Welcome to the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry website.

NOTE: As of December 2005, the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry has been completed and is now available.  

Please consult www.greenwood.com for complete information

This is the first print edition. Later print or digital editions may appear in the future. The editors and the publisher are grateful to the many distinguished scholars who contributed to this landmark work.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry is a reference work encompassing American poetry from its beginnings to the present. With thousands of entries on poets, critics, genres, poetic terms, and movements, the encyclopedia will stand, on completion, as the most thorough and inclusive reference tool of its kind.

Editor:
Jeffrey Gray

Associate Editors: 
Mary McAleer Balkun
James McCorkle

Advisory Board:
Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside
Paula Bennett, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Charles Bernstein, State University of New York, Buffalo
John C. Shields, Illinois State University
Pattie Cowell, Colorado State University
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
Donald Marshall, University of Illinois, Chicago
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
Lorenzo Thomas, University of Houston (Downtown campus)
Robert von Hallberg, University of Chicago
Cheryl L. Walker, Scripps College, Claremont

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