Hayden Carruth (1921–2008)

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1. Hayden Carruth

   Author of The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (Bantam Classics), Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995, Collected Longer Poems (National Poetry Series)

2. Galway Kinnell

   Author of The Book of Nightmares, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, The Past

3. Charles Wright

   Author of The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990, Appalachia, Zone Journals

4. Robert Hass

   Author of The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa, Praise, 20th Century Pleasures

5. Philip Levine

   Author of What Work Is, New Selected Poems, The Mercy: Poems

6. Jorie Graham

   Author of Dream Of The Unified Field, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets), Materialism

7. Donald Hall

   Author of Contemporary American Poetry, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006, Life work

8. Mark Doty

   Author of Atlantis: Poems by, Sweet Machine, The Art of Description: World into Word (Art of...)

9. William Carlos Williams

   Author of Selected Poems, Paterson, The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 2: 1939-1962

10. Jack Gilbert

    Author of The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992, Refusing Heaven

11. Wallace Stevens

    Author of Collected poems, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

12. Anthony Hecht

    Author of Collected Earlier Poems, Collected Later Poems, Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

13. Theodore Roethke

    Author of The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, On Poetry and Craft, Selected Letters of Theodore Roethke

14. Sam Hamill

    Author of The Gift of Tongues: Twenty-five Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press, Crossing the Yellow River : Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New American Translations: 13), Destination Zero: Poems 1970-1995

15. James Tate

    Author of Selected Poems, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, The Lost Pilot: Poems (The American Poetry Series ; V. 22)

16. Larry Levis

    Author of Elegy (Pitt Poetry Series), The Selected Levis (Pitt Poetry Series), Winter Stars (Pitt Poetry Series)

17. Randall Jarrell

    Author of The Complete Poems, No Other Book: Selected Essays, Selected Poems

18. Linda Gregg

    Author of The Sacraments of Desire: Poems, Things and Flesh

19. Robert Pinsky

    Author of The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, The Want Bone (American Poetry Series), Poetry And The World

20. T. S. Eliot

    Author of The Waste Land and Other Poems, The Complete Poems and Plays, On Poetry and Poets