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Poets by Decade

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Poets by Decade

Poets are grouped by the decade of their first poetry book published during their lifetime. When no lifetime book exists, the earliest verified journal appearance is used. Posthumous books are excluded unless an explicit editorial assignment is recorded; modern Text/Tech editions never determine the decade.

1870s

  • Charles Fletcher Lummis
    First lifetime book · 1879 Charles Fletcher Lummis’s first lifetime poetry book, Birch Bark Poems, appeared in 1879.
  • Dantés
    First journal appearance · 1879 The known poems appeared in La Gaceta, a newspaper serving the region’s Spanish-speaking community.
  • Leroy E. Mosher
    First journal appearance · 1877 Leroy E. Mosher’s earliest verified poetry appearance was “The Stranded Bugle,” The Aldine in 1877.
  • Yda Hillis Addis
    First journal appearance · 1874 Yda Hillis Addis’s earliest verified poetry appearance was Los Angeles Express / Los Angeles Herald in 1874.

1880s

  • Albert Fenner Kercheval
    First lifetime book · 1883 Albert Fenner Kercheval’s first lifetime poetry book, Dolores, and Other Poems, appeared in 1883.
  • Isaac Kinley
    First lifetime book · 1886 On April 16, 1886, he privately published Labor Rhymes.
  • James Gowdy Clark
    First lifetime book · 1886 James Gowdy Clark’s first lifetime poetry book, Poetry and Song, appeared in 1886.
  • Julia Boynton Green
    First lifetime book · 1887 Lines and Interlines appeared in 1887, when she was twenty-six.
  • Madge Morris Wagner
    First lifetime book · 1881 Her first collection, Debris: Selections from Poems, appeared in 1881.
  • Mary C. F. Hall-Wood
    First lifetime book · 1887 Mary C. F. Hall-Wood’s first lifetime poetry book, Sea-Leaves, appeared in 1887.
  • Rosalie W. Kercheval
    First lifetime book · 1883 A. L. Bancroft & Co. published Dolores: And Other Poems in San Francisco in 1883.
  • Rose Hartwick Thorpe
    First lifetime book · 1882 Rose Hartwick Thorpe’s first lifetime poetry book, Curfew Must Not Ring To-night, appeared in 1882.
  • Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers
    First lifetime book · 1884 The Happy Isles and Other Poems first appeared from Cupples, Upham in 1884; an expanded 1891 edition and the substantially enlarged Rand, McNally edition of 1901 followed.
  • William Andrew Spalding
    First lifetime book · 1889 William Andrew Spalding’s first lifetime poetry book, My Vagabonds, appeared in 1889.

1890s

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    First lifetime book · 1893 Her first poetry collection, In This Our World, appeared in Oakland in 1893 and expanded through subsequent editions.
  • Eliza Ann Otis
    First lifetime book · 1890 The children’s book Echoes from Elf-Land appeared from the Times-Mirror press in 1890.
  • Eloise Bibb Thompson
    First lifetime book · 1895 Both young women published first books through Monthly Review Press in Boston in 1895: Bibb’s Poems and Moore’s Violets and Other Tales.
  • Grace Ellery Channing
    First lifetime book · 1899 Sea Drift: Poems appeared from Small, Maynard in 1899, the same year in which reviewers encountered its mixture of spiritual argument, dramatic love lyrics, Whitmanian memorial, Tuscan and Roman scenes, and poems of Southern California.
  • J. William Lloyd
    First lifetime book · 1895 His first substantial poetry book, Wind-Harp Songs, appeared with the Peter Paul Book Company in 1895, despite Lloyd’s later memory that it had appeared in 1896.
  • Lovell Bearse Pemberton
    First lifetime book · 1895 In 1895 the Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House issued Sappho and Other Songs, whose title masque surrounds a modern poet with Sappho, the Muses, love lyrics, comic-opera songs, and self-mocking reflections on the literary vocation.
  • Nora May French
    First journal appearance · 1894 Nora May French’s earliest verified poetry appearance was “How Ends the Day?,” Los Angeles Times in 1894.

1900s

  • Adolphe Danziger de Castro
    First lifetime book · 1908 His first surviving poetry book, After the Confession and Other Verses (1908), gathered thirty-three poems—twenty-six in English and seven in German—although a later bibliographical count gives thirty-four.
  • Allie I. Lucas
    First lifetime book · 1907 Allie I. Lucas’s first lifetime poetry book, The Raven’s Leaf: Poems, appeared in 1907.
  • Arthur Franklin Fuller
    First lifetime book · 1909 Poems was issued in Fort Worth in 1909 and again in 1911; A Book of Poems followed at Berkeley in 1913 as a “seventh thousand,” revised and greatly enlarged edition.
  • Arthur Orison Dillon
    First lifetime book · 1900 A pamphlet, Abraham Lincoln and Other Poems, appeared in 1900, and the title poem circulated in newspapers, school publications, anthologies, and his later books.
  • Carl Bronson
    First lifetime book · 1907 Carl Bronson’s first lifetime poetry book, Thou Shalt Waken: A Lyric, appeared in 1907.
  • Caroline Reynolds
    First journal appearance · 1908 Caroline Reynolds’s earliest verified poetry appearance was “The Storm,” The Graphic (Los Angeles), 17 October, p. 6 in 1908.
  • E. A. Brininstool
    First lifetime book · 1903 His first book, Sonnets of a Telephone Girl, was issued in Los Angeles by the Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House in 1903 with illustrations by John C. Hill.
  • Edith Maida Sturges
    First lifetime book · 1905 Silver Gate Press of San Diego published Insurrection, and Other Poems in 1905.
  • Eva Carter Buckner
    First journal appearance · 1906 Eva Carter Buckner’s earliest verified poetry appearance was “Onward,” Denver Statesman in 1906.
  • James Hartness Griffes
    First lifetime book · 1907 Rubaiyat of Cheerfulness appeared in 1907, followed by Rubaiyat of Life in 1909.
  • John Steven McGroarty
    First lifetime book · 1908 Wander Songs followed from Grafton in 1908, greatly enlarging the range of the first book while revising many earlier poems.
  • Louis F. Curtis
    First lifetime book · 1905 Story and Song appeared in 1905.
  • Morrison I. Swift
    First lifetime book · 1900 The Ronbroke Press issued Imperialism and Liberty in 1899 and Advent of Empire in 1900; his own Public Ownership Review also published Anti-Imperialism.
  • Pauline B. Barrington
    First journal appearance · 1906 Pauline B. Barrington’s earliest verified poetry appearance was a signed poem in The Graphic (Los Angeles), 15 September in 1906.
  • Rupert Hughes
    First lifetime book · 1901 Rupert Hughes’s first lifetime poetry book, Gyges’ Ring: A Dramatic Monologue, appeared in 1901.
  • Sadakichi Hartmann
    First lifetime book · 1904 Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems appeared in 1904, followed by changing versions of My Rubaiyat and the tanka and haikai sequences.

1910s

  • Annie Elizabeth Cheney
    Posthumous book · 1917 The posthumous book Dreams of Hellas appeared in 1917.
  • Charles Farwell Edson
    First lifetime book · 1916 Charles Farwell Edson’s first lifetime poetry book, Los Angeles: From the Sierras to the Sea, appeared in 1916.
  • Ernest Everhart Baker
    First lifetime book · 1915 The Heart of the Last Frontier and Other Verses was issued in Salem as an Oregon Booklover’s Edition in December 1915.
  • Francis de Sales Gliebe
    First lifetime book · 1913 Francis de Sales Gliebe’s first lifetime poetry book, The Planting of the Cross at Santa Barbara by Padre Junipero Serra, appeared in 1913.
  • Frank Bernard Camp
    First lifetime book · 1916 Frank Bernard Camp’s first lifetime poetry book, Mexican Border Ballads: Written on the Border, appeared in 1916.
  • George Hugh Banning
    First lifetime book · 1919 In 1919 Banning published Found in a Derelict: “Queen of the Night” and Other Poems in Los Angeles.
  • Grace Atherton Dennen
    First lifetime book · 1911 The Dawn Meadow, published in Boston by Richard G. Badger’s Gorham Press, is a 181-page novel organized around earthquake, social collapse, survival, and ethical testing.
  • Henry Bedford-Jones
    First lifetime book · 1916 Henry Bedford-Jones’s first lifetime poetry book, Gathered Verse, appeared in 1916.
  • Howard L. Terry
    First lifetime book · 1917 Howard L. Terry’s first lifetime poetry book, California, and Other Verse, appeared in 1917.
  • Jennie Kiefer
    First lifetime book · 1910 Kiefer’s first known book, Meadow-lark and Other Poems, was published in Los Angeles by the Parsifal Press without a printed date; library cataloguers assign it approximately to 1910, and “The Mission of the Oregon” quotes a Los Angeles Times item dated August 23, 1910.
  • Joe Hill
    First lifetime book · 1915 Joe Hill’s first lifetime poetry book, It’s a Long Way Down to the Soup Line, appeared in 1915.
  • John Martin Newkirk
    Posthumous book · 1911 The posthumous book Wild Clover: Poems and Stories appeared in 1911.
  • Laurence Carlyle Tatum
    First lifetime book · 1918 He published Log Cabin Lyrics in Los Angeles in 1918, when he was twenty.
  • Olive Percival
    First lifetime book · 1911 Olive Percival’s first lifetime poetry book, Leaf-Shadows and Rose-Drift, appeared in 1911.
  • Paul Bradshaw Bachtell
    First lifetime book · 1917 The following year Los Angeles publisher B. R. Baumgardt issued At Lucifer’s Portals and Other Verses.
  • Robinson Jeffers
    First lifetime book · 1912 During these unsettled years Jeffers published Flagons and Apples in Los Angeles in 1912, using the name John Robinson Jeffers.
  • Ruth Le Prade
    First lifetime book · 1917 The manuscript that became A Woman Free, and Other Poems was first called In Passing.
  • Salvatore Cutino
    First lifetime book · 1910 Cutino’s earliest separately published title located in the present research is I Canti de L’Alba, printed in New York by Nicoletti Bros.
  • Snow Longley Housh
    First lifetime book · 1915 Her 1915 Sonnets of Spinsterhood was published in San Francisco by Paul Elder.
  • Stanley Preston Kimmel
    First lifetime book · 1916 While at USC, Kimmel published Poems and Fantasies in Los Angeles in 1916.
  • Walter Conrad Arensberg
    First lifetime book · 1914 Poems appeared from Houghton Mifflin in 1914 and moved between Parisian scenes, musical lyrics, sonnets, dramatic fragments, and translations of Ronsard, Du Bellay, Baudelaire, Laforgue, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Nerval, Goethe, Heine, and Foscolo.
  • William Mackay Caldwell
    First lifetime book · 1915 William Mackay Caldwell is securely identified as the author of Pan’s Reeds and Other Verse, published in Los Angeles in 1915.

1920s

  • Alberta Johnston Denis
    First lifetime book · 1920 Her first book, Questionings, was issued in Los Angeles in 1920 by the Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House and dedicated simply “To George.”
  • Alfred Hardin Frederick
    First lifetime book · 1926 Their father died in 1926, the same year You’ve Never Lived in Hollywood appeared; their mother died in 1931 according to the 1942 family history.
  • Berthold Convers Huber
    First lifetime book · 1922 Berthold Convers Huber’s first lifetime poetry book, Tujunga Songs, appeared in 1922.
  • Bertolt Brecht
    First lifetime book · 1927 Bertolt Brecht’s first lifetime poetry book, Hauspostille, appeared in 1927.
  • Bruce Harvey Kiskaddon
    First lifetime book · 1924 A close version later appeared in Kiskaddon's 1924 Rhymes of the Ranges.
  • Cyrus Caswell Johnson
    First lifetime book · 1924 Cyrus Caswell Johnson’s first lifetime poetry book, Pools of Glass and Other Poems, appeared in 1924.
  • Eve Ganson
    First lifetime book · 1928 Eve Ganson’s first lifetime poetry book, Horn, Thorn, Tooth and Claw: Who’s Who on the Arizona Desert, appeared in 1928.
  • Harry MacPherson
    First lifetime book · 1921 The newspaper published his only known poetry collection, Squared Circles and Other Poems, in 1921.
  • Hildegarde Flanner
    First lifetime book · 1920 Hildegarde Flanner’s first lifetime poetry book, Young Girl and Other Poems, appeared in 1920.
  • Irene Wilde
    First lifetime book · 1928 Driftwood Fires appeared in 1928 from Harr Wagner.
  • Jake Zeitlin
    First lifetime book · 1927 In 1927 he published For Whispers and Chants through the Lantern Press in San Francisco.
  • James Marshall Warnack
    First lifetime book · 1928 James Marshall Warnack’s first lifetime poetry book, Soul Symphonies: Poems, appeared in 1928.
  • Kep Taggart
    First lifetime book · 1929 Kep Taggart’s first lifetime poetry book, Bacon: A Book of Verse, appeared in 1929.
  • Laurence Edward Innes
    First lifetime book · 1921 Lines to an Ancient Live Oak and Other Verses of California was published in Los Angeles by J. C. Ernst.
  • LeRoy MacLeod
    First lifetime book · 1929 Driven was issued in 1929 in two forms: Covici, Friede published the New York edition used here, while Alfred A. Knopf issued the London edition.
  • Lillian Amber Hunt
    First lifetime book · 1921 In 1921 Hunt published Arista and Other Poems with the Los Angeles firm J. F. Rowny Press and dedicated the volume “To My Mother.”
  • Louise Marny Muller
    First lifetime book · 1927 Louise Marny Muller’s first lifetime poetry book, Blue-Blossomed Garden: Poems of California, appeared in 1927.
  • Margaret J. Honn
    First lifetime book · 1925 She married Laurence Honn in Los Angeles on March 26, 1925, the same year that Conscience appeared from The Master Press.
  • Moon Kwan
    First lifetime book · 1920 Kwan’s first book, A Pagoda of Jewels, was issued in Los Angeles by Joseph A. Eliason Enterprises in 1920—not 1922, as the project filename and some later records suggest.
  • Morio Hayashida
    First lifetime book · 1928 Morio Hayashida’s first lifetime poetry book, Doko e yuku (Where to Go?), appeared in 1928.
  • Paramahansa Yogananda
    First lifetime book · 1923 Songs of the Soul first appeared in Boston in 1923.
  • Rita Green Breeze
    First lifetime book · 1924 Rita Green Breeze’s first lifetime poetry book, Songs of the Sky-Line, appeared in 1924.
  • Rosalie S. Jacoby
    First lifetime book · 1926 Rosalie S. Jacoby’s first lifetime poetry book, Kaleidoscope, appeared in 1926.
  • Ruby De Corsaw Culver
    First lifetime book · 1927 Ruby De Corsaw Culver is securely identified as the author of The Flaming Bush: Songs of the Desert, published in 1927.
  • Sarah Bixby Smith
    First lifetime book · 1924 Sarah Bixby Smith’s first lifetime poetry book, My Sage-brush Garden, appeared in 1924.
  • Sydney King Russell
    First lifetime book · 1923 Russell's first located poetry collection, The Changing Flame, appeared from the Four Seas Company in 1923.
  • Upton Sinclair
    First lifetime book · 1923 The same year he self-published Hell: A Verse Drama and Photo-Play in Pasadena.
  • Virginia Woodson Frame Church
    First lifetime book · 1925 D. G. Fischer Corporation published Teachers Are People: Being the Lyrics of Agatha Brown, Sometime Teacher of English in the Hilldale High School in 1925.

1930s

  • Alfonso P. Santos
    First lifetime book · 1936 Santos published A Garland of Sampaguitas: Flowers of Melancholy in Los Angeles in March 1936, with a short introduction by the popular poet and artist Don Blanding.
  • Bunichi Kagawa
    First lifetime book · 1930 That year Ruth Elvish Mantz printed Kagawa’s first English collection, Hidden Flame, at the Half Moon Press in Stanford, with a foreword by Winters.
  • C. F. MacIntyre
    First lifetime book · 1930 Harry Ward Ritchie issued MacIntyre’s first collection, The Brimming Cup and Potsherds, in Pasadena in 1930.
  • Dion O'Donnol
    First lifetime book · 1937 His first collection, Eggs in a Blue Bowl, appeared in 1937 from Wagon & Star, the press he founded and operated.
  • Dorothy Vena Johnson
    First journal appearance · 1938 Johnson’s confirmed publication record begins in Beatrice M. Murphy’s Negro Voices (1938) with “Ode to Justice,” “Crystal Shreds,” and “Jerked to God.”
  • Edwin Rolfe
    First lifetime book · 1936 His first independent poetry collection, To My Contemporaries, appeared from Dynamo Books that year with financial help from supporters including Archibald MacLeish.
  • Ethan Tane
    First lifetime book · 1936 The Wine Press: A Collection of Poems and Epigrams was published by Wetzel Publishing Company in Los Angeles in 1936.
  • F. Fukuzo Tanaka
    First lifetime book · 1938 F. Fukuzo Tanaka’s first lifetime poetry book, Songs of Hyakunin-Isshu Anglicized, appeared in 1938.
  • Grover Jacoby
    First lifetime book · 1938 Grover Jacoby’s first lifetime poetry book, The Human Patina, and other poems, appeared in 1938.
  • Jack Greenberg
    First lifetime book · 1939 Jack Greenberg is securely identified as the author of Hear Ye the Court: A Dramatic Poem, published by Parker & Baird Company in Los Angeles in 1939.
  • Joseph Joel Keith
    First lifetime book · 1939 His early book Inner Pilgrim (1939), jointly published with Helen Frazee-Bower, already established the characteristic Keith lyric: brief, lucid, compassionate, and suspicious of any public language that forgot individual suffering.
  • Josephine Ain
    First journal appearance · 1935 Josephine Ain’s earliest verified poetry appearance was “Patience,” Los Angeles Times in 1935.
  • L. Sandra Deeth
    First lifetime book · 1930 L. Sandra Deeth is the name printed on Desert Dwellers: Poems, issued in Los Angeles by the Wetzel Publishing Company in 1930.
  • Lola Sanblom
    First lifetime book · 1932 Her first book, Silk Purses (1932), took its title and governing metaphor from the belittling proverb that one cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.
  • Louise Gump
    First lifetime book · 1931 In 1931 Columbia Art Studios of Los Angeles published Poems by Jane Aul.
  • Madeleine Ruthven
    First lifetime book · 1932 Jake Zeitlin and the Primavera Press issued Summer Denial and Other Poems in 1932 in an edition of 304 copies.
  • Margaret Lancaster
    First lifetime book · 1933 Margaret Lancaster’s first lifetime poetry book, The Kingdom of Silences: From Whence All Springtimes Ever Flow, appeared in 1933.
  • Neeta Marquis
    First lifetime book · 1931 Neeta Marquis’s first lifetime poetry book, Los Rubios, appeared in 1931.
  • Odell Francis
    First lifetime book · 1938 With O’Donnol and Eugene Phillips she also compiled Winged Cargoes, a slender 1938 anthology drawn from the first six months of Path of Beauty.
  • Richard Frederic Carlyle
    First lifetime book · 1933 Phoenix Press issued The Psalms of Krishna in April 1933, The Oracles in October 1933, and Demon Greed in 1934.
  • Thomas J. McGonigle
    First lifetime book · 1930 Thomas J. McGonigle’s first lifetime poetry book, Dark Donegal and Other Poems, appeared in 1930.
  • William Pillin
    First lifetime book · 1939 They trained an exact knowledge of how poems moved from manuscript to magazine, from review to book, and from one local circle to another.

1940s

  • Ann Stanford
    First lifetime book · 1943 Her first independent collection, In Narrow Bound, appeared from Alan Swallow in 1943 and was absorbed into The White Bird in 1949.
  • Carlos Bulosan
    First lifetime book · 1942 A. Decker issued the sixty-eight-page Letter from America in Prairie City, Illinois.
  • Charles Antone Cavalli
    Posthumous book · 1945 The posthumous book Selected Poems appeared in 1945.
  • Don Gordon
    First lifetime book · 1946 His first three books emerged from this world: Statement (1943), Civilian Poems (1946), and Displaced Persons (1958).
  • Donald L. Emblen
    First lifetime book · 1947 The couple’s first poetry book, There Are Sea Gulls on Our Lawn, appeared from North Shores Publishing Company in San Diego in 1947.
  • Frona Lane
    First lifetime book · 1945 Frona Lane’s first lifetime poetry book, Apples of Gold, appeared in 1945.
  • James Boyer May
    First lifetime book · 1946 May first appeared in book form as a fiction writer, publishing Eight Years in 1946 and For a New Era of Hate in 1947.
  • Lawrence P. Spingarn
    First lifetime book · 1947 Spingarn’s first book, Rococo Summer, and Other Poems, was published by E. P. Dutton in 1947 in an edition of 750 copies.
  • Lucile Nickerson Colyer
    First lifetime book · 1946 Lucile Nickerson Colyer’s first lifetime poetry book, …Thy Neighbor…, appeared in 1946.
  • Myron Broomell
    First lifetime book · 1947 Alan Swallow published The Time by Dialing in 1947 and The City Built on Sand in 1948.
  • Peter Yates
    First lifetime book · 1946 The early poems gathered in A Smaller Poem Book show what Peyton Houston later described as Yates’s discovery, through Gerard Manley Hopkins, of the sonnet as an instrument for rich and innovative expressiveness.
  • Ruth Forbes Sherry
    First lifetime book · 1941 Ruth Forbes Sherry’s first lifetime poetry book, Hourglass in the Mojave, appeared in 1941.
  • Thomas McGrath
    First lifetime book · 1940 Swallow issued McGrath’s First Manifesto in 1940, beginning a publishing relationship that would last for decades.
  • Wesley La Violette
    First lifetime book · 1945 DeVorss & Company, located on South Grand Avenue, issued The Bhagavad Gita: An Immortal Song in 1945.

1950s

  • Bernice Ames
    First lifetime book · 1955 Ames’s first collection, Where the Light Bends, appeared in Los Angeles from Dion O’Donnol’s Wagon & Star Press in 1955.
  • Bruce Boyd
    First journal appearance · 1958 Bruce Boyd’s earliest verified poetry appearance was “Aubade,” Evergreen Review in 1958.
  • Charles Foster
    First journal appearance · 1958 Charles Foster’s earliest verified poetry appearance was “Paleolithic dawns…,” Semina 4 in 1958.
  • Ethelean Tyson Gaw
    First lifetime book · 1951 Gaw published Drums of El Dorado and Other Poems with Exposition Press in 1951, when she was seventy-four.
  • Guy Emmett Daniels Jr.
    First lifetime book · 1959 Inferno Press Editions issued his only poetry collection, Poems and Translations, in San Francisco in 1959.
  • Hanson Kellogg
    First lifetime book · 1951 Alan Swallow published Attics Own Houses in Denver in 1951 as a forty-eight-page collection.
  • Harold Vernon Witt
    First lifetime book · 1956 Family in the Forest and Superman Unbound were published in 1956; The Death of Venus followed in 1958, selected by the Book Club for Poetry; and Macmillan issued Beasts in Clothes in 1961.
  • Henri Coulette
    First lifetime book · 1958 Before his first full-length collection, Coulette published poems in magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, and issued the small keepsake The License and the Limit: Four Poems (1958).
  • Jack Hirschman
    First lifetime book · 1953 Jack Hirschman’s first lifetime poetry book, Fragments, appeared in 1953.
  • Jeff Davis Cypert (Chief Tahachee)
    First lifetime book · 1950 Cypert published Poems of Dreams in 1942, Drifting Sands in 1950, An American Indian Climb Toward Truth & Wisdom in 1955, and The Rough and Rowdy Ways of an American Indian Cowboy in 1957.
  • Lawrence Lipton
    First lifetime book · 1955 The posthumous collection is not simply a supplement to Rainbow at Midnight: its long breath-lines, jazz dialogues, street satire, and Venice poems register a later poetics of public speech.
  • Naomi Replansky
    First lifetime book · 1952 Ring Song appeared from Scribner’s in 1952 and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
  • Stuart Perkoff
    First lifetime book · 1956 Jonathan Williams published The Suicide Room as Jargon 22 in 1956, with a drawing by Fielding Dawson and a photograph by Charles Kessler.
  • William J. Margolis
    First lifetime book · 1957 Inferno Press published The Anteroom of Hell in San Francisco in 1957.
  • William M. Cheney
    Book used for decade · 1950 A Pamphlet on the Four Basic Dialects of Pig Latin (1950) is used for this decade assignment.

1960s

  • A. Fredric Franklyn
    First lifetime book · 1964 The result, Virgules and Déjà Vu, appeared at Placitas in 1964 as a twenty-four-page quarto, side-stapled booklet.
  • Alvaro Cardona-Hine
    First lifetime book · 1961 The Gathering Wave: Forty-eight Haiku with Drawings appeared in 1961.
  • Bert Meyers
    First lifetime book · 1960 Alan Swallow published Early Rain in Denver in 1960.
  • Curtis Zahn
    First lifetime book · 1964 His poetry book One Extraordinary A.M.: Some Poems appeared in 1964.
  • Gene Frumkin
    First lifetime book · 1963 Gene Frumkin’s first lifetime poetry book, The Hawk and the Lizard, appeared in 1963.
  • Hugh Fox
    First lifetime book · 1966 40 Poems was published in Caracas in 1966; Los Angeles books including Eye Into Now and Soul-Catcher Songs followed in 1967; The Headless Centaurs appeared as the principal sequence in The Wormwood Review in 1968; Glyphs and Son of Camelot Meets the Wolfman appeared in 1969.
  • Jean Burden
    First lifetime book · 1963 October House published her first collection, Naked as the Glass, in May 1963; a second printing followed in June 1964.
  • Stanley Allen Kiesel
    First lifetime book · 1968 Charles Scribner’s Sons published The Pearl Is a Hardened Sinner: Notes from Kindergarten in New York in 1968.

1970s

  • Gil Orlovitz
    First lifetime book · 1972 Couldn’t Say, Might Be Love appeared in London in 1969 and More Poems in 1972.
  • John Thomas
    First lifetime book · 1972 The earliest located standalone volume is John Thomas, issued by Red Hill Press in Fairfax in 1972 in an edition of 405 copies, including thirty numbered, signed, and sealed copies.

1980s

  • Joan LaBombard
    First lifetime book · 1985 Her collections were Calendar: Poems (1985), The Counting of Grains (1990), and Winter Watch of Leaves (published in the early 1990s).

2000s

  • Mel Weisburd
    First lifetime book · 2005 Mel Weisburd’s first lifetime poetry book, A Life of Windows & Mirrors: Selected Poems 1948–2005, appeared in 2005.