With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehensive Handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-century America.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry covers such topics as:
· Major histories and genealogies of post-war poetry - from the language poets and the Black Arts Movement to New York school and the Beats
· Poetry, identity and community - from African American, Chicana/o and Native American poetry to Queer verse and the poetics of disability
· Key genres and forms - including digital, visual, documentary and children's poetry
· Central critical themes - economics, publishing, popular culture, ecopoetics, translation and biography
The book also includes an interview section in which major contemporary poets such as Rae Armantrout, and Claudia Rankine reflect on the craft and value of poetry today.

Craig Svonkin is Professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA. He is co-author (with Emory Elliott) of New Directions in American Literary Scholarship: 1980-2002 (2004).
Steven Gould Axelrod is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. He is co-editor of The New Anthology of American Poetry: Volumes 1-3 (2002-2012), editor of Robert Lowell's Memoirs (2019) and a former President of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (2004-6).

Acknowledgments
Introduction, Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod

Part One Roots and Branches of the Contemporary

1. A Conversation with Marjorie Perloff
Susan McCabe, Brian Reed, and Steven Gould Axelrod

2. The Feminist Poetry Movement in America
Bethany Hicok

3. American Poetry and War
Cary Nelson

4. Experimental Asian American Poetry
Josephine Nock-Hee Park

5. Undisciplined Writing: Postwar Prose Poetry
Michel Delville

6. Lowell's Turtles
Stephanie Burt

7. Subjectivity and Identity in New York School Poetry
Terence Diggory

8. Jewish American Poetry and the Late Twentieth-Century Literary Canon
Hilene Flanzbaum

9. The Autobiographical Prose of Poets
Grzegorz Kosc

10. Queer Poetry after 1945
Laura Westengard

11. From Shingled Hippo to Gay Unicorn: Self-Othering in Bob Kaufman and Other Beats
Craig Svonkin

12. The National Anthology Wars and West Coast Anthologies
Bill Mohr

13. The Black Art of Confession
Steven Gould Axelrod

14. Binding Nation-States: Poetry Anthologies of Hawai'i, 1966-2018
Stanley Orr

15. The Poetics of Chicana Daughterhood: Cherrie Moraga and Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lisette Ordovica Lasater

Part Two Interviews with Poets

16. Mitsuye Yamada
Steven Gould Axelrod, Craig Svonkin, and Traise Yamamoto

17. Marilyn Nelson
Craig Svonkin

18. Rae Armantrout
Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin

19. Lorna Dee Cervantes
Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin

20. Marilyn Chin
Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin

21. Geof Huth
Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

22. Juan Delgado
Craig Svonkin

23. Claudia Rankine
Andrew Lyndon Knighton

24. Crisosto Apache
Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod

25. Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin

Part Three The Contemporary Moment

26. A Conversation with Stephanie Burt
Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod
27. Ecopoetics: In and against the American Grain
James McCorkle

28. Economies of Scale: Contemporary Poetry and the Marketplace
Ann Keniston

29. Contemporary Children's Poetry: A Colloquy
Craig Svonkin, Mike Cadden, Richard Flynn, Michael Heyman, Krystal Howard,
Michael Joseph, JonArno Lawson, Lissa Paul, and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

30. Multilingual American Poetry and Poetics
Maria Lauret

31. Claiming Their Place: Contemporary Arab American Poetry and Poetics
Richard Hishmeh

32. The Rise of Award-Winning Black Poets
Howard Rambsy II

33. The Fourth Wave in Native American Poetics
Erika T. Wurth

34. Recent Trends in Jewish American Poetry
Norman Finkelstein

35. What Is the Queer Confessional?
Jan Maramot Rodil

36. Poetry Translation and Poet-Translators
Brian Reed

37. Prosthetic Poetics: Contemporary Poetry of Disability
Jessica Lewis Luck

38. Data Dump: Poetry and Information in the Twenty-First Century
Jeffrey Gray

List of Contributors
Index