine, Marge Piercy, John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, W. S. Merwin, Alice Ostriker and more. A title in the Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life. xii, 346 pp. ISBN: 1-584650435.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology of poems ranging from ancient China and Japan to Mother Goose and modern writers. Among the contributors are Stevie Smith, William Butler Yeats, Vita Sackville-West, Nancy Willard, William Carlos Williams, Pablo Neruda, Han Shan, Issa, Denise Levertov, J. R. R. Tolkien, John Montague, Thom Gunn, Edward Lear, Walter de la Mare, Vikram Seth and others. Illustrated with drawings by Robert Clyde Anderson. xv, 144 pp. Small square format. ISBN: 0-374-235333.

San Francisco: Poets for Peace (1983). First edition - An anthology of poems for peace and against the nuclear holocaust, with Introduction by Miriam Patchen and illustrations by Kenneth Patchen. The poems are arranged alphabetically by poet - included are contributions from Ellen Bass, Robert Bly, James Broughton, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, William Everson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Nicosia, Eugene Ruggles, Michael McClure, Thomas McGrath, Jack Hirschmann, Denise Levertov, Carolyn Forche, Susan Griffin, Bob Kaufman, Harold Norse, Simon J. Ortiz, Kay Ryan, Julia Vinograd and many more. 122 pp.

Palo Alto, CA: 1976. SIGNED first edition - A substantial anthology with contributions from almost 100 poets. It opens with tributes to poet Edwin A.Palkowski, along with several of his poems. INSCRIBED on the first page by one of the contributors, Jewell Clark. Other contributors include Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Leonard Nathan, Todd Gitlin, Sotere Tourigian, Shirley Powers, Iris Jean MacLeod, Helen Carter King and many others. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 246 pp.

Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Poetry Center, 1985. SIGNED first edition - In addition to poets like Raymond Carver and William Everson, who were formerly associated with Sacramento, this anthology includes works by many writers currently writing: among them are Jane Blue, Luke Breit, Julia Connor, B. L. Kennedy, Jim Normington, Mary Mackey, Jose Montoya, Eugene Redmond, D. R. Wagner, Ronald Tanaka and many more. Includes photographs of the poets and brief biographical information. SIGNED by TWO poets at their selections: Jim Normington and Mary Mackey. . Cover art by D. R. Wagner. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-914485-091.

Chicago: Follett, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Anthology of poems selected for older children and young adults.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes poems by Boris Pasternak, Arkady Mikhailov, Bulat Okukava, Yury Stefanov, Bella Aakhmadulina, Pavel Antokol'sky, Aleksandr Aronov, V. Kalugin and others, many which were originally printed in the pages of Grani. Selected and translated by Keith Bosley, Dimitry Pospielovsky and Janis Sapiets. Introduction by Janis Sapiets. xxvi. 92 pp.

New York: Vintage Books, (2003). SIGNED first edition - Starting in 1995, NPRs All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works - This anthology includes works by 33 of these poets: Quincy Troupe, Czeslaw Milosz, Campbell McGrath, C.D. Wright, Jack Gilbert, Heather McHugh, David Lehman, Wang Ping, Joseph Brodsky, Paul Beatty, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Paul Muldoon, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shihab Nye, Richard Blanco, Albert Goldbarth, Carrie Allen McCray, Belle Waring, Russell Edson, Kevin Young, Nuali Di Dhomhnaill, Charles Harper Webb, Denise Duhamel, Yusef Komunyakaa, Hal Sirowitz, Lucia Perillo, Amy Gerstler, Maura Stanton, Marilyn Chin, Philip Booth, Jane Cooper, Diane DiPrima and Elizabeth Spires. SIGNED by TWO poets at their contributions: Charles Harper Webb and Marilyn Chin. xx, 182 pp. ISBN: 0-375713158.

Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Poets Against the War, 2003. SIGNED first edition - With introductions by both editors. Includes contributions from Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Francisco X. Alarcon, Julia Connor and others. SIGNED on the title page by Luke Breit and INSCRIBED by Traci L. Gourdine. Cover photographs by Max Schwartz. Notes on contributors. 76 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (1999). SIGNED - A significant anthology which collects the works of seventy-six contemporary California poets, including Philip Levine, Peter Everwine, Mark Jarman, Adrienne Rich, Dennis Schmitz, Carolyn Kizer, Gary Soto, Al Young, Kim Addonizio, Charles Wright, Carol Muske, Larry Levis, Robert Hass, Gary Snyder, William Everson, Gary Soto, Luis Omar Salinas, Diane Wakoski, Garrett Hongo, Jane Hirsheld, and Brenda Hillman, Sherley Ann Williams, and many more. SIGNED by poet David St. John at his contribution. Each poet has written an introductory statement for their selections, and each is accompanied by a photograph of the poets. 444 pp. ISBN: 1-890771198.

Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (1999). SIGNED - A significant anthology which collects the works of seventy-six contemporary California poets, including Philip Levine, Peter Everwine, Mark Jarman, Adrienne Rich, Dennis Schmitz, Carolyn Kizer, Gary Soto, Al Young, Kim Addonizio, Charles Wright, Carol Muske, David St. John, Larry Levis, Robert Hass, Gary Snyder, William Everson, Gary Soto, Luis Omar Salinas, Diane Wakoski, Garrett Hongo, Jane Hirsheld, and Brenda Hillman, Sherley Ann Williams, and many more. Each poet has written an introductory statement for their selections, and each is accompanied by a photograph of the poets. SIGNED by FOUR poets at their selections: Gary Soto, Brenda Hillman, David St John and Carol Muske (Dukes). 444 pp. ISBN: 1-890771198.

London: Faber & Faber, (1991.0 dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology compiled by Buckley, a critic and a poet himself, of Australian poetry covering roughly 190-1980. Included is a long introduction by Buckley and selections from John Shaw Neilson, Kenneth Slessor, R D Fitzgerald, A D Hope, Judith Wright, Robin Gray, Kevin Hart and many others. xxxxiv, 275 pp. ISBN: 0-571150640.

AuthorHouse, (2006). First edition - Collects poems of love, awareness, community involvement and culture by eighteen poets from across the Caribbean but now living in the Virgin Islands. The poets include Lavanta Thompson, Oren Hodge, Tremis Skeete, Linette Rabsatt, April T. Glasgow, V. Celeste Fahie, Earold O'Kieffe, Urenna Francis, Stephen Payne, Prudence George, Raja H. Pemberton, Jehu Nisbett, Quincy Lettsome, PH.D., Charles P. Bartholomew, Elton Hazel, Jerome Joseph, Sonjah Smith and Justin Hodge. Notes on contributors. 83 pp. ISBN: 978-1425947378.

New York: David McKay Co. (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - Anthology collecting poems about war from many countries and eras - from ancient China to modern America and Europe, edited and with an introduction by Cromie. The back cover of the dust jacket prints Langston Hughes's "Without Benefit of Declaration" - the poem which inspired the title. Notes on poets, index. xxvii, 192 pp.

New York: Persea Books, (2019). First edition - An anthology of verse divided into ten playful sections - for example, "The Barrel Is Surely Coming Down the Hill" is comprised of poems that gain momentum as they move. Foreword by Gerald Stern and a cross-referenced index of the poems' technical and stylistic traits. Among the contributors are Adrian Blevins, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Tina Chang, Ross Gay, Paul Guest, Matthea Harvey, James Hoch, Major Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, Dana Levin, Cate Marvin, Patrick Rosal, Tracy K. Smith, Brian Turner and many others. SIGNED by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Tyehimba Jess at his poem 'leadbelly vs lomax at the modern language association conference 1934.' Includes a cd with many of the poets reading one of their poems. xxii, 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0892553488.

New York: Paragon House, (1988). Hardcover first edition - Works by five of the great poets of the 20th century - French, Peruvian, Caribbean and Czech - selected, translated and introduced by Clayton Eshleman and co-translators Annette Smith and Frantisek Galan. ix, 230 pp. ISBN: 1-557780587.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes more than 450 poems by thirty poets, among them Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Yannis Ritsos and many others, translated, selected and with a long introduction, notes and commentaries, as well as an essay on thoughts on translation by Kimon Friar. Bibliography, index. xx, 780 pp. ISBN: 0-671210254.