James Dickey
A Dickey admirer, Alison Chaiken, has posted two of his poems, “Pursuit from Under” & “Bums on Waking.” If you like his work (& you will!), follow on to “Dickey, An Appreciation,” from Eclectica ezine.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
H.D. was 15 at the beginning of the 20th century, but her writing carries into the 21st with ease. She is often associated with the famous men with whom she dallied, but her work speaks for itself. Her AAP page has five of her poems; you can find a collection of essays & criticism at the Modern American Poetry site.
Hans Ebner
Take off a hat, toss a libation, read a poem of Hans Ebner, 1945-1997, editor of The Smudge Review, poet of streets and bars and life, citizen of Detroit and Las Vegas: “tombstones / are death cards / you only get one / so they are / cut from stone”.
Larry Eigner
My favorite utilization of web possum bilities, you ask? Why I dive straight off the high board into the deeperest end and check Bob Grenier's reinterworkings of the poems of the late (as if he were ever anything but on time!) Larry Eigner on Light and Dust Poets.
T.S. Eliot
Greg Foster's TSE Web site is the home of the T.S. Eliot discussion list & boasts the TSEBase Eliot Concordance, where you can search Eliot's collected poems for the phrase you're trying to place.
T.S. Eliot
The texts of Prufrock & Other Observations, his 1920 Poems & The Waste Land (“April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire. . .”) are all in the Bartleby.com archive, together with The Sacred Wood, his 1920 collection of essays on poetry & criticism.
Robert Frost
Jay Michalowski says right up front he has set out to create the most complete Robert Frost Web site, & he has made a good start, with lots of poems, audio files of Frost's own readings, a fascinating collection of interviews, an extensive bibliography & emails & essays from other Frost aficionados.
Robert Frost
These days we forget that Robert Frost was a dynamic reader, a masterful performer. We are fortunate to have this recording from HarperCollins' audio division, archived on the Web by Internet Multicasting Service. Lots of Frost texts are at Bartleby.com: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval & Miscellaneous Poems to 1920.
Allen Ginsberg
The poet who made us all Truth Tellers is gone from this world, but Mouth Almighty Records, voice of poetic truth tellers, brought us his most recent recording, The Ballad of the Skeletons. And our directory will take you wherever he is on the Web.
Samuel Greenberg
Michael Smith's “Samuel Greenberg: American Poet” site on this “poet's poet” is sleek & comprehensive. James Laughlin wrote his epitaph: “This boy was drunk on words and he poured them forth with a wild, chaotic passion.”
Dick Higgins
An original, a heepening in his own write who was a founder of the Fluxus Movement who created the first Happenings, Dick Higgins died in October 1998. Born in 1938, Higgins also published Something Else Press, one of the more out-there small presses. Dig in deep the snowflakes of his influence.
Langston Hughes
Michael Hoerman, who lives in Hughes' home town of Joplin, Missouri, created this gathering of poems & links in honor of Hughes' 96th birthday.
David Ignatow
David Ignatow was the kind of poet most poets wish they could be -- his heart-rich poems have been called “deceptively plain-spoken.” His last book was Living Is What I Wanted (BOA Editions, 1999 -- a sampling is available online at Poetry Daily.
