Some Recently Published Books of Poetry You Might Want to Read

by John Hewitt on 12/22/2007

30 Poems in 30 DaysFor my 30 Poems in 30 Days Project, I referenced quite a few poets. This is the source list I made up initially for the books I planned to promote during the project. It isn’t an exact match for the project because I went off on a few tangents as the 30 days moved along, but it is a good list of recently written books of poetry that you might want to check out.

  1. Portrait of the Artist As a White Pig: Poems by Jane Gentry
  2. Music for Landing Planes By: Poems by Eireann Lorsung
  3. Red Clay Suite (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
  4. Blind Date With Cavafy by Steve Fellner
  5. The Curator of Silence (ERNEST SANDEEN PRIZE) by Jude Nutter
  6. Key Bridge by Ken Rumble
  7. Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (New Directions Paperbook) by Jimmy Santiago Baca
  8. Painted Snowflakes: A Book of Poems by Heather Rae
  9. Galvanized by W. Joe Hoppe
  10. The Most Secret Window by Natalie Vanderbilt
  11. A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Noah Eli Gordon
  12. The Resurrection Trade by Leslie Adrienne Miller
  13. Dummy Fire by Sarah Vap
  14. Roomanitarian by Henry Rollins
  15. Standing In Line for the Beast (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Jason Bredle
  16. Selfwolf (Phoenix Poets Series) by Mark Halliday
  17. The Body is No Machine (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Jennifer Perrine
  18. What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward
  19. Raven Eye (Sun Tracks) by Margo Tamez
  20. The Anteroom of Paradise by Bruce Bond
  21. The Road Home by Lyman Grant
  22. Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence by Anselm Hollo
  23. Occupied by Carol Mirakove
  24. Five Fathers by Arnie Goldman
  25. The Happiness of this World by Karl Kirchwey
  26. The Elephant House by Claudia Carlson
  27. The Heart is a Quarter Pounder: Poems by Jeffrey Miller by Jeffrey Miller
  28. What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems by Tony Hoagland
  29. Wind in a Box (Poets, Penguin) by Terrance Hayes
  30. Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan Poetry) by Elizabeth Willis

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Claudia Carlson December 29, 2007 at 8:53 am

Hi John,

The 30 day writing project is great! I was delighted that my book made it to your list.
Good luck,

Claudia

corinthea madison August 25, 2010 at 10:02 am

I wanted to know if you guys helped in publishing and promoting poetry books
or if we had to make and try to publish our books on our own because i’m having financial difficulty trying to publish my own book and i wondered if you guys helped with that at all.

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