C, Regie Cabico to Robert Creeley
Regie Cabico
Champion slammer & soft-spoken sweetheart Regie Cabico is editor of the Poetry Nation “North American fusion” anthology. Read his poem “Check One” on Eirean Patton Bradley's “Slam Poet Superstars” & “Tribute” at the Wired on Words site.
Champion slammer & soft-spoken sweetheart Regie Cabico is editor of the Poetry Nation “North American fusion” anthology. Read his poem “Check One” on Eirean Patton Bradley's “Slam Poet Superstars” & “Tribute” at the Wired on Words site.
Thomas Campion
Physician, student of law, composer & poet, Thomas Campion was a Renaissance Man in the Renaissance. Many of his airs & songs are at Luminarium complete with sound files -- “Followe Thy Faire Sunne” & “Beauty Is But a Painted Hell,” for instance.
Physician, student of law, composer & poet, Thomas Campion was a Renaissance Man in the Renaissance. Many of his airs & songs are at Luminarium complete with sound files -- “Followe Thy Faire Sunne” & “Beauty Is But a Painted Hell,” for instance.
Thomas Campion
Campion’s complete Observations in the Art of English Poesie is online at Richard Bear’s Renascence Editions at the University of Oregon.
Campion’s complete Observations in the Art of English Poesie is online at Richard Bear’s Renascence Editions at the University of Oregon.
The Carma Bums
LA-based wackstered nuevo boho brainstorming poets on a commission rankle fervor with their poetry play-by-plays. They fly by night. S.A. Griffin, Doug Knott, Mike Bruner, Mike Mollett, and Scott Wannberg -- anti-heroes of the anti-Christic anti-freeze anti-anti antics. Danger site burps poetic.
LA-based wackstered nuevo boho brainstorming poets on a commission rankle fervor with their poetry play-by-plays. They fly by night. S.A. Griffin, Doug Knott, Mike Bruner, Mike Mollett, and Scott Wannberg -- anti-heroes of the anti-Christic anti-freeze anti-anti antics. Danger site burps poetic.
Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll is a great poet and his Web site and fanzine listserv under the direction of Cassie Carter is homey and chockfull. A truth-teller and wordshaper of excellence: you love Basketball Diaries; search for Living at the Movies.
Jim Carroll is a great poet and his Web site and fanzine listserv under the direction of Cassie Carter is homey and chockfull. A truth-teller and wordshaper of excellence: you love Basketball Diaries; search for Living at the Movies.
Hayden Carruth
Three poems by this most beloved old man of contemporary American poetry are at the AAP site: “Letter to Denise,” “Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey” and “Endnote.” There are also two interviews with the poet himself in the Spring 1997 Writers Online.
Three poems by this most beloved old man of contemporary American poetry are at the AAP site: “Letter to Denise,” “Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey” and “Endnote.” There are also two interviews with the poet himself in the Spring 1997 Writers Online.
Hayden Carruth
More Carruth poems to read online: “Saturday at the Border” in The Atlantic Online’s Poetry Pages, “Emergency Haying” & “Ray” at Poets on the Line, No. 2 & “I, I, I” at Agni, No. 3.
More Carruth poems to read online: “Saturday at the Border” in The Atlantic Online’s Poetry Pages, “Emergency Haying” & “Ray” at Poets on the Line, No. 2 & “I, I, I” at Agni, No. 3.
Catullus
At Rudy Negenborn’s site, you will find everything you need to know about the greatest of Latin lyric poets: an introductory critical biography, the Latin texts, & translations into 12 modern languages, including English & Estonian.
At Rudy Negenborn’s site, you will find everything you need to know about the greatest of Latin lyric poets: an introductory critical biography, the Latin texts, & translations into 12 modern languages, including English & Estonian.
Lorna Dee Cervantes
The best place to find Lorna Dee’s poems & musings on the Net is at her blog, where she “opens her poetry into pixels - poetry, peace y xicanisma.”
The best place to find Lorna Dee’s poems & musings on the Net is at her blog, where she “opens her poetry into pixels - poetry, peace y xicanisma.”
C.E. Chaffin
Chaffin’s book is called Elementary, he edits one of the best Web zines, The Melic Review, & you can read his poems in places like interface & Tryst, where the poems come with an extensive interview & an essay, “Towards a New Direction in Poetry.”
Chaffin’s book is called Elementary, he edits one of the best Web zines, The Melic Review, & you can read his poems in places like interface & Tryst, where the poems come with an extensive interview & an essay, “Towards a New Direction in Poetry.”
Jim Chandler
Chandler has a lot going on: his Webzine Thunder Sandwich, poems in PoetryMagazine.com and a personal online collection called Chap My Ass. What an amazing guy!
Chandler has a lot going on: his Webzine Thunder Sandwich, poems in PoetryMagazine.com and a personal online collection called Chap My Ass. What an amazing guy!
Thomas Chatterton
An early exemplar of the Romantic poet (his biography includes childhood poverty & extravagant dreams, a faked suicide note, poems passed off as the work of a 15th century monk & the emblematic starving poet's garret), Chatterton committed suicide at 17, but is still remembered.
An early exemplar of the Romantic poet (his biography includes childhood poverty & extravagant dreams, a faked suicide note, poems passed off as the work of a 15th century monk & the emblematic starving poet's garret), Chatterton committed suicide at 17, but is still remembered.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Generally revered as the first great poet of the English language, Chaucer has stymied generations of students intimidated by his 14th century Middle English -- the trick is to read it aloud.
Generally revered as the first great poet of the English language, Chaucer has stymied generations of students intimidated by his 14th century Middle English -- the trick is to read it aloud.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Harvard’s Chaucer site offers glossed texts & a great library of source materials, collected for their courses but available to everybody on the Net.
Harvard’s Chaucer site offers glossed texts & a great library of source materials, collected for their courses but available to everybody on the Net.
Martha Cinader
Martha Cinader’s Cinasphere Web site is a decahedron dynamo, just as she herself is. Poet, author of When the Body Calls. Publisher & editor of Planet Authority. She’s also motivating the earwaves with her jazz poetry foursome Po’azz Yo’azz. Go, Martha, inflammatory incendiary Cinader!
Martha Cinader’s Cinasphere Web site is a decahedron dynamo, just as she herself is. Poet, author of When the Body Calls. Publisher & editor of Planet Authority. She’s also motivating the earwaves with her jazz poetry foursome Po’azz Yo’azz. Go, Martha, inflammatory incendiary Cinader!
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is famous enough to qualify for her own page in the Internet School Library Teacher Resource File, a good place for any reader to begin. Read three of her poems at Making Face, Making Soul..., a chicana feminist homepage: “Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me...,” “Old Maids” & “Las Girlfriends.”
Sandra Cisneros is famous enough to qualify for her own page in the Internet School Library Teacher Resource File, a good place for any reader to begin. Read three of her poems at Making Face, Making Soul..., a chicana feminist homepage: “Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me...,” “Old Maids” & “Las Girlfriends.”
John Clare
Briefly famous as “the Green Man,” Clare spent his last years in the insane asylum, “unfit for society after years addicted to poetical prosings,” & is now known as “the forgotten Romantic.” But Simon Kovesi at Oxford Brookes University has a site devoted to him & a selection of his poems is in the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry On-Line.
Briefly famous as “the Green Man,” Clare spent his last years in the insane asylum, “unfit for society after years addicted to poetical prosings,” & is now known as “the forgotten Romantic.” But Simon Kovesi at Oxford Brookes University has a site devoted to him & a selection of his poems is in the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry On-Line.
John Clare
There is an ever-expanding library of John Clare’s poems at this English blog site -- lovely use of the blog format to create a searchable archive of one poet’s work.
There is an ever-expanding library of John Clare’s poems at this English blog site -- lovely use of the blog format to create a searchable archive of one poet’s work.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark writes about Appalachia in poetry & song & has two books: Dancing on Canaan's Ruins (Eternal Delight Productions, 1997) & Handiwork (Saint Andrews Press, 1998). Hey, the guy had a poem printed in Rolling Stone!
Jim Clark writes about Appalachia in poetry & song & has two books: Dancing on Canaan's Ruins (Eternal Delight Productions, 1997) & Handiwork (Saint Andrews Press, 1998). Hey, the guy had a poem printed in Rolling Stone!
Lucille Clifton
Clifton is an American treasure. Her “cutting greens” & “homage to my hips” are among the text + audio offerings at the Academy of American Poets.
Clifton is an American treasure. Her “cutting greens” & “homage to my hips” are among the text + audio offerings at the Academy of American Poets.
Leonard Cohen
You can find unpublished work supplied by Cohen himself in the “Blackening Pages,” as well as countless other Cohen poems, songs, films, paintings, photos, chats, tour reports & memorabilia, all at The Leonard Cohen Files, an amazingly comprehensive site from Jarkko & Rauli Arjatsalo in Finland.
You can find unpublished work supplied by Cohen himself in the “Blackening Pages,” as well as countless other Cohen poems, songs, films, paintings, photos, chats, tour reports & memorabilia, all at The Leonard Cohen Files, an amazingly comprehensive site from Jarkko & Rauli Arjatsalo in Finland.
Todd Colby
Todd Colby contributed a poem for the 1999 Labor Day holiday weekend here at About Poetry -- “void where prohibited by law.” You can also read his work at canwehaveourballback, La Petite Zine & Naked Poetry.
Todd Colby contributed a poem for the 1999 Labor Day holiday weekend here at About Poetry -- “void where prohibited by law.” You can also read his work at canwehaveourballback, La Petite Zine & Naked Poetry.
Wanda Coleman
She is High Priestess of Poetry, her work a hypnotic blend of form and magic (...and we never use the word “magic”). Four of her “American Sonnets” are online at Light & Dust.
She is High Priestess of Poetry, her work a hypnotic blend of form and magic (...and we never use the word “magic”). Four of her “American Sonnets” are online at Light & Dust.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The University of Virginia’s British poetry e-archive has the text of STC’s poems, indexed every which way, for those times when you want to quote “Kubla Khan.” Plus a dictionary to help you interpret the 200-year-old English & other foreign-language expressions in his poems & a Coleridge timeline, with links.
The University of Virginia’s British poetry e-archive has the text of STC’s poems, indexed every which way, for those times when you want to quote “Kubla Khan.” Plus a dictionary to help you interpret the 200-year-old English & other foreign-language expressions in his poems & a Coleridge timeline, with links.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Many of Coleridge’s poems are online at the University of Toronto, where you can also find the great Victorian critic Walter Pater’s essay on him.
Many of Coleridge’s poems are online at the University of Toronto, where you can also find the great Victorian critic Walter Pater’s essay on him.
Billy Collins
Someone, oh it was the New York Times, called him the “most popular poet in America” a a few years back, there was a huge industry to-do about his dealings with the wrong side of the independents, Random House v. Pittsburgh Press, and he was the U.S. Poet Laureate 2001 - 2003. Read the poetry, audio and literal, at his own site.
Someone, oh it was the New York Times, called him the “most popular poet in America” a a few years back, there was a huge industry to-do about his dealings with the wrong side of the independents, Random House v. Pittsburgh Press, and he was the U.S. Poet Laureate 2001 - 2003. Read the poetry, audio and literal, at his own site.
Billy Collins
You can read more Billy Collins at Eye Dialect, in The Cortland Review #7 & at Poetry Daily.
You can read more Billy Collins at Eye Dialect, in The Cortland Review #7 & at Poetry Daily.
CAConrad
He’s a Philadelphia poet who also works in the medium of correspondence. His “Dear Mr. President” is one of the pieces in our Poems for Peace collection. You can also read his work in Tool a Magazine, La Petite Zine & Tameme.
He’s a Philadelphia poet who also works in the medium of correspondence. His “Dear Mr. President” is one of the pieces in our Poems for Peace collection. You can also read his work in Tool a Magazine, La Petite Zine & Tameme.
Laura Conway
Laura Conway wrote, spoke & sang very fine poems when she lived in San Francisco in the 1980’s. After she moved to Prague, she was our European Museletter correspondent. Thanks to Stevie DeSaille, Laura’s 1989 Zeitgeist Press book, The Cities of Madame Curie, has made its way online. This is must-read poetry.
Laura Conway wrote, spoke & sang very fine poems when she lived in San Francisco in the 1980’s. After she moved to Prague, she was our European Museletter correspondent. Thanks to Stevie DeSaille, Laura’s 1989 Zeitgeist Press book, The Cities of Madame Curie, has made its way online. This is must-read poetry.
Cid Corman
Cid Corman was a beloved & amazingly prolific poet, translator of French & Japanese poets, host of the first American poetry radio show, respected essayist and the independent editor & founder of Origin Press, which published a great deal of the most important new American poetry from the 1950s on. He lived in Kyoto, Japan with his wife Shizumi from 1958 until his death in 2004.
Cid Corman was a beloved & amazingly prolific poet, translator of French & Japanese poets, host of the first American poetry radio show, respected essayist and the independent editor & founder of Origin Press, which published a great deal of the most important new American poetry from the 1950s on. He lived in Kyoto, Japan with his wife Shizumi from 1958 until his death in 2004.
Hart Crane
Four of Crane’s poems are linked to his biography at AAP & four more are collected at Poets’ Corner.
Four of Crane’s poems are linked to his biography at AAP & four more are collected at Poets’ Corner.
Hart Crane
Michael Smith’s Samuel Greenberg site traces Greenberg’s influence on Crane in specific parallel lines in Crane’s poem “Emblems of Conduct” -- fascinating!
Michael Smith’s Samuel Greenberg site traces Greenberg’s influence on Crane in specific parallel lines in Crane’s poem “Emblems of Conduct” -- fascinating!
The Lonesome Death of Hart Crane, by Janet Hamill
A remembrance of the death of poet Hart Crane, who was only 33 when he committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1932.
A remembrance of the death of poet Hart Crane, who was only 33 when he committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1932.
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005) was a leading light in several of the avant-gardes of the latter half of the 20th century, from Black Mountain to Beat & beyond. He was a poet of short lines, hard nouns & pure emotion, an influential teacher, editor & publisher.
Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005) was a leading light in several of the avant-gardes of the latter half of the 20th century, from Black Mountain to Beat & beyond. He was a poet of short lines, hard nouns & pure emotion, an influential teacher, editor & publisher.