Auden, W.H.
The Faber Book of Modern American Verse
. London: Faber & Faber. (Some wonderful poems that are already classics.)
Dickinson, Emily.
Final Harvest
. Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1961. (A collection of her best poems with a good biographical introduction.)
Dore, Anita.
The Premier Book of Major Poets: An Anthology
. New York: Fawcett Premier, 1970. (She categorizes the poems chosen in this book by theme.)
Klonsky, Milton.
Shake the Kaleidoscope
. New York: Pocketbooks, 1973. (More wonderful poems)
Larrick, Nancy.
On City Streets: An Anthology of Poems
. New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc. 1968. (Many simple, contemporary poems about life in the city.)
Lee, Al.
The Major Young Poets
. New York: World Publishing Company, 1971. (I found some really exciting poets in this collection, very contemporary writing.)
Editors of Vantage Press,
New Voices in American Poetry
. New York: Vantage Press, 1988.