Hunting the Snark is a compendium of poetic terminology that mirrored American contemporary poetry of nineteen seventies and eighties written by Robert Peters.

Peters anthologizes in Hunting the Snark a comprehensive amount of poets and their poems including widely noted poets such as Robert Hass, Billy Collins, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery to obscure noted poets Wilma McDaniel, Paul Vangelisti, David Ray and Alfred Starr Hamilton.

Each category has a selection of classic and contemporary poets, which embody the spirit of each genre, tied together with Peters' critical analysis.

Poet and noted biographer of Sylvia Plath Edward Butcher wrote an essay on Peters, stating that he "fairly categorized terminologically American poems and poets with his original poetic terminology".

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