Forthcoming from Autumn House Press in 2013, A Poet's Sourcebook is an anthology of writings about poetry that opens in the ancient world and moves chronologically to the present. The book includes many different types of writing--essays, journal entries, letters, interviews, scripts, poems--and features a swath of voices. Following is a list of the writers and anonymous sources that appear in the anthology. Many of these writers are themselves writing about other writers, so you could add Virgil, Goethe, Lorca, Beddoes, Herrick, and many others to the list.

It's a good thing I like to read because this is only a spoonful of what I've been force-feeding myself during the past year.

Homer
Lao Tzu
The Book of Genesis
Sappho
Plato
Aristotle
Horace
Ovid
Suetonius
Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
Li Chi'ing Chao
Marie de France
Dante Alighieri
Francesco Petrarch
An Aztec Poet
Jan Kochanowski
Sir Philip Sidney
William Shakespeare
John Milton
Anne Bradstreet
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Samuel Johnson
David Crantz
Phillis Wheatley
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Gordon Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Johann Peter Eckermann
John Keats
Thomas Carlyle
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Edgar Allan Poe
Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
Henry David Thoreau
Frederick Douglass
Emily Bronte
Walt Whitman
Charles Sangster
Matthew Arnold
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Walter Pater
Emily Dickinson
Paul Verlaine
Gerard Manley Hopkins
William Butler Yeats
Robert Frost
Rainer Maria Rilke
Edward Thomas
Wallace Stevens
Lytton Strachey
Virginia Woolf
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
Vladimir Nabokov
Theodore Roethke
Czeslaw Milosz
A Keresan Poet
Hayden Carruth
Philip Larkin
Denise Levertov
John Berger
Philip Levine
Adrienne Rich
Gregory Corso
Gary Snyder
Audre Lorde
Toi Derricotte
Galsan Tschinag
Yusef Komunyakaa
Baron Wormser
Bei Dao
Elizabeth McElrea
Charles Bernstein
Jack Wiler
Naomi Shihab Nye
Rita Dove
Sam Watson
Lynda Hull
Teresa Carson
Dawn Potter
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Brenda Shaughnessy
Mike Walker
Autumn McClintock
Garth Greenwell
Rory Waterman
Mthabisi Phili
Ethan Richard