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May Swenson (1913–1989)

Author of Swenson: Collected Poems

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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 1,010 copies, 7 reviews
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 941 copies, 12 reviews
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Contributor — 851 copies, 3 reviews
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributor, some editions — 483 copies, 3 reviews
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contributor — 482 copies, 1 review
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contributor — 442 copies, 1 review
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Contributor — 441 copies, 6 reviews
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Contributor — 359 copies, 4 reviews
The Literary Cat (1977) — Contributor — 256 copies
No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets (1993) — Contributor, some editions — 225 copies, 3 reviews
Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (1988) — Contributor — 189 copies, 1 review
The Best American Poetry 1994 (1994) — Contributor — 183 copies, 1 review
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 183 copies, 2 reviews
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contributor — 182 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 157 copies, 2 reviews
The Book of Love (1998) — Contributor — 151 copies
Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Contributor — 124 copies
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contributor — 124 copies
No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973) — Contributor — 124 copies
Poems from the Women's Movement (2009) — Contributor — 117 copies, 2 reviews
My Lover Is a Woman (1996) — Contributor — 97 copies, 1 review
Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire (1997) — Contributor — 96 copies, 1 review
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contributor — 73 copies, 1 review
Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall (2025) — Contributor — 57 copies
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributor — 56 copies
Science Fiction (1973) — Contributor — 45 copies, 1 review
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Contributor — 36 copies
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 33 copies, 1 review
Poetry in crystal; interpretations in crystal of thirty-one new poems by contemporary American poets (1963) — Contributor — 21 copies
Dog Poems: An Anthology (2021) — Contributor, some editions — 18 copies, 1 review
Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems (1989) — Contributor — 18 copies
Women (1972) — Contributor — 12 copies
DISCOVERIES - Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women (2004) — Contributor — 11 copies
A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-Day Saints (1974) — Contributor — 9 copies
American Review 23 (1975) — Contributor — 4 copies
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 4, Number 3 (Autumn 1969) (1969) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 23, Number 3 (Fall 1990) (1990) — Contributor — 1 copy

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May Out West by May Swenson
Good short selection of poems. I like the imagery.
Dec 8, 2022

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