The Poets Laureate Anthology

The first anthology to gather poems by the forty-three poets laureate of the United States.

This is a groundbreaking record of poetry, charting the course of American verse over the last seventy-five years. For the first time, work from each of the forty-three poets laureate is gathered in a single volume, one that is a pleasure to read, full of some of the world’s best-known poems and many new surprises. From Robert Frost’s iconic “The Road Not Taken” to Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool,” f...