Representing the richness and diversity of today's poetry, the anthology includes poems by Sharon Olds, Robert Bly, Franz Wright, Paul Muldoon, Jane Kenyon, Galway Kinnell, Edward Hirsch, and many more. Poetry 180 implied a 180-degree turn — a turning back to poetry — and now, with 180 new poems selected by America's bestselling poet, devoted readers and newcomers alike will have another chance to enjoy the music and meaning of contemporary poetry.

Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In 180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of today’s poetry. Here are another 180 hospitable, engaging, reader-friendly poems, offering surprise and delight in a wide range of literary voices–comic, melancholy, reflective, irreverent. If poetry is the original travel literature, this anthology contains 180 vehicles ready to carry you away to unexpected places.

With poems by

Robert Bly

Carol Ann Duffy

Eamon Grennan

Mark Halliday

Jane Kenyon

David Kirby

Thomas Lux

Donna Masini

W. S. Merwin

Paul Muldoon

Carol Muske-Dukes

Vijay Seshadri

Naomi Shihab Nye

Gerald Stern

Ron Padgett

Linda Pastan

Victoria Redel

Franz Wright

Robert Wrigley

and many more