P, Michael Palmer to Frank Templeton Prince
Sylvia Plath
A reference page on Sylvia Plath, brilliant young confessional poet who committed suicide at the age of 30 amid the upheaval of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes, and became a poetic & feminist icon after her death.
A reference page on Sylvia Plath, brilliant young confessional poet who committed suicide at the age of 30 amid the upheaval of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes, and became a poetic & feminist icon after her death.
Michael Palmer
A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Michael Palmer has published numerous books of poetry. A comprehensive bio & collected criticism of his work are at the Modern American Poetry site, & RealAudio recordings of three of his poems in the DIA Audio Archives.
A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Michael Palmer has published numerous books of poetry. A comprehensive bio & collected criticism of his work are at the Modern American Poetry site, & RealAudio recordings of three of his poems in the DIA Audio Archives.
Dorothy Parker
Kevin Fitzpatrick’s Dot City site celebrates her life in Manhattan with photo galleries of her haunts & homes in the city, plus Dot Audio, a great selection of RealAudio clips of Ms. Parker reading her own favorite works.
Kevin Fitzpatrick’s Dot City site celebrates her life in Manhattan with photo galleries of her haunts & homes in the city, plus Dot Audio, a great selection of RealAudio clips of Ms. Parker reading her own favorite works.
Dorothy Parker
At Representative Poetry Online there is a small selection of Dorothy Parker’s poems.
At Representative Poetry Online there is a small selection of Dorothy Parker’s poems.
Frank Parker
Parker is an avid hiker and outdoorsman (interests only exceeded by his love of jazz), & is recognized on the Net as “an influential & innovative minimalist poet.” His work can be found together with a collection of other poets at Frank’s Home.
Parker is an avid hiker and outdoorsman (interests only exceeded by his love of jazz), & is recognized on the Net as “an influential & innovative minimalist poet.” His work can be found together with a collection of other poets at Frank’s Home.
Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen: a true one-of-a-kinder, our own Schwitters: poet-painter-performer. St. Madman. And Marcus Williamson's homepage for Patchen is the best homage to a poet currently on the Web. Dive in and drown -- it's good for you.
Kenneth Patchen: a true one-of-a-kinder, our own Schwitters: poet-painter-performer. St. Madman. And Marcus Williamson's homepage for Patchen is the best homage to a poet currently on the Web. Dive in and drown -- it's good for you.
Kenneth Patchen
Kudos to Kaldron visual poetry mag & Light & Dust Poets for bringing Kenneth Patchen's visual arias & his painted poems to the Net.
Kudos to Kaldron visual poetry mag & Light & Dust Poets for bringing Kenneth Patchen's visual arias & his painted poems to the Net.
Octavio Paz
The New York Times' obituary also includes a sampler of Octavio Paz' poems. PBS' Online Newshour site has a RealAudio recording of “The Voice of Mexico,” their memorial for Octavio Paz (or transcript & photos for the soundcard- impaired).
The New York Times' obituary also includes a sampler of Octavio Paz' poems. PBS' Online Newshour site has a RealAudio recording of “The Voice of Mexico,” their memorial for Octavio Paz (or transcript & photos for the soundcard- impaired).
The Pearl Poet
Paul Deane’s Forgotten Ground Regained, “a treasury of alliterative & accentual poetry” both classic & new, offers its editor’s own translation of the medieval Pearl Poet’s greatest work, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight.
Paul Deane’s Forgotten Ground Regained, “a treasury of alliterative & accentual poetry” both classic & new, offers its editor’s own translation of the medieval Pearl Poet’s greatest work, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight.
Silvia Brandon Pérez
Silvia Brandon Pérez is a multi-lingual editor, author, mother, lawyer, who was born in Havana, Cuba in 1949. She edits the Spanish edition of Poems Niederngasse and has poems published all over the Web in both Spanish and English in such zines as The 2River View & Conspire.
Silvia Brandon Pérez is a multi-lingual editor, author, mother, lawyer, who was born in Havana, Cuba in 1949. She edits the Spanish edition of Poems Niederngasse and has poems published all over the Web in both Spanish and English in such zines as The 2River View & Conspire.
Francesco Petrarch
For the 700th anniversary of his birth in 2004, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale put together a wonderful online Petrarch exhibition, curated by Dennis Dutschke, which includes a bio, bibliography, & gallery of manuscripts & books from the collection.
For the 700th anniversary of his birth in 2004, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale put together a wonderful online Petrarch exhibition, curated by Dennis Dutschke, which includes a bio, bibliography, & gallery of manuscripts & books from the collection.
Francesco Petrarch
Seth Jerchower’s Petrarchan Grotto links to a biography of the Italian poet from The Catholic Encyclopedia & has a number of texts & English translations.
Seth Jerchower’s Petrarchan Grotto links to a biography of the Italian poet from The Catholic Encyclopedia & has a number of texts & English translations.
Jason Pettus
Jason Pettus was a smash star controversy smokin’ word poet at the National Poetry Slam a few years ago. He was the Gadfly Punk of Chicago. He’s a traveling poetry troubadour & he’s posted reports from the road in the ongoing journal at his own site.
Jason Pettus was a smash star controversy smokin’ word poet at the National Poetry Slam a few years ago. He was the Gadfly Punk of Chicago. He’s a traveling poetry troubadour & he’s posted reports from the road in the ongoing journal at his own site.
Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy’s novels & poems are deeply rooted in her life, where the political & the personal come together, as they do in her Web site, which offers poems, interviews, a complete bibliography & a current schedule of her readings & workshops.
Marge Piercy’s novels & poems are deeply rooted in her life, where the political & the personal come together, as they do in her Web site, which offers poems, interviews, a complete bibliography & a current schedule of her readings & workshops.
Pedro Pietri
Poet & playwright “The Reverend” Pedro Pietri was born in Puerto Rico, grew up in Harlem, was drafted to Vietnam in the 1960s, helped foster the beginnings of the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the 1970s, became “a fixture on the streets of Nueva York” and “a prominent Nuyorican poet” & died in 2004.
Poet & playwright “The Reverend” Pedro Pietri was born in Puerto Rico, grew up in Harlem, was drafted to Vietnam in the 1960s, helped foster the beginnings of the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the 1970s, became “a fixture on the streets of Nueva York” and “a prominent Nuyorican poet” & died in 2004.
Pedro Pietri
Democracy Now has RealVideo recordings of Pietri reading in 1968 & Juan Gonzalez reading Pietri’s best known poem, “Puerto Rican Obituary.”
Democracy Now has RealVideo recordings of Pietri reading in 1968 & Juan Gonzalez reading Pietri’s best known poem, “Puerto Rican Obituary.”
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky -- poet, critic, sax player & translator of Dante -- served as U.S. Poet Laureate for an unprecedented three terms from 1997 to 2000 & was instigator of the Favorite Poem Project.
Robert Pinsky -- poet, critic, sax player & translator of Dante -- served as U.S. Poet Laureate for an unprecedented three terms from 1997 to 2000 & was instigator of the Favorite Poem Project.
Robert Pinsky
Former Poet Laureate was interviewed in The Cortland Review in 1998, and his poem “[link url=http://www.salon.com/weekly/pinsky.html]On ‘Eve Tempted by the Serpent’ by Defendente Ferrari, and in Memory of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas” is in Salon’s “Poetry for the Rest of Us” anthology.
Former Poet Laureate was interviewed in The Cortland Review in 1998, and his poem “[link url=http://www.salon.com/weekly/pinsky.html]On ‘Eve Tempted by the Serpent’ by Defendente Ferrari, and in Memory of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas” is in Salon’s “Poetry for the Rest of Us” anthology.
Sylvia Plath
Anja Beckmann’s excellent site marks Sylvia Plath’s elevation to poetic icon by including a large collection of poems inspired by her, as well as a bio, bibliography, analytical essays & lots of links for further reading.
Anja Beckmann’s excellent site marks Sylvia Plath’s elevation to poetic icon by including a large collection of poems inspired by her, as well as a bio, bibliography, analytical essays & lots of links for further reading.
Sylvia Plath
If you want to read Sylvia Plath’s poems you really ought to buy her books, but you can also find the text of 230 of her poems at this site, called “A Wind of Such Violence.”
If you want to read Sylvia Plath’s poems you really ought to buy her books, but you can also find the text of 230 of her poems at this site, called “A Wind of Such Violence.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe was not yet three when his mother died. He was in the room, with his little brother, & spent over two days with the corpse before someone else showed up, had an intimate relationship with death throughout his life. But his poems make him one of our Survivors.
Poe was not yet three when his mother died. He was in the room, with his little brother, & spent over two days with the corpse before someone else showed up, had an intimate relationship with death throughout his life. But his poems make him one of our Survivors.
Edgar Allan Poe
Tom Devaney takes our readers on the tour he offered one summer through Edgar Allan Poe’s Philadelphia house, allowing visitors to explore the empty space of the house, phantom black cats, walled-in windows, surprise-whispers, and nothingness.
Tom Devaney takes our readers on the tour he offered one summer through Edgar Allan Poe’s Philadelphia house, allowing visitors to explore the empty space of the house, phantom black cats, walled-in windows, surprise-whispers, and nothingness.
Alexander Pope
Pope was a 17th century satirist, master of the heroic couplet & translator of Homer. Visit The Rape of the Lock home page for everything you ever wanted to know about that poem, or read excerpts from The Dunciad, Book IV in the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry Online archive.
Pope was a 17th century satirist, master of the heroic couplet & translator of Homer. Visit The Rape of the Lock home page for everything you ever wanted to know about that poem, or read excerpts from The Dunciad, Book IV in the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry Online archive.
Georgia Popoff
Georgia Popoff has competed in poetry slams since their beginnings in upstate New York & was a member of the 1994, 1995 & 1996 Syracuse Poetry Slam Teams. She has travelled the U.S. & internationally, giving readings & workshops, & her first book is Coaxing Nectar From Longing (Hale Mary Press, 1997).
Georgia Popoff has competed in poetry slams since their beginnings in upstate New York & was a member of the 1994, 1995 & 1996 Syracuse Poetry Slam Teams. She has travelled the U.S. & internationally, giving readings & workshops, & her first book is Coaxing Nectar From Longing (Hale Mary Press, 1997).
Ezra Pound
The AAP page on Pound has seven poems, a brief biography & bibliography, plus links to background information on Modernism, Imagism, Objectivism & related poets. For more extensive commentary & background, visit the Pound collection at Modern American Poetry.
The AAP page on Pound has seven poems, a brief biography & bibliography, plus links to background information on Modernism, Imagism, Objectivism & related poets. For more extensive commentary & background, visit the Pound collection at Modern American Poetry.
Ezra Pound
KYBERNEKIA: Take Ezra Pound's Canto LXXXI and hypervortextualize it in true cyber multidimension -- voila! Hats off to Ned Bates, Gail McDonald & UNC Greensboro for this. If it makes you want to talk about EP in plain old text, join the National Poetry Foundation’s Ezra Pound listserv discussion group.
KYBERNEKIA: Take Ezra Pound's Canto LXXXI and hypervortextualize it in true cyber multidimension -- voila! Hats off to Ned Bates, Gail McDonald & UNC Greensboro for this. If it makes you want to talk about EP in plain old text, join the National Poetry Foundation’s Ezra Pound listserv discussion group.
Ezra Pound
Our own notes on Pound as one of our Survivor Poets, & a few poems, too. “Imagism, No Idea But In Things, stripped the bride bare, the bachelors even...”
Our own notes on Pound as one of our Survivor Poets, & a few poems, too. “Imagism, No Idea But In Things, stripped the bride bare, the bachelors even...”
Robert Priest
Canadian poet/rocker/songwriter Robert Priest’s Web site has text selections from his books, The Time Release Poems & Resurrection from the Cartoon, audio cuts from his 1999 CD, Tongue’n’Groove, & a lots of performance videos under the heading “Poempainter.”
Canadian poet/rocker/songwriter Robert Priest’s Web site has text selections from his books, The Time Release Poems & Resurrection from the Cartoon, audio cuts from his 1999 CD, Tongue’n’Groove, & a lots of performance videos under the heading “Poempainter.”
Frank Templeton Prince
Prince was born in South Africa, T.S. Eliot championed his first published collection in London in 1938, and he died in Southampton in 2003. His best known poem is “Soldiers Bathing,” written during World War II.
Prince was born in South Africa, T.S. Eliot championed his first published collection in London in 1938, and he died in Southampton in 2003. His best known poem is “Soldiers Bathing,” written during World War II.