• In Memoriam, A. Tennyson
• A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti 
• Nine Horses, Billy Collins
• Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters
• Horoscopes for the Dead, Billy Collins
• Reasons for Moving/Darker, Mark Strand
• Howl, Allen Ginsberg
• The Story of Our Lives, The Monument, The Late Hour, Mark Strand
• Contemporary American Poetry, ed. Donald Hall
• Between Angels: Poems, Stephen Dunn
• Collected Poems, Donald Justice
• Harmonium, Wallace Stevens
• 100 Best-Loved Poems
• 100 Essential Modern Poems
• The 20th Century in Poetry
• The Less Deceived, Philip Larkin