Poetry East: Number 100

by Richard Jones (Editor)

With the publication of The Bliss of Reading, Poetry East celebrates two milestones—its 40th anniversary and its 100th issue. Editor Richard Jones has selected 100 poems from Poetry East’s first 100 issues for this stunning special anniversary edition that includes the work of such literary giants as Charles Bukowski, Billy Collins, Denise Leverto, Czeslaw Milosz, Rainer Maria Rilke and Lynne Sharon Schwartz. The final poem of the issue is by Jones himself, a sonnet in which he writes that he has been guided by “no manifesto, no radical plan” during his four decades of publishing the journal. Instead, he is simply driven by “the work of poetry: beauty, mercy, and peace.”

159 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Richard Jones was born in London and educated at the University of Virginia. His first book of poetry, Country of Air (Copper Canyon Press, 1986), won the Posner Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. He published At Last We Enter Paradise in 1991 and Perfect Time in 1994.

Jones has edited Poetry East since 1979 and has edited two critical anthologies Poetry and Politics and Of Solitude and Silence: Writings on Robert Bly. He is a professor at DePaul University in Chicago.

Reviews

[Tyler Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have never liked poetry, but this anthology had me truly gushing in love and appreciation over the art form. A collection of poems from Poetry East's 40 year history, with more years hopefully to follow.