In April 2003, The Library of America began a new and important undertaking: a series presenting the most significant American poetry, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics. Elegantly designed and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment in compact and affordable editions. The series features volumes devoted to single poets—Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edgar Allan Poe among them—as well as anthologies exploring particular themes, genres, and eras, ranging from light verse to American poetry inspired by World War II.