Poetry books are classified by the author's country of birth; most poetry by United States authors are in the PS class; British authors are in the PR class. All these are on the third floor.
To locate books by the poets listed below, search LUCIA by author. This list is a representative sample and is not inclusive. If you have an author in mind, be sure to search LUCIA. We also have many recordings of poets reading. Try a keyword search for poetry or poems and limit the material type to "Text recording."
If you do not find books in LUCIA by an author in whom you are interested, check the Appleton Public Library.
- Maya Angelou
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Robert Bly
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- the Brownings
- Charles Bukowski
- Raymond Carver
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Billy Collins
- Gillian Conoley
- Robert Creeley
- Countee Cullen
- ee cummings
- Dante
- Emily Dickinson
- Rita Dove
- Stephen Dunn
- T.S. Eliot
- Carolyn Forche
- Robert Frost
- William Fuller
- Allen Ginsberg
- Dana Gioia
- Louise Gluck
- Barbara Guest
- Edward Hirsch
- Homer
- Langston Hughes
- Galway Kinnell
- Jack Kerouac
- Ted Kooser
- Ellen Kort
- Stanley Kunitz
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Claude McKay
- W.S. Merwin
- Czeslaw Milosz
- John Milton
- Lisel Mueller
- Ogden Nash
- Pablo Neruda
- Lorine Niedecker
- Sharon Olds
- Mary Oliver
- Alicia Ostriker
- Octavio Paz
- Marge Piercy
- Miguel Piņero
- Robert Pinsky
- Sylvia Plath
- Ezra Pound
- Adrienne Rich
- Theodore Roethke
- Rumi
- Sappho
- May Sarton
- Charles Simic
- Denise Sweet
- May Swenson
- Alfred Tennyson
- Jean Toomer
- Walt Whitman
- William Carlos Williams
- William Wordsworth
- James Wright
