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Jimmy Santiago Baca
There, looming out of the cybersurf, is Black Mesa, dead ahead. Welcome to the Homeboy Homepage. One of poetry’s true treasures, Jimmy Santiago Baca, has a beautiful site to scout and scour: a generous selection of poems, lit stuff to buy & a news column updated monthly.
There, looming out of the cybersurf, is Black Mesa, dead ahead. Welcome to the Homeboy Homepage. One of poetry’s true treasures, Jimmy Santiago Baca, has a beautiful site to scout and scour: a generous selection of poems, lit stuff to buy & a news column updated monthly.
Amiri Baraka
As a Beat, he was known as Leroi Jones... as a Black Nationalist & then a Third World Socialist, he is known as Amiri Baraka, playwright, poet, activist, critic, intellectual... and now he’s got his own outpost on the Web.
As a Beat, he was known as Leroi Jones... as a Black Nationalist & then a Third World Socialist, he is known as Amiri Baraka, playwright, poet, activist, critic, intellectual... and now he’s got his own outpost on the Web.
Amiri Baraka
Our collection of Baraka links will take you to his work all over the Net.
Our collection of Baraka links will take you to his work all over the Net.
Les Barker
See what Mrs. Ackroyd has to say about Manchester poet/humorist/folksinger Les Barker, then catch one of his gigs in the UK or the US. From his “folk opera” The Stones of Callanish to his comic song collection Gnus and Roses to t-shirts based on songs like “Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife-Thrower,” it’s all here.
See what Mrs. Ackroyd has to say about Manchester poet/humorist/folksinger Les Barker, then catch one of his gigs in the UK or the US. From his “folk opera” The Stones of Callanish to his comic song collection Gnus and Roses to t-shirts based on songs like “Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife-Thrower,” it’s all here.
Aphra Behn
Widowed young, Behn was a spy & did a stint in debtor’s prison, then became, according to Vita Sackville-West, the first English woman to earn her living by writing. A couple of her poems & a bibliography for further reading are on her page at sappho.com, links are at the Aphra Behn Society & there is a brief bio at Danuta Bois’ Distinguished Women of Past & Present.
Widowed young, Behn was a spy & did a stint in debtor’s prison, then became, according to Vita Sackville-West, the first English woman to earn her living by writing. A couple of her poems & a bibliography for further reading are on her page at sappho.com, links are at the Aphra Behn Society & there is a brief bio at Danuta Bois’ Distinguished Women of Past & Present.
Michael Benedikt
Michael Benedikt’s work appears on a whole series of Web pages: poems from Boston & Cambridge, theatre, film & tv poems, prose poems, brief prose poems, together with a very interesting interview on the prose poem.
Michael Benedikt’s work appears on a whole series of Web pages: poems from Boston & Cambridge, theatre, film & tv poems, prose poems, brief prose poems, together with a very interesting interview on the prose poem.
Stephen Vincent Benčt
He was born 100 years ago, died young & is most remembered for “John Brown’s Body.” His work is in the public domain now, treasured by readers who have put it up on the Net in Project Gutenberg & Poets’ Corner.
He was born 100 years ago, died young & is most remembered for “John Brown’s Body.” His work is in the public domain now, treasured by readers who have put it up on the Net in Project Gutenberg & Poets’ Corner.
Beowulf
The British Library created “Electronic Beowulf,” digital images of the single 11th Century manuscript of this first great English literary masterpiece, and put the whole thing online for a brief time -- but now it’s only available on CD-ROM.
The British Library created “Electronic Beowulf,” digital images of the single 11th Century manuscript of this first great English literary masterpiece, and put the whole thing online for a brief time -- but now it’s only available on CD-ROM.
Steven Jesse Bernstein
Steven Jesse Bernstein, mythologos of Seattle! How his poems continue to rise and soar! SubPop released his sensational CD, Prison, in 1992, after he committed suicide in 1991.
Steven Jesse Bernstein, mythologos of Seattle! How his poems continue to rise and soar! SubPop released his sensational CD, Prison, in 1992, after he committed suicide in 1991.
Elizabeth Bishop
The AAP site has a brief bio & a good selection of Bishop’s poems, including her audio recording of “The Armadillo” & her much beloved villanelle, “One Art.”
The AAP site has a brief bio & a good selection of Bishop’s poems, including her audio recording of “The Armadillo” & her much beloved villanelle, “One Art.”
Elizabeth Bishop
Vassar College is the repository of Bishop’s papers. Their Bishop site includes this index of the collection & information on the Elizabeth Bishop Society.
Vassar College is the repository of Bishop’s papers. Their Bishop site includes this index of the collection & information on the Elizabeth Bishop Society.
bill bissett
If John Cage and Shel Silverstein had a baby and it lived in Toronto, would it be bill bissett? His books include b leev abul char ak trs (2000) & peter among th towring boxes/text bites (2002), both from Talon Books.
If John Cage and Shel Silverstein had a baby and it lived in Toronto, would it be bill bissett? His books include b leev abul char ak trs (2000) & peter among th towring boxes/text bites (2002), both from Talon Books.
William Blake
A reference page on William Blake, visionary poet and artist who created his own mythology, wrote epics and children's rhymes, and made illustrated books that are admired icons centuries after his death.
A reference page on William Blake, visionary poet and artist who created his own mythology, wrote epics and children's rhymes, and made illustrated books that are admired icons centuries after his death.
William Blake
Hie thee to the giant Blake hypermedia archive, a vast, searchable, hypermedia collection of his illuminated books sponsored by the Library of Congress... or yr a Sick Rose.
Hie thee to the giant Blake hypermedia archive, a vast, searchable, hypermedia collection of his illuminated books sponsored by the Library of Congress... or yr a Sick Rose.
William Blake
For its Blake exhibition in late 2000, Britain’s Tate Gallery produced this great interactive exhibit, William Blake Online, with mp3 recordings of the Songs, a guide to Blake’s London, a dictionary of characters in his personal mythology, a game of amazing facts & a downloadable “teacher pack.”
For its Blake exhibition in late 2000, Britain’s Tate Gallery produced this great interactive exhibit, William Blake Online, with mp3 recordings of the Songs, a guide to Blake’s London, a dictionary of characters in his personal mythology, a game of amazing facts & a downloadable “teacher pack.”
Giovanni Boccaccio
A chronology of Boccaccio’s life & works is at Brown University’s Decameron Web, which also offers the entire text of the Decameron, his prose masterpiece, in English & in Italian.
A chronology of Boccaccio’s life & works is at Brown University’s Decameron Web, which also offers the entire text of the Decameron, his prose masterpiece, in English & in Italian.
Bastian Boettcher
At Bastian Boettcher’s site you’ll find all the inside scoops of this creamy, totally great hiphop poet, who melts German into poetry by the spoonful. The extraordinary idea: German Rapoetry, and its Slam propulsions, await you like a kidnapper.
At Bastian Boettcher’s site you’ll find all the inside scoops of this creamy, totally great hiphop poet, who melts German into poetry by the spoonful. The extraordinary idea: German Rapoetry, and its Slam propulsions, await you like a kidnapper.
Eavan Boland
The model for poet in the next millenium -- woman as Maker. Her poems rip the words from the text of history to reveal the face of the faceless seethe of human beings on whose bodies power has built roads to nowhere. See “A Woman Painted on Leaf,” “The Emigrant Irish,” “That the Science of Cartography Is Limited” & “The Pomegranate.”
The model for poet in the next millenium -- woman as Maker. Her poems rip the words from the text of history to reveal the face of the faceless seethe of human beings on whose bodies power has built roads to nowhere. See “A Woman Painted on Leaf,” “The Emigrant Irish,” “That the Science of Cartography Is Limited” & “The Pomegranate.”
Eirean Patton Bradley
Bradley’s a slammer; his Speaker online anthology for the terminally hip offers an expansive sampling of other Slam poets he admires as well as his own poem, “10,000.”
Bradley’s a slammer; his Speaker online anthology for the terminally hip offers an expansive sampling of other Slam poets he admires as well as his own poem, “10,000.”
Richard Brautigan
The most comprehensive online collection of Broutiganiana is at John Barber’s Brautigan Bibliography, where you’ll find everything from his life story to genealogical charts, his poetry, novels, stories & non-fiction, notes on the works inspired by Brautigan, eulogies & tributes to him.
The most comprehensive online collection of Broutiganiana is at John Barber’s Brautigan Bibliography, where you’ll find everything from his life story to genealogical charts, his poetry, novels, stories & non-fiction, notes on the works inspired by Brautigan, eulogies & tributes to him.
Richard Brautigan
The Brautigan Pages is a community-based site meant to bring Brautigan fans together. Don’t miss the interactive Flash version of Please Plant This Book, Brautigan’s seed packet poems. And the photos of Brautigan 1963 - 1978 by Erik Weber are classics every one.
The Brautigan Pages is a community-based site meant to bring Brautigan fans together. Don’t miss the interactive Flash version of Please Plant This Book, Brautigan’s seed packet poems. And the photos of Brautigan 1963 - 1978 by Erik Weber are classics every one.
Richard Brautigan
Nils T. Devine claims to have posted “the largest collection of Richard Brautigan poetry on the Web” -- at least until Brautigan’s estate asks that the texts be taken down.
Nils T. Devine claims to have posted “the largest collection of Richard Brautigan poetry on the Web” -- at least until Brautigan’s estate asks that the texts be taken down.
William Bronk
The Modern American Poetry page devoted to the late William Bronk, poet of transcendance & epistemology, offers a biography, excerpted interviews & commentary, and a tantalizing few poems. Bronk asks in many ways: Who is in charge of meaning, poet or words? Is a poem still a poem if no one reads it?
The Modern American Poetry page devoted to the late William Bronk, poet of transcendance & epistemology, offers a biography, excerpted interviews & commentary, and a tantalizing few poems. Bronk asks in many ways: Who is in charge of meaning, poet or words? Is a poem still a poem if no one reads it?
Gwendolyn Brooks
Our dearest National Treasure, Gwendolyn Brooks passed on in the year 2000 & is fondly remembered & sorely missed. Voices from the Gaps has a brief bio and links; her page at AAP includes an audio file of her reading “We Real Cool.”
Our dearest National Treasure, Gwendolyn Brooks passed on in the year 2000 & is fondly remembered & sorely missed. Voices from the Gaps has a brief bio and links; her page at AAP includes an audio file of her reading “We Real Cool.”
James Broughton
Merry soul, filmmaker & poet James Broughton passed on in 1999, leaving us his poems to “awaken or delight or transform,” a little of his Big Joy.
Merry soul, filmmaker & poet James Broughton passed on in 1999, leaving us his poems to “awaken or delight or transform,” a little of his Big Joy.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Begin first with her poems: you’ll find Sonnets from the Portuguese & Selected Poems (1844) at the University of Maryland’s Womens Studies Reading Room. There’s also a large collection of her poems in the eMule Poetry Archives.
Begin first with her poems: you’ll find Sonnets from the Portuguese & Selected Poems (1844) at the University of Maryland’s Womens Studies Reading Room. There’s also a large collection of her poems in the eMule Poetry Archives.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A biography & lots of commentary are linked from the EBB site in The Victorian Web.
A biography & lots of commentary are linked from the EBB site in The Victorian Web.
Robert Browning
Known during his lifetime mostly as Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s husband, Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues & poems earned later acclaim & made his work a major influence on the 20th century modernists. His works are archived on the Net at the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry On-Line & in the eMule Poetry Archives.
Known during his lifetime mostly as Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s husband, Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues & poems earned later acclaim & made his work a major influence on the 20th century modernists. His works are archived on the Net at the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry On-Line & in the eMule Poetry Archives.
Robert Browning
Matthew Jolly’s Browning Pages are a rich resource of information about Browning, including a prose biography, graphic chronology & extensive reference bibliography.
Matthew Jolly’s Browning Pages are a rich resource of information about Browning, including a prose biography, graphic chronology & extensive reference bibliography.
Lord Buckley
At LordBuckley.com, you’ll find a celebratory archive of everything to do with this seminal spoken word artist, storyteller of the Hip Semantic, curated by the inimitable, indefatigable Michael Monteleone. Check Oliver Trager’s site for transcriptions of Buckley's performances.
At LordBuckley.com, you’ll find a celebratory archive of everything to do with this seminal spoken word artist, storyteller of the Hip Semantic, curated by the inimitable, indefatigable Michael Monteleone. Check Oliver Trager’s site for transcriptions of Buckley's performances.
Charles Bukowski
Buk’s Page includes some of his charming line drawings along with a bio from Black Sparrow, letters from Bukowski fans, excerpts from Sure, the Bukowski newsletter, and links to order books online. And City Lights Booksellers & Publishers has a pretty complete listing of all the Bukowski books for your browsing pleasure.
Buk’s Page includes some of his charming line drawings along with a bio from Black Sparrow, letters from Bukowski fans, excerpts from Sure, the Bukowski newsletter, and links to order books online. And City Lights Booksellers & Publishers has a pretty complete listing of all the Bukowski books for your browsing pleasure.
Robert Burns
Scotland Online’s Burns site bills itself as “The Bard -- The Complete Guide” & offers a Burns Supper program & a page on haggis along with biographical information & selected poems.
Scotland Online’s Burns site bills itself as “The Bard -- The Complete Guide” & offers a Burns Supper program & a page on haggis along with biographical information & selected poems.
Robert Burns
Fascinating browsing in the Web catalog from the University of South Carolina’s special exhibition of Burnsiana in honor of the bicentenary of his death includes this page of chapbooks (even then the avenue for popular distribution of poetry) & this page of song collections (including the bawdy lyrics of The Merry Muses).
Fascinating browsing in the Web catalog from the University of South Carolina’s special exhibition of Burnsiana in honor of the bicentenary of his death includes this page of chapbooks (even then the avenue for popular distribution of poetry) & this page of song collections (including the bawdy lyrics of The Merry Muses).
George Gordon, Lord Byron
There is a generous selection of Byron’s poems at the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry Online.
There is a generous selection of Byron’s poems at the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry Online.
George Gordon, Lord Byron
More Byroniana & Byron poems are enshrined on the Net at Marilee Cody’s Comprehensive Study site & Byron’s letters & journals are gathered at Jeffrey Hoeper’s Byron site. If you still have questions, consult with the members of the Byron discussion list.
More Byroniana & Byron poems are enshrined on the Net at Marilee Cody’s Comprehensive Study site & Byron’s letters & journals are gathered at Jeffrey Hoeper’s Byron site. If you still have questions, consult with the members of the Byron discussion list.