The Poetry Foundation (http://www.poetryfoundation.org) posts weekly a list of bestselling poetry books.Poetry best sellers

They generate these lists (they divide books in three categories: Contemporary, Anthologies and Children”s) by tracking sales from more than 4,500 retail booksellers. This means it”s pretty reliable.

We hope they keep it updated because there wasn”t a bestselling list focusing in poetry like this before.

We can find the list of the week of April 2 at their website:

Contemporary
1 Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2 The Trouble with Poetry: and Other Poems by Billy Collins (Random House)
3 Sailing Alone around the Room by Billy Collins (Random House Trade)
4 Book of Sketches by Jack Kerouac (Penguin)
5 New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
Anthologies
1 Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor (Penguin Books)
2 Good Poems for Hard Times edited by Garrison Keillor (Viking Books)
3 The Oxford Book of American Poetry edited by David Lehman (Oxford University Press)
4 180 More: Extraordinary Poems edited by Billy Collins (Random House Trade)
5 The Best American Poetry 2005 edited by Paul Muldoon (Scribner)
Children”s
1 Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings (30th Anniversary Edition) by Shel Silverstein (HarperCollins)
2 Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein (HarperCollins)
3 A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children edited by Caroline Kennedy, Jon J. Muth (illustrator) (Hyperion Books)
4 Poetry Speaks to Children edited by Elise Paschen (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)
5 Mary Engelbreit”s Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses edited by Mary Engelbreit (HarperCollins)