Good Poems

By Garrison Keillor

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Good Poems is a 2002 anthology of nearly 300 poems selected by Garrison Keillor, many of which he read on his radio program The Writer's Almanac. It gathers work by poets including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins and Wendell Berry, chosen for clarity and feeling, and arranged by themes of everyday life.

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