N, Pablo Neruda to Naomi Shihab Nye

Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973) was a Nobel laureate, diplomat, exile & returned native son of Chile, the most respected & beloved Latin American poet, often called “the people’s poet.”

Neruda poems put into English by such translators as William O’Daly and Robert Bly are at AAP. You can also read his work in English translation online in the Feb 1999 & Jan 2000 issues of Poetry, at Patricio Mason’s site, and selected from the centennial book of new translations, The Essential Neruda. Original Spanish texts are at the University of Chile’s comprehensive Neruda site.

bpNichol, a simply complexly superb Canadian poet and performer, died 12 years ago & is sorely missed. His outrageous suite, Translating Translating Apollinaire is on Karl Young's Light & Dust site.

She was the only woman considered a member of the Objectivist poets. “The wild and wavy event / now chintz at the window / was revolution...” begins one of her wildly political works, from her book The Granite Pail (Gnomon Press, 1996). Read more about her at Modern American Poetry & at Taverner’s Koans.

Currently living in Paris, she carves the poem out of beauty without disturbance. Uses dynamite as dental floss. Her papers are collected at UCSD. You can read two poems from Disobedience in Jacket Magazine #5 & one more recent poem, “The Myth” in Jacket Magazine #16.

Poet, song writer and essayist, she gained national attention after appearing with Bill Moyers in the PBS series, The Language of Life. Five of her poems are online at AAP & Rachel Barenblat’s interview with her was published in Pif Magazine.