The Extraordinary Tide is an extraordinary and important anthology that anyone interested in contemporary American poetry will want to read and cherish. The voices in this book are diverse; the kinds of poems gathered here are various in style and subject. But the one assumption that underlies and animates every line of every poem is that inclusiveness, intellectual and imaginative restlessness, impurity and radical play are the life blood of our language and our literature, renewing the very conventions and traditions they resist. Contemporary American women poets have given a great gift to all students of poetry, to all of us who go to poetry for news of what it means to be a human being at this moment in our history.
— Alan Shapiro, University of North Carolina

It has been too long since such a comprehensive collection was published, and anyone who cares about women's poetry should read it.... This book deserves a place on your bookshelf alongside the Norton and Oxford anthologies.
— San Diego Union Tribune

Susan Aizenberg is assistant professor of english and creative writing at Creighton University and the poetry editor of The Nebraska Review, both in Omaha, Nebraska. Her poems have appeared in places such as Chelsea, ONTHEBUS, Prairie Schooner, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her collection of poems, Peru, appeared as part of the Graywolf Press Take 3 Series. She teaches at Creighton University.Erin Belieu, a contributing editor at AGNI, The Kenyon Review, and The Journal, teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Ohio University. Belieu is the author of two poetry collections from Copper Canyon Press, One Above & One Below(2000) and Infanta (1995), which was a selection of the National Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in places such as The New York Times, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly and The Atlantic Monthly.

Marjorie Agosin
Ai
Susan Aizenberg
Sandra Alcosser
Elizabeth Alexander
Pamela Alexander
Julia Alvarez
Angela Ball
Dorothy Barresi
Robin Becker
Erin Belieu
Linda Bierds
Chana Bloch
Michelle Boisseau
Catherine Bowman
Luci Brock-Broido
Olga Broumas
Teresa Cader
Marilyn Chin --Lucille Clifton
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Martha Collins
Jane Cooper
Kate Daniels
Madeline DeFrees
Toi Derricotte
Deborah Digges
Rita Dove
Nancy Eimers
Lynn Emanuel
Angie Estes
Kathy Fagan
Canice Favilla
Carolyn Forché
Alice Fulton
Tess Gallagher
Amy Gerstler
Patricia Goedicke
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Jorie Graham
Linda Gregerson
Linda Gregg
Marilyn Hacker
Rachel Hadas
Kimiko Hahn
Susan Hahn
Brenda Hillman
Jane Hirshfield
Linda Hogan
Janet Holmes
Fanny Howe
Marie Howe
Lynda Hull
Barbara Jordan
Allison Joseph
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Jane Kenyon
Mary Kinzie
Carolyn Kizer
Maxine Kumin
Ann Lauterbach
Dorianne Laux
Cleopatra Mathis
Gail Mazur
Heather McHugh
Lynne McMahon
Sandra McPherson
Jane Miller
Susan Mitchell
Thylias Moss
Lisel Mueller
Laura Mullen
Carol Muske
Marilyn Nelson
Alice Notley
Naomi Shihab Nye
Sharon Olds
Jacqueline Osherow
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Linda Pastan
Molly Peacock
Lucia Perillo
Marie Ponsot
Minnie Bruce Pratt
Claudia Rankine
Hilda Raz
Martha Rhodes
Adrienne Rich
Mary Ruefle
Kay Ryan
Mary Jo Salter
Leslie Scalapino
Grace Schulman
Maureen Seaton
Rebecca Seiferle
Vivian Shipley
Aleda Shirley
Betsy Sholl
Maurya Simon
Cathy Song
Elizabeth Spires
Pamela Stewart
Susan Stewart
Ruth Stone
Stephanie Strickland
Terese Svoboda
Ann Townsend
Chase Twichell
Leslie Ullman
Jean Valentine
Mona Van Duyn
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Belle Waring
Rosanna Warren
Rachel Wetzsteon
Susan Wheeler
Elanor Wilner
C. D. Wright