by: B. Fairchild, J. Allyn Rosser, Steve Scafidi, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Enid Shomer, Martha Silano, Gary Soto, Gerald Stern, Angelo Verga, Paul Violi, Beth Fennelly, Charles Harper Webb, Susan Wood, Franz Wright, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Ray A. Young Bear, Matthew Zapruder, Bill Zavatsky, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, Albert Goldbarth, Robert Hass, Terrance Hayes, Tony Hoagland, Andrew Hudgins, T. R. Hummer, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Caroline Knox, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Kevin McFadden, Campbell McGrath, Heather McHugh, Peter Meinke, David Bottoms, Phyllis Moore, Harryette Mullen, Lucia Perillo, Michael Ryan, Tim Seibles, Alan Shapiro, Charles. Simic, Maura Stanton, James Tate, Robert Wrigley, Estate of Lucille Clifton, Dean Young, Kevin Young, Kim Addonizio, Ginger Andrews, Nin Andrews, John. Ashbery, Dorothy Barresi, Erin Belieu, Josh Bell, Charles Bernstein, Wanda Coleman, John Berryman, George Bilgere, Richard Blanco, Adrian Blevins, Daniel Borzutsky, Catherine Bowman, Jason Bredle, Geoffrey Brock, Christopher Bursk, Richard Cecil, Michael Collier, Maxine Chernoff, Marilyn Chin, David Clewell, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Billy Collins, Gregory Corso, Justin Courter, Jim Daniels, Gregory Djanikian, Denise Duhamel, Carl Dennis, Martín Espada, Stephen Fellner, Richard García, David Graham, Paul Guest, R. S. Gwynn, James Allen Hall, Mark Halliday, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Stephen Dobyns, Richard Howard, David Huerta, Bruce A. Jacobs, Rodney Jones, James Kimbrell, Galway Kinnell, Jennifer L. Knox, Kenneth Koch, Ron Koertge, William Logan, Stephen Dunn, Jynne Dilling Martin, Adrian Matejka, Lynne McMahon, Richard Newman, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds, Lawrence Raab, Freeman Rogers, Aidan Rooney
Overview
Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Be...
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