The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine

"If readers would like to sample the genius and diversity of American poetry in the last century, there's no better place to start." —World Literature Today

When Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through that door—William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens in its first years, Rae Armantrout and Kay Ryan in 2011. And at the same time, Poetry continues to discover...