A N T H O L O G I E S

And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century (1999)
Robert McGovern and Stephen Haven (Editors)

This book is an end-of-the-century celebration and a capstone to three previous anthologies, 60 on the 60's, 70 on the 70's, and 80 on the 80's, each of them a decade's history in verse. The editors chose this collection from submissions of about 12,000 poems.

The book includes the work of Hayden Carruth, X.J. Kennedy, Carolyn Kizer, Rebecca McClanahan, Lewis Turco, Philip Booth, Eamon Grennan, Carol Muske, Linda Pastan, Molly Peacock, Pattiann Rogers, William Pitt Root, Grace Schulman, Carolyne Wright, and many more.

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Scarecrow Poetry: The Muse in Post-Middle Age (1994)

Robert McGovern and Stephen Haven (Editors)

This anthology sets out to define a subject matter genre that has developed new significance in the latter half of our century because we are living longer. This collection celebrates the mature work of those young poets of two or three decades ago who didn't give in to the demise of youth and grew to the ripeness of William Butler Yeats, who supplies our title.

The anthology includes works by Hayden Carruth, R.P. Dickey, X.J. Kennedy, Philip Levine, W.D. Snodgrass, Gerald Stern, Lewis Turco, John Updike, Harold Witt, and more.

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80 on the 80's: A Decade's History in Verse (1990)

Robert McGovern and Joan Baranow (Editors)

Some 87 poets chronicle the past decade in over 100 poems.

Anthology includes work by Howard Nemerov, Lewis Turco, Harold Witt, X.J. Kennedy, and more.

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70 on the 70's: A Decade's History in Verse (1981)

Robert McGovern and Richard Synder (Editors)

Between these covers some 66 contemporary poets contribute over 90 poems on the past decade.  Seventy poems deal with various happenings of the 1970s, from Henry Kissinger to Patty Hearst, from Guyana to Three Mile Island, from Watergate to Wounded Knee, from Bicentennials to black holes.  Another two dozen poems deal with various public figures who died during the decade.  Thus, 70 on the 70's, as with its predecessor, 60 on the 60's, comments on the convolutions of our recent past and offers a poetic view of our times by passing history through the poetic screen of artistic response.

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