1. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY / J. D. McClatchy, editor
2. POETS OF WORLD WAR II / Harvey Shapiro, editor
3. KARL SHAPIRO / John Updike, editor
4. WALT WHITMAN / Harold Bloom, editor
5. EDGAR ALLAN POE / Richard Wilbur, editor
6. YVOR WINTERS / Thom Gunn, editor
7. AMERICAN WITS / John Hollander, editor
8. KENNETH FEARING / Robert Polito, editor
9. MURIEL RUKEYSER / Adrienne Rich, editor
10. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER / Brenda Wineapple, editor
11. JOHN BERRYMAN / Kevin Young, editor
12. AMY LOWELL / Honor Moore, editor
13. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS / Robert Pinsky, editor
14. POETS OF THE CIVIL WAR / J. D. McClatchy, editor
15. THEODORE ROETHKE / Edward Hirsch, editor
16. EMMA LAZARUS / John Hollander, editor
17. SAMUEL MENASHE / Christopher Ricks, editor
18. EDITH WHARTON / Louis Auchincloss, editor
19. GWENDOLYN BROOKS / Elizabeth Alexander, editor
20. A. R. AMMONS / David Lehman, editor
21. COLE PORTER / Robert Kimball, editor
22. LOUIS ZUKOFSKY / Charles Bernstein, editor
23. CARL SANDBURG / Paul Berman, editor
24. KENNETH KOCH / Ron Padgett, editor
25. AMERICAN SONNETS / David Bromwich, editor
26. ANNE STEVENSON / Andrew Motion, editor