R, Raindog (R.D. Armstrong) to Jerome Rothenberg
Raindog (R.D. Armstrong)
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.
Carl Rakosi
Don’t miss the bio, interviews, poems, prose & commentary at Modern American Poetry and Rakosi’s 99th birthday celebration at Kelly Writers House, where you can listen to a recorded conversation with Rakosi & his readings of 10 poems.
Don’t miss the bio, interviews, poems, prose & commentary at Modern American Poetry and Rakosi’s 99th birthday celebration at Kelly Writers House, where you can listen to a recorded conversation with Rakosi & his readings of 10 poems.
Carl Rakosi
Gary Glazner’s slam take-off on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous sonnet was the perfect excuse for us to explore the work of the American objectivists, Rakosi among them.
Gary Glazner’s slam take-off on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous sonnet was the perfect excuse for us to explore the work of the American objectivists, Rakosi among them.
Alan Reade
American Language, San Francisco poet/performance artist Alan Reade’s online “book” of performance texts, photos, notes, has everything but the sound of his voice. We nominate “Lazarus” best poem in the book.
American Language, San Francisco poet/performance artist Alan Reade’s online “book” of performance texts, photos, notes, has everything but the sound of his voice. We nominate “Lazarus” best poem in the book.
Lou Reed
The Poet Laureate of rock’n’roll gives a taste of what a poet’s Web page can do (hats off to Timothy Greenfield-Sanders).
The Poet Laureate of rock’n’roll gives a taste of what a poet’s Web page can do (hats off to Timothy Greenfield-Sanders).
Alan Reynolds
Reynolds is an American living abroad who has the wonderful happenstance of his poems being recorded and read by someone else. Read his poem “Deathless” at A Little Poetry.
Reynolds is an American living abroad who has the wonderful happenstance of his poems being recorded and read by someone else. Read his poem “Deathless” at A Little Poetry.
Adrienne Rich
Citizen of Poetry, she mapped the continent we make poems on. Some landmarks: “Calle Visión” at Agni, “Diving Into the Wreck,” “Miracle Ice Cream” & “The Art of Translation” in audio at AAP, her statement on “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts” & a gathering of resources & commentary at Modern American Poetry.
Citizen of Poetry, she mapped the continent we make poems on. Some landmarks: “Calle Visión” at Agni, “Diving Into the Wreck,” “Miracle Ice Cream” & “The Art of Translation” in audio at AAP, her statement on “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts” & a gathering of resources & commentary at Modern American Poetry.
Laura (Riding) Jackson
At the official Web site administered by her estate, you can read selected poems & stories from her books, including an excerpt from Rational Meaning & her poem, “Nor Is It Written.” Her papers are archived at the Cornell University Library.
At the official Web site administered by her estate, you can read selected poems & stories from her books, including an excerpt from Rational Meaning & her poem, “Nor Is It Written.” Her papers are archived at the Cornell University Library.
Arthur Rimbaud
LD’s Rimbaud site is entitled The Drunken Boat & includes its namesake poem among the pages devoted to “childhood . poetry . letters . verlaine . absinthe . books . links . total eclipse . vagabonds . mailing list.” There’s good material here, but since it’s a Tripod site, you have to put up with that annoying popup ad. It’s also the home of the Drunken Boat listserv.
LD’s Rimbaud site is entitled The Drunken Boat & includes its namesake poem among the pages devoted to “childhood . poetry . letters . verlaine . absinthe . books . links . total eclipse . vagabonds . mailing list.” There’s good material here, but since it’s a Tripod site, you have to put up with that annoying popup ad. It’s also the home of the Drunken Boat listserv.
Arthur Rimbaud
Peter Pullicino’s Rimbaud site is an excellent resource, boasting an extensive timeline, “Les Voyelles” with color-coded letters, an English translation & analysis, a great page of maps, generous selections from A Season in Hell & Rimbaud’s early poems in French, & an extract from Henry Miller’s study of Rimbaud -- all accompanied by appropriately spooky images.
Peter Pullicino’s Rimbaud site is an excellent resource, boasting an extensive timeline, “Les Voyelles” with color-coded letters, an English translation & analysis, a great page of maps, generous selections from A Season in Hell & Rimbaud’s early poems in French, & an extract from Henry Miller’s study of Rimbaud -- all accompanied by appropriately spooky images.
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Mark Ynys-Môn has created a Web shrine to the notoriously naughty 17th century poet of love & rude satire.
Mark Ynys-Môn has created a Web shrine to the notoriously naughty 17th century poet of love & rude satire.
Theodore Roethke
In his relatively short lifetime (1908 - 1963), Theodore Roethke wrote a number of poems that sank deep into people’s consciousness -- two of his are among those chosen at the Favorite Poems Project: “My Papa’s Waltz” & “The Sloth.”
In his relatively short lifetime (1908 - 1963), Theodore Roethke wrote a number of poems that sank deep into people’s consciousness -- two of his are among those chosen at the Favorite Poems Project: “My Papa’s Waltz” & “The Sloth.”
The Rogue Scholars
The Rogue Scholars are the baddest new poets in New York & their Web site will zing ya with Rogue-poems & guest-poems. We need more Rogue Scholars!
The Rogue Scholars are the baddest new poets in New York & their Web site will zing ya with Rogue-poems & guest-poems. We need more Rogue Scholars!
Judith Roitman
Start with a poet, I always say. Judith Roitman is that, poet, and she is willing to say it, that she is an experimental poet with ties in The Language School. (Dr. Roitman teaches math at the University of Kansas in her spare time).
Start with a poet, I always say. Judith Roitman is that, poet, and she is willing to say it, that she is an experimental poet with ties in The Language School. (Dr. Roitman teaches math at the University of Kansas in her spare time).
Wendy Rose
Wendy Rose’s poem “Itch Like Crazy: Resistance” was among the first posted at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s site when it returned to the Net in the fall of 1999 after a summer lightning strike fried its modems.
Wendy Rose’s poem “Itch Like Crazy: Resistance” was among the first posted at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s site when it returned to the Net in the fall of 1999 after a summer lightning strike fried its modems.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poet & painter, Pre-Raphaelite, Rossetti brought color & realism into painting & into the poems he buried with his consumptive true-love. The Victorian Web is a good place to get an overview of his life & work, OCAIW has links to his paintings on the Web & good selections of his poems are at Passions in Poetry & the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry Online.
Poet & painter, Pre-Raphaelite, Rossetti brought color & realism into painting & into the poems he buried with his consumptive true-love. The Victorian Web is a good place to get an overview of his life & work, OCAIW has links to his paintings on the Web & good selections of his poems are at Passions in Poetry & the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry Online.
Jerome Rothenberg
Jerry Rothenberg: Inventor of “total translation,” accounting for every element in the original language, including the “meaningless” vocables, word distortions & redundancies. His involvement with American Indian poetry & ritual led to Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas (1972). Great performer/poet/translator/anthologist: “He saved us 20 years” -- Allen Ginsberg.
Jerry Rothenberg: Inventor of “total translation,” accounting for every element in the original language, including the “meaningless” vocables, word distortions & redundancies. His involvement with American Indian poetry & ritual led to Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas (1972). Great performer/poet/translator/anthologist: “He saved us 20 years” -- Allen Ginsberg.