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A

Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux
The Poet's Companion

Chava Albertstein
The Well

C.E. Amestoy
Making Millennium

Maya Angelou
singing, swaying and shouting (lecture review)

Rae Armentrout
Money Shot


B

Leland Bardwell
The Noise of Masonry Settling

Jenny Bitner
Mother

Kimberly Blaeser
Trailing You

Robert Bly
Jumping Out of Bed

Stuart Bowditch
76 Recipes for Mud & Sugar: A Collection of Poems from 1994 to 2005

Tim Bowling
Fathom

Catherine Bowman
1-800-Hot-Ribs

Bertram Brooker
Sounds Assembling: The Poetry of Bertram Brooker

Ernest Noyes Brookings
Ernie: Songs of Ernest Noyes Brookings

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese

John Burnside
The Light Trap

Mairead Byrne
Vivas


C

Orson Scott Card
An Open Book

Anne Carson
Glass, Irony & God

Johnny Cash
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems, edited by Paul Muldoon

Fred Chappell
Spring Garden

Marilyn Chin
The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty

Peter Christensen
Winter Range

Nicholas Christopher
Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems 1972-2004

Cynthia Joyce Clay, et al, editors
The Oestara Anthology of Pagan Poetry

Billy Collins
The Art of Drowning

Lui Collins
Closer

Jack Conway
Life Sentences

Allan Cooper
The Alma Elegies

Tony Crunk
Living in the Resurrection


D

Sheila R. Davidson, editor
God's Greatest Gift -- Grandparents

Larry O. Dean
Identity Theft for Dummies

Michael deBeyer
Change in a Razor-Backed Season

Charles de Lint
Triskell Tales: 22 Years of Chapbooks

Ann Depas-Orange & Robert C. Evans, editors
The Birthday of Myself: Martha Moulsworth, Renaissance Poet

Emily Dickinson
A Spicing of Birds: Poems by Emily Dickinson, Illustrations by Early Masters of Bird Art

Diane di Prima
Loba

Carolyn Dunn
Outfoxing Coyote

Stephen Dunn
Different Hours
Local Visitations


E

T.S. Eliot
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, illustrated by Edward Gorey

Louise Erdrich
Original Fire: Selected & New Poems

Nevit O. Ergin, translator
The Forbidden Rumi


F

Robert Finley, Patrick Freisen, Aisllinn Hunter, Anne Simpson & Jan Zwicky
A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory

Richard Foerster
The Burning of Troy

Alice B. Fogel
Strange Terrain: a Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader

Michael Foley
Autumn Beguiles the Fatalist

Carolyn Forche
facing up to atrocities (interview)


G

Neil Gaiman
Blueberry Girl, illustrated by Charles Vess

James Galvin
X

Martin Gardner
The Annotated Night Before Christmas

Max Garland
Hunger Wide as Heaven

Allen Ginsberg
Collected Poems: 1947-1980

Frederick Glaysher
The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem

Pamela J. Gonzalez
Climbing the Wreckage

Mother Goose
The Charles Addams Mother Goose, illustrated by Charles Addams

Edward Gorey
The Gashlycrumb Tinies or, After the Outing

Harambee Grey-Sun
The Black Ball


H

Donald Hall
Without: Poems

Endi Bogue Hartigan
One Sun Storm

Seamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Translation
The Poet & The Piper, with Liam O'Flynn

Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust

Cynthia Highsmith-Hooks
The Soul of a Black Woman: From a Whisper to a Shout

Edward Hirsch
How to Read a Poem & Fall in Love with Poetry

James Hoch
Holler

Karen Houle
During


J

Fleda Brown Jackson
The Devil's Child

Jewel
A Night without Armor


K

Julia Kasdorf
Sleeping Preacher

Robert F. Kauffmann
The Mask of Ollock

Guy Gavriel Kay
Beyond This Dark House

Mac Kenney
My Pictures, My Words

James Browning Kepple & Kim Gorannson
Couplet

Jack Kerouac
Kerouac: kicks joy darkness

Monica Kidd
Actualities

Sara King
I Stole a Rock: Poems of Love & Romance

Galway Kinnell
Imperfect Thirst

Lorna Joy Knox
Flames of a Rose

Ron Koertge
Making Love to Roget's Wife

Steve Kowit
In the Palm of Your Hand

Maxine Kumin
the poetry of a New England landscape (interview)


L

Jay Ladin
Alternatives to History

Ronnie Lee
The Philosophy of Life: God, Wisdom & the World Psyche

Marilyn Lerner & David Wall
Still Soft Voiced Heart

Philip Levine
The Mercy

Thomas Locker
Home: A Journey Through America

Asphodel P. Long
Athene Revisted

Thomas Lux
poetry for the people (interview)


M

Norman MacCaig
Selected Poems, edited by Douglas Dunn

Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
The Lost Words
The Lost Words: Spell Songs
The Lost Spells

Bob MacKenzie
Assume Nothing

Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain)
Poems to Eimhir (Dain do Eimhir)

Taylor Mali
Conviction

Darlene Manchester & Steven Manchester, editors
Whispers of Inspiration

Maurice Manning
A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c.

Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology

Don McKay
Deactivated West 100

Ryan Mecum
Zombie Haiku

Steve Miksis
Points of View from Inside-Out: A Collection of Poems & Random Thoughts

Nafeesa Monroe
Super Woman

Karla K. Morton & Howard Baer
Wee Cowrin' Timorous Beastie

Fintan Murphy
Slender Toward the Sky


O

Mary O'Brien
Dicing with the Tide

Sharon Olds
The Gold Cell

Mary Oliver
American Primitive

Robert Olmstead
milking his memories (interview)

Alix Olson
Independence Meal

Michael Ondaatje
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid


P

Elise Paschen & Rebecca Presson Mosby, editors
Poetry Speaks Expanded

Willie Perdomo
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

Robert Phillips
The Madness of Art: Interviews with Poets & Writers

Marge Piercy
What Are Big Girls Made Of?

Laura M. Porras
Alias "The Rose"

K.I. Press
Types of Canadian Women & of Women Who Are or Have Been Connected with Canada, Vol. 2

Gary B. Puckett
On Living in the Township of Heaven

Evelyn & Lyndon Pugh
Paintings & Poems


R

Kathryn Rantala
The Plant Waterer & Other Things in Common

Kat Ricker
Something Familiar

James E.F. Riley Sr.
Daydreams_n_Nightmares

Rolli
Plum Stuff

Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market, illustrated by Arthur Rackham


S

Natasha Sajé
Bend

Carl Sandburg
Sandburg Out Loud

Peter Sanger
Aiken Drum

Anne Sexton
The Complete Poems

Matthew Shenoda
Somewhere Else

Evie Shockley
The New Black

Rob Silvan
The Breathing of the World

Paula Sinclair & Uncle Tumbleweed
The Good Horse

Durlabh Singh
Chrome Red: Collected Poems

Johanna Skibsrud
Late Nights With Wild Cowboys

Gary E. Smith
A Collection of Short Stories & Poems

Patricia Smith
Teahouse of the Almighty

Thomas Noel Smith
"Dust" & Other Poems

W. Gordon Smith, editor
Fallen Angels, paintings by Jack Vettriano

Minton Sparks
Middlin' Sisters
Sin Sick
This Dress

Barbara Spring
Sophia's Lost & Found: Poems of Above & Below
The Wilderness Within

Bob Staake, with Heinrich Hoffman
Struwwelpeter

Carmine Starnino
With English Subtitles

Alison Stine
Lot of My Sister

S. Thomas Summers
Death Settled Well

Wislawa Szymborska
Monologue of a Dog


T

John Terpstra
Two or Three Guitars

R.S. Thomas
Autobiographies
The Poetry of R.S. Thomas, edited by Anthony Thwaite

Harry Thurston
Broken Vessel
A Ship Portrait

The Tolkien Ensemble & Christopher Lee
At Dawn in Rivendell: Selected Songs & Poems from The Lord of the Rings

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
The Christmas Candle Book

Chris Tusa
Haunted Bones


V

various artists
Elko! A Cowboy's Gathering
Ernie: Songs of Ernest Noyes Brookings
Kerouac: kicks joy darkness


W

Anne Waldman
Fast Speaking Woman

Ken Waldman
Burnt Down House
Music Party
To Live on This Earth
A Week in Eek

David Wall & Marilyn Lerner
Still Soft Voiced Heart

Michael Waters
Darling Vulgarity

TerryLee Whetstone
Kairos: The Past, Present & Future

Richard Wilbur
Collected Poems: 1943-2004

Charles D. Williams
 Visible Magic

Elizabeth Willis
Address

Thomas Wiloch
Screaming in Code

Terence Winch
Irish Musicians/American Friends

Macdara Woods
Artichoke Wine


Y

Mark Yakes
Poems & Music, Vol. 1

John Yamrus
Doing Cartwheels on Doomsday Afternoon

William Butler Yeats
Selected Poems & Three Plays

Jane Yolen
The Fairies' Ring, illustrated by Stephen Mackey
The Radiation Sonnets: For My Love, in Sickness & in Health

Al Young
Something About the Blues