The Role of the Poet

The Singers I Prefer, by Christian Barter.

As Long as It's Big: A Narrative Poem, by John Bricuth.

Childress, Susanna. Jagged with Love.

Ellis, Thomas Sayers. The Maverick Room (Graywolf).

Gerstler, Amy. Ghost Girl (excerpts in AWP, March/April 2006).

Hernandez, David. Always Danger (Crab Orchard).

Hix, H.L. Rational Numbers. Truman State University Press.

The Bread of Time, Toward an Autobiography, by Philip Levine.

Kaminsky, Ilya. Dancing Odessa (Tupelo).

Levin, Dana. Wedding Day (Copper Canyon).

Look, Clare, Look! by Clare Pollard. Britian, 2005. Bloodaxe Books.

Reese, Spencer. The Clerk's Tale. Mariner.

Reznikoff, Charles. My Country 'Tis of Thee and Testimony. Documentary poems described in Ghostlier Demarcations.

Rukeyser, Muriel. "Book of the Dead."
Szymborska, Wislawa. Monologue of a Dog (Harcourt).

Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. New York: Owl Books/Holt, 1994.

Stand Up Poetry, Edited by Carles Harper Webb. Humor, natural language, flights of fancy, strong individual voice, close relationship to fiction, use of urban and popular culture.