TopPicks Index
Top 8 A Poet's Ideal Library: Classic Essays on Poetry and Poetics
Classic essays on poetry and poetics that belong in a poet's library, suggested by Jim Finnegan and the members of the NewPoetry discussion list.
Top 8 A Poet's Ideal Library: Dictionaries/General References
Dictionaries and general reference works that belong in a poet's library, suggested by Jim Finnegan and the members of the NewPoetry discussion list.
Top 5 National Book Critics Circle award nominees in poetry, 2006
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Critics Circle as the best published in 2006, with links to purchase them online.
Top 10 Poets’ Novels
Find here the secret dynamic of top flight fiction -- it’s POETS that wrote ’em! Here are ten poets’ novels recommended by your Poetry Guide Bob Holman.
Top 10 Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2006
2006, Good Year, Poetry... Poetry Guide Bob Holman shines his spotlight back across the year to find the best poetry books published in 2006.
Top 5 National Book Critics Circle award nominees in poetry, 2005
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Critics Circle as the best published in 2005, with links to purchase them online.
Top 5 National Book Critics Circle award nominees in poetry, 2004
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Critics Circle as the best published in 2004, with links to purchase them online.
Top 5 National Book Award finalists in poetry, 2006
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Foundation as finalists for the 2006 National Book Awards, which recognizes the best books written by Americans in fiction, nonfiction, poetry & young people's literature.
Top 10 Poetry Anthologies (Books)
Selected poetry anthologies (in book form) to add to your collection, recommended by your Poetry Guides.
Top 6 Northern California Book Award nominees in poetry, 2006
The six poetry books selected by Northern California book reviewers as the best by Northern California poets published in 2005, with links to purchase them online.
Top 10 Guide Picks: Collections of Love Poems
Anthologies & single poet collections of love poetry, classic & contemporary, from ancient & modern cultures all over the world, selected by your guides.
Top 10 Recent Poetry CDs
Here’s what we do: put a CD on and never take it out... Your Poetry Guides have selected recently issued poetry CDs to add to your collection.
Top 9 Poetry Picks: More of the Best Books of 2005
2005 was truly a great year in poetry, and your Guide Bob Holman’s long list of sure fires -- must reads, books that sing, dance & change you -- wouldn’t all fit in one top ten list. So here are more of the best books of 2005, in no particular order.
Top 10 Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2005
2005 was truly a great year in poetry, and your Guide Bob Holman has a long list of sure fires, must reads, books that sing, dance & change you, offered here in no particular order.
Top 10 Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2004
Casting our eyes back across 2004 in the poetry world, Poetry Guides Bob Holman & Margy Snyder choose the best poetry books we’ve read during the past year, the ones you’ll want to own & reread.
Top 10 Recent Poetry Books
Selected recently published books of poems to add to your collection, recommended by your Poetry Guides.
Top 5 National Book Award finalists in poetry, 2005
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Foundation as finalists for the 2005 National Book Awards, which recognizes the best books written by Americans in fiction, nonfiction, poetry & young people's literature.
Top 9 Books on poetry, poetic traditions, writing, performance & poetics
When you want to think about poetry's place in human culture & history, or you want to write some poetry of your own & know what you are doing, you'll find useful starting points & rich ideas in these books about poetry recommended by your guides.
Top 8 Books & CDs from the Canadian Summit Poets, 2005
New books & CDs recommended by Bob Holman, gathered from the poets attending the summer 2005 Canadian Spoken Word Summit in Calgary & Banff.
Top 7 Books to begin your Poeducation now
Guide picks: 7 books to begin your Poeducation. Read these writers and you’ll have waltzed with some exciting partners, and staked a great view of the American poetic landscape.
Top 10 Poetry Picks: The Best CDs of 2004
Casting our eyes back across 2004 in the poetry world, Poetry Guides Bob Holman & Margy Snyder choose the best poetry & spoken word recordings, the ones you'll want to remember from the past year.
Top 7 Poetry Anthologies (Recordings)
Selected poetry/spoken word anthologies (in CD form) to add to your collection, recommended by your Poetry Guides.
Top 6 Museletter Correspondents Gift Picks: CDs
Favorite poetry recordings recommended for your holiday gift list in 2003 by your guides and our reassembled roster of Museletter correspondents.
Top 6 Museletter Correspondents Gift Picks: Books
Favorite poetry books recommended for your holiday gift list by your guides and our reassembled roster of Museletter correspondents.
Top 10 American Epic Poems of the 20th Century
We proclaimed Frank Stanford’s The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, 'the great US epic of the last half of the 20th century' and were immediately accosted: 'It’s the ONLY epic poem!' Wrong!, we said. Here are more epics, recommended by your Poetry Guides.