(Total approximate cost $625)
BASIC
(cost approximately $350)
GOOD BROWSING
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: American Indian Writing. Bruchac, Joseph, ed. Greenfield Center, N.Y.: Greenfield Review Press, 1983. ($10.95)
The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin, et al, eds. Corvallis, Oreg.: Calyx Books, 1989. ($16.95)
The Top 500 Poems. Harmon, William, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. ($29.95)
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology. Bly, Robert, James Hillman and Michael Meade, eds. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ($17.00)
No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth Century American Women's Poetry. Howe, Florence, ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ($17.00)
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry. Gillan, Maria Mazziotti and Jennifer Gillan, eds. New York: Penguin Books, 1994. ($14.95)
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans since 1945. Harper, Michael S., and Anthony Walton, eds. Boston: Little Brown, 1994. ($19.00)
Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets. Cruz, Victor Hernández, Lerou Quintana, and Virgil Suarez, eds. New York: Persea Books, 1995. ($14.00)
Contemporary American Poetry. Poulin, A., Jr. ed. 6th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. ($30.27)
POETRY OF DIVERSE CULTURES
Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers. Simic, Charles and Mark Strand, eds. New York: Ecco Press, 1989. ($12.95)
The Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from around the World. Nye, Naomi Shihab. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996. ($17.00)
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry. McClatchy, J. D., ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. ($15.00)
East Window: The Asian Poems. Merwin, W. S., trans. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 1998. ($16.00)
ABOUT POETRY
Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children. Koch, Kenneth. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ($12.00)
The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets. Moyers, Bill. (Haba, James, ed.) New York: Doubleday, 1996. ($18.95)
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide. Pinsky, Robert. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. ($16.00)
ABOUT WRITING POETRY
The Poet's Pen: Writing Poetry with Middle and High School Students. Lies, Betty Bonham. Englewood, N.J.: Libraries Unlimited/Teacher Ideas Press, 1993. ($18.00)
Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community. Collom, Jack and Sheryl Noethe. New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1994. ($17.00)
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Addonizio, Kim and Dorianne Laus. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. ($13.00)
Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry With High School Students. Michaels, Judith. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1999. ($16.00)

EXPANDED
(cost approximately $150)
MORE GOOD BROWSING
The Black Poets. Randall, Dudley, ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1985. ($6.99)
Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings: Poems by Contemporary Latin American Women. Crow, Mary, ed. 2nd ed. Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1988. ($13.95)
New American Poets of the Nineties. Myers, Jack and Roger Weingarten, eds. Lincoln, Mass.: Godine, 1991. ($19.95)
Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions. DiYanni, Robert, ed. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. ($31.00)
MORE POETRY OF DIVERSE CULTURES
100 Poems From the Chinese. Rexroth, Kenneth, trans. New York: New Directions, 1971. ($9.95)
Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology. George, Emery, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ($35.00)
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa. Hass, Robert, trans. New York: Ecco Press, 1995. ($15.00)
Returning a Borrowed Tongue: Poems by Filipino and Filipino American Writers. Carbo, Nick, ed. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. ($14.95)


SUPPLEMENTARY
(cost approximately $125)
GOING DEEPER
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry. Mitchell, Stephen, ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ($13.00)
Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. Forché, Carolyn, ed. New York: W. W. Norton,1993. ($23.95)
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. Hirshfield, Jane, ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. ($13.50)
News of the Universe: Poems of TwoFold Consciousness. Bly, Robert, ed. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995. ($12.00)
MORE ABOUT POETRY
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. Hirsch, Edward. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999. ($23.00)
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry. Nims, John Frederick. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992. ($23.50)
The Poet's Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of 26 American Poets. Kuusisto, Stephen, Deborah Tall and David Weiss, eds. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. ($13.00)
Poets on Poetry Series. Various authors and editors. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press. (An outstanding anthology series of interviews and essays by a wide range of contemporary poets.)