cultural studies:: writing from power-- the prose of poet laureates, and the memoirs of presidential candidates.
list of poet laureates from 1937 to present: this is a list of prose works written/published during/shortly after these poets stints as poet laureate.
allen tate:: On the Limits of Poetry: Selected Essays, 1928-1948 (1948)
rbt penn warren:: Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1946)
rbt lowell:: The Collected Prose (1987)
conrad aiken:: Ushant: An Essay (1952), A Reviewer's ABC (1958)
wc williams:: The Build-Up (1952) Selected Essays (1954)
randall jarrell:: A Sad Heart at the Supermarket; essays & fables. NY: Atheneum, 1962.
rbt frost:: The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963; Cape, 1964).
louis untermeyer:: Bygones (1965)
reed whittemore:: The Little Magazine and Contemporary Literature (1966)
stephen spender:: The Year of the Young Rebels (1969)
james dickey:: The Self as Agent (1970), Sorties: Journals and New Essays (1971), Self-Interviews (1970)
william stafford:: Writing the Australian Crawl. Views on the Writer's Vocation (essays and reviews). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1978
daniel hoffman:: The Center of Attention (1974)
rbt hayden::Collected Prose: Robert Hayden. Ed. Frederick Glaysher. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan, 1984.
wm meredith:: Reasons for Poetry, and The Reason for Criticism (1982)[4]
maxine kumin:: In Deep: Country Essays, Viking 1987, Why Can't We Live Together Like Civilized Human Beings? Viking 1982
anthony hecht:: # Obbligati: Essays in Criticism (1986)
mark strand:: Hopper (1994)
josef brodsky:: On Grief and Reason: Essays
rita dove:: The Poet's World (essays). The Library of Congress, 1995.
rbt pinsky:: The Sounds of Poetry (1998) Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry (2002)
ted kooser:: The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets. (2005).
compiled from craigslist and poets.org