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• You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), ed. by John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (originally New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1927; reprinted Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2023), ed. by Countee Cullen, illust. by Aaron Douglas (PDF at unl.edu)
• American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922), contrib. by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, James Oppenheim, Alfred Kreymborg, Sara Teasdale, Louis Untermeyer, John Gould Fletcher, Jean Starr Untermeyer, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Conrad Aiken, and Edna St. Vincent Millay (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• American Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse (Munich: K. Wolff Verlag, c1923), ed. by Leonora Speyer, contrib. by Conrad Aiken, Maxwell Bodenheim, Anna Hempstead Branch, Witter Bynner, Adelaide Crapsey, Emily Dickinson, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), T. S. Eliot, John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Orrick Johns, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Vaughn Moody, Marianne Moore, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Lola Ridge, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, Ridgely Torrence, Louis Untermeyer, William Carlos Williams, and Elinor Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Poets' Corner)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, and Year Book of American Poetry, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Michigan)
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (New York: Printed For Frank Shay (Flying Cloud Press), 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Bellman Book of Verse, 1906-1919 (Minneapolis: Bellman Co., 1919), ed. by William C. Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (based on the 1948 edition), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML with commentary in Germany)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (New York: Guido Bruno, 1915), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Few Figs from Thistles (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Modern American Poets (London: Martin Secker, 1922), ed. by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Navigable Waterways, by Pamela Alexander (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1917), ed. by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Precipitations (New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1920), by Evelyn Scott
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• The Second Book of Modern Verse, ed. by Jessie B. Rittenhouse (Gutenberg text)
• Sudden Hunger, by Debra Bruce (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Vigils (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1921), by Aline Kilmer
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Anthology of Massachusetts Poets, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (Gutenberg text)
• Eight Harvard Poets (New York: L. J. Gomme, 1917), contrib. by E. E. Cummings, S. Foster Damon, John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, Stewart Mitchell, William A. Norris, Dudley Poore, and Cuthbert Wright (Gutenberg text)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• Some Imagist Poets, 1916: An Annual Anthology (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), by Richard Aldington, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology, by Richard Aldington, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Poet's Corner

• After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Vernon Lionel Shetley (page images at HathiTrust)
• ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Christopher Beach (HTML at UC Press)
• At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1980), by Kathleen M. Woodward (PDF files at Ohio State)
• Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Elizabeth Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Looking for Native Ground: Contemporary Appalachian Poetry (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1989), by Rita Sims Quillen (PDF at appstate.edu)
• Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Nadia Nurhussein (PDF at Ohio State)
• I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Jane Hedley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), by Kevin Stein (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Giant Hours with Poet Preachers, by William L. Stidger, ed. by Edwin Markham
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Amy Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century, by William Lyon Phelps (Gutenberg text)
• Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Poets on Place: Interviews and Tales From the Road (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by W. T. Pfefferle (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Adventures in Poetry (New York: L. Fagin, 1968-1975) (partial serial archives)
• 0 to 9 (New York-based literary magazine, 1967-1969), ed. by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer (partial serial archives)
• Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (issues online 1962-1965), ed. by Ed Sanders (partial serial archives)
• The American Poetry Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Others, ed. by Alfred Kreymborg (full serial archives)
• Rhythmus (full serial archives)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse (partial serial archives)
• The Wave, ed. by Vincent Starrett (partial serial archives)
• The Black Mountain College Review (1951) (full serial archives)

• Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (issues online 1962-1965), ed. by Ed Sanders (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Selections from American Poetry, With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2012), ed. by Margaret Sprague Carhart (Gutenberg text)
• Empire Burlesque (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Mark Svenvold (PDF at Ohio State)
• Shadeland (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Andrew Grace (PDF at Ohio State)
• Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c2004), ed. by Jim Elledge (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Oxford Book of American Verse (New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1927), ed. by Bliss Carman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Bluestone: Lyrics (New York: Macmillan, 1920), by Marguerite Wilkinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bookman Anthology of Verse (1922), ed. by John Chipman Farrar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• John Smith, U.S.A., by Eugene Field (Gutenberg text)
• Leaves From the Past (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1872), ed. by Mary Rebecca Darby Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Little Book of Modern Verse: A Selection From the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets (originally published 1913), ed. by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Poems (London: Cedar Press, 1911), by Kate Vannah (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems, Arranged by Grades and Recommended for Reading and Memorizing (second edition; 1915), ed. by Michigan State Board of Library Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition; Philadelphia: Parry and McMillan, 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Poets and Poetry of America; With an Historical Introduction (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842), ed. by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative American Poetry (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1916), ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite and Henry Thomas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Selections from the American Poets (New York: Harper and Bros., 1860), ed. by William Cullen Bryant
  • HTML at Michigan
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Yale Book of American Verse (1912), ed. by Thomas R. Lounsbury (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1920; With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-Known Poems in Other Languages (sixth edition, 2 volumes; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1937), ed. by Burton Egbert Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cap and Gown: A Treasury of College Verse, ed. by Frederic Lawrence Knowles (Gutenberg text)
• The Family Library of Poetry and Song, by William Cullen Bryant (page images at MOA)
• Gleanings From the Poets, For Home and School (New York: W. I. Pooley, c1850), ed. by Anna C. Lowell (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Gleanings From the Poets, For Home and School (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1855), ed. by Anna C. Lowell (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Gleanings From the Poets, for Home and School (new edition, enlarged; Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862), ed. by Anna C. Lowell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe, ed. by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
• The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881), ed. by James Parton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), ed. by James Parton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Illustrated Library of Favorite Song, ed. by J. G. Holland (page images at MOA)
• It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration, ed. by Joseph M. Bachelor and St. Clair Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls (New York: The Macmillan Company, c1922), ed. by Sara Teasdale, illust. by Dugald Stewart Walker
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at archive.org
• Songs of Three Centuries, by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at MOA)
• Trees and Other Poems, by Joyce Kilmer (Gutenberg text)
• An Anthology of New English Verse (Osaka: Suzuya, 1921), ed. by Makoto Sangū
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Winged Anthology: A Collection of Representative Poems Relating to Birds, Butterflies, and Moths, From 1536 to 1914 (London: J. Richmond, 1914), ed. by Irene Osgood and Horace Wyndham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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