Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review by Billy Collins (Foreword), James Smith (Editor) (15-Feb-2009) Paperback

by James Smith

This substantial anthology charts the development of this influential journal decade by decade, making clear that although it has close ties to a particularregion, it has consistently maintained a national scope, publishing poets from all over the United States. SPR’s goal has been to celebrate the poem above all, so although there are poems by major poets here, there are many gems by less famous, perhaps even obscure, writers too. Here are 183 poems by nearly as many poets, from A. R. Ammons, Kathryn Stripling Byer, James Dickey, Mark Doty, Claudia Emerson, David Ignatow, and Carolyn Kizer to Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Howard Nemerov, Sharon Olds, Linda Pastan, and Charles Wright.

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First published January 1, 2009