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Useful Resources : Websites for Poets and Writers : Individual Poems, Poets, & Writers
Amanda Auchter
Richly textured, passionate poems on birth, loss
and discovery from the editor of the Pebble Lake
Review (Pebble
Lake Review). Visit her website at amanda-
auchter.com for
news of publications and readings.
| | Barbara Lefcowitz Poetry
Poems and lyrical essays on themes from nature, spirituality, and the body.
| | Ben Leib
The blog of this innovative short fiction writer features links to numerous online journals where his work can be found. Prepare yourself for surreal and self-mocking literary adventures about bad neighbors, vengeful clowns, and errant body parts.
| | Christine Rhein
Personal experience is a gateway to political and spiritual insight in the lyrical writing of Christine Rhein, who became an award-winning poet after a career in mechanical engineering. Her poetry collection 'Wild Flight' won the Walt McDonald First-Book Competition from Texas Tech University Press. Visit her site for sample poems and ordering information.
| | Clayton Eshleman
Poet and scholar Clayton Eshleman's areas of expertise range from prehistoric cave paintings to translations of experimental poetry. We especially liked the poem on his website titled 'Deeds Done and Suffered by Light,' which blends humor, philosophy and the macabre in a manner reminiscent of Ginsberg's 'Howl.' His book Conductors of the Pit, an anthology of surrealist and experimental verse, has just been reissued.
| | David Boyne
The blog of the humorous essayist David Boyne features excerpts from his books and observations about the follies of modern life,
particularly in the publishing industry.
| | Diana Holdsworth
Award-winning writer Diana Holdsworth works in a variety of genres including romance, Victorian noir, literary fiction, memoir, and fantasy. Her novels 'Gold in the Stone' and 'Shining Moment' have been translated into French, German, Spanish and Japanese.
| | Diane Gilliam Fisher
Fisher's stark, plain-spoken verse shows a gift for
inhabiting the voices of her characters and the
world they inhabit. We especially recommend her
second book, Kettle Bottom, which tells the story of
the West Virginia coal miners with tenderness and
a quiet rage for justice. See:
http://www.perugiapress.com/books2004_kettle.ht
ml;
http://www.litline.org/Spoon/Issues/PDF/282fisher1
.pdf;
http://www.litline.org/Spoon/Issues/PDF/282fisher2
.pdf;
http://www.litline.org/Spoon/Issues/PDF/282fisher3
.pdf;
http://www.litline.org/Spoon/Issues/PDF/282fisher4
.pdf
| | Djelloul Marbrook
Award-winning poet and journalist's weblog features essays on contemporary poets, contextualized with reflections on politics and culture.
| | Don Schaeffer's Poems
Poetry blog of writer and psychologist Don Schaeffer features concise and thought-provoking lyric meditations.
| | Dora McQuaid
Poet, spoken-word artist, and activist Dora McQuaid raises awareness about domestic violence, child abuse, prisoners' rights, and other social justice issues.
| | Elisha Porat
Born in an Israeli kibbutz in 1938, winner of Israel's Prime Minister's Prize for Literature, Porat often explores themes of war. He writes in Hebrew, but much has been translated into English. Says one reviewer, "Elisha’s works are not items to be read, they are items to be experienced. You will walk away exhausted with tears in your eyes, and aching legs from the many roads you have traveled, but with a sense that your life has been enriched through the experience." Bio, reviews, new stories and poems.
| | Elizabeth Bear
Widely published author of speculative, fantasy and science fiction. Visit her website to read her short stories and find out about upcoming publications.
| | Ewuare X. Osayande
Black activist, poet and social critic applies his rhetorical powers to fighting oppression in all its forms. Hard-hitting essays on his website include "Spittin' Acid at the Sistahs: Rap(e) and the Assault of Black Women" and "Bling Bling into Oblivion: Hip Hop, Globalization and Third World Oppression". Capitalists and gangsta rappers, beware.
| | F.J. Bergmann
Non sequiturs like bear traps plunge you through the surface of this poet's world into an absurd, slightly sinister, often funny alternate reality. We especially love the William Carlos Williams parody 'An Apology'. Buy her prizewinning chapbook, 'Sauce Robert', from Pavement Saw Press.
| | For Southern Boys Who Consider Poetry (Saeed Jones)
Pushcart-nominated poet Saeed Jones, author of the chapbook 'When the Only Light is Fire' (Sibling Rivalry Press), blogs about writing, contemporary culture, and the potentialities and limits of the "black gay poet" identity.
| | G.K. Chesterton's Works on the Web
This fan site maintained by British computer scientist Martin Ward offers the full texts of books and articles by the prolific turn-of-the-century poet, fiction writer, journalist and popular theologian Gilbert K. Chesterton, best known today for his "Father Brown" mystery stories.
| | Gabriel Gudding: Conchology
Poems, commentary and the turbid stream of Gabriel Gudding's consciousness. Gudding is the maverick genius author of A Defense of Poetry, from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
| | Gail Golden
Activist poet speaks with eloquence and compassion about war and peace, the blessings of family life, and her Jewish heritage. Visit her other website, http://www.goldenwrites.com, for her prose writings about racism, domestic violence and social justice.
| | GreAt PoeTRy of 5 NaTIonS (Gary Introne)
Poet Gary Introne's blog features a large selection of his philosophical, dream-like, life-affirming work.
| | Hotel Douve: The Works of Leonard Gontarek
God rubs shoulders with ghosts and mailmen in Gontarek's dreamy verses, which hover on the edge of abstraction like a Turner painting, and are often suffused with the same melancholy golden light. As he writes in 'Amnesty':
"When the earth & snow is apricot for seconds & your dreams fall fast as water
Out the window, wouldn’t you say in the middle of that uncontestable joy, is sorrow,
Like a metal sliver?"
| | Jeff Walt
Prizewinning author's site features edgy, honest poems laced with sometimes-melancholy wit, plus pages of useful literary links.
| | Jendi Reiter on Twitter
Follow Winning Writers editor Jendi Reiter on Twitter for poetry videos, upcoming readings, blog posts, new book releases, and articles of interest to writers.
| | Judith Goldhaber
Award-winning formalist poet, playwright, science writer and journalist. Her collection 'Sonnets from Aesop', a retelling of 100 fables in verse (beautifully illustrated by Gerson Goldhaber), is available from Ribbonweed Press.
| | Kathryn Magendie
Co-editor of acclaimed e-zine The Rose & Thorn posts
eloquent personal essays about the writing life and the
environment, plus photos of the Great Smoky
Mountains landscape and wildlife. Visit her Writers' &
Artists' Blog (linked on this site) for interviews.
| | Linda McCullough Moore
Linda McCullough Moore is the author of the literary novel 'The Distance Between' (Soho Press), the short story collection 'This Road Will Take Us Closer to the Moon' (Levellers Press), and more than 300 shorter published works, appearing in such places as The Sun, The Massachusetts Review, Glimmer Train, The Boston Globe, The Alaska Quarterly Review, House Beautiful, Queen's Quarterly, The Southern Review, and Books and Culture. She is the winner and finalist of numerous national short fiction awards including New York Stories, the Nelson Algren Award, the Tobias Wolff Award, and the Pushcart Prize XXXV. She lives and writes in western Massachusetts where she teaches creative writing and mentors aspiring writers. Winning Writers editor Jendi Reiter recommends her workshops.
| | Live Hope Love
Kwame Dawes, the University of South Carolina's poet-in-residence, launched this multimedia site to chronicle the experiences of HIV patients and caregivers in Jamaica. The site features his own profound and lyrical poetry as well as video interviews and background stories of the people who inspired him.
| | M. Miriam Herrera
These mystical, earthy poems from Herrera's collection 'Kaddish for Columbus' (currently seeking a publisher) juxtapose images and folklore from many cultures - Native American, Jewish, Chicano - to explore the ambiguity of multiple identities.
| | Mike Guinn, Poetry & Spoken Word Promoter
Poet and motivational speaker Mike Guinn coordinates poetry slams for adults and youth in the Fort Worth area and beyond. He began writing as catharsis for the emotional stories that he witnessed as a Texas child welfare investigator. This inspiration led him to create the DFW Youth Poetry Slams.
| | Ogden Nash (1902-1974)
Master of American light verse. "How are we to survive?" asks Nash. "Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolousness. I think our best chance - a good chance - lies in humor, which, in this case, means a wry acceptance of our predicament." Bio: http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=690. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/07/cohen-g.htm. Large collection of poems: http://www.westegg.com/nash/. Poems by topic: http://www.aenet.org/poems/ognash2.htm. On bugs and animals: http://www.veeceet.com/kids/nash.html. Teacher Resource File: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/nash.htm. Audio interview: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/nasho1.shtml
| | Pansy Poetics
Award-winning poet Steve Fellner's blog features book reviews and critical essays about contemporary LGBT poets.
| | Patricia Smith
Poet, spoken-word performer and writing teacher has won four National Poetry Slam individual championship titles, as well as a National Poetry Series prize for her book 'Teahouse of the Almighty'.
| | Russell Edson: Poetry
Quirky and memorable, a favorite of Jendi's.
| | S.J. Crown: Blending Fiction and Sports Together
The website of fiction writer Stanley Joel Crown features short stories, many with sports themes, and information on his novel 'The Victors Club', about a professional woman golfer battling sexism on her rise to the top. Also see his list of favorite sports movies and literature.
| | Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
Prolific author of children's verse, cartoonist for Playboy, author of nearly 800 songs. Short bio and the poem "Sick": http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=105. Selected song lyrics, including "A Boy Named Sue": http://www.nassio.com/silverstein/ps.html. Books for children: http://www.nassio.com/silverstein/bookindex.html. Audio samples from his last album, Underwater Land: http://www.underwaterland.com/listen.htm. Teacher Resource File: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/silverstein.htm
| | Shelly Jackson: The Body
Linked prose poems and short-shorts in a novel use of the Internet.
| | Short Fiction by Nick Antosca
'Movies and Kids,' winner of the 2004 fiction contest from Painted Bride Quarterly, is a brilliant, disturbing story that could have been written by Shirley Jackson or Patricia Highsmith.
| | Susan Tepper
Website of Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and fiction writer Susan Tepper, author of 'DEER and Other Stories' (Wilderness House Press, 2009) and the poetry chapbook 'Blue Edge' (Cervena Barva Press, 2006).
| | Taylor Mali
Poetry slam champion and teachers' advocate Taylor
Mali is also a driving force behind the award-winning
Urbana Poetry Slam team, which performs every
Tuesday night at the famed Bowery Poetry Club in
New York City.
| | The Dredge Cycle
Poet and graphic designer Adam Rubinstein's blog is a companion to his work on 'The Dredge Cycle', an experimental novel-in-verse about his hometown of Wellesley, MA. "Things I discuss: Eastern Mass. history, storytelling, bookmaking, time travel, poetry & novels, writing craft, dreams, publishing, indigenous perspectives, spirituality, research, and whatever I can't get outta my head." The work-in-progress is available to read for free on the website.
| | The Imagined Field (Sean Patrick Hill)
Blog of the poet and teacher Sean Patrick Hill, who is the author of the poetry collections 'The Imagined Field' (Paper Kite Press, 2010) and 'Interstitial' (BlazeVOX, 2011). Hill's poetry has appeared in such journals as DIAGRAM, High Desert Journal, and the Zoland Poetry Annual.
| | The Scrapper Poet (Karen J. Weyant)
The Scrapper Poet is the blog of Karen J. Weyant, an award-winning writer and teacher with a special interest in working-class literature. Her chapbook 'Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt' was a contest winner from Main Street Rag.
| | The Walt Whitman Archive (1819-1892)
Scholarly archive includes complete text of Leaves of Grass plus biographical materials and literary criticism.
| | Timothy Steele
Website of neo-formalist poet Timothy Steele, a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, includes selections from his poetry and critical essays as well as a useful introduction to traditional poetic forms and meters.
| | Todd Jackson Poetry
Selections from poet Todd Jackson's collection 'Ouranion', which combines celestial and mythological imagery with the modern-day surreal cityscape of Las Vegas.
| | Wiasi
Website of writer and anthropologist Don Mitchell, who has written fiction and essays about his work with the Nagovisi people of Bougainville Island.
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