Additional Reader Links:

Paul Celan
Fugue of Death

Bernadette Mayer
Ode on Periods

Bruce Weigl
Home

Alice Fulton
Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind

Online Readings and Recordings

Online Readings:

Essays:
American Poetry in the New Century, John Barr (canon formation)

Marjorie Perloff, from RADICAL ARTIFICE: "cage: chance: change"

Lives of the Poets: rodrigo Toscano, Jason Boog (labor and activism)

Beat America: What did we learn from Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac,
and Allen Ginsberg?, Aram Saroyan

Sound Poetry - A Survey, Steve McCaffery

The Great Greek Lyric Poets (Antiquity)

Greek Lyric

Alfred Lord Tennyson (Tradition)

Charles Baudelaire/Arthur Rimbaud
Baudelaire
Rimbaud “Illuminations”

Federico Garcia Lorca (Deep Song)
Gacela of the Dark Death

Rene Char
“René Char - Resistance in Every Way”
Collected Poems of Rene Char

W.S. Merwin
Thanks, On the Subject of Poetry, Yesterday

Benjamin Saltman
The Deck

Neelofer (Contemporary Performance, British)
Street Magic, White Doves, plus more

Harry Owen (Contemporary Performance British)
Nibbling, Insecticide

The Morris Quinlan Experience
In the Beginning