Joseph Donahue (poet)

• Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (1996; with Edward Foster and Leonard Schwartz)^[3]
• The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time (2002; with Edward Foster)

Of Donahue's collection Incidental Eclipse, John Ashbery has written "Something is going under, something is coming to the surface; each is documented by two voices, one speaking in italics. There is little comfort here, but there is glamor in the inevitable, 'incidental' screen of darkness moving across the light. This sequence confirms Donahue as one of the major American poets of this time."^{[citation needed]}

Of the same collection, the poet Gustaf Sobin has stated that "In these sustained breath-strips, life's disparate, hopelessly disassociated elements find themselves spliced into single, all-inclusive sequences. In associating myth with matter, our deepest longings with our most dire anxieties, Donahue strikes an uninterrupted series of grace notes..."

• Daniel Donahue (uncle)