Poet’s Bookshelf II

101 poets list books that have been especially important in their artistic development, and offer commentary.
Sandra Alcosser * Jack Anderson * Philip Appleman * Ivan Argüelles * Mary Jo Bang * Luis Benítez * Robert Bly * Amy King * Daniel Bourne * Andrea Hollander Budy * Mairéad Byrne * Nick Carbó * Maxine Chernoff * Tom Clark * Joshua Clover * Andrei Codrescu * Shanna Compton * Stephen Corey * Alfred Corn * Barbara Crooker * Catherine Daly * Linh Dinh * Edward Field * Forrest Gander * Sandra Gilbert * Diane Glancy * Kenneth Goldsmith * Noah Eli Gordon * Stephen Herz * H. L. Hix * Anselm Hollo * Janet Holmes * Kent Johnson * Marilyn Kallet * Ilya Kaminsky * Robert Kelly * Jennifer L. Knox * Ted Kooser * Greg Kuzma * Ben Lerner * Haki R. Madhubuti * David Mason * Gail Mazur * Joyelle McSweeney * Robert Mezey * Leslie Adrienne Miller * Roger Mitchell * K. Silem Mohammed * William Mohr * Carol Moldaw * Jennifer Moxley * Lisel Mueller * Eileen Myles * Charles North * Jena Osman * Kate Northrop * Mwatabu Okantah * Carole Simmons Oles * Alicia Ostriker * Linda Pastan * Simon Perchik * Bob Perelman * Roger Pfingston * Marge Piercy * Katha Pollitt * David Ray * Judy Ray * Alberto Ríos * Jane Robinson * Robert Ronnow * Jerome Rothenberg * Jerome Sala * Dennis Schmitz * Grace Schulman * Lloyd Schwartz * Purvi Shah * David Shapiro * Reginald Shepherd * Dale Smith * Thomas R. Smith * Kevin Stein * Carolyn Stoloff * Eileen Tabios * Thom Tammaro * Tony Tost * Diane Wakoski * Diane Ward * Barrett Watten * Miller Williams * A. D. Winans * Mark Wisniewski * Carolyne Wright * Rane Arroyo * Martha Collins * James Cushing * Cathy Park Hong * Marianne Boruch * Ellen Bass * Robert Gibb * Judith Moffett * Aimee Nezhukumatathil *
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.