Poetry Blogs
Poets’ journals, diaries and notebooks, now in the new medium of the Web log (“blog”). Here are links to the most interesting poet blogs.
Mairead Byrne - Heaven
Mairead Byrne, Irish poet who now teaches in Ithaca, New York, fills her blog with song, no commentary, all poetry... heaven indeed.
Mairead Byrne, Irish poet who now teaches in Ithaca, New York, fills her blog with song, no commentary, all poetry... heaven indeed.
Nick Carbo - Carbonator
Nick Carbo showed up here at About Poetry very early on, when we noted the publication of Returning A Borrowed Tongue, the Filipino anthology he edited in 1997. His blog is a personal diary sprinkled with poems, in which his partner Denise Duhamel often appears.
Nick Carbo showed up here at About Poetry very early on, when we noted the publication of Returning A Borrowed Tongue, the Filipino anthology he edited in 1997. His blog is a personal diary sprinkled with poems, in which his partner Denise Duhamel often appears.
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes “opens her pencil into pixels - poetry, peace y Xicanisma.” Her blog is a combination diary, performance schedule & notebook filled with lots of “One Word Hay(na)ku Poems.”
Lorna Dee Cervantes “opens her pencil into pixels - poetry, peace y Xicanisma.” Her blog is a combination diary, performance schedule & notebook filled with lots of “One Word Hay(na)ku Poems.”
CAConrad - Poets 9for9
Conrad is using this blog to post the results of his project in which 9 poets answer 9 questions by email -- the questions designed to elicit responses ranging from direct to fanciful, logical to joking to poetic.
Conrad is using this blog to post the results of his project in which 9 poets answer 9 questions by email -- the questions designed to elicit responses ranging from direct to fanciful, logical to joking to poetic.
Joshua Corey - Cahiers de Corey
Follow the wanderings of Cornell Ph.D. student Josh Corey through Stein & Kant, Olson & Oppen, Carole Maso & Lee Ann Brown, “modernist pastoral” & “the lyrical novel.”
Follow the wanderings of Cornell Ph.D. student Josh Corey through Stein & Kant, Olson & Oppen, Carole Maso & Lee Ann Brown, “modernist pastoral” & “the lyrical novel.”
Joseph Duemer - Reading and Writing
Joseph Duemer is a poet and Clarkson University professor of creative writing who has been blogging for a good number years now. His interests are wide-ranging, his reading notes fascinating, and he can be relied on for quick responses to the appearance of poetic issues in the news & regular posts about the contents of The American Poetry Review.
Joseph Duemer is a poet and Clarkson University professor of creative writing who has been blogging for a good number years now. His interests are wide-ranging, his reading notes fascinating, and he can be relied on for quick responses to the appearance of poetic issues in the news & regular posts about the contents of The American Poetry Review.
Kevin Andre Elliott - Folk Say, African American Poetry
Kevin Andre Elliott is a grad student in upstate New York, inspired by Roger Pao’s Asian-American Poetry blog (below) to begin this African American Poetry blog specifically interested in dialect, to wit: “This blog is large. It contains multitudes. This blog is a leetle too dumb, fo’ to stay up here. Oh, and did I mention that this blog has mighty hips? This blog may be destroyed by madness.”
Kevin Andre Elliott is a grad student in upstate New York, inspired by Roger Pao’s Asian-American Poetry blog (below) to begin this African American Poetry blog specifically interested in dialect, to wit: “This blog is large. It contains multitudes. This blog is a leetle too dumb, fo’ to stay up here. Oh, and did I mention that this blog has mighty hips? This blog may be destroyed by madness.”
Embargo Poets
This blog publishes English translations of “poetry from countries currently embargoed by the US, and discussion of the poets, poems, and embargoes.” It’s sporadic (6 momths in 2004, 3 months in 2005, & starting up again in January 2006), but if you want to explore Cuban, Libyan, Iraqi or North Korean poetry, there’s lots of good reading here.
This blog publishes English translations of “poetry from countries currently embargoed by the US, and discussion of the poets, poems, and embargoes.” It’s sporadic (6 momths in 2004, 3 months in 2005, & starting up again in January 2006), but if you want to explore Cuban, Libyan, Iraqi or North Korean poetry, there’s lots of good reading here.
Henry Gould - HG Poetics
Gould records his thoughts about poetry, poetics, poetical history and the life of the poet, and participates in interesting conversations with other poet-bloggers in his posts at HG Poetics. If you want to read some of his actual poetry, visit Mudlark for his sonnet sequence, Island Road.
Gould records his thoughts about poetry, poetics, poetical history and the life of the poet, and participates in interesting conversations with other poet-bloggers in his posts at HG Poetics. If you want to read some of his actual poetry, visit Mudlark for his sonnet sequence, Island Road.
Michael Hoerman - Pornfeld
Michael Hoerman used his Massachusetts Arts Council grant to foster this “almost daily blog in which he reflects on art, culture, poetry, scientific readings, and personal probings.” Lorca, Creeley, Olson, Spicer... lots of interesting stuff here.
Michael Hoerman used his Massachusetts Arts Council grant to foster this “almost daily blog in which he reflects on art, culture, poetry, scientific readings, and personal probings.” Lorca, Creeley, Olson, Spicer... lots of interesting stuff here.
Intercapillary Space
This is a new co-operative blog which is intended to focus (though not exclusively) on the current British poetry scene -- a group blog which describes itself as “a self-editing poetry & poetics magazine with no single perspective, no single set of interests... no central editorship to impose a tone or commission particular pieces.”
This is a new co-operative blog which is intended to focus (though not exclusively) on the current British poetry scene -- a group blog which describes itself as “a self-editing poetry & poetics magazine with no single perspective, no single set of interests... no central editorship to impose a tone or commission particular pieces.”
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - Nonlinear Poetry
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen’s blog is a wonderful archive of his visual poetry/moving letter art/video word pieces/whatever you’d like to call it. Also visit Textual Conjectures, Kervinen’s purely textual word collections, which you may or may not read as poems.
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen’s blog is a wonderful archive of his visual poetry/moving letter art/video word pieces/whatever you’d like to call it. Also visit Textual Conjectures, Kervinen’s purely textual word collections, which you may or may not read as poems.
Chris Lott - Cosmopoetica
Chris Lott describes himself as “a poet, literary critic and itinerant philosopher” who teaches Web design at the University of Alaska. His lit-blog (now separated out from his more general personal site, Ruminate is an interesting assortment of notes, titled paragraph meditations like prose poems, poetics debates & letters.
Chris Lott describes himself as “a poet, literary critic and itinerant philosopher” who teaches Web design at the University of Alaska. His lit-blog (now separated out from his more general personal site, Ruminate is an interesting assortment of notes, titled paragraph meditations like prose poems, poetics debates & letters.
Roger Pao - Asian-American Poetry
Roger Pao began his blog in December 2004 with a brief essay redefining Asian-American poetry as “poetry about Asian Americans,” & then the tsunami came. He has persisted in his “none-too-lofty mission... to provide my personal take on the complex world of Asian-American poetry,” & his blog provides a useful entry gate into that world.
Roger Pao began his blog in December 2004 with a brief essay redefining Asian-American poetry as “poetry about Asian Americans,” & then the tsunami came. He has persisted in his “none-too-lofty mission... to provide my personal take on the complex world of Asian-American poetry,” & his blog provides a useful entry gate into that world.
Nick Piombino - fait accompli
fait accompli is the notebook of the visible poet, whose notes evolve into short-line meditations & poems. Piombino is the author of “Slam Poetics, or, Who Is Bill Kennedy?,” a poetic boxing match made of the clash between Canada’s laureate & the slammers, posted here at About Poetry in March of 2003.
fait accompli is the notebook of the visible poet, whose notes evolve into short-line meditations & poems. Piombino is the author of “Slam Poetics, or, Who Is Bill Kennedy?,” a poetic boxing match made of the clash between Canada’s laureate & the slammers, posted here at About Poetry in March of 2003.
Ron Silliman’s Blog
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet extraordinaire, Ron Silliman is also a most personal writer and his blog is a gathering place for fascinating discussions of contemporary poetry and poetics.
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet extraordinaire, Ron Silliman is also a most personal writer and his blog is a gathering place for fascinating discussions of contemporary poetry and poetics.
Dale Smith - Possum Pouch
Dale Smith of Skanky Possum posts notes about poetry publishing, essays and reviews of poetry books, liberally sprinkled with quotes from the poems -- this is an excellent browsing blog for poetry readers.
Dale Smith of Skanky Possum posts notes about poetry publishing, essays and reviews of poetry books, liberally sprinkled with quotes from the poems -- this is an excellent browsing blog for poetry readers.
Mike Snider’s Formal Blog & Sonnetarium
As Mike himself describes it, his blog consists of “Poems, mostly metrical, and rants and raves on poetry and the po-biz.”
As Mike himself describes it, his blog consists of “Poems, mostly metrical, and rants and raves on poetry and the po-biz.”
Eileen Tabios - The Chatelaine’s Poetics
Eileen Tabios is a Filipina who “traded in a finance career for poetry” in 1996 and now lives in the wine country of Northern California. She fills her blog with journalistic musings, her own & others’ poems, recommended reading & commentary on the life of the poet.
Eileen Tabios is a Filipina who “traded in a finance career for poetry” in 1996 and now lives in the wine country of Northern California. She fills her blog with journalistic musings, her own & others’ poems, recommended reading & commentary on the life of the poet.
Laura Willey - Laurable.com
Laura Willey has been on the Net since 1997 with her vast collection of poetry audio links at Laurable.com -- now the site boasts her blog, full of news bits & links to poetry doings on the Net, a record of her explorations in the way of the original Web logs.
Laura Willey has been on the Net since 1997 with her vast collection of poetry audio links at Laurable.com -- now the site boasts her blog, full of news bits & links to poetry doings on the Net, a record of her explorations in the way of the original Web logs.