Postmodern American Poetry is a 1994 poetry anthology edited by Paul Hoover ; it is a Norton anthology published by W. W. Norton and Co. . The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by Charles Olson, and speaks of the field chosen from as experimental poetry from after 1945.

The book contains, besides poems, about 20 short essays on poetics.

Poets in Postmodern Armerican Poetry

Miguel Algarin - Bruce Andrews - David Antin - Rae Armantrout - John Ashbery - Jimmy Santiago Baca - Amiri Baraka - Bill Berkson - Charles Bernstein - Ted Berrigan - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge - Paul Blackburn - Charles Bukowski - John Cage - Joseph Ceravolo - Maxine Chernoff - Tom Clark - Andrei Codrescu - Wanda Coleman - Clark Coolidge - Dennis Cooper - William Corbett - Gregory Corso - Jayne Cortez - Robert Creeley - Victor Hernández Cruz - Michael Davidson - Ray DiPalma - Diane di Prima - Ed Dorn - Robert Duncan - Russell Edson - Larry Eigner - Kenward Elmslie - Elaine Equi - Clayton Eshleman - George Evans - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Kathleen Fraser - Amy Gerstler - Allen Ginsberg - John Giorno - John Godfrey - Robert Grenier - Barbara Guest - Jessica Hagedorn - Carla Harryman - Lyn Heijinian - Anselm Hollo - Paul Hoover - Susan Howe - Robert Kelly - Jack Kerouac - August Kleinzahler - Kenneth Koch - Art Lange - James Laughlin - Ann Lauterbach - David Lehman - Denise Levertov - Nathaniel Mackey - Jackson Mac Low - Clarence Major - Tom Mandel - Harry Matthews - Bernadette Mayer - Michael McClure - Hilda Morley - Eileen Myles - Charles North - Frank O'Hara - Charles Olson - Maureen Owen - Ron Padgett - Michael Palmer - Bob Perelman - Stephen Rodefer - Jerome Rothenberg - Ed Sanders - Leslie Scalapino - James Schuyler - David Shapiro - Ron Silliman - Gary Snyder - Gustaf Sobin - Jack Spicer - Lorenzo Thomas - David Trinidad - Paul Violi - Diane Wakowski - Anne Waldman - Keith Waldrop - Rosmarie Waldrop - Diane Ward - Barrett Watten - Hannah Weiner - Marjorie Welish - Philip Whalen - John Wieners - John Yau