LA-based wackstered nuevo boho brainstorming poets on a commission rankle fervor with their poetry play-by-plays. They fly by night. S.A. Griffin, Doug Knott, Mike Bruner, Mike Mollett, and Scott Wannberg -- anti-heroes of the anti-Christic anti-freeze anti-anti antics. Danger site burps poetic.
Jim Carroll is a great poet and his Web site and fanzine listserv under the direction of Cassie Carter is homey and chockfull. A truth-teller and wordshaper of excellence: you love
Basketball Diaries; search for
Living at the Movies.
Three poems by this most beloved old man of contemporary American poetry are at the AAP site: “Letter to Denise,” “Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey” and “Endnote.” There are also
two interviews with the poet himself in the Spring 1997
Writers Online.
The best place to find Lorna Dee’s poems & musings on the Net is at
her blog, where she “opens her poetry into pixels - poetry, peace y xicanisma.”
Chaffin’s book is called
Elementary, he edits one of the best Web zines,
The Melic Review, & you can read his poems in places like
interface &
Tryst, where the poems come with an extensive interview & an essay, “Towards a New Direction in Poetry.”
Martha Cinader’s
Cinasphere Web site is a decahedron dynamo, just as she herself is. Poet, author of
When the Body Calls. Publisher & editor of
Planet Authority. She’s also motivating the earwaves with her jazz poetry foursome
Po’azz Yo’azz. Go, Martha, inflammatory incendiary Cinader!
Jim Clark writes about Appalachia in poetry & song & has two books:
Dancing on Canaan's Ruins (Eternal Delight Productions, 1997) &
Handiwork (Saint Andrews Press, 1998). Hey, the guy had a poem printed in
Rolling Stone!
You can find unpublished work supplied by Cohen himself in the “
Blackening Pages,” as well as countless other Cohen poems, songs, films, paintings, photos, chats, tour reports & memorabilia, all at
The Leonard Cohen Files, an amazingly comprehensive site from Jarkko & Rauli Arjatsalo in Finland.
She is High Priestess of Poetry, her work a hypnotic blend of form and magic (...and we never use the word “magic”). Four of her “
American Sonnets” are online at
Light & Dust.
Someone, oh it was the
New York Times, called him the “most popular poet in America” a a few years back, there was
a huge industry to-do about his dealings with the wrong side of the independents, Random House v. Pittsburgh Press, and he was the U.S. Poet Laureate 2001 - 2003. Read the poetry, audio and literal, at
his own site.
Cid Corman was a beloved & amazingly prolific poet, translator of French & Japanese poets, host of the first American poetry radio show, respected essayist and the independent editor & founder of Origin Press, which published a great deal of the most important new American poetry from the 1950s on. He lived in Kyoto, Japan with his wife Shizumi from 1958 until his death in 2004.
