D, Rachel Dacus to Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Rachel Dacus
She is a transplanted New Yorker who likes California, her work lives in lots of places on the Web (see Gravity & Project Equinox), & she has a book entitled Earth Lessons.
She is a transplanted New Yorker who likes California, her work lives in lots of places on the Web (see Gravity & Project Equinox), & she has a book entitled Earth Lessons.
Ruth Daigon
She sang at Dylan Thomas’s funeral and the rest is poetry. Her book, The Moon Inside was called “a milestone work” by Robert Sward & she has an online chapbook at webdelsol.
She sang at Dylan Thomas’s funeral and the rest is poetry. Her book, The Moon Inside was called “a milestone work” by Robert Sward & she has an online chapbook at webdelsol.
Maria Damon
Maria Damon is the only lit crit willing to take on the Poetry Extremes. Her book, The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry is the place to start if you want to read ABOUT poetry. And her Net “interwriting” with Miekal And, “Literature Nation,” is Pick Hit for finding the cyberpoem of your dream, really!
Maria Damon is the only lit crit willing to take on the Poetry Extremes. Her book, The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry is the place to start if you want to read ABOUT poetry. And her Net “interwriting” with Miekal And, “Literature Nation,” is Pick Hit for finding the cyberpoem of your dream, really!
Barbara Daniels
Daniels, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, makes believes of her readers. Her chapbook is full of crystal phrases -- clear, comprehensible, but also multi-faceted, word-spheres revealing more truths if you look more deeply.
Daniels, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, makes believes of her readers. Her chapbook is full of crystal phrases -- clear, comprehensible, but also multi-faceted, word-spheres revealing more truths if you look more deeply.
Dante Alighieri
The library at Columbia University’s Digital Dante site includes The Divine Comedy in its original Italian & two English translations, plus others of Dante’s works, books he would have read, scholarly works & student papers on Dante.
The library at Columbia University’s Digital Dante site includes The Divine Comedy in its original Italian & two English translations, plus others of Dante’s works, books he would have read, scholarly works & student papers on Dante.
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.
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.
Emily Dickinson
She only published 8 poems in her liftime, but now!... we have all 1768 as written, complete with the abrupt dashes and bumpy wordplay. No titles for her, thank you.
She only published 8 poems in her liftime, but now!... we have all 1768 as written, complete with the abrupt dashes and bumpy wordplay. No titles for her, thank you.
Emily Dickinson
The Academy of American Poets’ Emily Dickinson page, Randy Given’s complete ED poems, or Bartleby.com’s reprint of the 1924 Complete Poems are good places to study the Belle of Amherst... or try the Emily Dickinson Random Epigram Machine.
The Academy of American Poets’ Emily Dickinson page, Randy Given’s complete ED poems, or Bartleby.com’s reprint of the 1924 Complete Poems are good places to study the Belle of Amherst... or try the Emily Dickinson Random Epigram Machine.
Diane di Prima
At DianediPrima.com, you’ll find a bio, an extensive bibliography of di Prima’s work, links to other Web sites where you can read the Beat poet-priestess’ poems (because there are none on her own site), & information about the small-group poetry-writing workshops she has offered in San Francisco since 1991.
At DianediPrima.com, you’ll find a bio, an extensive bibliography of di Prima’s work, links to other Web sites where you can read the Beat poet-priestess’ poems (because there are none on her own site), & information about the small-group poetry-writing workshops she has offered in San Francisco since 1991.
Diane di Prima
Joseph Matheny posted this 1992 interview with di Prima on his Web site -- it’s old but still wonderful! First Lady of the Beast, DiPrima is a power poet, and this interview is a bare heart, talking about rebellion, radical art, deconstructionism & false desires.
Joseph Matheny posted this 1992 interview with di Prima on his Web site -- it’s old but still wonderful! First Lady of the Beast, DiPrima is a power poet, and this interview is a bare heart, talking about rebellion, radical art, deconstructionism & false desires.
John Donne
Best known of the English Metaphysical poets, Donne wrote the oft-quoted Devotion, “For whom the bell tolls... No man is an island.” Luminarium has links to many of his songs & sonnets, elegies, epigrams, satires & meditations, often with RealAudio readings, as well as essays on Donne to spark your thoughts.
Best known of the English Metaphysical poets, Donne wrote the oft-quoted Devotion, “For whom the bell tolls... No man is an island.” Luminarium has links to many of his songs & sonnets, elegies, epigrams, satires & meditations, often with RealAudio readings, as well as essays on Donne to spark your thoughts.
John Donne
John Donne Online is a rich reference site at Global Language Resources (formerly Oxford University), with e-texts of Donne’s works & an audio archive including a selected Poem of the Month.
John Donne Online is a rich reference site at Global Language Resources (formerly Oxford University), with e-texts of Donne’s works & an audio archive including a selected Poem of the Month.
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 seven of her poems; you can find a collection of essays & criticism at the Modern American Poetry site.
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 seven of her poems; you can find a collection of essays & criticism at the Modern American Poetry site.
Luigi-Bob Drake
Our fave HTMLizing poet, Luigi-Bob is the “mechanic” at Wr-eye-tings Scratchpad & editor of Taproot Reviews. His new VisPo, “buybye” (Msamerican pi?) is dessert for the eye.
Our fave HTMLizing poet, Luigi-Bob is the “mechanic” at Wr-eye-tings Scratchpad & editor of Taproot Reviews. His new VisPo, “buybye” (Msamerican pi?) is dessert for the eye.
John Dryden
According to Bowling Green State University’s Restoration Drama page (since disappeared from the Web), “little is known about John Dryden except what is contained in his works.” Some poems & his essay “Of Dramatic Poesie” are at the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry Online & the eMule Poetry Archives have a Dryden collection as well. He was also an admirer & translator of Chaucer.
According to Bowling Green State University’s Restoration Drama page (since disappeared from the Web), “little is known about John Dryden except what is contained in his works.” Some poems & his essay “Of Dramatic Poesie” are at the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry Online & the eMule Poetry Archives have a Dryden collection as well. He was also an admirer & translator of Chaucer.
Norman Dubie
2002 winner of the PEN Center West Award for Poetry, Norman Dubie is a wonderful poet of the telling particulars of history & human life. His AAP page has a biographical summary and three poems that take us from the boy Brueghel to Czar Nicholas’ last Christmas letter to the voice of a country schoolteacher reading Melville to her class.
2002 winner of the PEN Center West Award for Poetry, Norman Dubie is a wonderful poet of the telling particulars of history & human life. His AAP page has a biographical summary and three poems that take us from the boy Brueghel to Czar Nicholas’ last Christmas letter to the voice of a country schoolteacher reading Melville to her class.
Norman Dubie
Norton Poets Online has pages on two of Dubie’s books, Groom Falconer (1990) & Selected and New Poems (1983). Two more of his poems are online: “Bells in the Endtime of Gyurmey Tsultrim” at Fence magazine and “Of Politics and Art” in plagiarist.com’s poem archive.
Norton Poets Online has pages on two of Dubie’s books, Groom Falconer (1990) & Selected and New Poems (1983). Two more of his poems are online: “Bells in the Endtime of Gyurmey Tsultrim” at Fence magazine and “Of Politics and Art” in plagiarist.com’s poem archive.
Alan Dugan
Alan Dugan, whose seven books of poems were all entitled simply Poems, was known as a poet of World War II, an “ironic and unsentimental” writer, a technical virtuoso whose work used all the varieties of contemporary vernacular & was often funny, focused on the details of quotidian life but always aware of death & metaphysics under the surface.
Alan Dugan, whose seven books of poems were all entitled simply Poems, was known as a poet of World War II, an “ironic and unsentimental” writer, a technical virtuoso whose work used all the varieties of contemporary vernacular & was often funny, focused on the details of quotidian life but always aware of death & metaphysics under the surface.
Alan Dugan
Under the heading “Dugan’s Double Play” (to mark his second National Book Award), NPR has audio files of his 2001 All Things Considered interview & a reading of his poem “Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli.” The New York Times has an audio recording of Dugan’s 2001 reading at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, and several other Dugan poems are online at Plagiarist.com, MIT & Frigate.
Under the heading “Dugan’s Double Play” (to mark his second National Book Award), NPR has audio files of his 2001 All Things Considered interview & a reading of his poem “Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli.” The New York Times has an audio recording of Dugan’s 2001 reading at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, and several other Dugan poems are online at Plagiarist.com, MIT & Frigate.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Although his life was short (1872 - 1906), his literary output was prodigious, including a number of well-loved poems in both dialect & standard English. Dunbar is cited by the University of Dayton as “the first African-American poet to garner national critical acclaim,” and their site offers an extensive collection of his poems in audio form, interpreted by Herbert Martin.
Although his life was short (1872 - 1906), his literary output was prodigious, including a number of well-loved poems in both dialect & standard English. Dunbar is cited by the University of Dayton as “the first African-American poet to garner national critical acclaim,” and their site offers an extensive collection of his poems in audio form, interpreted by Herbert Martin.