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United States Poets Laureate
Published by University Presses

Donald Hall, current U.S. Poet Laureate, has published influential books of poetry criticism and edited beloved anthologies of children's verse with university presses

"Poetry is news that stays news," Ezra Pound is often quoted as stating. In alerting the public to university press books relating to the news of the day, a bibliography of important American poets seems appropriate. And for understanding the breadth and depth of American culture, the diverse work of the poets recognized over the years by the Library of Congress is a very good place to start. Many United States Poets Laureate have been published by university presses, a publishing community with a long committment to the finest in classic and contemporary poetry. Following is a bibliography of some of those poets' works published by university presses.

Conrad Aiken, Poet Laureate 1950-1952

Collected Poems
Oxford University Press. 1970
Ushant: An Essay
Oxford University Press. 1971
Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken
Yale University Press. 1978

Elizabeth Bishop, Poet Laureate 1949-50

An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry
Editors E. Bishop and Emanuel Brasil
Wesleyan University Press. 1972
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
Editor George Monteiro
University of Mississippi Press. 1996

Joseph Brodsky, Poet Laureate 1991-92

Tide and Continuities: Last and First Poems, 1995-1938
University of Arkansas Press. 1995

Billy Collins, Poet Laureate 2001-02

The Apple That Astonished Paris
University of Arkansas Press. 1988
Questions About Angels
University of Pittsburgh Press. 1991
The Art of Drowning
University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995
Picnic, Lightning
University of Pittsburgh Press. 1998

James Dickey, Poet Laureate 1966-68

Buckdancer's Choice: Poems
Wesleyan University Press. 1965
Self-Interviews
Louisiana State University Press. 1984
Sorties
Louisiana State University Press. 1984
The Eagle's Mile
Wesleyan University Press. 1990
The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-1992
Wesleyan University Press. 1992
James Dickey: The Selected Poems, ed. by Robert Kirschten
Wesleyan University Press . 1998

Rita Dove, Poet Laureate 1993-95

The Yellow House on the Corner
Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1980
Museum
Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1983
University of Pittsburgh Press. 1997
Thomas and Beulah
Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1986

Richard Eberhart, Poet Laureate 1959-61

Quarry New Poems
Oxford University Press. 1964
Shifts of Being: Poems
Oxford University Press. 1968
Fields of Grace
Oxford University Press. 1972
Of Poetry and Poets
University of Illinois Press. 1979
Ways of Light: Poems 1972-1980
Oxford University Press. 1980
Maine Poems
Oxford University Press. 1988

Robert Fitzgerald, Poet Laureate 1984-85

Enlarging the Change: The Princeton Seminars in Literary Criticism, 1949-1951
Northeastern University Press. 1988

Robert Frost, Poet Laureate 1958-59

Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost
Editor Arnold E. Grade
State University of New York Press. 1972
Robert Frost on Writing
Rutgers University Press. 1974
Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship
University Press of New England. 1981
Stories for Lesley
Illustrator Warren Chappell
University Press of Virginia. 1984

Donald Hall, Poet Laureate 2006-

Claims for Poetry (Editor)
University of Michigan Press, 1983.
Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977-1981
University of Michigan Press, 1983.
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America
Oxford University Press, 1985.
Poetry and Ambition: Essays, 1982-1988
University of Michigan Press, 1988.
Death to the Death of Poetry: Essays, Reviews, Notes, Interviews
University of Michigan Press, 1995.
The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poetry
Oxford University Press, 1999
Breakfast Served Anytime All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected
University of Michigan Press, 2004.

Daniel Hoffman, Poet Laureate 1973-74

Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir
Oxford University Press. 1970
The Poetry of Stephen Crane
Columbia University Press. 1971
Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams: The University of Pennsylvania Conference Papers
Editor D. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Press. 1983
Hang-Gliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948-1988
Louisiana State University Press. 1988
Middens of the Tribe: A Poem
Louisiana State University Press. 1995
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
Louisiana State University Press. 1998
Paul Bunyan: Last of the Frontier Demigods
Michigan State University Press. 1999
Zone of the Interior: A Memoir, 1942-1947
Louisiana State University Press. 2000
Words to Create a World
University of Michigan Press
Brotherly Love
University of Pennsylvania Press. 2000
Darkening Water
Louisiana State University Press. 2002

Josephine Jacobsen, Poet Laureate 1971-73

In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems
Johns Hopkins University Press. 1995
What Goes without Saying: Collected Stories of Josephine Jacobsen
Johns Hopkins University Press. 1996
The Instant of Knowing
Editor Elizabeth Spires
University of Michigan Press. Forthcoming

Randall Jarrell, Poet Laureate 1956-58

Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy
University of Chicago Press. 1954
Poetry and the Age
University Press of Florida. 2001

Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate 2004-2006

The Blizzard Voices
University of Nebraska Press (Bison Books), 2006
The Poetry Home Repair Manual
University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
University of Nebraska Press, 2002
Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000
Weather Central
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994
One World at a Time
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
Sure Signs
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980

Maxine Kumin, Poet Laureate 1981-82

To Make a Prairie
University of Michigan Press. 1979
In Deep: Country Essays
Beacon Press. 1988

William Meredith, Poet Laureate 1978-80

Love Letter From An Impossible Land
Yale University Press. 1944
Ships and Other Figures
Princeton University Press. 1948
Effort at Speech
Northwestern University Press. 1997
Effort at Speech
Northwestern University Press. 1997
National Book Award for Poetry
Poems Are Hard to Read
University of Michigan Press. 1990

Howard Nemerov, Poet Laureate 1963-64, 1988-90

The Melodramatists
University of Missouri Press. 1949
New and Selected Poems
University of Chicago Press. 1960
Next Room of the Dream: Poems and Two Plays
University of Chicago Press. 1962
Poetry and Fiction: Essays
Rutgers University Press. 1963
Journal of the Fictive Life
University of Chicago Press. 1965
The Blue Swallows
University of Chicago Press. 1967
Reflexions on Poetry and Poetics
Rutgers University Press. 1972
Gnomes and Occasions: Poems
University of Chicago Press. 1973
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
University of Chicago Press. 1977
Sentences
University of Chicago Press. 1980
New and Selected Essays
Southern Illinois University Press. 1985
War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now
University of Chicago Press. 1987
The Oak in the Acorn: On Remembrance of Things Past and on Teaching Proust, Who Will Never Learn
Louisiana State University Press. 1987
Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991
University of Chicago Press. 1991
A Howard Nemerov Reader
University of Missouri Press. 1991

Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate 1997-2000

Sadness and Happiness
Princeton University Press. 1975
The Situation of Poetry
Princeton University Press. 1978
An Explanation of America
Princeton University Press. 1979

Karl Shapiro, Poet Laureate 1946-47

New and Selected Poems, 1940-1986
University of Chicago Press. 1987
The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late
Editors Stanley Kunitz and David Ignatow
University of Illinois Press. 1998

William Jay Smith, Poet Laureate 1968-70

The World Below the Window: Poems 1937-1997
Johns Hopkins University Press. 1998

William Stafford, Poet Laureate 1970-71

Five Poets of the Pacific Northwest: Poems by Hanson, Hugo, Kizer, Stafford, and Wagoner
Editor Robin Skelton
University of Washington Press. 1964
Writing the Australian Crawl
University of Michigan Press. 1978
You Must Revise Your Life
University of Michigan Press. 1986
Down in My Heart: Peace Witness in War Time
Oregon State University Press. 1998
Crossing Unmarked Snow
University of Michigan Press. 1998

Allen Tate, Poet Laureate 1943-44

Memoirs and Opinions: 1926-1974
Ohio University Press. 1975
Essays of Four Decades
Ohio University Press. 1968
Six American Poets from Emily Dickinson to the Present: An Introduction
University of Minnesota Press. 1972
The literary correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate
Editors John Tyree Fain and Thomas Daniel Young
University of Georgia Press. 1974
Swimmers and Other Selected Poems
Ohio University Press. 1976
The Fathers (a novel)
Louisiana State University Press. 1996
Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976
University of Missouri Press. 1998

Mona van Duyn, Poet Laureate 1992-93

Saving the Young Men of Vienna
University of Wisconsin Press. 1987

Robert Penn Warren, Poet Laureate 1944-45, 1986-87

Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South
University of Georgia Press. 1956
Democracy and Poetry
Harvard University Press. 1975
A Time to Hear and Answer: Essays for the Bicentennial Season
University of Alabama Press. 1977
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back
The University Press of Kentucky. 1980
Portrait of a Father
The University Press of Kentucky. 1988
Band of Angels (a novel)
Louisiana State University Press. 1994
Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices
Louisiana State University Press. 1996
Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Editor John Burt
Louisiana State University Press. 1998
The Legacy of the Civil War
University of Nebraska Press. 1998
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence
Editor James A. Grimshaw, Jr.
University of Missouri Press. 1998
World Enough and Time (a novel)
Louisiana State University Press. 1999
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions
Editors James A. Perkins and James A. Grimshaw, Jr.
University of Georgia Press. 2000
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: The Apprentice Years, 1924-1934
Editor William Bedford Clark
Louisiana State University Press. 2000
Widlerness: A Tale of the Civil War
University of Tennessee Press. 2001
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: The 'Southern Review' Years, 1935-1942
Editor William Bedford Clark
Louisiana State University Press. 2001
Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Editor John Burt
Louisiana State University Press. 2001

Reed Whittemore, Poet Laureate 1984-85

An American Takes a Walk
University of Minnesota Press. 1956
Oxford University Press. 1956
Little Magazines
University of Minesota Press. 1963 Oxford University Press. 1964
Poems, New and Selected
University of Minnesota Press. 1967
Fifty Poems Fifty
University of Minnesota Press. 1970
Oxford University Press. 1970
Pure Lives: The Early Biographers
Johns Hopkins University Press. 1988
Whole Lives: Shapers of Modern Biography
Johns Hopkins University Press. 1989
The Past, the Future, the Present: Poems Selected and New
University of Arkansas Press. 1990
Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, DOS Passos, and Tate
University of Missouri Press. 1992

Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate 1987-88

Conversations with Richard Wilbur
Editor William Butts
University Press of Mississippi. 1990