A, Steve Abbott to Ece Ayhan
Steve Abbott
Alysia Abbott’s memoir of her father, Steve Abbott, beloved San Francisco poet & editor who died of AIDS in 1992, is beautifully realized on the Web, dense with photographs, diaries & documents.
Alysia Abbott’s memoir of her father, Steve Abbott, beloved San Francisco poet & editor who died of AIDS in 1992, is beautifully realized on the Web, dense with photographs, diaries & documents.
Anna Akhmatova
Akhmatova is the walking history of Russian history, antihistory... the woman whose voice cuts specific and sideblades gender. Sexy, political, and pure, she was also one of our chosen Survivor poets.
Akhmatova is the walking history of Russian history, antihistory... the woman whose voice cuts specific and sideblades gender. Sexy, political, and pure, she was also one of our chosen Survivor poets.
Sherman Alexie
The official Sherman Alexie site is the place to go for the latest Alexie doings. Alexie went up against Patricia Smith & won the 1999 New York Heavyweight Poetry Bout, was interviewed by Juliette Torrez for Sic Vice & Verse & About Poetry, & defeated our own Bob Holman in the 2000 World Heavyweight Poetry Bout in Taos.
The official Sherman Alexie site is the place to go for the latest Alexie doings. Alexie went up against Patricia Smith & won the 1999 New York Heavyweight Poetry Bout, was interviewed by Juliette Torrez for Sic Vice & Verse & About Poetry, & defeated our own Bob Holman in the 2000 World Heavyweight Poetry Bout in Taos.
Julia Alvarez
Best known as a novelist, Julia Alvarez writes poetry of great beauty, capturing both a feminist and multi-cultural balance in stories and revelations of her life as a woman writer. Her poem “Audition,” originally published in The New Yorker, is posted in Penn professor Al Filreis’ collection.
Best known as a novelist, Julia Alvarez writes poetry of great beauty, capturing both a feminist and multi-cultural balance in stories and revelations of her life as a woman writer. Her poem “Audition,” originally published in The New Yorker, is posted in Penn professor Al Filreis’ collection.
A.R. Ammons
In his profile of Archie Ammons at AAP, David Lehman called him “independent, unaligned, a bit ornery, and as removed as one can be from any of poetry’s supposed centers of power... an American original.” He died on February 25, 2001 & was remembered by Robert Pinsky for PBS NewsHour, archived in streaming video.
In his profile of Archie Ammons at AAP, David Lehman called him “independent, unaligned, a bit ornery, and as removed as one can be from any of poetry’s supposed centers of power... an American original.” He died on February 25, 2001 & was remembered by Robert Pinsky for PBS NewsHour, archived in streaming video.
A.R. Ammons
Ammons’ poems are online at AAP, Picture of the Day, Boppin’ A Riff, Cornell University’s Arts & Sciences Newsletter, Slate & DIA Readings in Contemporary Poetry; commentary & analysis at Modern American Poetry.
Ammons’ poems are online at AAP, Picture of the Day, Boppin’ A Riff, Cornell University’s Arts & Sciences Newsletter, Slate & DIA Readings in Contemporary Poetry; commentary & analysis at Modern American Poetry.
Miekal And
“Literature Nation,” from Miekal And’s Joglars crossmedia site, is a poem that weaves your mind in -- pick hit for finding the cyberpoem of your dream, really! Miekal And is anarchantileadernon of Dreamtime Village, the man behind The Plagiarist Codex & the brilliant “typofantastic voyage,” “After Emmett.”
“Literature Nation,” from Miekal And’s Joglars crossmedia site, is a poem that weaves your mind in -- pick hit for finding the cyberpoem of your dream, really! Miekal And is anarchantileadernon of Dreamtime Village, the man behind The Plagiarist Codex & the brilliant “typofantastic voyage,” “After Emmett.”
Jim Andrews
“Dedicated to life, poetry, and the ABC’s of a new art,” Jim Andrews’ Vispo LANGU(IM)AGE site is a well-made digital gallery of Web poem-art pieces, including morphs & pop-up poems, Andrews’ essays on Web art & visual poetry, & a large audio section with works by Andrews & others (listen to Paul McKinnon’s stand-up travelogue, “Wake Up & Smell the Bus Depot.”
“Dedicated to life, poetry, and the ABC’s of a new art,” Jim Andrews’ Vispo LANGU(IM)AGE site is a well-made digital gallery of Web poem-art pieces, including morphs & pop-up poems, Andrews’ essays on Web art & visual poetry, & a large audio section with works by Andrews & others (listen to Paul McKinnon’s stand-up travelogue, “Wake Up & Smell the Bus Depot.”
R.D. Armstrong (Raindog)
Raindog says he is “doing graduate work in the School of Hard Knocks” & fixes things for a living. He’s the editor of Lummox Journal, an energetic & entertaining LA zine stuffed with reviews, interviews, articles & poems. A collection of his own poems & “micro-fictions” is on geocities.
Raindog says he is “doing graduate work in the School of Hard Knocks” & fixes things for a living. He’s the editor of Lummox Journal, an energetic & entertaining LA zine stuffed with reviews, interviews, articles & poems. A collection of his own poems & “micro-fictions” is on geocities.
John Ashbery
In Jacket magazine’s special Ashbery issue, John Tranter gave us “Three John Ashberys” (Mundane, Secondary & Transcendental). Ashbery poems & references are also collected at Electronic Poetry Center, Professor Al Filreis’ Penn course on contemporary American poetry & DIA Center for the Arts.
In Jacket magazine’s special Ashbery issue, John Tranter gave us “Three John Ashberys” (Mundane, Secondary & Transcendental). Ashbery poems & references are also collected at Electronic Poetry Center, Professor Al Filreis’ Penn course on contemporary American poetry & DIA Center for the Arts.
Attila the Stockbroker
You can sample the work of England’s premier satiric poet, Attila the Stockbroker, right here on our site. Then go directly to Attila’s own site for books, CDs & a calendar of upcoming gigs.
You can sample the work of England’s premier satiric poet, Attila the Stockbroker, right here on our site. Then go directly to Attila’s own site for books, CDs & a calendar of upcoming gigs.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s site at O.W. Toad, Ltd. has been closed, but some of its contents have been preserved at the University of Toronto Library. For more about Atwood, visit the Margaret Atwood Society or join their email discussion list.
Margaret Atwood’s site at O.W. Toad, Ltd. has been closed, but some of its contents have been preserved at the University of Toronto Library. For more about Atwood, visit the Margaret Atwood Society or join their email discussion list.
Brett Axel
Brett Axel, playwright/poet/editor of the anthology Will Work For Peace, travels often across America as a “guerrilla poetique” -- witness the dailiness of his poem “Doing Laundry on the Road.”
Brett Axel, playwright/poet/editor of the anthology Will Work For Peace, travels often across America as a “guerrilla poetique” -- witness the dailiness of his poem “Doing Laundry on the Road.”
Ece Ayhan
Civil servant, translator & major Turkish poet Ece Ayhan was a master of the untranslateable. His book A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies (translated from the Turkish by Murat Nemet-Nejat, Sun and Moon, 1997) is astonishing -- too dark for surrealism, a deep mined mind at work, a subtle music.
Civil servant, translator & major Turkish poet Ece Ayhan was a master of the untranslateable. His book A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies (translated from the Turkish by Murat Nemet-Nejat, Sun and Moon, 1997) is astonishing -- too dark for surrealism, a deep mined mind at work, a subtle music.