Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)

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1. Kenneth Koch

   Author of Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home, The Art of the Possible!: Comics Mainly Without Pictures

2. John Ashbery

   Author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, A Wave, And the Stars Were Shining: Poems

3. A. R. Ammons

   Author of Garbage: A Poem, The Selected Poems, Tape for the Turn of the Year

4. Louis Zukofsky

   Author of "a", Complete Short Poetry, Little: a Fragment for Careenagers

5. Charles Olson

   Author of The Maximus Poems, Selected Poems [by Charles Olson], The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems

6. David Lehman

   Author of The Best American Poetry 1994, The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, The Daily Mirror

7. Billy Collins

   Author of Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems, The Art Of Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series), Questions About Angels: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

8. Galway Kinnell

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

9. William Carlos Williams

   Author of Selected Poems, Paterson, In the American Grain

10. Charles Wright

    Author of Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems, The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990, Zone Journals

11. Ted Berrigan

    Author of The Sonnets, The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, A Certain Slant of Sunlight

12. John Berryman

    Author of The Dream Songs, John Berryman: Selected Poems, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems

13. James Schuyler

    Author of Collected Poems, Selected Poems, Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler

14. Muriel Rukeyser

    Author of The Life of Poetry, Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems

15. Carolyn Forché

    Author of Against Forgetting : twentieth-century poetry of witness, The Angel of History, Blue Hour: Poems

16. Adrienne Rich

    Author of Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics, Expanded Edition, The Best American Poetry 1996

17. Mary Oliver

    Author of A Poetry Handbook, New and Selected Poems, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

18. Robert Pinsky

    Author of The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, The Situation of Poetry, An Explanation of America (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

19. Theodore Roethke

    Author of The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems

20. Louise Glück

    Author of Meadowlands, Vita Nova, Ararat