Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to the prese

The News from Poems examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This “engaged” poetry

Poetry in America is flourishing in this new millennium and asking serious questions of itself: Is writing marked by gender and if so, how? What does it mean to

Poetry Matters explores poetry written by women from the United States and Canada, which documents the social and political turmoil of the early twenty-first ce

This anthology of poetry collects 21st century American works by both established and emerging poets that deal with the public events, government policies, ecol