Valentines to the Wide World (1959) is Van Duyn's first collection of poetry.

Firefall (1993) is Van Duyn's latest collection of poetry.

If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959—1982 (1993) presents a compilation of Van Duyn's poetry from her previous collections, including Valentines to the Wide World, A Time of Bees, To See, to Take, Bedtime Stories, Merciful Disguises, and Letters from a Father, and Other Poems.

The Best American Poetry 2003 (2003), edited by David Lehman and Yusef Komunyakaa, provides readers with a survey of contemporary American poetry.

Edited by Aliki and Willis Barnstone, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (1992) offers a survey of three hundred women poets from the earliest Mesopotamian poet Enheduanna to Gwendolyn Brooks, a twentieth-century African American.

Founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, Poetry is a monthly publication devoted to printing the poetry of both up-and-coming and...