Great Regulars: I've been thinking about American poetry--

and teaching it to university students--for nearly 40 years, and these are the 10 poems that, in my own reading life, have seemed the most durable; poems that shifted the course of poetry in the United States, as well as poems that I look forward to teaching every year because they represent something indelible.

from Jay Parini: The Guardian: The 10 best American poems

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