Looking for Poetry

Dewey Decimal Call Numbers

• American Poetry: 811
• Chinese Poetry: 895.11
• English Poetry: 812
• French Poetry: 841
• German Poetry: 831
• Greek Poetry: 881
• Haiku 895.61
• Italian Poetry 851
• Latin Poetry: 871
• Poetry Collections: 808.81
• Spanish Poetry 861
• Writing Poetry 808.1

A Few Popular Poets to Consider

• Maya Angelou
• Basho
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Robert Browning
• Billy Collins
• Rita Dove
• Robert Frost
• Nikki Giovanni
• Seamus Heaney
• Langston Hughes
• John Keats
• Ted Kooser
• Federico Garcia Lorca
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Naomi Shihab Nye
• Pablo Neruda
• Mary Oliver
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Tracy K. Smith
• Natasha Trethewey
• William Carlos Williams
• Walt Whitman
• William Wordsworth
• W. B. Yeats

Some Poetry Subjects

• African American Poetry
• American Poets
• Beat Generation Poetry
• Children's Poetry
• Chinese Poetry
• Contemporary Poetry
• English Poets
• French Poetry
• Gardening Poetry
• Haiku
• Humorous Poetry
• Irish Poetry
• Italian Poetry
• Latin American Poetry
• Love Poetry
• Modern Poetry
• Nature Poetry
• Nursery Rhymes
• Poetry History & Criticism
• Poetry Audiobooks
• Poetry Collections
• Poetry Publishing
• Poetry Slam
• Poetry Writing
• Poets Laureate
• Sonnets
• Women Poets
• Zen Poetry

Some Classic Poetry Titles

• The Aeneid - Vergil
• Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Beowulf
• The Bridge - Hart Crane
• The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Divine Comedy - Dante
• Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot
• Hero and Leander - Christopher Marlowe
• The Iliad - Homer
• Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
• Metamorphoses - Ovid
• Odyssey - Homer
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• Paradise Regained - John Milton
• The Prelude - William Wordsworth
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
• Sonnets - William Shakespeare
• Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Songs of Experience - William Blake
• Songs of Innocence - William Blake
• Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
• The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot

Some Poetry Collections

• The 100 Best African American Poems - edited by Nikki Giovanni
• American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry - edited by David St. John
• Americans' Favorite Poems - edited by Robert Pinsky, Maggie Dietz
• Basho: The Complete Haiku by Matsuo Basho
• Best American Poetry [by year] - various editors
• The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer through Robert Frost - edited by Harold Bloom
• A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry - Czeslaw Milosz
• The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
• The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou
• The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry - edited by Ilya Kaminsky
• Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud - edited by Robert Pinsky
• The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology - edited by Ilan Stavans Good Poems - edited by Garrison Keillor
• New and Selected Poems (Volume One and Two) by Mary Oliver
• The Norton Anthology of Poetry - edited by Margaret Ferguson, Jon Stallworthy and Mary Jo Salter
• The Oxford Book of American Poetry - edited by David Lehman and John Brehm
• The Oxford Book of English Verse - edited by Christopher Ricks
• Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry - Billy Collins
• The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
• The Poets Laureate Anthology - edited by Billy Collins
• The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry - edited by Stephen Mitchell
• Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
• She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems - Caroline Kennedy
• Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems - edited by Harold Bloom
• The 20th Century in Poetry - edited by Michael Hulse and Simon Rae
• The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry - edited by J.D. McClatchy

Learning about Poetry

• Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft - Bill Moyers
• How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry - Robert Hirsch
• The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms - Mark Strand, Eavan Boland
• The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within - Stephen Fry
• A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver
• The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide - Robert Pinsky