Poetry Resources on the Internet

Edited by Peter Y. Chou, Poet-Teacher,
California Poets in the Schools

Online Library Resources:
Resources for Poets— http://www.interlog.com/~ohi/www/poetry.html (20 link areas to writing)
Writers Resource Center— http://www.azstarnet.com/~poewar/writer/writer.html (20 link areas to writing)
The Writer's Web— http://members.aol.com/jinglefish/incoming/home1.htm (Writing sites, organizations, & ezines)
WWW Virtual Library: Design— http://www.dh.umu.se/vlib.html
World Humanities Resources— http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Faculty/world-humanities.html (University of Cambridge)
Ask Eric— http://ericir.syr.edu/ (Database Search at Education Resources Information Center)
Poetry Rare Books at SUNY Buffalo— http://wings.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/pl/
(James Joyce, Robert Graves, Wyndham Lewis, William Carlos Williams)
Poetics Archive— http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/poetics/archive/logs/#1996 (e-mail Poetics Discussions from 12/94 to 6/96)
Internet Poetry Archive— http://sunsite.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/home.html (Milosz, Heaney, and Phil Levine)
Book Stacks Poetry— http://www.poetry.books.com/ (Poems & Audio files from Robert Hass, Marilyn Chin, Rita Dove, Carolyn Forché, Thom Gunn, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, Mark Strand, and Charles Wright)
D.J. Lindsay's Haiku Universe— http://www.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~dhugal/haikuhome.html
Medical Poems— http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webgenres/poem.genre.html (434 poems annotated)
Inkspot— http://www.inkspot.com/~ohi/inkspot/ (Resources for children writers)
Poet's Corner: Aikens to Yeats— http://www.lexmark.com/data/poem/poem.html (1368 poems from 284 poets)
Spondee: Poems, Poetry, Poets— http://www.execpc.com/~jon/ (150+ poetry links)
Rhyming Dictionary— http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html
Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry (by Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta)— http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/Handbook.html
(Figurative Language, Language & Meaning, Poetic Kinds & Genres, Rhythm & Meter, Stanzas & Verse Forms)
Glossary of Poetic Terms (from Professor Filreis' English 88 class at University of Pennsylvania)— http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/poetic-terms.html (assonance, ballad, couplet, diction, foot, free verse, haiku, iambic limerick, line, meter, pastiche, realism, repetition, sestina, sonnet, terza rima, tone, ut pictura poesis)
Pulitzer Prize Timeline: 1917-1999 (Click Year to view the winners)— http://www.pulitzer.org/archive/timeline/index.html
(1922 Edwin Arlington Robinson's Collected Poems to 1999 Mark Strand's Bizzard of One)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: 1918-1997 (Search for Poetry)— http://www.pulitzer.org/search/
(1918 Sara Teasdale's Love Songs to 1997 Lisel Mueller's Alive Together: New and Selected Poems) * PBS NewsHour: National Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky Reads Poems— http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/poems/poems.html (Archive: 7-4-97 to present)
A Small Anthology of Poems— http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/index.html (Western Michigan University)
Poetry Societies:
Academy of American Poets— http://www.tmn.com/Artswire/poets/page.html (programs, readings, poetry links)
The League of Canadian Poets— http://www.swifty.com/lc/index.html (founded 1966, serving 400 members at present)
The Poetry Society— http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/online/poetry/ (British Poetry Society, founded 1909)
Poetry Society of America— http://www.poetrysociety.com/ (founded 1910)
American & British Poets (Pre-20th Century):
British Poetry 1780-1910— http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html (Hypertext Archive from University of Virginia)
Index of Poets— http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/indexauthors.html (89 poets: Matthew Arnold to Sir Thomas Wyatt)
William Blake— http://www.aa.net/~urizen/blake.html (poems & paintings)
S. T. Coleridge Home Page— http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/stc/Coleridge/stc.html (poems, letters, literary criticism)
Emily Dickinson— http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/dickinson/
Ralph Waldo Emerson— http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/nov1857/waldo.htm
(4 poems from the first issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1857)
Thomas Hardy— http://pages.ripco.com:8080/%7Emws/hardy.html (Hardy Resource Library)
John Keats Poetical Works— http://www.bartleby.com/people/Keats-Jo.html (1884 edition)
Shakespeare Concordance— http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/search.html (MIT's Search to Plays & Poetry)
Shakespeare's Collected Works— http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/ (Concordance Search from Australia)
Shakespeare & the Internet— http://www.palomar.edu/Library/shake.htm (annotated guide to Shakespeare online)
Shakespeare Oxford Society Home Page— http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/ (Debate on Shakespeare authorship)
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass— http://www.bartleby.com/people/WhitmnW.html
William Wordsworth Complete Poetical Works— http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/wordsworth/ (1888 edition)
William Butler Yeats— http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/yeats/Index.html (alphabetical list of Yeat's poems online)
20th Century Poets:
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry— http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html
(Course by Al Filreis, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)
Poets in Person— http://www.wilmington.net/arts/poets/ (13 poets reading their poems)
Robert Creeley Home Page— http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/creeley/
e.e. cummings: life & work— http://members.safepages.com/nascitur/cummings.html
T. S. Eliot— http://www.usl.edu/Departments/English/authors/eliot/
Robert Frost— http://www.mpimg-berlin-dahlem.mpg.de/~pohl/Frost_e.html#NA3 (7 poems)
Allen Ginsberg— http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/AllenGinsberg.html (Bibliography & Essays on Howl & Kaddish)
Robert Hass— http://www.wnet.org/lol/hass.html (from Field Guide & The Essential Haiku)
Seamus Heaney— http://sunsite.unc.edu/ipa/heaney/ (9 poems & Nobel Lecture)
Seamus Heaney— http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/heaney/heaney-cov.html (Poems, Bio, Bibliography, Lectures)
Anthony Hecht— http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hecht/hecht.htm
(About Anthony Hecht, "More Light! More Light!", "A Hill", Interview, LInks)
Kenneth Koch— http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/95_96/koch.html (from On Aesthetics)
Stanley Kunitz— http://www.theparisreview.com/tpr083/kunitz.html (Paris Review, Issue 83, Spring 1983)
(The Art of Poetry XXIX: Interviewed by Chris Busa)
Li-Young Lee— http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2002summer/lee.shtml
(M. L. Schuldt reviews Lee's Book of My Nights)
Philip Levine— http://sunsite.unc.edu/ipa/levine/ (8 poems from Internet Poetry Archive)
James Merrill— http://library.wustl.edu/Units/Spec/manuscripts/mlc/merrill/intro.html
(Exhibit from the Modern Literature Collection, Washington University Libraries)
Sharon Olds Poetry Page— http://students.vassar.edu/~hecook/olds.html (16 poems from The Gold Cell)
William Carlos Williams— http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/Poetry/Williams/ (22 poems)
Philip Whalen (1923-2002)— http://www.poetryflash.org/highlights_Whalen.html (Poetry Flash obituary)
Yvor Winters— http://www.msu.edu/user/kilpela/WINTERS-LIFE1.htm (14 poems)
Yvor Winters Web Site (by Ben Kilpela)— http://www.msu.edu/user/kilpela/WINTERS-LIFE1.htm
Foreign Poets:
Dante: The Divine Comedy— http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/commedia/frontispiece.html
(Longfellow translation with search & Dore's drawings)
Dante's Divine Comedy by Botticelli— http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/commedia/dante_library/botticelli/images_botticelli.html (91 Botticelli Drawings)
Kahlil Gibran— http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~gm84/gibtable.html (The Prophet)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe— http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/gutenb/autoren/goethe.htm (Faust in German)
Penetrating Goethe (by Katharena Eiermann)— http://members.aol.com/KatharenaE/private/Pweek/Goethe/goethe.html
(Life & Times, Poetry, Faust, Odes & Parables, Quotations, More Info)
Omar Khayyám: Rubáiyát— http://www.lexmark.com/data/poem/rubaiyat.html (translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 1859)
Czeslaw Milosz— http://sunsite.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/milosz/milcov.html (Audio files in Polish & English)
Pablo Neruda— http://www.uchile.cl/WWW/nerudaing.html (from University of Chile)
Rainer Maria Rilke Web Site (by Prof. David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University)— http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/rmrind.htm
(Essay, Photo Gallery, Quotations, Rilke Book Covers)
Rainer Maria Rilke— http://www.mpimg-berlin-dahlem.mpg.de/~pohl/Rilke_e.html (7 poems)
Rainer Maria Rilke Archive (by Renate Hannaford)— http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/4027/ (Titles, First Lines, Quotes, Bibliography, Photos, Links, Search)
Rainer Maria Rilke Archive (by alexis@danae.demon.co.uk)— http://www.danae.demon.co.uk/rilke/ (16 poems)
Rainer Maria Rilke (by Indira Mariam Montoya)— http://www.thecry.com/existentialism/rilke/ (Mini Biography, Images, Links, Works, Quotes, 12 poems)
Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet (1908)— http://www.hotwired.com/People/Staff/allison/Rilke/r.index.html
(On Answers, Love, Sex, Solitude, Women)
Rumi's Poetry— http://www.armory.com/~thrace/sufi/poems.html (13 poems from a Sufi mystic)
Rabindranath Tagore— http://www.genius.net/indolink/Poetry/tgorIndx.html
Foreign Poetry Links— http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/country.htm
Chinese Poetry— http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/chinese.html
(Li Po, Tu Fu, Wang Wei, Han Yü, Po Chü-i, T'ao Ch'ien, Ts'ao Chih)
French Poetry— http://www.insa-tlse.fr/wwwaime/marie/poesies/ (Apollinaire to Villon in French)
Irish Poetry Page— http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~dm/eire.html (from University of Cologne)
Italian Poetry— http://www.silab.it/frox/200/pwhomeng.htm (2400 poems from the Duecento archive to Dante)
Spanish Poetry— http://cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu/~jehle/poetry.html#AUTOR (Index by authors & first line)
Turkish Poetry— http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/sibel/poetry/poetry.html
Haiku:
Haiku— http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm (How-to Haiku, Articles, Links)
Haiku for People— http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/ (Haiku Masters & New Haiku Poems)
The art of Haiku poetry— http://www.lsi.usp.br/usp/rod/poet/haiku.html (By Rodrigo A. Siqueira)
Haiku.com— http://www.haiku.com/ (Anthology, Poets, Articles, Events)
Children's Haiku Garden— http://www.tecnet.or.jp/~haiku/ (By Ryo Suzuki)
Haiku Society of America— http://www.hsa-haiku.org/ (Cambridge, Mass.)
Haiku World (Bringing Haiku poets & readers together)— http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/
Haiku of Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827) (By David G. Lanoue)— http://webusers.xula.edu/dlanoue/issa/ (5,000 of Issa's haiku)
HaikuHut.com (Michael Rehling)— http://www.haikuhut.com/ (haiku/senryu, tanka, 'short forms' of poetry)
Haiku Error Messages— http://archive.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal3.html
(By Charlie Varon & Jim Rosenau, SALON, Feb. 10, 1998)
Children Poetry:
Banyan Tree Friends Home Page— http://sashimi.wwa.com/~uschwarz/poetry/btf000.html (K-12 students' poems)
Children's Poetry— http://www.dreamagic.com/poetry/children.html (24 poems from kids worldwide)
Kids Poems— http://www.edf.org/Earth2Kids/kidspoem/index.html (from Environmental Defense Fund website)
Kid's Poetry— http://www.cpits.org/kids/index.htm (from the the CPITS 1999 Statewide Anthology, A Flame of Words)
Kid's Web— http://www.primenet.com/~sburr/verses.html
(A Child's Garden of Verses: Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll, Eugene Field, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost)
Online Songs & Poetry for Children— http://www.ucalgary.ca:80/~dkbrown/storsong.html (6 links)
Poems for & about the Young— http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/kid_poems.html
(Walter de la Mare, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Wordsworth, Algernon Charles Swinburne,
James Whitcomb Riley, and Charles Follen Adams)
Poetry on Space & Mythology— http://www.windows.umich.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/art_and_music/poems.html
(Collection of 26 poems on space for children to read)
River of Words: Winning Poems— http://www.irn.org/row/2000/winners.shtml (award-winning children's poems)
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses— ftp://wiretap.spies.com/Library/Classic/child.rls (complete electronic text)
Teaching Poetry & Writing Tips:
California Poets In The Schools— http://www.cpits.org/
(Teaching students poetry writing in the classroom for 35 years)
Norton Introduction to Poetry— http://web.wwnorton.com/blurbs/disc/english/096822t.htm
(Table of Contents to the 6th edition on Reading, Responding, & Writing Poetry)
Advice for Young Writers— http://www.inkspot.com/~ohi/inkspot/youngadvice.html (20 tidbits for writers)
Teachers & Writers OnLine— http://www.twc.org/about.htm
Poets-in-the-Schools— http://wwwcoh.modlang.arizona.edu/poetry/news-schools.html (teaching kids in the classroom)
Poetry Writing— http://www.twc.org/poetrywriting.htm (20 books reviewed by Teachers & Writers)
Books on Teaching Imaginative Writing— http://www.twc.org/teachingwriting.htm (29 books annotated)
Ten Tips on Creativity (by Emily Hanlon)— http://www.emilyhanlon.com/ten_tips.htm
(Don't think, Creativity is cyclical,... Learn your craft. And write, write, write!)
On Writing (Steven Philip Jones)— http://fuziondigital.com/SPJ/writing.htm
(Q&A, FAQ, On Writing, Links, Looking for Work, Networking, Promotion, Research, Comics)
Poetry Magazines:
Atlantic Monthly Poetry Pages— http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/poetpage.htm (Poetry from recent issues)
The Bathyspheric Review— (began Spring 2003)
http://www.montereybaypoetry.com/ (Poetry devoted to oceanic themes and imagery)
The Beloit Poetry Journal (24 Berry Cove Road, Lamoine, Maine 04605)— http://violet.umf.maine.edu/~sharkey/bpj/
(Current Issue, Tables of contents & Index by author: 1950-1999)
Fuyoh (Rose Mallow)— http://www.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~dhugal/backissues.html (Haiku quarterly issues from Spring 1995)
Gruene Street— http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/gs/1.2/gr12.html#bushell (Internet Journal of Prose & Poetry)
The Mississippi Review— http://sushi.st.usm.edu/mrw/backish.html (Online monthly issues from 4/95)
The Paris Review— http://www.voyagerco.com/PR/ (Online from Winter 1995)
Ploughshares— http://www.emerson.edu/ploughshares/ (Online issues from Fall 1995)
Poets & Writers— http://www.pw.org/ (Deadlines to Grants & Awards; Classifieds)
Zines— http://authors.miningco.com/arts/authors/msub26zine.htm
(55 Literary Zines from Akkadian to Zuzu's Petals Quarterly)
Exhibitions, Festivals, Readings & Workshops:
Alien Flower Poetry Workshops (taught online by Tom Williams)— http://www.sonic.net/web/albany/workshop/class.html
(Online Workshops @ $40/week; Guidelines for poetry critique & revision; Poetry essays)
Modern Australian Poetry— http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/hss/rare/xpoetry.htm
(Exhibition from Monash University Rare Book Collection: 18 March-10 June 1999)
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference— http://www.middlebury.edu/~blwc/index.html
(Annual poetry conference since 1926, held at Middlebury College, Vermont)
Dodge Poetry Festival— http://www.dodgepoetry.org/index.html (6th Biennial at Waterloo, New Jersey)
Poetry Reading at the 92nd Street Y— http://www.92ndsty.org/readings.html (1996-97 Reading Series)
Readings in Contemporary Poetry— http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/poetry.html
(Readings at Dia's Center for the Arts, 548 West 22nd Street, NYC)
Squaw Valley Community of Writers (P.O. Box 2352, Olympic Valley, CA 96146)— http://www1.oro.net/~svcw/
(Poetry Workshops July 22-29, 2000— with Lucille Clifton, Robert Hass, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa and Sharon Olds)
Taos Summer Writing Conference (University of New Mexico, Dept. of English, Albuquerque, NM 87131)— http://www.unm.edu/~taosconf/
(Poetry Workshops: July 14-21, 2000— with Laurie Kutchins, Marcia Southwick, Marcos Villatoro)
Writing, Creativity and Ritual (Women's Retreat with Emily Hanlon)— http://www.emilyhanlon.com/glastonbury%20retreat.htm
(July 22-31, 2000— Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury, England, with visits to Stonehenge & Thomas Hardy's Dorset)
Poems:
Maya Angelou: "Inaugural Poem"— http://www.jaxnet.com/~habedd/inpoem.html ("A rock, a river, a tree...")
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): "Sea Poppies" (1916)— http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/hd.html
Rita Dove: "Catherine of Sienna", "Rosa", "Daystar"— http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/23/017l-012300-idx.html (Robert Hass: Poet's Choice, Washington Post, January 23, 2000, X12)
Brendan Galvin: "Listening to the Garden"— http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/antholog/galvin/garden.htm (Atlantic, June 1996)
Joy Harjo: "She Had Some Horses"— http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu./poems/Horses.html
Robert Hass: "The Feast"— http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/95_96/hass.html (from Praise, 1979)
Robert Hass: "The State of the Planet, in Verse and in Adversity"— http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/112399sci-environ-poem.html (New York Times, 11-23-99)
Anthony Hecht: "A Hill" (and 4 other poems)— http://washingtonart.com/beltway/hecht.html
(one of my favorite poems from The Hard Hours, 1967)
Anthony Hecht: "A Hill"— http://www.newtrix.com/poems/ah-hill.htm
(one of my favorite poems from The Hard Hours, 1967)
Brenda Hillman: "The Snakeskin"— http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/95_96/hillman.html (from Bright Existence, 1993)
Galway Kinnell: "The Cellist"— http://www2.theatlantic.com/Atlantic/atlweb/poetry/atlpoets/kinn9410.htm (Atlantic, 10-94)
Galway Kinnell: "Telephoning in Mexican Sunlight"— http://www.salonmagazine.com/weekly/kinnell.html
(from Imperfect Thirst, 1996)
Maxine Kumin: "The Word"— http://www2.theatlantic.com/Atlantic/atlweb/poetry/atlpoets/kumi9403.htm (Atlantic, 3-94)
Stanley Kunitz: "The Science of the Night"— http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~sbowen/314spring/liz/poem.html
(critiqued by Elizabeth Combs)
Stanley Kunitz: "Touch Me"— http://www.agtnet.com/Atlantic/atlweb/poetry/antholog/kunitz/touchme.htm
(from Passing Through, 1995)
Philip Levine: "What Work Is"— http://sunsite.unc.edu/ipa/levine/work.html
Antonio Machado: "Last night as I was dreaming"— http://starter.sdsu.edu/cps/proverb.machado.html (from Times Alone)
W. S. Merwin: "Green Fields"— http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/atlpoets/merw9502.htm (Atlantic, 2-95)
Marianne Moore: "A Jelly-Fish" (1909)— http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~slatin/20c_poetry/projects/relatproject/jellyfish.html
Mary Oliver: "Mockingbirds"— http://www2.theatlantic.com/Atlantic/atlweb/poetry/atlpoets/oliv9402.htm (Atlantic, 2-94)
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Blue Hydrangeas"— http://www.oberlin.edu/~ocpress/TranslationSeries/RilkeBookFresh.html (translated by David Young, The Book of Fresh Beginnings, 1994)
Gary Snyder: "Riprap"— http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/Texts/Riprap.html
May Swenson: "What I Did on a Rainy Day"— http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/atlpoets/swen9311.htm
William Carlos Williams: "This Is Just to Say"— http://www.wmich.edu/english/tchg/lit/pms/wcw.plums.html (study questions)
William Carlos Williams: "This Is Just to Say"— http://130.212.8.138/MSP/Studentworks/Files/Williams.html (with Kenneth Koch's "Variations")
William Carlos Williams: "Winter Sunset"— http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~chang/sunset.html (Collected Earlier Poems)
William Wordsworth: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"— gopher://gopher.cc.columbia.edu:71/0/miscellaneous/cubooks/words/ww260 (1804)
James Wright: "A Blessing"— http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/lol/umn-wri1.htm
Biographies:
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)—
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rmrilke.htm (Bibliography of selected works, Links to other writers)
Ralph Freedman: Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke—
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/rilke.htm (by Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 3-31-96)
Ralph Freedman: Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke—
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/lifeofapoet.htm (Chapter One of book)
Book Reviews:
Brenda Hillman: Death Tractates— http://128.138.144.71/abr/dean.html (by Lance Dean, American Book Review)
Stanley Kunitz: Passing Through— http://www.agtnet.com/Atlantic/issues/96jun/kunitz/kunitz.htm
(by David Barber, "A Visionary Poet at Ninety," Atlantic Monthly, June 1996)
Sandra McPherson: The God of Indeterminacy— http://128.138.144.71/abr/duhamel.html (by Denise Duhamel, American Book Review)
Jane Miller: "Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture and Travel"— http://www-polisci.mit.edu/BostonReview/BR18.2/reviews.html
(by Robin Becker, Boston Review)
Adrienne Rich: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics & Your Native Land, Your Life—
http://128.138.144.71/abr/perkins.html (by Michael Perkins, American Book Review)
Gary Snyder: No Nature: New and Selected Poems— http://128.138.144.71/abr/woessner.html
(by Warren Woessner, American Book Review, Nov. 1994)
Essays, Letters, Interviews:
Poetics of Robert Bly— http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/gs/1.2/bushell.html (Kevin Bushell: "Leaping Into the Unknown")
Cleanth Brooks & Robert Penn Warren: Understanding Poetry: An Anthology for College Students— http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/understanding-poetry.html
(excerpts from the book published by Henry Holt & Company, NY, 1938, revised 1950)
George McLean Harper: Coleridge's Conversation Poems— http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/stc/Coleridge/resources/conv_poems_essay.html (from English Romantic Poets, 1960)
Robert Creeley in Conversation with Alan Riach— http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/creeley/interview.html
Emily Dickinson: Reckless Genius (tribute to the Belle of Amherst)— http://www.salonmagazine.com/feature/1997/11/cov_03kinnell.html
(by Galway Kinnell, Salon Magazine, Nov. 3, 1997) Emily Dickinson's Letters— http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/emilyd/edletter.htm
(by T. H. Higginson, Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1891)
The Politics of T. S. Eliot— http://www.frc.org/townhall/hall_of_fame/kirk/kirk182.html (lecture by Russell Kirk, 2-9-89)
Emerson: "The Poet"— http://nietzsche.physics.ubc.ca/~olav/Philosophy/Emerson/SecondEssays/The_Poet_I.txt
(complete text from Second Essays)
Molly Fisk: "The Business of Poetry"— http://www.sonic.net/web/albany/workshop/classmf.html (from Fish Dance, Jan. 1996)
Allen Ginsberg Interview— http://www.iuma.com/Seconds/html/issue28/Allen_Ginsburg.html (Seconds Magazine, Issue 28)
How Allen Ginsberg Thinks His Thoughts— http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/ginsberg-nyt.html
(by Dinitia Smith, New York Times, 10-8-96)
Dana Gioa: "Can Poetry Matter?"— http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/gioia/gioia.htm (Atlantic Monthly, May 1991)
Robert Hass Interview— http://server.berkeley.edu/DailyCal/Issues/04.03.96/hass.txt (by Joanne Sterbentz, Daily Californian)
Hurt into Poetry: Political Verses of Seamus Heaney & Robert Bly— http://www.oed.com/HeaneyBly.html
Anthony Hecht: On "A Hill"— http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hecht/hill.htm
(Commentaries on Hecht's poem by J.D. McClatchy, Willard Spiegelman, Peter Sacks)
Jane Hirshfield Interview— http://www.coh.arizona.edu/poetry/nwsfl95.html#jhirshfield
(by Ashley Hatcher, Poetry Center Newsletter, Vol. 20, Fall 1995)
Matthew Mirapaul— An Uneasy Couplet: Poetry and the Web— http://www.nytimes.com/web/docsroot/library/cyber/mirapaul/0502mirapaul.html (CyberTimes, 5-2-96)
Czeslaw Milosz: The Art of Poetry (Interview)— http://www.voyagerco.com/PR/winter95/milosz.html
(Paris Review, Winter 1995)
Sharon Olds Interview— http://eweb05.online.apple.com/weekly/interview960701.html (by Dwight Garner, Salon #22, 7-1-96)
Sharon Olds Seminar (January 29, 1998 at New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY)— http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olv2n3.html#olds (Writers Online, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1998)
Jane Reichhold: "Haiku Definition"— http://www.faximum.com/aha.d/haidefjr.htm
Rilke on Answers— http://www.hotwired.com/People/Staff/allison/Rilke/rilke5.html (Letters to a Young Poet, 1908)
"Everything is Trying to Hide Us": Rilke's Poetics of Mimicry (by David Lavery)— http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/mimicry.htm (Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5.1, 63-78, 1987)
Jeff Roberts: "The Poetry Critique"— http://www.sonic.net/web/albany/workshop/classjr.html
(Ideas for Revision Questions & Critiquing Poems)
Jerome Rothenbery: Poetry in the 1950s as a Global Awakening— http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/rothenberg/50s.html
Wen Stephenson: "The Matter of Poetry"— http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/poetint.htm
(Atlantic Monthly, April 1996)
Reminiscences of Walt Whitman— http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/whitman/walt.htm
(by John T. Trowbridge, Atlantic, Feb. 1902)
Tom Williams: "The Meaning of It All"— http://www.sonic.net/web/albany/workshop/classtw2.html#Meaning
(William's poem "Afterthoughts of God in Absentia" & writing exercise on "meaning")
Martha Woodall: "Through e-mail, Penn alumni take poetry seminar online with Professor Al Filreis"— http://dept.english.upenn.edu:80/~afilreis/Alumverse/inkystory.html
(Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 1996)
Calvin Woodward: "Poetry and Politics"— http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/dole-and-poets.html (AP, July 1996)
William Butler Yeats— http://www.faximum.com/aha.d/haidefjr.htm (by Louise Bogan, Atlantic, May 1938)
Close Reading of One Poem (19 Students' Essays)— http://orchard.cortland.edu/introPoetry/essayone/overview.html
(Prof. Thom's English 203 Class, SUNY Cortland)
David Yezzi: "The seriousness of Yvor Winters"— http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/15/jun97/winters.htm
(New Criterion Online, June 1997)
Phillip Ziegler: "Some Thoughts on Writing Poetry"— http://www.sonic.net/web/albany/workshop/classpz.html
(Poetry revision, Reading poetry, Understanding poetry)

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