I. TWO POETS BORN IN THE 19TH CENTURY.
Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams.
II. TWELVE POETS BORN BETWEEN 1900 AND 1920.
John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Francis, Robert Hayden, Randall Jarrel, Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, William Stafford, Alberta Turner, Robert Penn Warren.
III. TWENTY POETS BORN BETWEEN 1920 AND 1930.
John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, Richard Hugo, Donald Justice, Shirley Kaufman, Galway Kinnell, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Frank O'hara, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Gerald Stern, Richard Wilbur, James Wright.
IV. TWELVE POETS BORN BETWEEN 1930 AND 1940.
Margaret Atwood, Russell Edson, Michael Harper, Sylvia Plath, Stanley Plumly, Dennis Schmitz, Charles Simic, Gary Snyder, Mark Strand, Jean Valentine, Nancy Willard, Charles Wright.
V. TEN POETS BORN AFTER 1940.
Rita Dove, Norman Dubie, Laura Jensen, Larry Levis, Thomas Lux, Sandra Mcpherson, David St. John, James Tate, C. D. Wright, Franz Wright.
