newspaper article "D. H. Lawrence's Poetry Saved from Censor's Pen" by Dalya Alberge

March 24, 2013, 8:21 am

D.H. Lawrence's poetry saved from censor's pen

New edition of author's work reveals him as a talented war poet who attacked British imperialism

by Dalya Alberge

The Observer, Saturday 23 March 2013

D.H. Lawrence was an infamous victim of the censor as his sexually explicit novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in Britain until 1960. Now a new edition of Lawrence's poems, many rendered unreadable by the censor's pen, will reveal him as a brilliant war poet whose work attacking British imperialism during the first world war was barred from publication.

His poems took aim at politicians, the brutality of the first world war and English repression – but censorship and sloppy editing rendered them virtually meaningless, to the extent that the full extent of his poetic talent has been overlooked.

Deleted passages have now been restored and hundreds of punctuation errors removed for a major two-volume edition to be published on 28 March by Cambridge University Press – the final part of its mammoth 40-volume edition of Lawrence's Letters and Works.

The Poems, the first critical edition of Lawrence's poetry, sheds new light on the miner's son who became one of the 20th century's most influential writers, with novels such as Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow and Women in Love.

The new volume's editor, Christopher Pollnitz, told the Observer that it "radically shifts our understanding of Lawrence's significance as a poet". What was removed from the poems – by state censors or publishers fearing government intervention – was the "ultimate censorship", he said, because extensive and significant cuts made the texts virtually unreadable.

Lawrence wrote poetry from 1905 until his death in 1930, aged 44. Pollnitz said it is widely assumed that only the novels suffered censorship, "but it goes all through the poetry as well".

Some 860 poems are published in the new edition. They include All of Us, a sequence of 31 war poems never fully published before, which reveal Lawrence's preoccupation with the Allies' campaigns in the first world war.

Between 1916 and 1919, Lawrence struggled to get the sequence into print. Pollnitz said publishers who knew of the banning of The Rainbow would not touch a collection that criticised imperial policy – the opening up of eastern fronts in Turkey or Iraq – and poetry that explored the evil of self-sacrifice for some abstract greater good.

Lines now restored identify places such as Salonika and Mesopotamia – explosive references at the time, Pollnitz said. "While the war was continuing, the worst defeat the British suffered was in Mesopotamia … General Townshend's charge up the Tigris towards Baghdad was one of the most costly and wasteful ventures, in lives and money, of the first world war."

The subtitle Salonika appears in Rose, Look out upon Me, a previously unpublished work. Pollnitz said: "Salonika was the Greek city to which Allied troops were sent after the attempt to storm the Dardanelles failed."

In the poem, Lawrence portrayed a common English soldier, stationed in Salonika, who is attracted to a Greek woman, but it is a doomed passion: "Oh you Rose, look out/ On a miserable weary fellow./ For once she looked down from above/ And vanished again like a swallow/ That appears at a window …"

Lawrence also wrote about the home front, and the changing roles of women – a girl startling her boyfriend by asking him to stay with her before he leaves – and how childhood innocence can be wrecked by the stresses of war.

Pollnitz added: "Lawrence's writing on war and sex were censored by publisher timidity, making All of Us unpublishable at the time, and the sequence is being fully published almost 100 years after its wartime composition."

Ill-health meant Lawrence himself was never conscripted. His insight into the war probably came from his pacifist friend, Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter-in-law of prime minister Herbert Asquith. While war poets such as Wilfred Owen depicted the cruelty of a bloody battlefield, Lawrence tackled the loss of lives and impact on loved ones from a political point of view. He also had to write with more subtlety because censors were already watching him. In a poem titled Dust, he wrote of a relative's horrible death: "My brother died in the heat/ And a jackal found his grave;/ Nibbled his fingers, the knave;/ No more would I let him eat."

In Antiphony, he wrote of a British prisoner of war in Turkey struggling to cope with captivity – "Each evening, bitter again" – and, in Needless Worry, he explored a young woman's loss of her soldier fiancé, talking to her mother: "Why are you so anxious, there's no fear now he's dead."

In The Well of Kilossa, he referred to the war in German east Africa and the huge loss of lives in inhospitable terrain: "A draught of thee is strength to a soul in hell."

The poetry edition is published a century after 10,000 words were censored from Sons and Lovers, and nearly all copies of The Rainbow destroyed, with a sexual episode between Ursula Brangwen and her schoolmistress among offending passages. His sexually explicit 1928 novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, became a cause célèbre in 1960 when, after a much-publicised trial, Penguin won the right to publish the complete book – a dramatic step towards securing freedom of the written word.

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Farhad Showghi

December 11, 2013, 1:45 pm

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Farhad Showghi (Czech Republic / Germany)

1961

Born in Prague, in the Czech Republic in 1961, the poet Farhad Showghi grew up in Germany, moving with his father to Iran. In 1978 he returned to Germany, studying at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Medical school, and receiving his doctorate of medice in 1992. He now works as a psychiatrist in Hamburg.

In 1998 he published his first book of poetr , Die Walnußmaske, durch die die ich mich trämend aß (The walnut mask I ate through a dream). His second book of poetry, Ende des Stadplans (2003), was translated into English by Rosmarie Waldrop in 2014. Since then, he published a third volume, Die grosse Enfernung (The Great Distance) in 2008.

Showghi has also written a book on medical psychiatry and translated the Iranian poet Ahmad Schanlou into German.

The poet has won the Literature Prize of the Imgard-Heilmann Foundation and a literary award from the City of Hamburg, as well as receiving the 2003 prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2003.

BOOKS OF POETRY

Die Walnußmaske, durh die ich mich trämend aß (Hamburg: 1998); Ende des Stadplans (Basel, Switzerland (Urs Engeler Editor, 2003); Die grosse Enfernung (Weil am Rhein, Germany: 2008)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS

End of the City Map, trans. by Rosmarie Waldrop (Providence, Rhode Island: Burning Deck, 2014)

From End of the City Map

Chestnut tree. Chestnut tree. There between the birches. Here A. And I. We’re walking. We’re not falling down. Summer light has proposed us to our shadow couple and the yarrow stem, now that the wind is turning. If we stick out from the globe, we stick out into the air along with the yarrow stem. The globe, here and there, far and wide. Even the palmtrees among us bend their fronds upwards. The apartment block is on the right, behind the birch trees. What do we want to hear? We do not know how many balconies make one cradle song. Above our eyes, a firm mouth humming. Rows of windowglass are present, soundless and long, very slowly their sunset traps snap shut. But we walk in shoes toward the yarrow stalk without always saying about ourselves: summer light has proposed us, we are shod, we stick out from the globe, into the air.

Chestnut tree. Even the sun reports when A. talks about the green of leaves. When she, when she sings, we haven’t cast a spell on the air, we just simply, simply sit here. We were shoes then, saw one another, an eye for an eye. But now, suddenly, quietly, we’re beset by feet. White feet, a mute fir fairy each. Almost windswept for once a foot, your foot, my foot, outside the house in lemur in the chestnut branches. Red is the South, the sky fries the flowers as it grows dark. We must go back and look under the shoes: we had a story of light stuck to the soles, not a coppice, not some humbug of sparkling stars.

__________

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essay "Rethinking E. E. Cummings: An Appeal for a New Reading [redux]" by Jerome Rothenberg

December 11, 2013, 3:08 pm

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For an essay by Jerome Rothenberg, “Rethinking E.E. Cummings: An Appeal for a New Reading [redux]” use the link below

http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2013/12/rethinking-e-e-cummings-appeal-for-new.html

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book Clark Coolidge's Rova Improvisations

December 11, 2013, 3:53 pm

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http://www.greeninteger.com/book-digital.cfm?-Coolidge-Rova-Improvisations-&BookID=343

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short statement on Wanda Coleman by Juan Felipe Herrera

December 12, 2013, 8:02 am

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http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/wanda-coleman-1946-2013

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December 12, 2013, 8:17 am

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essay "Writing to Communicate" (on Wanda Coleman) by Douglas Messerli

December 12, 2013, 9:13 am

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writing to communicate

by Douglas Messerli

Los Angeles poet Wanda Coleman, born in 1946, died at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center on November 22, 2013.

The day after my marriage to Howard, November 23, 2013, I read in the Los Angeles Times of the sad news of the death, at age 67, of poet Wanda Coleman. Her husband, Austin Straus, vaguely told the media that her death came after a long illness, which I presume was cancer. Most of us, apparently, knew nothing about her sickness. Friend and poet Rae Armantrout noted on Facebook that she had just recently had lunch with Wanda, who appeared to be just fine. So it came something of a shock to us all, particularly given Wanda’s young age.

Any time such a death happens, one calls up memories of that person from the past, and my relationship with Wanda went far back, to the first days after I’d moved to California in the 1990s, when I served with her on a California Arts Council panel in Sacramento.

The panelists, Michael Palmer, Dennis Phillips, Michael Davidson, Wanda, me, and, one or two other whose faces I can no longer conjure up, shared a great rapport that year. As often happens at such events, we joined one another at dinner, and, by meal’s end, begin sharing stories—these coincidentally centering on our encounters with a fellow California poet and teacher. Each of us told our tales, resulting in much laughter, before Wanda, who had remained somewhat quiet previously, finally spoke up: “Very early on in my writing career I decided to take a poetry-writing course. As a young, poor Black woman, I was trying to hold down two jobs, across town, racing down the freeways, and at night taking this course in poetry. I had so little time that I had to stop along the highway just to write and then race, again across town, in order to get to class. Then this turkey, when he finally read my poems, had the nerve to say that I wouldn’t ever be a good poet since I did not get down to the essence of life!” This is only an approximation of her comments; in reality, her observations were much more hilarious, and I recall we all laughed heartily in response to her tale.

Somehow in those few days I grew somewhat close to Wanda, and during breaks we often chatted. At the time I was a young, brash, somewhat insensitive spokesman for innovative poetry. Evidently, I had already read some of Wanda’s writing, because I had the nerve to ask her right out why did she employ such normative language in her work. Wanda looked at me for a second in what one might describe as her slightly outraged, evaluating stare, before answering: “Listen, you fool, I already speak another language, being a Black woman. When I write poetry, I want to communicate and not be misunderstood.”

“Maybe,” I answered. “But there’s always the danger in using the language of the white academy that your words will get even more misunderstood because that language is used so manipulatively by media, politics, sciences and even well-meaning but thoughtless writers. In my own writing I try to express myself in a language that can’t be so easily transformed into something else. The reader has to work through my more privatized syntax to comprehend what I’m saying, to work just enough that he or she might discover a deeper reality. And, of course, by writing that way, I too uncover what I feel are deeper complexes of significance.”

Wanda eyed at me as if she were considering whether I too might be what she would describe as a “turkey,” but said nothing. I even think that she appreciated, just a little, the honesty, while ignoring the audaciousness of my statements. In any event, we became friends, later serving on other panels on both the state and local levels.

Once, based evidently on a misunderstanding, Wanda wrote me one of her “sassy” letters, informing me that “she came tall” and would not permit anyone like to me to say something contrary. But since, as I explained to her in a written response, I had never said anything to anyone against her, I simply didn’t know what she talking about. To this day, I still have no clue what brought on her reaction. But my letter apparently ended any hostility. The next time I saw Wanda, we greeted one another with open arms.

I did once satirize one of her poems, a work about “coffee,” which she read at a slightly absurd event to which poets had been invited to read on Oscar night. For that affair I had been “hired,” with a free ticket, to attend pseudonymously as a German poet suddenly encountering the American poetic scene—I had originally imagined it as part of a long book in which I might explore American poetry through the eyes of an intelligent but unknowing foreigner. Wanda and Austin seemed pleased to see me (as Douglas) there; and I was sorry later to have mocked her poem, through my persona of Gottlieb Kasper, in the pages of Paul Vangelisti’s magazine Ribot (for a complete description of this event, see My Year 2006). If Wanda had ever seen through my persona, she never mentioned it to me. Besides, I had made no evaluation of the poem, but simply presented it in the context of a rather comical event.

Over the years, moreover, I had begun to regularly read Wanda’s books, and although her volumes often contained what I might describe as normative, narrative-based poems, I found many other poems with which I was impressed. Indeed, Wanda, throughout her career, carefully and sometimes colorfully hollowed out her own poetic territory, which was not an easy fit with either the dominant Black aesthetic or the white academic ones. Despite her stated desire to straightforwardly communicate with others, she was creating a body of work far more dense and convoluted than perhaps even she imagined.

One could almost perceive her various “Essays on Language” from her remarkable book Mercurochrome of 2001, as being linguistic explorations akin to the works of some “Language” poets:

snapping

a warped sense of communication

impairs the business of conventional narrative

like feeling robbed, the rules of orgasm no mystery

given a voice, one must struggle with one’s own

social type-casting on the edge of ambiguity

it’s exclusively inconclusive

…..

I am compelled to protest

the demise of the deliciously clandestine.

Certainly in this work’s advocacy of inconclusiveness and the clandestine, it is a long ways from wanting to straight-forwardly communicate.

Her rebellion against “social type-casting” also suggests a quite radical shift from a poem such as “Coffee,” with its litany of the delights which “make you black” and her earlier more race-based poems in Mad Dog Black Lady and Heavy Daughter Blues. Embracing figures such as Robert Duncan and other experimental modernists, Coleman was also exploring traditional forms such as the sonnet. And as her poetry expanded so too did her sense of “outsiderness.” Like Los Angeles poet Will Alexander, also born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Wanda—despite her status as Los Angeles’ unofficial poet laureate—began to feel as if she were being pulled away from her own roots. Having grown up in Watts, she had become a kind of poet-celebrity (having even won an Emmy for her writing on the day-time soap opera, One Day at a Time) who now looked outward to include influences as various as Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, and Poe—as well as major Beat and Black figures.

It was this remarkable embracement of the whole of poetry and her continual search for new poetic expression that made Wanda such an appealing figure to me. But the very fact that she dared speak out against what she felt of an inauthentic writing, even within the Black community, led her perhaps, in the end, to feel a kind of true isolation. Certainly she felt some bitterness, as expressed recently in an as-yet unpublished conversation with Paul Vangelisti.

If I live long enough, I’ll put the gory details in a memoir.

Now that books are going the way of dinosaurs, it appears one
will no longer be able to publish, therefore will one perish? Will
someone create an electronic book that one can autograph? Or
has that been done already? Will the opportunity to be discovered
posthumously become a thing of the past, ruling out “better late than
never?” Will the literary world become as pornographic as the
music business? A world in which—with fewexceptions—only the
beautiful and attractive mediocrities succeed while true singers are
doomed to the background?

Throughout that interview Coleman admits to what she now perceives as a kind of outlandish naiveté about the entire poetry world within which she began writing.

In her 2002 review in the Los Angeles Times of the beloved poet Maya Angelou, Coleman finally lashed out at what she now saw as mere fakery in that poets’ A Song Flung Up to Heaven:

"Song" is a sloppily written fake, bloated to 214 pages by large type
andwidely spaced chapter headings, more than half its 33 chapters
averaging two to four pages. Powers exhibited in "I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings" have deserted her in "Song." Her titillating
confessions and coquettish allusions come off as redundant and
hollow old tricks. She not only engages in her usual name-dropping
but shockingly makes that the book's content. Shamelessly, she
cannibalizes the reputations of three major black figures: Malcolm
X (Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz), James Baldwin and King Jr., using
them as linchpins on which to promote her specious pose as an
activist.

For Wanda, finally, Angelou had abandoned writing serious poetry in an attempt, as she described it “to play the race card,” “like the muse Euterpe or Sister Flue, coochie-cooing admirers out of shirts and socks, transforming bigots into simpering ninnies and academic cowardice into five figure honorariums.”

No matter how one might admire Angelou as a writer, one has to admit that such a brutally honest evaluation of a fellow Black poet might, perhaps should have resulted in cheers. How much easier for her had Wanda simply mirrored the pious appreciations of the media who just today celebrated the empty and worn images of Angelou’s poetic appreciation for Nelson Mandela:

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

along with her insipid comments: “He was the David of our society.”

Coleman was banned from the African-American bookstore Esowan, and ostracized by many members of the Black community throughout the country. It pained her so deeply that even four years later, in 2005, when we celebrated my Southern California anthology of “Innovative Poetry”—in which I included Coleman—she was still speaking of it, lamenting her increasing sense of isolation.

A year after her “scandalous” Angelou review, Wanda wrote “Broken Rhythms, which” represents to me a world vastly different one from the one she was imagining in the 1990s, when I first met her. Her life now was now filled with terrible demons, as the poet shed “all the conceits.”:

like spellstuff all conceits I have shed

collect on sun-slashed soil where a

three-headed woman gathers them to make

her hoodoo a powder in fire to summon a spirit

a finely ground pinch of alcohol to cure

a cough, or in a salve to beautify aging skin

make your wish for love for hate

and burn the fragrant wax with a hint of dust

chant toward the sky watch. the children gather

watch the children dance watching the children’s eyes

watch. the children with tongues like wolves.

If nothing else in this bleak, magical poem, Coleman has certainly gotten down to the essence of life, a survival that, to her way of thinking, requires a magical potion in order to protect herself from the even the tongues of children, ready to devour their own kind.

And already as early as her selection from American Sonnets (1994), some reprinted in the Sun & Moon book, Place as Purpose: Poetry from the Western States of 2002, Coleman had expressed an anguish that proposed death as a solution:

i am seized with the desire to end

my breath in short spurts, shoulder pain

the world lengthens then contracts

(in deep water—my sudden swimming, the surface

breaks, thoughts leap, the Buick bends

a corner, an arc of light briefly sweeps the dark walls)

everywhere there are temples of stone

and strange chantings—ashes angels and dolls

i forget my lover. i want a stranger—

to shiver at the unfamiliar touch of the one

who has not yet touched me

a furred spider to entrap my hungers

in his silk, with virulent toxin

to numb my throat

A few years after our 2005 celebration of my Southern California anthology, Wanda sent me, for publication, a new manuscript, including several of her newer American Sonnets, works of startling beauty and clarity (an earlier sonnet “after Robert Duncan” ends with the bleak cry: “a memory. I sweat the eternal weight of graves.”).

I suffered over my financial inability to publish this work immediately, but felt that it would be wrong to hold onto such a powerful manuscript until I might be able to produce it. I wrote her a pained letter explaining that if I undertook the work, the delay would not result in the amicable relationship we now had. Wanda answered: “Yes, I feared that, and I am so glad that we two can remain such good friends.” I never heard from her again. But her poetry continues to reverberate. In the end, she communicated at a far deeper level than most of her contemporaries, and, despite her fears of not being posthumously discovered, had been deeply admired and loved by many of us during her life.

Los Angeles, December 7, 2013

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obituary on Anne-Marie Albiach by Charles Bernstein

December 12, 2013, 11:43 am

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orbituary on Anne-Marie Albiach by Charles Bernstein
http://jacket2.org/commentary/anne-marie-albiach-1937-2012

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Grant Clarke

December 12, 2013, 1:08 pm

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Grant Clarke (USA)

1891-1931

Born in Akron Ohio on May 14, 1891, Grant Clarke moved, as a young man, to New York City, where he worked as an actor and staff-writer for various comedians. Working as a Tin Pan Alley composer, he contributed to music to films as different as The Jazz Singer, Weary River, On with the Show, and Is Everybody Happy? from 1927-1929. Later he wrote lyrics to the show Dixie to Broadway and contributed to the 1921 Ziegfeld Follies.

With numerous composers such as George W. Meyer, Harrk Askst, James V. Monaco, Al Piantadosi, Fred Fisher, Harry Warren, Arthur Johnston, James Hanley, Lewis F. Muir, and Milton Ager, Clark created several memorable American musical songs, including “Ragtime Cowboy Joe,” sung by Bob Roberts, The Tune Wranglers and even The Chipmunks; “He’d Have to Get Under,” sung by Al Jolson and Billy Murray; “Am I Blue,” sung first by Ethel Waters in 1929, and later performed by Billy Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald and numerous others; and Fanny Brice’s signature song, “Second Hand Rose,” later performed by Barbra Streisand.

He died in California on May 16, 1931.

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

As with many popular songs of the era, the verse is often omitted: the refrain's lyrics vary somewhat depending on the performer.

(verse)

Out in Arizona

Where the bad men are,

And the only friend to guide you

Is an evening star,

The roughest and the toughest

Man by far

Is Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

He got his name from singin'

To the cows and sheep

They say that every night

He sings the herd to sleep

In a basso voice

So rich and deep,

A-croonin' soft and low.

(refrain)

He always sings

Raggy music to the cattle

As he swings

Back and forward in the saddle

On a horse

That's a syncopated gaiter

There's-a such a funny meter

To the roar of his repeater.

How they run

When they hear his gun

Because the Western folks all know

He's a high-falutin', rootin', shootin',

Son of a gun from Arizona,

Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

(verse)

Dressed up ev'ry Sunday

In his Sunday clothes

He beats it to the village

Where he always goes

And ev'ry single gal

In town is Joe's

'Cause he's a ragtime bear.

When he starts a-spieling

On the dance hall floor

No one but a lunatic

Would start a war

Because the wise men know

His forty-four

Would make them dance for fair.

(composers Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams, 1912)

He’d Have to Get Under—Get Out and Get Under (To Fix Up His Automobile

He'd have to get under—get out and get under—to fix his little machine

He was just dying to cuddle his queen

But ev'ry minute

When he'd begin it

He'd have to get under—get out and get under—then he'd get back at the wheel

A dozen times they'd start to hug and kiss

And then the darned old engine, it would miss

And then he'd have to get under—get out and get under—and fix up his automobile.

(lyrics written with Edgar Leslie, composer Maurice Abrahams, 1913)

Second Hand Rose

Father has a business, strictly second hand.
Ev'rything from toothpicks, to a baby grand.
Stuff in our apartment, comes from Father's store,
Even things I'm wearing, someone wore before.
It's no wonder that I feel abused.
I never have a thing that ain't been used.

I'm wearing second hand hats, second hand clothes,
That's why they call me second hand Rose.
Even our piano in the parlor,
Father bought for ten cents on the dollar.
Second hand pearls, I'm wearing second hand curls,
I never got a single thing that's new.
Even Jake the plumber, he's the man I adore,
Had the nerve to tell me he's been married before.
Everyone knows that I'm just second hand Rose,
From second avenue.

(composer James Hanley, 1921)

For a tape of Fanny Brice's version of this song, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVOAhobPR6M

Am I Blue

Am I blue, am I blue

Ain't these tears in my eyes telling you

Am I blue, you'd be too

If each plan with your man done fell through

Was a time I was his only one

But now I'm the sad and lonely one, lonely

Was I gay till today

Now he's gone and we're through, am I blue

Was I gay till today

Now he's gone and we're through, am I blue

Oh he's gone, he left me, am I blue

(composer Harry Askt, 1929)

for a performance by Billie Holliday of "Am I Blue," go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ5q1z9xB0g

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review of Edward Dorn's Two Interviews by James Dunagan

December 12, 2013, 2:12 pm

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Below is a link to a review of Edward Dorn's Two Interviews, edited by Gavin Selerie and Justin Katko:
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2013fall/dorn-everson.php

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review of William Everson's The Light the Shadow Casts by James Dunagan

December 12, 2013, 2:25 pm

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Attached is a review of William Everson's The Light the Shadow Casts which consists of selected poems and five interviews, edited by Clifton Ross, the review by James Dunagan
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2013fall/dorn-everson.php

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review of Bernstein's Recalculating by Adam Fitzgerald

January 6, 2014, 11:01 am

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For a review, "Micro-Review: On Charles Bernstein's Recalculating by Adam Fitzgerald in The American Reader, click below
http://theamericanreader.com/micro-review-on-charles-bernsteins-recalculating/

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Bei Dao four new poems in English

January 6, 2014, 1:54 pm

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To read four new poems in English by Bei Dao, connect below:
http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/10/bei-dao-four-poems-newly-translated.html

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John Weiners Birthday by Jim Dunn

January 6, 2014, 2:34 pm

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To read a wonderful birthday celebration for what would have been John Wieners' 80th birthday, visit the site below:
http://ginsbergblog.blogspot.com/
The site also includes several other sources for Weiners' interviews and tapes.

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Green Integer On Net

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Herberto Padilla

January 12, 2014, 7:48 am

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Herberto Padilla [Cuba]

1932-2000

Herberto Padilla was born in Puerta de Golpe in the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba, on January 20, 1932.

He attended elementary and secondary education in his native province, but then moved to Havana to study law. He did not finish his law degree. From 1949 to 1952 and from 1956 t0o 1959, Padilla lived in the United States, returning to Cuba after the 1959 revolution, where he published his first collection of poetry, El justo tiemp humano (The Fair Human Time).

For the next several years he traveled throughout Europe, representing Cuba’s Ministry of Commerce and working as a correspondent for Cuban publications.

The Cuban Writers’ Union awarded his 1968 collection of poems, Fuera del juego (Sent Off the Field, 1972) for that year’s poetry prize. In that book Padilla had already become disenchanted with the Castro regime, writing the lines: "The poet! Kick him out!/ He has no business here./ He doesn't play the game./ He never gets excited/ Or speaks out clearly./ He never even sees the miracles ..." Understandably the collection and award resulted in a great deal of controversy throughout Cuba. The book was republished with an appendix criticizing it as “counter-revolutionary,” and soon after Padilla was placed under house arrest. In 1971 he was interrogated by the security police, and forced to make a public confession before the Writers’ Union. His wife, Belkis Cuza Malé was similarly charged, and the case quickly moved to the international level, with major writers throughout the world coming to his support, among them French novelist and dramatist Jean-Paul Sartre and Peruvian Nobel Prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa.

Padilla was not allowed to leave Cuba until 1980, when Senator Edward Kennedy secured Padilla’s release to to the US. He traveled to New York, Washington, D.C., and Madrid, before settling in Princeton, New Jersey. He died at age 68 while teaching at Auburn University in Alabama.

Padilla wrote several books of poetry as well as fiction (such as El buscavidas, 1963 and En mi jardín pastan los heroes) as well as autobiographical and essayistic writings.

BOOKS OF POETRY

Las rosas audaces (1949); El justo tiemp humano (1962); La hora (Havana, La Tertulia, 1964);

Fuera del juego (1968); Provocaciones (1973); Poesí y política (Poetry and Politics) bilingual (Madrid: Playor and Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 1974); El hombre junto al mar (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1981); Un puente, una casa de piedra (1998); Puerta de Golpe, ed by Belkis Cuza Malé (Linden Lane Press, 2013); Una época para hablar (Luminarias/Letras Cubanas, 2013)

The Promise

A while ago

I promised you many love poems

and--now you see--I couldn't write them.

You were sitting next to me

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and it is impossible to write about what is just there.

What one has is always poetry.

But a few clear things

have begun to bring us together--

we have shared the same solitude

in separate rooms,

without knowing anything of each other,

trying, each in place,

to remember the looks on our faces,

which all of a sudden join those

A while ago

I promised you many love poems

and--now you see--I couldn't write them.

You were sitting next to me

we thought we had lost, erased

from our early years.

I remember the knocks on the door

and your frightened voice,

and you, my eyes still filled with sleep.

For a long time

you used to ask me just what History was.

I couldn't answer, I gave vague definitions.

I never dared give you a real answer.

—TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY ALASTAIR REID AND ALEXANDER COLEMAN

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The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Century

INDIVIDUAL POETS

Théophile Gautier (France) [1811-1872]

Charles-René-Marie Lecomte de Lisle (France) [1818-1891]

Theodore de Banville (France) [1823-1891]

René François Armand Sully-Proudhomme (France) [1839-1907]

François Coppée (France) [1842-1908]

José María de Herdia (France) [1842-1905]

Paul Verlaine (France) [1844-1896]

Germain Nouveau (France) [1852-1920]

Innokenty Annensky (Russia) [1856-1904]

Rabindranath Tagore (India/writes in Bengali and English) [1861-1941]

Francis Jammes (France) [1862-1938]

C. P. Cavafy (Greece) [1863-1933]

August Stramm (Germany) [1864-1915]

Adolf Wölfli (Switzerland) [1864-1930]

W. B. Yeats (Ireland) [1865-1939]

Wassily Kandinsky (Russia) [1866-1944]

Konstantin Balmont (Russia/France) [1867-1942]

Rubén Darío (Nicaragua) [1867-1916]

Stefan George (Germany) [1868-1933]

Edgar Lee Masters (USA) [1868-1950]

Obe Postma (Netherlands/writes in Frisian) [1868-1963]

*Else Lasker-Schüler (Germany) [1869-1945]

Edwin Arlington Robinson [1869-1935]

Karl Wolfskehl (Germany) [1869-1948]

Zinaida Gripius (Russia/France) [1869-1945]

Ivan Bunin (Russia/France) [1870-1953]

Amado Nervo (Mexico) [1870-1919]

Stephen Crane (USA) [1871-1900]

Enrique González Martínez (Mexico) [1871-1952]

James Weldon Johnson (USA) [1871-1938]

Preface “The Book of American Negro Poetry” by James Weldon Johnson

Christian Morgenstern (Germany) [1871-1914]

Tsuchii (Doi) Bansui (Japan) [1871-1952]

Paul Laurence Dunbar (USA) [1872-1906]

Shimazaki Toson (Japan) [1872-1943]

Hayim Nahman Bialik (Israel) [1873-1934]

Very Bryusov (Russia/USSR) [1873-1924]

Alfred Jarry (France) [1873-1907]

Charles Péguy (France) [1873-1914]

Paolo Buzzi (Italy) [1874-1956]

José María Eguren (Peru) [1874-1942]

Else van Freytag-Loringhoven (Germany/USA) [1874-1927]

Book Subjoyride [PDF file]

Amy Lowell (USA) [1874-1925]

Essay “On Imagism” by Amy Lowell

Leopoldo Lugones (Argentina) [1874-1938]

*Gertrude Stein (USA) [1874-1946]

Book Tender Buttons [PDF file]

Book Stanzas in Meditation [PDF file]

Essay “Tender Buttons as Narrative Fiction,” by Douglas Messerli

Robert Frost (USA) [1874-1963]

Johannes Baader (Germany) [1875-1955]

Antonio Machado (Spain) [1875-1939]

José Santos Chocano (Peru) [1875-1934]

Julio Herrera y Reissig (Uruguay) [1875-1910]

Mikhail Kuzmin (Russia/USSR) [1875-1936]

Noguchi Yonejirō (Yone) (Japan/USA) [1875-1947]

*Rainer Maria Rilke (Germany) [1875-1926]

Valentine de Saint-Point (France) [1875-1953]

Theodor Däubler (b. Trieste/Germany) [1876-1934]

Léon-Paul Fargue (France) [1876-1947]

Ferdinand Hardekopf (Germany) [1876-1954]

Max Jacob (France) [1876-1944]

F. T. Marinetti (Italy) [1876-1944]

Essay “Dramatic Disproportionment” (on Marinetti’s Critical Writings)

by Douglas Messerli

Anna de Noailles (France) [1876-1933]

O. V. de L. Milosz (b. Lithuania/France) [1877-1939]

Endre Ady (Hungary) [1877-1919]

Marsden Hartley (USA) [1877-1943]

Teixeira de Pascoaes (Portugal) [1877-1952]

Maksimilian Voloshin [Maksimilian Kirilenko-Voloshin] (Russia/USSR)

[1877-1932]

Walter Conrad Arensberg (USA) [1878-1954]

Eino Leino (Finland) [1878-1926]

Joan Pérez-Jorba (France) [1878-1928]

Carl Sandburg (USA) [1878-1967]

Yosano Akiko (Japan) [1878-1942]

Karel van de Woestijne (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1878-1929]

Charlotte Gardelle (Romania) [1879]

Han Yong’un (Korea) [1879-1944]

Paul Klee (Switzerland) [1879-1940]

Vachel Lindsay (USA) [1878-1967]

Francis Picabia (France) [1879-1953]

Wallace Stevens (USA) [1879-1955]

Tudor Arghezi [Ion N. Theodorescu] (Romania) [1880-1967]

Guillaume Apollinaire (France) [1880-1918]

Andrei Bely (Russia/USSR) [1880-1934]

Alexander Blok (Russia/USSR) [1880-1921]

Otto Flake (Alsace) [1880-1963]

George Bacovia [George Vasiliu] (Romania) [1881-1957]

Henri-Martin Barzun (France) [1881-1973]

Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain) [1881-1958]

Valery Larbaud (France) [1881-1957]

Pablo Picasso (Spain) [1881-1973]

Lü Hsün (China) [1881-1936]

André Salmon (France) [1881-1969]

David Burlyuk (Russia/USA) [1882-1967]

Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (Netherlands) [1882-1945]

Mihály Babits (Hungary) [1883-1941]

Porfiro Barba Jacob (Columbia) [1883-1942]

Theo van Doesburg (Holland) [1883-1931]

Nikos Kazantzakis (Greece) [1883-1957]

Alfred Kreymborg (USA) [1883-1966]

Mina Loy (England) [1883-1966]

Totò Merúmení (Italy) [1883-1916]

Marie Noël [Marie-Mélanie Rouget] (France) [1883-1967]

Joachim Ringelnatz [Hans Bötticher] (Germany) [1883-1934]

Platon Rodhokanakis (Greece) [1883-1919]

Ernst Stadler (Germany/Alsace) [1883-1914]

*Takamura Kōtarō (Japan) [1883-1956]

William Carlos Williams (USA) [1883-1963]

Essay “A World Detached” by Douglas Messerli

Yamada Jyosha (Japan/USA) [1883-1969]

Avraham Ben Yitzhak [Avraham Sonne] (b. Galicia [now Poland]/Israel) [1883-1950]

Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay) [1884-1979]

Oskar Loerke (Germany) [1884-1941]

Tomás Morales Castellano (Canary Islands) [1994-1921]

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (France) [1884-1974]

Angelos Sikelianos (Greece) [1884-1951]

Jules Supervielle (b. Uruguay/France) [1884-1960]

Kostas Varnalis (Greece) [1884-1974]

Pierre Albert-Birot (France) [1885-1967]

Céline Arnauld [Carolina Goldstein] (b. Romania/France) [1885-1952]

Dino Campana (Italy) [1885-1932]

Emmy Hennings (Germany) [1885-1948]

Velimir Khlebnikov (Russia) [1885-1922]

Marie Laurencin (France) [1885-1956]

D. H. Lawrence (England) [1885-1930]

Newspaper article “D. H. Lawrence’s Poetry Saved from Censor’s Pen” by Dalya

Alberge

Kinoshita Mokutaro (Japan) 1885-1945]

Clément Pansaers (Belgium) [1885-1922]

Mushanokoji Saneatsu (Japan) [1885-1976]

Aldo Palazzeschi (Italy) [1885-1974]

Sophia Parnok (Russia) [1885-1933]

Ezra Pound (USA) [1885-1972]

Essay “Vorticist Lewis/Vorticist Pound” by Douglas Messerli

Edgar Varèse (France) [1885-1965]

Delmira Agustini (Uruguay) [1886-1914]

Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva (Venezuela) [1886-1962]

Hugo Ball (Germany) [1886-1927]

Manuel Bandeira (Brazil) [1886-1968]

Gottfried Benn (Germany) [1886-1956]

Bob Brown (USA) [1886-1959]

Francis Carco (New Caledonia/France) [1886-1958]

H. D. [Hilda Doolittle] (USA) [1886-1961]

Albert Ehrenstein (Austria) [1886-1950]

*Hagiwara Sakutarō (Japan) [1886-1942]

Nicolai Gumilev (Russia/USSR) [1886-1921]

Raoul Hausmann (Germany) [1886-1971]

Max Herrmann-Neisse (Germany) [1886-1941]

Ishikawa Takuboku (Japan) [1886-1912]

Vladislav Khodasevich (Russia/France) [1886-1939]

*Alexei Kruchenykh (Russia/USSR) [1886-1968]

Moyse Legh-Halpern (Russia) [1886-1933]

Wyndham Lewis (England) [1886-1957]

Essay “Vorticist Lewis/Vorticist Pound,” by Douglas Messerli

Alonso Quesada (Canary Islands) [1886-1925]

Igor Severyamin (USSR/Estonia) [1887-1941]

Georg Trakl (Germany) [1886-1914]

Hans Arp (Germany) [1887-1966]

Gunnar Björling (Finland/writes in Swedish) [1887-1960]

Blaise Cendrars (Switzerland) [1887-1961]

Marcel Duchamp (France) [1887-1968]

Joaquín Edwards Bello (Chile) [1887-1968]

Albert-Paris Gütersloh [Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber] (Austria) [1887-1973]

Georg Heym (Germany) [1887-1912]

Jakob van Hoddis [Hans Davidsohn] (Germany) [1887-1942]

Robinson Jeffers (USA) [1887-1962]

Pierre Jean Jouve (France) [1887-1976]

Josep Maria Junoy (Spain) [1887-1955]

Frigyes Karinthy (Hungary) [1887-1938]

Lajos Kassák (Hungary) [1887-1967]

René Maran (French Guiana) [1887-1960]

Marianne Moore (USA) [1887-1972]

Nakao Yajin (Japan/USA) [1887-?]

Saint-John Perse (b. Guadeloupe/France) [1887-1975]

Kurt Schwitters (Germany) [1887-1948]

Xul Solar [Oscar Augustín Alejandro Schulz Solari] (Argentina) [1887-1963]

Irving Berlin [Israel Isidor Baline] [(b. Russia/USA) [1888-1989]

Til Brugman (Netherlands) [1888-1958]

Francesco Cangiullo (Italy) [1888-1977]

Paul Dermée (Belgium) [1888-1957]

Wilhelm Ekelund (Sweden) [1888-1965]

T. S. Eliot (USA / England) [1888-1965]

Milán Füst (Hungary) [1888-1967]

Natalya Krandievskaya (Russia/USSR) [1888-1963]

Napoleon Lapathiotis (Greece) [1888-1944]

Paul Morand (France) [1888-1976]

Senke Motomaro (Japan) [1888-1948]

Okamoto Shiho (Japan/USA) [1888-1967]

Ramón López Velarde (Mexico) [1888-1921]

Fernando Pessoa (Portugal) [1888-1935]

John Crowe Ransom (USA) [1888-1974]

Camillo Sbarbaro (Italy) [1888-1967]

Giuseppe Ungaretti (Italy) [1888-1970]

Anna Akhmatova (Russia) [1889-1966]

Jean Cocteau (France) [1889-1963]

Suzanne Duchamp (France) [1889-1963]

Alfred Lichtenstein (Germany) [1889-1914]

Claude McKay (USA) [1889-1948]

Gabriela Mistral (Chile) [1889-1957]

Muro Saisei (Japan) [1889-1962]

Walter Seener (Austria) [1889-c.1942]

Pierre Reverdy (France) [1889-1960]

Alfonso Reyes (Mexico) [1889-1959]

Oswald de Andrade (Brazil) [1890-1954]

Essay “Cannibal Manifesto” by Oswald de Andrade

Klabund [Alfred Henschke] (Germany) [1890-1928]

Rafael Lasso del la Vega (Spain) [1890-1959]

Kostas Ouranis (Greece) [1890-1953]

Boris Pasternak (Russia/USSR) [1890-1960]

José Antonio Ramos Sucre (Venezuela) [1890-1930]

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (USA/lived France) [1890-1976

Selection of poems from Adonism of 1914

Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Portugal) [1890-1916]

Franz Werfel (b. Czechoslavakia/Austria) [1890-1945]

Grant Clarke (USA) [1891-1931]

Max Ernst (Germany) [1891-1976]

Yvan Goll (Germany) [1891-1950]

Oliverio Girondo (Argentina) [1891-1967]

Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden) [1891-1974]

*Osip Mandelshtam (Russia/USSR) [1891-1938]

Cole Porter (USA) [1891-1964]

Essay “Pure Poetry” (on the lyrics of Porter’s Anything Goes) by Douglas Messerli

*Nelly Sachs (Germany) [1891-1970]

Pedro Salinas (Spain) [1891-1951]

Agustin Ujević (Serbia) [1891-1955]

Johannes Theodor Baargeld (Germany) [1892-1927]

*Djuna Barnes (USA) [1892-1982]

Book The Book of Repulsive Women [PDF file/freee]

Essay “Sleeping with the Dogs,” by Douglas Messerli

Maxwell Bodenheim (USA) [1892-1954]

Fortunato Depero (Italy) [1892-1960]

Horiguchi Daigaku (Japan) [1892]

Richard Huelsenbeck (Germany) [1892-1974]

Léon Laleau (Haiti) [1892]

Mo-jo Kuo (China) [1892-1978)

Hugh MacDiarmid (Scotland) [1892-1978]

Archibald MacLeish (USA) [1892-1982]

Edna St. Vincent Millay (USA) [1892-1950]

Sato Haruo (Japan) [1892-1964]

Yannis Skarimbas (Greece) [1892-1984]

Edith Södergran (Finland/writes in Swedish) [1892-1923]

Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) [1892-1938]

Tsunekawa Takako (Japan/USA) [1982-?]

César Vallejo (Peru) [1892-1938]

Mário de Andrade (Brazil) [1893-1945]

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (France) [1893-1945]

J. V. Foix (Spain/writes in Catalan) [1893-1987]

Jorge Guillén (Spain) [1893-1984]

Miroslav Krleža (Croatia) [1893-1981]

Aaro Hellaakoski (Finland) [1893-1952]

Vicente Huidobro (Chile) [1893-1948]

Jorge de Lima (Brazil) [1893-1953]

Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russia) [1893-1930]

Herbert Read (England) [1893-1968]

Josef Tress (Germany) [1893-1975]

Claude Cahun (France) [1894-1972]

E. E. Cummings (USA) [1894-1962]

Essay, “Rethinking E.E. Cummings: An Appeal for a New Reading [redux]” by

Jerome Rothenberg

Uri Tsvi Greenberg (b. Galicia [now Poland]/Israel) [1894-1981]

Georgii Ivanov (Russia) [1894-1958]

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Poland) [1894-1980]

Gertrud Kolmar [Gertrud Chodziesner] (Germany) [1894-1943]

Momcilo Nastasijević (Serbia) [1894-1938]

*Nishiwaki Janzaburō (Japan) [1894-1982]

Charles Reznikoff (USA) [1894-1976]

Pablo de Rokha [Carlos Diaz-Loyola] (Chile) [1894-1968]

Tanaka Fuyuji (Japan) [1894]

Joan Salvat-Papasseit (Spain) [1894-1924]

Jean Toomer (USA) [1894-1967]

Marina Tsvetayeva (Russia) [1894-1941]

Ilia Zdanevitch (Russia) [1894-1975]

Ion Barbu (Romania) [1895-1961]

Lucian Blaga (Romania) [1895-1961]

Theodoros Dornos (Greece) [1895?-1954]

*Paul Éluard [Eugène Grindel] (France) [1895-1952]

Abraham Lincoln Gillespie (USA) [1895-1950]

David Jones (England) [1895-1974]

Kaneko Mitsuharu (Japan) [1895-1975]

Nakashima Sho (Japan/USA) [1895-?]

Takis Papatsonis (Greece) [1895-1976]

Albin Zollinger (Switzerland) [1895-1941]

Antonin Artaud (France) [1896-1948]

*André Breton (France) [1896-1966]

Gaston Burssens (Belgium) [1896-1965]

Nancy Cunard (England) [1896-1965]

Essay “The Woman Most Likely to Raise Dogs” by Douglas Messerli

Gerardo Diego (Spain) [1896-1987]

Elmer Diktonius (Sweden) [1896-1961]

Jacob Glatshteyn (Poland/USA] [1896-1971]

Friedrich Glauser (Switzerland) [1896-1938]

Kostas Karyotakis (Greece) [1896-1928]

Walter Mehring (Germany) [1896-1981]

Francesco Meriano (Italy) [1896-1934]

Paul van Ostaijen (Belgium/writes in Dutch] [1896-1928]

Miyazawa Kenji (Japan) [1896-1933]

Eugenio Montale (Italy) [1896-1982]

Bino Sanminiatelli (Italy) [1896-1984]

Tristan Tzara (Romania) [1896-1963]

Jacques Vaché (France) [1896-1979]

Józef Wittlin (Poland/USA) [1896-1970]

Louis Aragon (France) [1897-1982]

Erwin Bloomfield [Erwin Blumenfeld] (b. Germany/USA) [1897-1969]

Joë Bousquet (France) [1897-1950]

Rudolf Henz (Austria) [1897-1987]

Hsü Chih-mo (China) [1897-1931]

Philippe Soupault (France) [1897-1990]

Tarjei Vesaas (Norway) [1897-1970]

Xu Zhimo (China) [1897-1931]

Vincente Aleixandre (Spain) [1898-1984]

Dámaso Alonso (Spain) [1898-1984]

Miguel Angel Zambrano (Ecuador) [1898-1969]

Anzai Fuyue (Japan) [1898-1965]

Raul Bopp (Brazil) [1898-1984]

Bertolt Brecht (Germany) [1898-1956]

Paul Colinet (Belgium) [1898-1957]

Harry Crosby (USA) [1898-1929]

Julius Evola (Italy) [1898-1974]

Hedwig Katscher (Austria) [1898-1988]

Concha Méndez (Spain) [1898-1986]

Martinus Nijhoff (Netherlands) [1898-1945]

Nikolai Oleinikov (Russia/USSR) [1898-1937]

Giuseppe Raimondi (Italy) [1898- ]

J. Slauerhoff (Frisian Island/Netherlands) [1898-1936]

*Giuseppe Steiner (Italy) [1898-1964]

Book Drawn States of Mind [PDF file/free]

Taniguchi Isamu (Japan/USA) [1898-1992]

Melvin B. Tolson (USA) [1898-1966]

Uyemaruko Shizuku (Japan/USA) [1898-1992]

Yoshida Issui (Japan) [1899-1973]

Maxime Alexander (France) [1899- ]

Jorge Luis Borges(Argentina) [1899-1986]

Hart Crane (USA) [1899-1932]

Essay “’Out of the Square, the Circle’:Vision in Nightmare” by Douglas Messerli

Rade Drainac (Serbia) [1899-1943]

Anastasios Drivas (Greece) [1899-1942]

*Federico Garcia Lorca (Spain) [1899-1936]

Maruyama Kaoru (Japan) [1899-1974]

Erich Kästner (Germany) [1899]

Henri Michaux (Belgium) [1899-1984]

Benjamin Péret (France) [1899-1959]

Elisabeth Langgässer (Germany) [1899-1950]

Carlos Pellicer (Mexico) [1899-1977]

Francis Ponge (France) [1899-1984]

Emilio Prados (Spain) [1899-1962]

Shinoda Youko (Japan/USA) [1899-1987]

Anatal Stern (Poland) [1899-1968]

Alan Tate (USA) [1899-1979]

Roger Vitrac (France) [1899-1959]

Wen Yiduo [Wen I-to] (China) [1899-1946]

Karin Boye (Sweden) [1900-1941]

Basil Bunting (England) [1900-1985]

Chu Yohan (Korea) [1900-1980]

*Maurice Gilliams (Belgium) [1900-1982]

Eyvind Johnson (Sweden) [1900-1976]

Robert Desnos (France) [1900-1945]

José Ramón Heredia (Venezuela) [1900]

Fily-Dabo Sissoko (Mali) [1900-1964]

Guillermo de Torre (Spain) [1900-1972]

Inagaki Taruho (Japan) [1900-1977]

Kitagawa Fuyuhiko (Japan) [1900]

Leopoldo Marechal (Argentina) [1900-1953]

Miyoshi Tatsuji (Japan) [1900-1964]

*Vítězslav Nezval (Czechoslavakia) [1900-1958]

Essay “City for Failed Acrobats” (on Nezval’s Antilyrik) by Douglas Messerli

Jacques Prévert (France) [1900-1977]

George Seferis (Greece) [1900-1971]

Tu Mo (Viet Nam) [1900-1976]

Alexander Wat (Poland) [1900-1967]

Rosamel del Valle [Moisés Guitiérrez] (Chile) [1901-1965]

Andreas Embirikos (b. Romania/Greece) [1901-1975]

José Gorostiza (Mexico) [1901-1973]

Jacinto Fombona-Pachano (Venezuela) [1901]

Michel Leiris (France) [1901-1990]

Hino Sojo (Japan] [1901-1956]

Marie Luise Kaschnitz (Germany) [1901-1974]

Zoe Karelli (Greece) [1901-1998]

Henriqueta Lisboa (Brazil) [1901-1985]

François Le Lionnais (France) [1901-1984]

Cecília Meireles (Brazil) [1901-1964]

Murilo Mendes (Brazil) [1901-1975]

Murano Shiro (Japan) [1901-1975]

Oguma Hideo (Japan) [1901-1940]

Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy) [1901-1968]

Albert-Marie Schmidt (France) [1901]

Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslavkia) [1901-1986]

Wilhelm Szabo (Austria) [1901-1986]

Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo (Madagascar) [1901-1937]

Laura Riding [Jackson] (USA) [1901-1991]

Takahashi Shinkichi (Japan) [1901]

Rafael Alberti (Spain) [1902-1999]

Essay “Poet to Painter” by Douglas Messerli

Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Brazil) [1902-1978]

Hans Bellmer (Germany) [1902-1975]

Kay Boyle [1902-1992] (USA)

Luis Cernuda (Spain) [1902-1963]

Chŏng Chiyong (Korea) [1902-?]

Kaisar Emmanuil (Greece) [1902-1969]

Langston Hughes (USA) [1902-1967]

Nicolás Guillén (Cuba) [1902-1989]

Gyula Illyés (Hungary) [1902-1983]

Nazim Hikmet (Turkey/Poland) [1902-1963]

Nakano Shigeharu (Japan) [1902-1979]

Saga Nobuyuki (Japan) [1902]

Kim Sowŏl (Korea) [1902-1934]

Jaime Torres Bodet (Mexico) [1902-1974]

Jorge Carrera Andrade (Ecuador) [1903-1978]

Erich Arendt (Germany) [1903-1984]

Countee Cullen (USA) [1903-1946]

Jorge Maateo Cuesta Porte-Petit (Mexico) [1903-1942]

Edwin Denby (USA) [1903-1983]

Jean Follain (France) [1903-1971]

Gérard Francis [Gérard Rosenthal] (France) [1903]

Hayashi Fumiko (Japan) [1903-1951]

Peter Huchel (Germany) [1903-1981]

Kim Yŏngnang (Korea) [1903-1950]

Henriqueta Lisboa (Brazil) [1903-1985]

Mathias Lübeck (Germany) [1903-1944]

E. L. T. Mesens [Edouard Léon Théodore] (Belgium) [1903-1971]

César Moro [Alfredo Quíspez Asín] (Peru) [1903-1956]

Lorine Niedecker (USA) [1903-1970]

Aldo Pellegrini (Argentina) [1903-1973]

Jean Tardieu (France) [1903-1995]

Ono Tozaburo (Japan) [1903-1996]

Raymond Queneau (France) [1903-1976]

Raymond Radiguet (France) [1903-1923]

Carl Rakosi (USA) [1903-2004]

Essay “Utopia without Poetry” by Douglas Messerli

Tagaki Kyozo (Japan) [1903]

Nikolai Zabolotsky (Russia/USSR) [1903-1958]

George Vafopoulos (Greece) [1903-1996]

Jonas Aistis [Jonas Aleksandravićius] (Lithuania) [1904-1973]

John Beecher (USA) [1904-1980]

Omar Cáceres (Chile) [1904-1943]

Johannes Edfelt (Sweden) [1904-1997]

Damil Kharms (Russia/USSR) [1904-1942]

Edvard Kocbek (Slovenia) [1904-1981]

Srečko Kosovel (Slovenia) [1904-1926]

Gilbert Lély (France) [1904-1985]

Harry Martinson (Sweden) [1904-1978]

Jehan Mayroux (France) [1904-1975]

Pablo Neruda (Chile) [1904-1973]

Salomėja Nėris [Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė] (Lithuania) [1904-1945]

Moses Rosenkranz (Bukovina/Germany) [1904-2003]

Takenaka Iku (Japan) [1904]

Yi Yuksa (Korea) [1904-1944]

Xavier Villaurrutia (Mexico) [1904-1950]

Avoroth Yshuru (b. Ukraine/Israel) [1904]

Alexander Vvedensky (Russia/USSR) [1904-1941]

Louis Zukofsky (USA) [1904-1978]

Gerrit Achterberg (Netherlands) [1905-1962]

Xavier Abril (Peru) [1905-1990]

Manuel Altolaguirre (Spain) [1905-1959]

Jacques Baron (France) [1905]

Pedro García Cabrera (Canary Islands) [1905-1981]

Vladimir Holan (Czechoslavkia) [1905-1980]

Iwasa Toichiro (Japan) [1905-1974]

*Atilla József (Hungary) [1905-1937]

Chona Madera (Canary Islands) [1905-1981]

Leonid Martynov (Russia/USSR) [1905-1980]

Carlos Oquendo de Amat (Peru) [1905-1936]

Kenneth Rexroth (USA) [1905-1982]

Ernst Schönwiese (Austria) [1905]

Louis Scutennaire (Belgium) [1905-1987]

Taniguchi Sadaya (Japan/USA) [1905-?]

Jesse Thoor [Peter Karl Höfler] (Germany) [1905-1952]

Adam Ważyk (Poland) [1905-1982]

Betti Alver (Estonia) [1906-1989]

Daniel Andreyev (Russia) [1906-1959]

Dimitrios I. Antoniou (Greece) [1906-1983]

Aurelio Arturo (Columbia) [1906-1974]

Samuel Beckett (Ireland) [1906-1989]

Achille Chavée (Belgium) [1906-1969]

Birago Diop (Senegal) [1906-1989]

Sait Faik (Turkey) [1906-1954]

Jean Ferry [Jean Lévy] (France) [1906-1976]

Snorri Hjartarson (Iceland) [1906-1986]

Georges Hugnet (France) [1906-1974]

Arthur Lundkvist (Sweden) [1906-1991]

Matsuda Hakisamei (Japan/USA) [1906-1970]

Nagase Kiyoko (Japan) [1906]

Kusano Shinpei (Japan) [1906-1988]

Erika Mitterer (Austria) [1906-2001]

Ellie Papadimitriou (Greece) [1906-1995]

Sandro Penna (Italy) [1906-1977]

Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) [1906-2001]

Sjoerd Spanninga [Jan Dijkstra] (Netherlands/writes in Frisian) [1906-1985]

Zoltán Zelik (Hungary) [1906]

Werner Zemp (Switzerland) [1906-1959]

W.H. Auden (England/USA) [1907-1973]

The Auden Group (England)

Rose Ausländer (Bukovina/Germany) [1907-1988]

Bernardas Brazdžionis (Lithuania) [1907-2002]

Nicolaos Calas (Greece) [1907-1985]

Asaf Hâlet Çelebi (Turkey) [1907-1958]

René Char (France) [1907-1988]

Jacques Roumaín (Haiti) [1907-1944]

Solveig von Schoultz (Finland/writes in Swedish) [1907-1996]

Josefina de la Torre (Canary Islands) [1907]

Humberto Díaz-Casanueva (Chile) [1907-1992]

Gunnar Eich(Germany) [1907-1972]

Gunnar Ekelöf (Sweden) [1907-1968]

Luis Felipe Vivanco (Spain) [1907-1975]

André Frénaud (France) [1907-1993]

Roger Gilbert-Leconte (France) [1907-1943]

Anna Hajnal (Hungary) [1907-1977]

Maurice Henry (France) [1907]

Hugo Larrea Andrade (Eucador) [1907]

Nakahara Chuya (Japan) [1907-1937]

Augusto Sacoto Arias (Ecuador) [1907-1979]

Arseny Tarkovsky (Armenia/Russia) [1907-1989]

Martín Adán (Rafael de la Fuente Benavides) (Peru) [1908-1985]

René Daumal (France) [1908-1944]

José Garcia Villa (Phillippines/USA]) [1908-1997]

Im Hwa (Korea) [1908-1953]

George Oppen (USA) [1908-1984]

Henry Parland (Finland/writes in Swedish) [1908-1930]

Nikos Gavriil Pentzikis (Greece) [1908-1993]

Emile Roumer (Haiti) [1908-1988]

Yorgos Sarantaris (Greece) [1908-1941]

Leonardo Sinisgalli (Italy) [1908-1981]

Stein Steinarr (Iceland) [1908-1958]

Takaoka Hiroyo (Japan/USA) [1908-?]

Atanasio Viteri (Ecuador) [1908-1965]

Helen Adam (b. Scotland/USA) [1909-1993]

Aurelio Arturo (Columbia) [1909-1974]

Igor Chinnov (Latvia) [1909-1996]

Léo Malet (France) [1909-1996]

Leopold Panero (Spain) [1909-1962]

Miklós Radnóti (Hungary) [1909-1944]

Yannis Ritsos (Greece) [1909-1990]

Franz Baermann Steiner (b. Czechoslovakia/Germany) [1909-1952]

Hilde Domin [Hildegard Löwenstein (Palm)] (Germany) [1909-2006]

Anna Świrsczyńska (Poland) [1909-1984]

Virgil Teodorescu (Romania) [1909-1987]

Olga Berggolts (Russia) [1910-1975]

Ai Ch’ing (China) [1910-1996]

*Nikos Engonópoulos (Greece) [1910-1985]

Gyorgy Faludy (Hungary) [1910-2006]

Jean Genet (France) [1910-1986]

Miguel Hernández (Spain) [1910-1942]

Sara de Ibáñez (Uruguay) [1910-1971]

Nikos Kavadias (Greece) [1910-1975]

José Lezama Lima (Cuba) [1910-1976]

Norman MacCaig (Scotland) [1910]

Alexandros Mátas (Greece) [1910-1969]

Melissánthi (Greece) [1910-1990]

Enríque Molina (Argentina) [1910-1997]

Charles Olson (USA) [1910-1970]

Charles Pressóir (Haiti) [1910]

Henrikas Radauskas (Lithuania/USA) [1910-1970]

Edouard Roditi (France/USA) [1910-1992]

Luis Rosales (Spain) [1910-1992]

Istvan Vas (Hungary) [1910-1991]

Yi Sang (Korea) [1910-1937]

José María Arguedas (Peru) [1911-1969]

Attilio Bertolucci (Italy) [1911-2000]

Elizabeth Bishop (USA) [1911-1979]

Gabriel Celaya [Rafael Múgica] (Spain) [1911-1991]

Allen Curnow (New Zealand) [1911-2001]

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Pakistan) [1911-1984]

Odysseus Elytis (Greece) [1911-1996]

Joaquín Gallegos Lara (Ecuador) [1911-1947]

Alfred Gesswein (Austria) [1911-1983]

Ignacio Lasso (Ecuador) [1911-1943]

Patrice de Le Tour du Pin (France) [1911-1975]

Jorge Isaac Robayo (Ecaudor) [1911-1960]

Josef Mayer-Limberg (Austria) [1911-1992]

Nela Martínez (Ecuador) [1911-2004]

Bern Porter (USA) [1911-2004]

Sagawa Chika [Kawasaki Aiko] (Japan) [1911-1936]

Carlos Suárez Veintimilla (Ecuador) [1911]

Nikiforos Vrettakos (Greece) [1911-1991]

Emilio Adolfo Westphalen (Peru) [1911-2001]

Tennessee Williams (USA) [1911-1983]

John Cage (USA) [1912-1992]

Giorgio Caproni (Italy) [1912-1990]

Pablo Antonio Cuadra (Nicaragua) [1912-2002]

Edoardo Cacciatore (Italy) [1912-1996]

Léon-Gontran Damas (French Guiana) [1912-1978]

Andrejs Eglītis (Latvia) [1912-2006]

William Everson (Brother Antonius) 1912-1994

Review of Everson’s The Light the Shandow Castsby James Dunagan

Nikos Gatsos (Greece) [1912-1992]

Enrique Gil Gilbert (Ecuador) [1912-1973]

Jan Hanlo (Netherlands) [1912-1969]

Edmond Jabès (France) [1912-1991]

Jean Lescure (France) [1912-2005]

José A. Llerena (Ecuador) [1912-1977]

Félix Morisseau-Leroy (Haiti) [1912-1998]

Adriaan Morriën (Netherlands) [1912-2002]

No Ch’ŏmyŏng (Korea) [1912-1957]

Pak Sŏk (Korea) [1912-?]

Henri Pastoureau (France) [1912-1996]

Virgilio Piñera (Cuba) [1912-1979]

Antonia Pozzi (Italy) [1912-1938]

Dionisio Ridruejo (Spain) [1912-1975]

Juliane Windhager (Austria) [1912-1986]

Braulio Arenas (Chile) [1913-1988]

Antoine-Roger Bolamba (Congo/Kinshasa) [1913-2002]

Sandor Weöres (Hungary) [1913-1989]

Aimé Césaire (Martinique) [1913-2008]

Essay “A Life Serving Others,” by Douglas Messerli

Jorge I. Guerrero (Ecuador) [1913]

Gherasim Luca (Romania) [1913-1994]

Tove Meyer (Denmark) [1913-1972]

Vinicius De Morães(Brazil) [1913-1980]

Meret Oppenheim (Switzerland) [1913-1985]

Jacques Rabemananjara (Madagascar) [1913-2005]

Sabine Sicaud (France) [1913-1928]

Abraham Sutzkever (b. Lithuania/Israel) [1913-2010]

Essay “Hush and Travail,” by Douglas Messerli

Huberto Vacas Gómez (Ecuador) [1913]

Aida Tsunao (Japan) [1914-1990]

Eduardo Arquita (Chile) [1914-1992]

Carlos Bazante (Ecuador) [1914]

William Burroughs (USA) [1914-1997]

Teofilo Cid (Chile) [1914-1964]

Julio Cortázar (Argentina) [1914-1984]

Angel Gaztelu (Cuba) [1914-2003]

K. O. Götz (Germany) [1914]

Georges Hénein (Egypt) [1914-1973]

Efraín Huerta (Mexico) [1914-1982]

Kinoshita Yuji (Japan) [1914-1965]

*Mario Luzi (Italy) [1914-2005]

Daria Menicanti (Italy) [1914-1995]

Kostas Montis (Greece) [1914-2004]

Adalberto Ortiz (Ecuador) [1914-2003]

Nicanor Parra (Chile) [1914]

Joaquím Pasos (Nicaragua) [1914-1947]

Flavien Ranaivo (Madagascar) [1914-1999]

Akesis Rannit (Estonia) [1914]

Oktay Rifat (Turkey) [1914-1988]

Emmanuel Roblès (Algeria) [1914-1995]

Celâl Silay (Turkey) [1914-1974]

Emilio Villa (Italy) [1914-2003]

Dylan Thomas (Wales) [1914-1953]

Octavio Paz (Mexico) [1914-1998]

Orhan Veli [Kanik] (Turkey) [1914-1950]

Pedro Jorge Vera (Ecuador) [1914-1999]

Melih Cevdet Anday (Turkey) [1915-2002]

René Bélance (Haiti) [1915-2004]

Christine Busta (Austria) [1915-1987]

Alejandro Carrión (Ecuador) [1915-1992]

Nelson Estupiñán Bass (Ecuador) [1915]

Enrique Gómez-Correa (Chile) [1915-1995]

Max Hölzer (Austria) [1915-1984]

Karl Krolow (Germany) [1915-1999]

Christine Lavant (Austria) [1915-1973]

Porfirio Meneses Lazón (Peru/writes in Quechua) [1915]

*Gellu Naum (Romania) [1915-2001]

Justo Rodríguez Santos (Cuba) [1915-1999]

Thomas Sessler (Austria) [1915]

Sŏ Chŏngju (Korea) [1915-2000]

Leo Vroman (Netherlands) [1915]

Zikkoku Osamu (Japan) [1915]

Juan Eduardo Ciriot (Spain) [1916-1973]

Bernard Binlin Dadié (Ivory Coast) [1916]

Pierre Emmanuel (France) [1916-1984]

David Gascoyne (England) [1916-2001]

Anne Hébert (Canada) [1916-2000]

Kjell Hjern (Sweden) [1916-1984]

Behçet Necatigil (Turkey) [1916-1979]

Pak Mogwŏl (Korea) [1916-1978]

Pino Ojeda (Canary Islands) [1916-2002]

Blas de Otero (Spain) [1916-1979]

Pak Tujin (Korea) [1916-1998]

Takis Varvitsiotis (Greece) [1916]

Wada Hakuro (USA) [1916-?]

Yusaf al-Khal (Lebanon) [1917-1987]

Johannes Bobrowski (Germany) [1917-1965]

Kazys Bradānas (Lithuania) [1917]

Leonore Carrington (England) [1917]

Robert Conquest (England) [1917]

Nick Joaquin (The Philippines) [1917-2004]

Nikos Karydis (Greece) [1917-1984]

Matsuda Kazue [Violet Kazue de Cristoforo] (Hawaii/USA) [1917-2007]

Essay “On Alien Land,” by Douglas Messerli

Ricardo Molina (Spain) [1917-1969]

G. M. Mukotodh (India) [1917-1964]

Paul Niger (Guadeloupe) [1917-1962]

Augusto Roa Bastos (Paraguay) [1917-2005]

*Gonzalo Rojas (Chile) [1917-2011]

Takis Sinopoulos (Greece) [1917-1981]

Guy Tirolien (Guadeloupe) [1917-1988]

Fernando Alégria (Chile) [1918-2005]

Werner Aspenström (Sweden) [1918-1997]

Gaston Baquero (Cuba) [1918-1997]

Martin Bell (English) [1918-1978]

İlhan Berk (Turkey) [1918-2008]

Cees Buddingh’ (Netherlands) [1918-1985]

César Dávila Anddrade (Ecuador) [1918-1967]

Tove Ditlevsen (Denmark) [1918-1976]

Du Yunxie (Malaysia/China) [1918]

Jeannie Ebner (Austria) [1918-2004]

Alberto Girri (Argentina) [1918-1991]

Abba Kovner (Israel) [1918-1987]

Bert Schierbeek (Netherlands) [1918-1996]

Yun Tongju (Korea) [1918-1945]

Noël Arnaud (France) [1919-2003]

Rudolf Bayr (Austria) [1919-1990]

Ivan Blatný (Czechoslavakia/England) [1919-1990]

Iason Depountis (Greece) [1919]

Robert Duncan (USA) [1919-1988]

Jan G. Elburg (Netherlands) [1919-1992]

France Filipič (Slovenia) [1919]

Vicente Gaos (Spain) [1919-1980]

Michael Guttenbrunner (Austria) [1919-2004]

José Luis Hidalgo (Spain) [1919-1947]

Michalis Katsaros (Greece) [1919-1998]

César Fernández Moreno (Argentina) [1919]

Ku Sang (Korea) [1919-2004]

Yoshioka Minoru (Japan) [1919-1990]

Nakagiri Masao (Japan) [1919]

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (Portugal) [1919-2004]

Mílos Sahtoúris (Greece) [1919-2005]

Silja Walter (Switzerland) [1919]

Tatamkhulu Afrika (b. Egypt/South Africa) [1920-2002]

Ayukawa Nobuo (Japan) [1920-1986]

Mario Benedetti (Uruguay) [1920-2009]

João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil) [1920-1999]

*Paul Celan (Bukovina (Romania)/France) [1920-1970]

Book Lightduress [PDF file]

*Andrée Chedid (Egypt/France) [1920]

Cho Chihun (Korea) [1920-1968]

Hanns Cibulka (DDR/now Germany) [1920]

Adonis Decavalles (Greece) [1920]

*Mohammed Dib (Algeria) [1920-2003]

Essay “A Quiet Man in the Vast and Chattering Desert,” by Douglas Messerli

Eliseo Diego (Cuba) [1920-1976]

D. J. Enright (England) [1920-2002]

Alfred Gong (Bukovina/USA) [1920-1981]

Stefán Hörður Grímsson (Iceland) [1920-2002]

Barbara Guest (USA) [1920-2006]

Essay “The Countess of Berkeley,” by Douglas Messerli

Ernst Herbeck (Austria) [1920-1991]

Ishigaki Rin (Japan) [1920]

Lêdo Ivo (Brazil) [1920]

Ektor Kaknavatos (Greece) [1920]

Jaan Kross (Estonia) [1920-2007]

Paul Laraque (Haiti/USA) [1920]

Pedro Lezcano (b. Spain/Canary Islands) [1920]

Kaliju Lepik (Estonia) [1920-1999]

Yargas Likos (Greece) [1920-2001]

Pierre Martory (France) [1920-1998]

Edwin Morgan (Scotland) [1920]

Doris Mühringer (Austria) [1920]

Henrikas Nagys (Lithuania) [1920]

Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas (Lithuania) [1920]

Olga Orozco (Argentina) [1920-1999]

Arshi Papa (Albania) [1920-1997]

Marcel and Gabriel Piqueray (Belgium) [1920-1992 (Gabriel)] [1920-1997 (Marcel)]

Gisèle Prassinos (France) [1920]

Franz Richter (Austria) [1920]

Nelo Risi (Italy) [1920]

Paul Rodenko (Netherlands) [1920-1976]

Carlos de Rokha (Chile) [1920-1962]

Györrgy Somlyó (Hungary) [1920]

Idea Vilariño (Uruguay) [1920]

Zhou Mengdie (China) [1920]

Zef Zorba (Albania) [1920-1943]

(8) Ilse Aichinger (Austria) [1921]

[H]ans [C]arl Artmann (Austria) [1921-2000]

*Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (Poland) [1921-1944]

Antonín Bartušek (Czechoslavakia/now Czech Republic) [1921]

Wolfgang Borchert (Germany) [1921-1947]

Andonis Dimoulas (Greece) [1921-1985]

Erich Fried (Austria) [1921-1988]

Margherita Guidacci (Italy) [1921-1992]

Helmut Heissenbüttel (Germany) [1921-1996]

“The Dilemma of Being High and Dry”

“Schematic Development of Tradition”

Radovan Ivsic (Croatia) [1921-2009]

Tymoteusz Karpowicz (Poland) [1921]

Kim Su-yŏng (Korea) [1921-1968]

Aina Kraujiete (Latvia) [1921]

Miguel Labordeta (Spain) [1921-1969]

Eeva-Liisa Manner (Finland) [1921-1995]

Kurt Marti (Switzerland) [1921]

José María Millares Sall (Canary Islands) [1921]

Carlos de Oliveira (b. Brazil/Portugal) [1921-1981]

Tadeusz Róċwicz (Poland) [1921]

János Pilinszky (Hungary) [1921-1981]

Sándor Rákos (Hungary) [1921-1999]

Jaime Saenz (Bolivia) [1921-1986]

Octavio Smith (Cuba) [1921-1987]

Javier Sologuren (Peru) [1921]

Eleni Vacalo (Greece) [1921-2001]

Nanos Valaoritis (b. Switzerland/Greece/USA) [1921]

Cintio Vitier (Cuba) [1921-2009]

Hans Warren (Netherlands) [1921-2001]

Andrea Zanzotto (Italy) [1921]

Abdullah al-Baradduni (Yemen) [1922-1999]

Aris Alexandrou (Greece) [1922-1978]

Nāzik al-Malā’ka (Iraq) [1922-2007]

Kingsley Amis (England) [1922-1995]

Miron Białoszewski (Poland) [1922]

Donald Davie (England) [1922-1995]

Blaga Dmitrova (Bulgaria) [1922]

Stefan Doinaş [Stefan Popa] (Romania) [1922-2002]

Christian Dotremont (Belgium) [1922-1979]

Luciano Erba (Italy) [1922]

Jack Kerouac (USA) [1922-1969]

(8) Sandro Key-Åberg (Sweden) [1922-1991]

Kim Ch’unsu (Korea) [1922]

Kihara Koichi (Japan) [1922]

Kitamura Taro (Japan) [1922]

Philip Larkin (England) [1922-1985]

Tasos Livaditis (Greece) [1922]

Jackson Mac Low (USA) [1922-2004]

Hanny Michaelis (Netherlands) [1922-2007]

Ágnes Nemes Nagy (Hungary) [1922-1991]

Agustinho Neto (Angola) [1922-1979]

Aristotelis Nikolaidis (Greece) [1922-1987]

Eunice Odio (Costa Rica/Mexico) [1922-1974]

D. P. Papaditsas (Greece) [1922-1987]

Veronica Porumbacu (Romania) [1922-1976]

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy) [1922-1975]

Vasko Popa (Serbia) [1922-1991]

Hannes Sigfússon (Iceland) [1922-1997]

Jan Skácel (Czechoslavkia/now Czech Republic) [1922-1989]

Salette Tavares (Mozambique/Portugal) [1922]

Juan Sánchez Peláez (Venezuela) [1922-2003]

Aharon Amir (Israel) [1923-2008]

Eugenio de Andrade (Portugal) [1923-2005]

Mandó Aravandinoú (Greece) [1923-1998]

Rafael Arozarena (Canary Islands) [1923]

Yves Bonnefoy (France) [1923]

Carlos Bousoño (Spain) [1923]

Paul Braffort (France) [1923]

Stefan Brecht (b. Germany/USA) [1923-2009]

Jorge Luis Cáceres (Chile) [1923-1949]

Cristina Campo [Vittoria Guerrini] (Italy) [1923-1977]

Ion Caraion (Romania) [1923-1986]

Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (Portugal) [1923-2006]

Elena Clementelli (Italy) [1923]

Christine D’haen (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1923-2009]

Carlos Edmundo de Ory (Spain) [1923]

Fina García Marruz (Cuba) [1923]

Pablo García Baena (Spain) [1923]

Chaim Gouri (Mandatory Palistine/Israel) [1923]

Armanda Guiducci (Italy) [1923-1993]

Mirsolav Holub (Czech Republic) [1923-1998]

Nizar Kabbani (Syria) [1923-1998]

(6) Gerrit Kouwenaar (Netherlands) [1923]

George Makris (Greece) [1923-1968]

Christopher Middleton (England) [1923]

Alvaro Mutis (Columbia) [1923]

Leif Panduro (Denmark) [1923-1977]

James Schuyler (USA) [1923-1991]

Rocco Scotellaro (Italy) [1923-1953]

Wisława Szymborska (Poland) [1923]

Tamura Ryūichi (Japan) [1923-1998]

Herbert Zand (Austria) [1923-1970]

Yehuda Amichai (Israel) [1924-2000]

André du Bouchet (France) [1924-2001]

Dennis Brutus (Zimbabwe) [1924-2009]

Nina Cassian (Romania) [1924]

Cid Corman (USA/lives Japan) [1924-2004]

Jorge Eduardo Eielson (Peru) [1924]

Nissim Ezekiel (India/writes in English) [1924-2004]

Jerzy Ficowski (Poland) [1924-2006]

Gerhard Fritsch (Austria) [1924-1969]

Jorge Gaitan Duran (Columbia) [1924-1962]

Janet Frame (New Zealand) [1924-2004]

Gust Gils (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1924-2002]

Alfredo Giuliani (Italy) [1924-2007]

Epameinondas Gonatas (Greece) [1924-2006]

Zbigniew Herbert (Poland) [1924-1998]

Hans Lodeizen (Netherlands) [1924-1950]

*Lucebert (Netherlands) [1924-1994]

Book Collected Poems, Volume 1 [PDF file]

Pavel Matev (Bulgaria) [1924-2006]

Friederike Mayröcker (Austria) [1924]

Aila Meriluoto (Finland) [1924]

Walther Nowotny (Austria) [1924]

Alexandre O’Neill (Portugal) [1924-1986]

George Pavlópoulos (Greece) [1924]

Sybren Polet (Netherlands) [1924]

António Ramos Rosa (Portugal) [1924]

Alexandros Skinas (Greece) [1924]

Maria Luisa Spaziani (Italy) [1924]

Olga Votsi (Greece) [1924-1998]

Karl Wawra (Austria) [1924]

Sonja Åkesson (Sweden) [1925-1977]

Manólis Anagnostákis (Greece) [1925]

Robin Blaser (USA/Canada) [1925-2009]

Essay “The Fire Behind Myself” (on Blaser’s The Fire: The Collected Essays)by

Douglas Messerli (with note)

Heimrad Bäcker (Austria) [1925-2003]

Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua) [1925]

Martin Camaj (Albania) [1925-1992]

Rosario Castellanos (Mexico) [1925-1974]

Arif Damar (Turkey) [1925]

Ian Hamilton Finlay (b. Bahamas/Scotland) [1925-2006]

François Garnung (France) [1925]

Claude Gauvert (Canada) [1925-1971]

Ángel González (Spain) [1925-2008]

Alois Hergouth (Austria) [1925-2002]

Hong Yunsuk (Korea) [1925]

Philippe Jaccottet (Switzerland) [1925]

Ernst Jandl (Austria) [1925-2000]

Roberto Juarroz (Argentina) [1925-1995]

Bob Kaufman (USA) [1925-1986]

Kenneth Koch (USA) [1925-2002]

Inge Müller (Germany) [1925-1966]

Nīkuni Seiichi (Japan) [1925-1979]

Heinz Piontek (Germany) [1925-2003]

Jack Spicer (USA) [1925-1965]

Östen Sjöstrand (Sweden) [1925-2006]

Thor Vilhjálmsson (b. Scotland/Icleand] [1925]

John Wain (England) [1925-1994]

Emmett Williams (USA) [1925-2007]

Yamamoto Taro (Japan) [1925]

Sonja Åkesson (Sweden) [1926-1977]

Hans Andreus (Netherlands) [1926-1977]

*Ingeborg Bachmann (Austria) [1926-1973]

Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati (Iraq) [1926-1999]

Paul Blackburn (USA) [1926-1971]

Elisabeth Borchers (Germany) [1926]

George Brecht (USA) [1926-2008]

José Manuel Caballero Bonald (Spain) [1926]

Bo Carpelan (Finland) [1926]

Robert Creeley (USA) [1926-2005]

Ángel Crespo (Spain) [1926-1997]

René Depestre (Haiti) [1926]

J. Eijkelboom (The Netherlands) [1926]

Landis Everson (USA) [1926]

Robert Filliou (USA) [1926-1987]

Luciana Frezza (Italy) [1926-1994]

Lorenzo García Vega (Cuba) [1926]

Allen Ginsberg (USA) [1926-1996]

Elizabeth Jennings (England) [1926-2002]

Ibaragi Noriko (Japan) [1926]

Astride Ivaska (Latvia) [1926]

Frank Jæger (Denmark) [1926-1977]

Nikos Karouzos (Greece) [1926]

Kuroda Kio (Japan) [1926]

Ivan Malinowski (Denmark) [1926-1989]

Sigmund Mjelve (Norway) [1926-1995]

Frank O’Hara (USA) [1926-1966]

Pak Inhwan (Korea) [1926-1956]

Christa Reinig (DDR/Germany) [1926]

Jaime Sabines (Mexico) [1926-1999]

*Jean-Pierre Rosnay (France) [1926-2010]

Jean Sénac (Algeria) [1926-1973]

Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb (Iraq) [1926-1964]

Cleva Solis (Cuba) [1926-1997]

Kostas Steriopoulos (Greece) [1926]

Blanca Varela (Peru) [1926]

Pierre Alechinsky (Belgium) [1927]

Tuomas Anhava (Finland) [1927-2001]

John Ashbery (USA) [1927]

Review of Ashbery’s Wakefulness by Marjorie Perloff

Essay “The Pick-up,” by Douglas Messerli

Carlos Germán Belli (Peru) [1927]

Edwin Brock (England) [1927]

Klaus Demus (Austria) [1927]

David Diop (Senegal) [1927-1960]

Jacques Dupin (France) [1927-2012]

*Larry Eigner (USA) [1927-1996]

Essay-review “Broadcasting Silence” by Douglas Messerli

Luis Feria (Canary Islands) [1927]

Günter Grass (Germany) [1927]

Fu’ad Haddad (Egypt) [1927-1985]

Fritzi Harmsen van Beek (Netherlands) [1927]

Pentti Holappa (Finland) [1927]

Folke Isaksson (Sweden) [1927]

Kim Nanjo (Korea) [1927]

Philip Lamantia (USA) [1927-2005]

Nakamura Minoru (Japan) [1927]

Elio Pagliarani (Italy) [1927-2012]

Oskar Pastior (Romania/Germany/writes in German) [1927-2006]

Nikos Photkas (Greece) [1927]

Taurig Rafat (Pakistan) [1927-1998]

Tomás Segovia (b. Spain/Mexico) [1927]

Kostis Taktsis (Greece) [1927-1988]

Charles Tomlinson (England) [1927]

Turgut Uyar (Turkey) [1927-1985]

Miroslav Válek (Czechslovakia/now Slovakia) [1927-1991]

Wiktor Woroszylski (Poland) [1927-1996]

Ludwig Zeller (Chile) [1927]

Lionel Abrahams (South Africa) [1928-2004]

Laís Corrêa de Araújo (Brazil) [1928-2006]

Affonso Ávila (Brazil) [1928]

Chawki Baghdadi (Syria) [1928]

Carlo Barral (Spain) [1928-1989]

Pino Betancor (Canary Islands) [1928]

Edip Cansever (Turkey) [1928-1986]

Sigfús Daðason (Iceland) [1928-1996]

Lars Forssell (Sweden) [1928-2007]

Günter Bruno Fuchs (Germany) [1928-1977]

Vera Gherarducci (Italy) [1928]

Edouard Glissant (Martinique) [1928]

Kurt Klinger (Austria) [1928]

Anise Koltz (Luxembourg) [1928]

Herta Kräftner (Austria) [1928-1951]

Ingemar Leckius (Sweden) [1928]

Lo Fu [Mo Luofu] (Taiwan) [1928]

Lars Lundkvist (Sweden) [1928]

Slavko Mihalic (Croatia) [1928]

Munir Niazi (Pakistan) [1928]

Lassi Nummi (Finland) [1928]

Títos Patríkos (Greece) [1928]

Hasegawa Ryusei (Japan) [1928]

Genrikh Sapgir (USSR / now Rusia) [1928]

Per Højholt (Denmark) [1928]

Jayanta Mahapatra (India) [1928]

Joyce Mansour (England/France) [1928-1986]

Giancarlo Marjarino (Italy) [1928]

Miodrag Pavlović (Yugoslavia/now Serbia and Montenegro) [1928]

Anthony Phelps (Haiti) [1928]

Nathaniel Tarn (England/USA) [1928]

Simon Vinkenoog (Netherlands) [1928-2009]

Al-Munsif al-Wahaybi (Tunisia) [1929]

René Altmann (Austria) [1929-1978]

José Ángel Valente (Spain) [1929-2000]

Armando [Herman Dirk von Dodeweerd] (Netherlands) [1929]

Jaime Gil de Biedma (Spain) [1929-1990]

David Barnett (England/lives Wales) [1929]

Walter Buchebner (Austria) [1929-1964]

Hugo Claus (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1929-2008]

Essay-review “Sparse Song Dark Thread” (on Claus’ Desire) by Douglas Messerli

Remco Campert (Netherlands) [1929]

Essay-review “A Simplicity of Saying” (on Campert’s This Happened Everywhere) by

Douglas Messerli

Haraldo de Campos (Brazil) [1929-2003]

Corrado Costa (Italy) [1929-1991]

Robert Crosson (USA) [1929-2001]

Essay “Finding It Hard to Navigate,” by Douglas Messerli

Edward Dorn (USA) [1929-1999]

Review of Dorn’s Two Interviews by James Dunagan

Kenward Elmslie (USA) [1929]

Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Germany) [1929]

Walter Helmut Fritz (Germany) [1929]

Thomas Gunn (England/USA) [1929-2004]

Gabor Görgey (Hungary) [1929]

François Jacqmin (Belgium) [1929-1992]

Sándor Kányádi (Hungary) [1929]

Günter Kunert (DDR/Germany) [1929]

Enrique Lihn (Chile) [1929-1988]

Joseph Julien Gugliemi (France) [1929]

Paul-Marie Lapointe (Canada/writes in French] [1929]

Ed Leeflang (Netherlands) [1929]

Carlos Obregón (Columbia) [1929-1963]

Peter Porter (Australia/England) [1929]

A. K. Ramanujan (India/writes in Tamil] [1929-1993]

Wieland Schmied (Austria) [1929]

André Schmitz (Belgium) [1929]

Shinkawa Kazue (Japan) [1929]

*Gilbert Sorrentino (USA) [1929-2006]

Nivarita Tejera (b. Cuba/Canary Islands/France) [1929]

Ilse Tielsch (Austria) [1929]

Kateb Yacine (Algeria) [1929-1989]

Dane Zajc (Slovenia) [1929]

Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) [1930]

*Adonīs [Alī Ahmad Sa’īd] (Syria/Lebanon) [1930]

Book If Only the Sea Could Sleep [PDF file]

Horst Bienek (Germany) [1930-1990]

Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) [1930]

Claude Michel Cluny (France) [1930]

Gregory Corso (USA) [1930]

Sandor Csoóri (Hungary) [1930]

Michel Deguy (France) [1930]

Jean-Pierre Duprey (France) [1930-1959]

Kjell Espmark (Sweden) [1930]

Mário Faustino (Brazil) [1930-1962]

Roy Fisher (England) [1930]

Mihal Hanxhari (Albania) [1930-1999]

Hans-Jürgen Heise (Germany) [1930]

Herberto Helder (Madeira Islands, Portugal) [1930]

Kawasaki Hiroshi (Japan) [1930-2004]

Iijima Kōichi (Japan) [1930]

Salah Jahin (Egypt) [1930-1986]

Fayad Jamis (Cuba) [1930]

Mattias Johannessen (Iceland) [1930]

Majken Johansson (Sweden) [1930]

Gabriella Leto (Italy) [1930]

Harry Mathews (USA/lives France) [1930]

Bernard Noël (France) [1930]

Tadeusz Nowak (Poland) [1930]

Andreas Okopenko (b. Czechoslovakia/Austria) [1930-2010]

Heberto Padilla (Cuba) [1930-2000]

Dan Pagis (b. Bukovina/Israel) [1930-1986]

*Amelia Rosselli (Italy) [1930-1996]

Book War Variations [PDF file]

Gerhard Rühm (Austria) [1930]

Edoardo Sanguineti (Italy) [1930-2010]

Shang Quin (b. China/Taiwan) [1930]

Gary Snyder (USA) [1930]

Peter Sandelin (Finland/writes in Swedish) [1930]

Ivan Slamnig (Croatia) [1930-2001]

Anthony Thwaite (England) [1930]

Shin Tongyŏp (Korea) [1930-1969]

Martial Sinda (Congo) [c. 1930]

Lennart Sjögren (Sweden) [1930]

Roberto Sosa (Honduras) [1930]

Jude Stéfan (France) [1930]

Jörg Steiner (Switzerland) [1930]

Tada Chimako (Japan) [1930-2003]

John Thomas (USA) [1930-2002]

Yagawa Sumiko (1930-2002]

Taha Muhammad Ali (b. Mandatory Palestine/Israel) [1931]

Ece Ayhan (Turkey) [1931-2002]

Essay “Flying” (on Ayhan’s The Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies) by Douglas

Messerli

Vizma Belševica (Latvia) [1931]

Jacques Bens (France) [1931-2001]

Thomas Bernhard (Austria) [1931-1989]

Jack Collum (USA) [1931]

Henri Deluy (France) [1931]

Book Carnal Love [PDF file]

Kiki Dimoula (Greece) [1931]

José Pascuel Buxó (Spain/Mexico) [1931]

Antonio Garmoneda (Spain) [1931]

Paavo Haavikko (Finland) [1931]

Manfred Peter Hein (Germany) [1931]

Margarethe Herzele (Austria) [1931]

Alfred Kolleritsch (Austria) [1931]

Alda Merini (Italy) [1931]

Conny Hannes Meyer (Austria) [1931]

Horikawa Masami (Japan) [1931]

Irizawa Yasuo (Japan) [1931]

Alfred Kolleritsch (Austria) [1931]

Urszula Kozioł (Poland) [1931]

Edouard J. Maurick (Mauritius) [1931]

Ōoka Makoto (Japan) [1931]

Rossana Ombres (Italy) [1931]

Göran Palm (Sweden) [1931]

Hughes C. Pernath [Hugo Wouters] (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1931-1975]

Göran Printz-Påhlson (Sweden) [1931]

Okat p’Bitek (Uganda) [1931-1982]

Mirrka Rekola (Finland) [1931]

Klaus Rifbjerg (Denmark) [1931]

Jerome Rothenberg (USA) [1931]

Essay “A Vigorous Medley of Voices” (on a reading of Rothenberg’s and Jeffrey

Robinsons’ anthology The University of California Book of Romantic and Post-

Romantic Poets) by Douglas Messerli

Shang Qin (China) [1931]

Shiraishi Kazuko (b. Canada/Japan) [1931]

Lasse Söderberg (Sweden) [1931]

Olafs Stumbrs (Latvia) [1931]

Cemal Süreya (Turkey) [1931-1990]

Tanikawa Shuntarō (Japan) [1931]

Abdelkarim Tabbal (Morocco) [1931]

*Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden) [1931]

Tchicaya U Tam’Si (Congo) [1931-1988]

Saül Yurkievich (Argentina) [1931-2005]

*David Antin (USA) [1932]

Essay-review “Answering the Sphinx” (on Antin’s I Never Knew What Time It Was) by

Douglas Messerli

Essay “Fractures of Self” (on Antin’s Radical Coherency) by Douglas Messerli

Konrad Bayer (Austria) [1932-1964]

Jürgen Becker (Germany) [1932]

Francisco Brines (Spain) [1932]

Andrzei Bursa (Poland) [1932-1957]

Michel Couturier (France) [1932-1987]

Ernest David (Austria) [1932]

Mosheh Dor (Israel) [1932]

Werner Dürrson (Germany) [1932]

Elfriede Gerstl (Austria) [1932]

Philip Hobsbaum (England) [1932]

Hermann Jandl (Austria) [1932]

Vyron Leondaris (Greece) [1932]

George Macbeth (Scotland) [1932-1992]

Michael McClure (USA) [1932]

Roal’d Mandelshtam (USSR) [1932-1961]

Marco Antonio Mortes de Oca (Mexico) [1932]

Herberto Pedilla (Cuba) [1932-2000]

René Philoctète (Haiti) [1932-1995]

Christopher Okigbo (Nigeria) [1932-1967]

Peter Redgrove (England) [1932-2003]

Jacques Roubaud (France) [1932]

C. K. Stead (New Zealand) [1932]

Thanasis Tzoulis (Greece) [1932]

Ya Xian (China) [1932]

Keith Waldrop (USA) [1932]

Riekus Waskowsky (Netherlands) [1932-1977]

Annemarie Zonnack (Germany) [1932]

Gültan Akin (Turkey) [1933]

Ruy Belo (Portugal) [1933-1978]

Jacques Brault (Canada/writes in French) [1933]

David Bromige (b. England/Canada] [1933-2009]

Essay “Changing Hands,” by Douglas Messerli

Hans Faverey (Surinam/Netherlands) [1933-1990]

Essay-review “Standstill” (on Faverey’s Against the Forgetting) by Douglas Messerli

Ágnes Gergely (Hungary) [1933]

Jerzy Harasymowicz (Poland) [1933-1999]

Peter Härtling (Germany) [1933]

Jovan Hristić (Serbia) [1933]

*Ko Un (Korea) [1933]

Book Himalaya Poems [PDF file]

Book Songs for Tomorrow [PDF file]

Book Ten Thousand Lives [PDF file]

Essay “At the Edge of the Continent,” by Douglas Messerli

*Reiner Kunze (DDR/now Germany) [1933]

Book Rich Catch in an Empty Creel [PDF file]

John Leefman (Surinam/Netherlands) [1933]

Edward Lucie-Smith (Jamaica/England) [1933]

Roland Morisseau (Haiti) [1933]

Cees Nooteboom (Netherlands) [1933]

Pak Chaesan (Korea) [1933-1997]

Rezső Keszthelyi (Hungary) [1933]

Peter Orlovsky (USA) [1933-2010]

Marcelin Pleynet (France) [1933]

Manuel Padorno (Canary Islands) [1933]

Alkesandar Ristović (Serbia) [1933]

Nichita Stănnescu (Romania) [1933-1983]

Farrokh Tamimi (Iran) [1933]

Frank Samperi (USA) [1933-1991]

*(8) Paul Snoek [Edmond Schietekat] (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1933-1981]

Guillermo Sucre (Venezuela) [1933]

Ojars Vacietis (Latvia) [1933-1983]

Vasilis Vassilikos (Greece) [1933]

Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) [1933]

Imants Ziedonis (Latvia) [1933]

Fleur Adcock (New Zealand/England) [1934]

Gennadi Aygi (Russia/Chuvash) [1934]

Essay-review “Word-faces” (on Aygi’s Child-and-Rose) by Douglas Messerli

David Avidan (Israel) [1934]

Muhammad al-Maghut (Syria) [1934]

Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones] (USA) [1934]

Circil Bergles (Slovenia) [1934]

Ted Berrigan (USA) [1934-1983]

Joseph Ceravolo (USA) [1934-1988]

Jayne Cortez [Sallie Jayne Richardson] (USA) [1934-2012]

Adam Czerniawski (Poland) [1934]

Tasos Denegris (Greece) [1934]

Diane di Prima (USA) [1934]

Stanisław Grochowiak (Poland) [1934-1976]

Judith Herzberg (Netherlands) [1934]

Leland Hickman (USA) [1934-1991]

Anselm Hollo (b. Finland/USA) [1934-2013]

Naná Isaia (Greece) [1934]

Wulf Kirstein (German Democratic Republic/now Germany] [1934]

Rutger Kopland (Netherlands) [1934]

Gerrit Krol (Netherlands) [1934]

Johannes Kühn (Germany) [1934]

Otto Laaber (Austria) [1934-1973]

Branko Miljkovic (Serbia) [1934-1961]

Vsevolod Nekrasov (USSR / now Russia) [1934]

Giulia Niccolai (Italy) [1934]

David Malouf (Australia) [1934]

Piera Oppezzo (Italy) [1934]

Rafael Pérez Estrada (Spain) [1934-2000]

Claudio Rodríguez (Spain) [1934]

Kedarnath Singh (India/writes in Hindu) [1934]

George Stanley (b. USA/Canada) [1934]

Kerstin Thorék (Sweden) [1934]

Volker von Törne (Germany) [1934]

*John Wieners (USA) [1934-2002]

Book 707 Scott Street: The Journal of John Wieners [PDF file/free]

Essay “Between Visions” (on several Wieners works) by Douglas Messerli (with

preface)

Itamar Ya’oz-Kest (b. Hungary/Israel) [1934]

Ahmad ‘Abd al-Mu’ti Hijazi (Egypt) [1935]

Nanni Balestrini (Italy) [1935]

Kofi Awoonor (Ghana/formerly Gold Coast) [1935-2013]

One of Awoonor’s last poems

László Bertók (Hungary) [1935]

Inger Christensen (Denmark) [1935-2009]

Essay “The Danish ‘It’ Girl,” by Douglas Messerli

Heinz Czechowski (DDR/now Germany) [1935]

Claude Esteban (France) [1935]

Forugh Farrokhzad (Iran) [1935-1967]

Ion Gheorghie (Romania) [1935]

Zulfikar Ghose (Pakistan/England/USA) [1935]

John Giorno (USA) [1935]

Rolf Haufs (Germany) [1935]

Stratis Haviaras (Greece) [1935]

Mark Insingel (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1935]

Georg Johannesen (Norway) [1935]

Ronald Johnson (USA) [1935-1998]

Robert Kelly (USA) [1935]

Sarah Kirsch (DDR/Germany) [1935]

José Antonio Labordeta (Spain) [1935]

Claire Malroux (France) [1935]

Muhammad ‘Afifi Maţar (Egypt) [1935]

Christoph Meckel (Germany) [1935]

Karl Mikel (DDR/now Germany) [1935]

Helga M. Novak (DDR/now Germany/Iceland/lives Poland) [1935]

Halina Poswiatowska (Poland) [1935-1967]

*Antonio Porta (Italy) [1935-1989]

Ali Püsküllüoğlu (Turkey) [1935]

Rendra [W. S. Rendra] (Indonesia) [1935-2009]

Shin Kyŏng-Nin (Korea) [1935]

Ljubomir Simović (Serbia) [1935]

Jorge Teillier (Chile) [1935-1996]

Tomioka Taeko (Japan) [1935]

Willem van Toorn (Netherlands) [1935]

Radoslav Vojvodić (Yugoslavia) [1935]

Rosmarie Waldrop (b. Germany/USA) [1935]

Gösta Ågren (Finland) [1936]

Taner Baybars (Cyprus/England) [1936]

Ori Bernstein (Israel) [1936]

Wolf Biermann (DDR/now Germany) [1936]

Gerald Bisinger (Austria) [1936]

Joseph Miezan Bognin (Ivory Coast) [1936]

Ferruccio Brugnaro (Italy) [1936]

Georges Castera (Haiti) [1936]

Saqi Farooqi (Pakistan/writes in Urdu and English) [1936]

Frankétienne [Franck Étienne] (Haiti) [1936]

Lars Gustafsson (Sweden) [1936]

Özdemir İnce (Turkey) [1936]

Kenneth Irby (USA) [1936]

C. O. Jellema (Netherlands) [1936]

Roland Jooris (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1936]

Ismail Kadare (Albania) [1936]

Väjnö Kristinä (Finland) [1936]

Aleksandr Kushner (Russia) [1936]

Onat Kutlar (Turkey) [1936-1995]

Lyubomir Levchev (Bulgaria) [1936]

Dacia Maraini (Italy) [1936]

Marcelijus Martinaitis (Lithuania) [1936]

Mohammed Meimouni (Morocco) [1936]

Anatoly Naiman (USSR/now Russia) [1936]

Ottó Orbán (Hungary) [1936]

Alejandra Pizarnick (Argentina/France) [1936-1972]

J. H. Prynne (England) [1936]

Dahlia Ravikovitch (b. Mandatory Palestine/Israel) [1936-2005]

K. Schippers (Netherlands) [1936]

Shin Kyŏngnim (Korea) [1936]

Marin Sorescu (Romania) [1936]

Nikos Stangos (Greece) [1936]

Anne-Marie Albiach (France) [1937-2012]

short obituary on Albiach by Charles Bernstein

“In Memory of Anne-Marie Albiach 1937-2012 by Robin Tremblay-McGraw

Claes Andersson (Finland) [1937]

Unsi al-Haj (Lebanon) [1937]

Bai Qiu (China) [1937]

Kurt Bartsch (DDR/now Germany] [1937]

J. Bernlef [Henk Marsman] (Netherlands) [1937]

Chris Bezzel (Germany) [1937]

Nicolas Born (Germany) [1957-1979]

Arnold de Vos (b. Netherlands/Italy) [1937]

Kathleen Fraser (USA) [1937]

Robin Fulton (England/lives Norway) [1937]

Ivan Gadjanski (Serbia) [1937]

Félix Grande (Spain) [1937]

Susan Howe (USA) [1937]

Review “Keeping History a Secret” (on early Howe books) by Douglas

Messerli

Jolanda Insana (Italy) [1937]

Krzystof Kerasek (Poland) [1937]

Serge Legagneur (Haiti) [1937]

Jean Métellus (Haiti) [1937]

Yunna Morits (Russia) [1937]

Vijaya Mukhopadhyay (India) [1937]

Toby Olson (USA) [1937]

Jean Orizet (France) [1937]

Lily Flores Palomino (Peru/writes in Quechua) [1937]

Michalis Papenicolaou (Greece) [1937]

John Perreault (USA) [1937]

Tom Phillips (England) [1937]

Severo Sarduy (Cuba) [1937-1993]

Pentti Saarikoski (Finland) [1937-1983]

Jutta Schutting (Austria) [1937]

Takahashi Matsuo (Japan) [1937]

*Susana Thénon (Argentina) [1937-1990]

Book Distancias [PDF file]

Judita Vaičiūnaitė (Lithuania) [1937]

Tomas Venclova (Lithuania) [1937]

Mikhail Yeryomin (USSR / now Russia) [1937]

Francisco Alvim (Brazil) [1938]

Nic van Bruggen (Belgium) [1938]

Günter Brus (Austria) [1938]

Chŏng Hyŏnjong (Korea) [1938-1991]

Elke Erb (DDR/ now Germany) [1938]

Dominique Fourcade (France) [1938]

Gösta Friberg (Sweden) [1938]

Oscar Hahn (Chile) [1938]

Fiama Hasse de Pais Brandão (Portugal) [1938-2007]

Hwang Tonggyu (Korea) [1938]

Esmail Khoi (Iran) [1938]

Torgny Lindgren (Sweden) [1938]

Kito Lorenc (DDR/now Germany/writes in Sorbic) [1938]

Dom Moraes (India) [1938-2004]

Eva Mylona (Greece) [1938]

Peter Ortman (Sweden) [1938]

*Tom Raworth (England) [1938]

Book Eternal Sections [PDF file/free]

Ajip Rosidi (Indonesia) [1938]

*Azem Shkreli (Yugoslavia/Kosova) [1938-1997]

Review-essay “The Unshackling of Albanian Poetry” by John Taylor

Dezső Tandori (Hungary) [1938]

Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard (Congo) [1938]

H. C. ten Berge (Netherlands) [1938]

George Thaniel (Greece) [1938-1991]

Gabrielle Althen (France) [1939]

Katerina Angelaki-Rooke (Greece) [1939]

Leonid Aranzon (USSR/Russia) [1939-1970]

Tobias Berggren (Sweden) [1939]

Bill Berkson (USA) [1939]

Volker Braun (DDR/now Germany) [1939]

Beat Brechbüh (Switzerland) [1939]

Nanni Cagnone (Italy) [1939]

Chonggi Mah (Korea) [1939]

Malay Roy Choundhary (Hungary) [1939]

*Clark Coolidge (USA) [1939]

Book Rova Improvisations [PDF file]

Book Solution Passage: Poems 1978-1981 [PDF file]

Essay “Trying to Leave” (on Coolidge in the USSR) by Douglas Messerli

Wystan Curnow (New Zealand) [1939]

Jacques Darras (France) [1939]

Luisa Futoransky (Argentina) [1939]

Hermann Gail (Austria) [1939]

Bogomil Gjuzel (Yugoslavia/Macedonia) [1939]

Jacques Hamelink (Netherlands) [1939]

Lee Harwood (England) [1939]

Jóhann Hjálmarsson [Iceland] [1939]

Alain Lance (France) [1939]

Rakel Liehu (Finland) [1939]

Frank Lima (USA) [1939]

Luiza Neto Jorge (Portugal/lived France) [1939-1989]

José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico) [1939]

Giovanni Quessap (Columbia) [1939]

Aharon Shabtai (Mandatory Palestine/Israel) [1939]

Göran Sonnevi (Sweden) [1939]

Sirkka Turkka (Finland) [1933]

Quincy Troupe (USA) [1939]

Liesl Ujvary (Czechoslavakia/Austria) [1939]

Hans Verhagen (Netherlands) [1939]

Jan Erik Vold (Norway) [1939]

Elisabeth Wandeler-Deck (Switzerland) [1939]

Peter Paul Wiplinger (Austria) [1939]

Yoshimasu Gōzō (Japan) [1939]

Vito Acconci (USA) [1940]

Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Iraq) [1940]

Homero Aridjis (Mexico) [1940]

Kari Aronpuro (Finland) [1940]

Luigi Ballerini (Italy/lives USA) [1940]

Birgitta Boucht (Finland/writes in Swedish) [1940]

Rof Dieter Brinkmann (Germany) [1940-1975]

Tobias Berggren (Sweden) [1940]

Jacques Crickillon (Belgium) [1940]

Māris Čaklais (Latvia) [1940]

César Calvo (Peru) [1940]

Danielle Collobert (France) [1940-1978]

Davertige [Villard Denis] (Haiti/d. Canada) [1940-2004]

Harald Gerlach (Germany) [1940]

Katerina Gogou (Greece) [1940-1993]

Niko Grafenauer (Slovenia) [1940]

Kyríákos Haralambídis (Greece) [1940]

Gunnar Harding (Sweden) [1940]

Emmanuel Hocquard (France) [1940]

Fanny Howe (USA) [1940]

Bernd Jentzsch (DDR/now Germany) [1940]

Adil Jussawalla (India/writes in English) [1940]

Kawata Ayane (China) [1940]

Osvaldo Lamborghini (Argentina) [1940]

Ileana Mălăncioiu (Romania) [1940]

Jan Östergren (Sweden) [1940]

Yamba Ouloguem (Mali) [1940]

Heidi Pataki (Austria) [1940]

Dimitry Prigov (USSR / now Russia) [1940]

Thamnaret (Laos) [c 1940]

Ottó Tolnai (b. Yugoslavia/Hungary) [1940]

Robert Yeo (b. Malaya/Singapore) [1940]

(5) Martha Ronk (USA) [1940]

Elly de Waard (Netherlands) [1940]

Yang Mu (Taiwan) [1940]

Xiong Hong [Hu Meizi] (Taiwan) [1940]

Elolongue Epanya Yondo (Cameroon) [1940]

Ioan Alexandru (Romania) [1941]

Aziz al-Samawi (Iraq) [1941]

Anthony Barnett (England) [1941]

Antonín Brousek (Czechslovakia/now Czech Republic) [1941]

Anna Cascella (Italy) [1941]

Tom Clark (USA) [1941]

Jean Daive (France) [1941]

Mahmād Darwīsh (Palestine) [1941-2008]

Jean-Claude Fignolé (Haiti) [1941]

Barbara Frischmuth (Austria) [1941]

Dick Gallup (USA) [1941]

Melisa Gürpinar (Turkey) [1941]

Michelle Grangaud (France) [1941]

Hedva Harechavi (Madatory Palestine/Israel) [1941]

*Lyn Hejinian (USA) [1941]

Book My Life [PDF file]

Luis Hernández (Peru) [1941-1977]

Wolfgang Hilbig (Germany) [1941-2007]

Rodolfo Hinostroza (Peru) [1941]

Wim Hofman (Netherlands) [1941]

Svetlana Hristova-Jocić (Macedonia) [1941]

Jaan Kaplinski (Estonia) [1941]

Chiha Kim (Korea) [1941]

Claude Mouchard (France) [1941]

Charles North (USA) [1941]

Jyrki Pellinen (Finland) [1941]

Carter Ratcliff (USA) [1941]

Joan Retallack (USA) [1941]

Claude Royet-Journoud (France) [1941]

Tomaž Šalamun (Slovenia [b.Croatia]) [1941]

Pentti Saaritsa (Finland) [1941]

*Adriano Spatola (Italy) [1941-1988]

Essay “Investigative Procedures: Publishing Spatola,” by Douglas Messerli

Mario Suško (Croatia) [1941]

Toon Tellegen (Netherlands) [1941]

Günter Unger (Austria) [1941]

Stefaan van den Brent (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1941]

Guntram Vesper (DDR/now Germany) [1941]

Tom Veitch (USA) [1941]

Guntram Vesper (DDR/Germany) [1941]

Nurit Zarch (Mandatory Palestine/Israel) [1941]

Mariella Bettarini (Italy) [1942]

Ana Blandiana (Romania) [1942]

James Brodey (USA) [1942]

Antonio Cisneros (Peru) [1942]

Visant Abaji Dahake (India/writes in Marathi) [1942]

Anne Duden (Germany) [1942]

Fujii Sadakazu (Japan) [1942]

Vasco Graça Moura (Portugal) [1942]

Ted Greenwald (USA) [1942]

Essay “The Rhythms of the ‘Language’ Poets” (on Charles Bernstein and Ted

Greenwald) by Douglas Messerli

Peter Handke (Austria) [1942]

Javier Héraud (Peru) [1942-1963]

Katalin Ladik (b. Yugoslavia/Hungary) [1942]

(9) Peter Laugesen (Denmark) [1942]

Ann Lauterbach (USA) [1942]

Egidio Molinas Leira (Paraguay/Italy) [1942]

Marco Martos (Peru) [1942]

Hugo Mujica (Argentina) [1942]

Paul-Eerik Rummo (Estonia) [1942]

Ron Padgett (USA) [1942]

Nick Piombino (USA) [1942]

Ali Podrimja (Albania) [1942]

Dine Petrik (Germany) [1942]

Peter Schjeldahl (USA) [1942]

Geoffrey Squires (Ireland/England) [1942]

John Taggart (USA) [1942]

Alain Veinstein (France] [1942]

Eddy van Vliet (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1942-2002]

Risto Ahti (Finland) [1943]

Nicole Brossard (Canada/writes in French) [1943]

Michael Brownstein (USA) [1943]

*Chang Ts’o [Dominic Cheung] (Taiwan/lives USA) [1943]

Argyris Chionis (Greece) [1943]

Michael Davidson (USA) [1943]

Ray DiPalma (USA) [1943]

Luigi Fontanella (Italy) [1943]

Sigitas Geda (Lithuania) [1943]

Jonathan Greene (USA) [1943]

Hsi Muren [see Xi Murong]

Peter Henisch (Austria) [1943]

Im Yŏngjo (Korea) [1943]

Leslie Kaplan (b. USA/France) [1943]

Yánnis Kontós (Greece) [1943]

Michael Krüger (Germany) [1943]

Ryszard Krynicki (b. Austria/Poland) [1943]

Árni Larsson (Iceland) [1943]

Hannu Mäkelä (Finland) [1943]

Miguel Martinón (Canary Islands) [1943]

Nguyễn Khoa Điễm (Viet Nam) [1943]

Mostafa Nissabouri (Morocco) [1943]

Lars Norén (Sweden) [1943]

Imre Oravecz (Hungary) [1943]

Maureen Owen (USA) [1943]

Justo Jorge Padrón (Canary Islands) [1943]

Michael Palmer (USA) [1943]

György Petri (Hungary) [1943-2000]

Ángel Sánchez (Canary Islands) [1943]

Youcef Sebti (Algeria) [1943]

Eira Stenberg (Finland) [1943]

Borben Vladović (Croatia) [1943]

*Xi Murong (Hsi Muren) (b. China/Taiwan) [1943]

Ioanna Zervou (Greece) [1943]

António Franco Alexandre (Portugal) [1944]

Zsófia Balla (b. Romania/Hungary) [1944]

Dario Bellezza (Italy) [1944-1996]

Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco) [1944]

J. Karl Bogartte (USA) [1944]

Predrag Bogdanović Ci (Serbia) [1944]

J. A. Deelder (Netherlands) [1944]

Moma Dimić (Yugoslavia/now Serbia and Montenegro) [1944]

Péter Dobai (Hungary) [1944]

Jörg Fauser (Germany) [1944-1987]

Christoph Hein (Germany) [1944]

Hannu Helin (Finland) [1944]

Franz Hodjak (Romania/Germany) [1944]

Susanne Jorn (Denmark) [1944]

Gerrit Komrij (Netherlands) [1944]

Viktor Krivulin (USSR / now Russia) [1944]

K. Curtis Lyle (USA) [1944]

Duda Machado (Brazil) [1944]

Nitin Mehta (India/writes in Gujarti) [1944]

Michail Mitras (Greece) [1944]

Nancy Morejón (Cuba) [1944]

Torquato Neto (Brazil) [1944]

bpNichol (Canada) [1944-1988]

Lars Norén (Sweden) [1944]

Ernst Nowak (Austria) [1944]

Heleno Oliveira (Brazil/Italy) [1944]

Kees Ouwens (Netherlands) [1944-2004]

Lefteris Poulios (Greece) [1944]

Armando Romero (Columbia) [1944]

André Roy (Canada/writes in French) [1944]

Waly Salomão (Brazil) [1944-2003]

*Leslie Scalapino (USA) [1944-2010]

Dino Siotis (Greece) [1944]

Staffan Söderblom (Sweden) [1944]

Sergey Stratanovsky (USSR / now Russia) [1944]

Johann P. Tammen (Netherlands/Germany] [1944]

Hans Tentije (Netherlands) [1944]

Jürgen Theobaldy (Germany) [1944]

Lorenzo Thomas (b. Panama/USA] [1944-2005]

Galsan Tschinag [Irgit Shynykbai-oglu Dshurukuwaa] (Mongolia) [1944]

Peter Turrini (Austria) [1944]

Paulina Vinderman (Argentina) [1944]

Paul Violi (USA) [1944]

Lewis Warsh (USA) [1944]

Marjorie Welish (USA) [1944]

Wen Jianliu (Taiwan) [1944-1976]

Ý Nhí (Viet Nam) [1944]

Ad Zuiderent (Netherlands) [1944]

Peter Zumpf (Austria) [1944]

Ilse Brem (Austria) [1945]

Maurizio Cucchi (Italy) [1945]

Denis Desautels (Canada/writes in French) [1945]

Anna Enquist (Netherlands) [1945]

Rainer Maria Fassbinder (Germany) [1945-1972]

Ákos Fodor (Hungary) [1945]

Pere Gimferrer (Spain) [1945]

John Godfrey (USA) [1945]

Essay-review “Pretending Swagger” (on Godfrey’s City of Corners) by Douglas

Messerli

Manuel Gusmão (Portugal) [1945]

Kang Ŭn’gyo (Korea) [1945]

Hédi Kaddour (Tunisia/France) [1945]

Irén Kiss (Hungary) [1945]

Frank Koenegracht (Netherlands) [1945]

Mohomed Loakira (Morocco) [1945]

Paulo Leminski (Brazil) [1945-1989]

Ewa Lipska (Poland) [1945]

Bernadette Mayer (USA) [1945]

Essay-review “Anatomy of Self,” by Douglas Messerli

Barbara Maloutas (USA) [1945]

Martin Nakell (USA) [1945]

Rajo Petrov Nogo (Serbia) [1945]

*Henrik Nordbrandt (Denmark) [1945]

Alice Notley (USA) [1945]

Athiná Papadaki (Greece) [1945]

Pradodh Parikh (India/writes in Gujarti) [1945]

Reinhard Priessnitz (Austria) [1945]

Margarita Renberg (Sweden) [1945]

Aleksandr Thachenko (Russia) [1945]

*Paul Vangelisti (USA) [1945]

Násos Vayenás (Greece) [1945]

André Velter (France) [1945]

Anne Waldman (USA) [1945]

Terence Winch (USA) [1945]

Adam Zagajewski (Poland) [1945]

Nazih Abou-Afach (Syria) [1946]

*Demosthenes Agrafiotis (Greece) [1946]

Book Writing Dimensions [PDF file]

Hazem Al-Azmeh (Syria) [1946]

Robert Anker (Netherlands) [1946]

Octavio Armand (Cuba) [1946]

Aicha Arnaout (Syria/Fance) [1946]

Stanisław Bazańczak (Poland) [1946]

Michael Boughn (b. USA/Canada) [1946]

William Cliff (Belgium) [1946]

Wanda Coleman (USA) [1946]

Short memory of Coleman by Juan Felipe Herrera

Antonio Colinas (Spain) [1946]

*Arkadii Dragomoschenko (Russia) [1946-2012]

Book Xenia [on PDF file]

Essay “Lives of the Artists” (on being with Dragomoschenko in Leningrad) by

Douglas Messerli

Biancamaria Frabotta (Italy) [1946]

Lilianne Giraudon (France) [1946]

Natasa Hadzidaki (Greece) [1946]

Ulla Hahn (Germany) [1946]

Paul Hoover (USA) [1946]

William Hurtado de Mendoza (Peru/writes in Quechua) [1946]

Hester Kribbe (Netherlands) [1946]

Julian Kornhauser (Poland) [1946]

Vivian Lamarque (Italy) [1946]

Vivi Luik (Estonia) [1946]

Gérard Macé (France) [1946]

Nicole Malinconi (Belgium) [1946]

Marina (Rena Hadjidhaki) (Greece) [1946]

Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia/France) [1946]

Debarati Mitra (India/writes in Bengali) [1946]

Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland) [1946]

Peter Reading (England) [1946]

Fahmida Riaz (Pakistan) [1946]

Peter Rosei (Austria) [1946]

Excilia Saldaña (Cuba) [1946-1999]

K. Satchidanandan (India/writes in Kerala) [1946]

Ron Silliman (USA) [1946]

José Watanabe (Peru) [1946]

*Rae Armantrout (USA) [1947]

Essay “The Present’s Chronic Revision,” by Douglas Messerli

Mohammed Bentalha (Morocco) [1947]

Mei-mei Bersenbrugge (b. China / USA) [1947]

Patrizia Cavalli (Italy) [1947]

Eugenio De Signoribus (Italy) [1947]

Peter Finch (Wales) [1947]

Tua Forsström (Finland) [1947]

Rhea Galanaki (Greece) [1947]

Guy Goffette (Belgium/France) [1947]

Elena Ignatova (Russia) [1947]

Peter Inman (USA) [1947]

Franck André Jammes (France) [1947]

Jacques Jouet (France) [1947]

Ursula Krechel (Germany) [1947]

Maria Laina (Greece) [1947]

Jarkko Laine (Finland) [1947]

Mirko Lauer (Peru) [1947]

Liz Lochhead (Scotland) [1947]

Nathaniel Mackey (USA) [1947]

Steve McCaffery (Canada/lives USA) [1947]

Zvonko Maković (Croatia) [1947]

*Douglas Messerli (USA) [1947]

Book Dark [PDF file]

Essay “Poetry and Perception” by Douglas Messerli

Essay “Between: the Art of Collaboration,” by Douglas Messerli

Interview with Douglas Messerli by Marjorie Perloff

Essay “What Is to Be Done” (on the condition of poetry reviewing in the early 21^st

Century) by Douglas Messerli

Essay “Giving Poetry ‘Back to People,’” by Douglas Messerli

Interview “The Future of Poetry Publishing” by Jeffrey Slide with Douglas Messerli

Introduction to The PIP Anthology of World Poetry, Volume 4, “American Values” by

by Douglas Messerli

Review of Messerli’s Some Distance and Dinner on the Lawn by Peter Inman

Agi Misho (b. Hungary/Israel) [1947]

Charles Mungoshi (Zimbabwe) [1947]

Leonard Nolens (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1947]

Rafael Patiñ (Columbia) [1947]

Yannis Patilis (Greece) [1947]

Sebastien Reichmann (Romania/France) [1947]

Lev Rubinshtein (Russia) [1947]

Said (b. Iran/Germany) [1947]

Abelardo Sánchez Léon (Peru) [1947]

David Shapiro (USA) [1947]

Aaron Shurin (USA) [1947]

Sony Labou Tansi (Zaire) [1947-1995]

Habib Tengour (Algeria) [1947]

Miloslav Tešić (Serbia and Montenegro) [1947]

Agim Vinca (Albania) [1947]

Hans Vlek (Netherlands) [1947]

Jacques Werup (Sweden) [1947]

Mikhail Aizenberg (USSR / now Russia ) [1948]

Will Alexander (USA) [1948]

Urs Allemann (Switzerland) [1948]

Dvora Amir (Israel) [1948]

Bruce Andrews (USA) [1948]

Essay-review “Wordscape Poets” (on works by Bernstein, Andrews, and Perelman)

by Douglas Messerli

Eqrem Basha (Albania) [1948]

Claude Beausoleil (Canada/writes in French) [1948]

Ahmed Belbdaoui (Morocco) [1948]

Mohammed Bennis (Morocco) [1948]

Arie van den Berg (Netherlands) [1948-1986]

Rosita Copioli (Italy) [1948]

F. van Dixhoorn (Netherlands) [1948]

Eva Gerlach (Netherlands) [1948]

Dimitis Kalokyris (Greece) [1948]

Natasha Lako (Albania) [1948]

Raša Livada (Serbia) [1948]

Bardhyl Londo (Albania) [1948]

Ljubica Miletić (Serbia) [1948]

Jit Narain (Surinam/writes in Sarami) [1948]

Sigúrdur Pálsson (Iceland) [1948]

Pavlina Pampoudi (Greece) [1948]

*Stephen Ratcliffe (USA) [1948]

Elena Shvarts (USSR / now Russia) [1948]

Thangjam Ibopishak Singh (India/writes in Manipuri) [1948]

Piotr Sommer (Poland) [1948]

Milorad Stojević (Croatia) [1948]

Milko Valent (Croatia) [1948]

Juhan Viiding (Estonia) [1948]

Dušan Vukajlović (Serbia) [1948]

*Barrett Watten (USA) [1948]

Annie Zedek (France) [1948]

Ivan Zhadanov (USSR / now Russia) [1948]

Joseph Anouma (Ivory Coast) [1949]

Braulio Arenas (Chile) [1949]

Tatiana Bek (USSR / now Russia) [1949]

Bei Dao (China/lives Hong Kong) [1949]

Normand de Bellefeuille (Canada/writes in French) [1949]

Horacio Benavideo (Columia) [1949]

Steve Benson (USA) [1949]

Maria Efstathiadi (Greece) [1949]

Ivo Frbéžar (Slovenia) [1949]

Jean Chepdelaine Gagnon (Canada/writes in French) [1949]

Michael Gizzi (USA) [1949]

Pedro Guitérrez Revuelta (Spain) [1949]

Alan Halsey (England) [1949]

Tsjêbbe Hettinga (Netherlands) [1949]

Inagawa Masato (Japan) [1949]

Jiang He [Yu Youze] [1949]

Nuno Júdice (Portugal) [1949]

Péter Kánton (Hungary) [1949]

Gerhard Kofler (Austria) [1949-2005]

Lee Shi-Yŏng (Korea) [1949]

Oleh Lysheha (Ukraine) [1949]

János Marno (Hungary) [1949]

Monzer Masri (Syria) [1949]

Jenny Mastoraki (Greece) [1949]

Eileen Myles (USA) [1949]

Andreas Pagoulatos (Greece) [1949]

Anne Portugal (France) [1949]

Essay-review “At Point Zero” (on Portugal’s Nude) by Douglas Messerli

Nestor Perlongher (Argentina) [1949]

Olga Sedakova (USSR / now Russia) [1949]

Stephanos Stephanides (Cyprus) [1949]

Novica Tadić (Serbia) [1949]

Pierre Voélin (Switzerland) [1949]

Helmut Zenker (Austria) [1949]

Moikom Zeqo (Albania) [1949]

Charles Bernstein (USA) [1950]

Book Dark City [PDF file/free]

Essay “Talking in Circles” (on Bernstein’s The Attack of the Difficult Poems) by

Douglas Messerli

Essay-review “The Possibility of Rectitude” (on Bernstein’s Let’s Just Say) by

Douglas Messerli

Essay “Making the Mind Whole” (on Bernstein’s Controlling Interests) by

Douglas Messerli

Essay-review “Wordscape Poets” (on works by Bernstein, Andrews, and Perelman)

by Douglas Messerli

Essay “The Rhythms of the ‘Language’ Poets” (on Charles Bernstein and TedGreenwald) by Douglas Messerli

Review "Micro-Review: On Charles Bernstein's Recalculating" by Adam Fitzgerald
Rosa Alice Branco (Portugal) [1950]

Veroniki Dalakouri (Greece) [1950]

Tina Darragh (USA) [1950]

Essay “Pat Nixon’s Cloth Coat” (on being with Darragh) by Douglas Messerli

Mircea Dinescu (Romania) [1950]

Aleksandr Eremenko (Russia) [1950]

Elvira Hernandez (Chile) [1950]

Hiraide Takashi (Japan) [1950]

Walidl Khazindar (Palestine) [1950]

Mang Ke (China) [1950]

Medbh McGuckian (Ireland) [1950]

Michèle Métail (France) [1950]

Bratislav Milanović (Serbia) [1950]

A. L. Nielsen (USA) [1950]

Jean Portante (Luxembourg/France) [1950]

Meredith Quartermain (Canada) [1950]

Zsuzsa Rakovszky (Hungary) [1950]

Martin Reints (Netherlands) [1950]

Gabriella Sica (Italy) [1950]

Michael Speier (Germany) [1950]

Enrique Verástegui (Peru) [1950]

Jean-Luc Wauthier (Belgium) [1950]

Raúl Zurita (Chile) [1950]

Ralph Angel (USA) [1951]

Bernardo Atxaga (Joseba Irazu Garmendia) (Spain) [1951]

Faraj Bayraqdar (Syria) [1951]

Alberto Blanco (Mexico) [1951]

Tahar Bekri (Tunisia) [1951]

Coral Bracho (Mexico) [1951]

Milo De Angelis (Italy) [1951]

Jean-Marc Desgent (Canada/writes in French) [1951]

Duo Duo (Li Shizheng) (China) [1951]

Gerhard Falkner (Germany) [1951]

Júlio Castañon Guimarães (Brazil) [1951]

Alamgir Hasmi (Pakistan) [1951]

Stefan Hertmans (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1951]

Ashfaq Hussain (Pakistan) [1951]

Nina Iskrenko (USSR / now Russia) [1951-1995]

Patricia Jones Spears (USA) [1951]

Svetlana Kekova (USSR / now Russia) [1951]

Endre Kukorelly (Hungary) [1951]

Kata Kularkova (Macedonia) [1951]

Li Gang (China) [1951]

Rachida Madani (Morocco) [1951]

Mang Ke (Jiang Shiwei) (China) [1951]

Marianne Larsen (Denmark) [1951]

Yorgos Markópoulos (Greece) [1951]

*Sheila E. Murphy (USA) [1951]

María Negroni (Argentina) [1951]

Maggie O’Sullivan (England) [1951]

Willem Jan Otten (Netherlands) [1951]

Lidia Amalia Palazzolo (Argentina/Italy) [1951]

*Dennis Phillips (USA) [1951]

Mirta Rosenberg (Argentina) [1951]

Michael Rothenberg (USA) [1951]

Hélène Sanguinetti (France) [1951]

Ronny Someck (b. Iraq/Israel) [1951]

Fiona Templeton (b. Scotland/USA) [1951]

Raúl Zarita (Chile) [1951]

Gerald Zschorsch (Germany) [1951]

Medhi Akhrif (Morocco) [1952]

Károly Bari (Hungary) [1952]

Enis Batur (Turkey) [1952]

Ana Cristina Cesar (Brazil) [1952-1983]

Maxine Chernoff (USA) [1952]

Pura López Colomé (Mexico) [1952]

Franz Josef Czernin (Austria) [1952]

Stig Dalager (Denmark) [1952]

Nichita Danilov (Romania) [1952]

Esther Dischereit (Germany) [1952]

Charles Ducal [Frans Dumortier] (Beligum/writes in Dutch) [1952]

Sergey Gandlevsky (USSR / now Russia) [1952]

Hwang Jiwoo (Korea) [1952]

Adrianna Ierodiaconou (Greece) [1952]

Hanif Janabi (Iraq) 1952

Essay-review “Between Gesticulation and Thought” (on Janabi’s Questions of Retinue)

by Douglas Messerli

Kama Kamanda (The Congo/now Zaire) [1952]

Waqas Ahmad Khwaja (Pakistan) [1952]

Antjie Krog (South Africa) [1952]

Ndjock Ngana Ygo Ndjock (Cameroon/Italy) [1952]

Kim Sŭnghŭi (Korea) [1952]

Joke van Leeuwen (Netherlands) [1952]

Ivana Milankova (Serbia) [1952]

Grzegorz Musiał (Poland) [1952]

Antoni Pawlak (Poland) [1952]

Jorge Santiago Peradnik (Argentina) [1952-2011]

Frances Presley (England) [1952]

Lutz Rathenow (DDR/now Germany) [1952]

*Reina María Rodríguez (Cuba) [1952]

Andrés Sáchez Roboyna (Canary Islands) [1952]

Amina Saïd (Tunisia/France) [1952]

Blanca Strepponi (Veneuzuela) [1952]

Pia Tafdrup (Denmark) [1952]

Shu Ting [Gong Peiyu] (China) [1952]

Miriam Van hee (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1952]

Richard Wagner (b. Romania/Germany) [1952]

*Visar Zhiti (Albania) [1952]

Review-essay “The Unshackling of Albanian Poetry” by John Taylor

Atsuko Nagami (Japan) [1953-1985]

*Thérèse Bachand (USA) [1953]

Lenora de Barros (Brazil) [1953]

Roberto Bolaño (Chile) [1953-2003]

Klavs Bondejerg (Denmark) [1953]

*Chen I-chih (Taiwan) [1953]

Elaine Equi (USA) [1953]

Kinga Fabó (Hungary) [1953]

Adónis Fostiéris (Greece) [1953]

Katarina Frostenson (Sweden) [1953]

Kim Soo-bok (Korea) [1953]

Luuk Grunwez (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1953]

Christian Ide Hintze (Austria) [1953-2012]

Thea Laitef (Iraq/Italy) [1953]

Bonisław Maj (Poland) [1953]

Salman Masalha (Israel) [1953]

Harryette Mullen (USA) [1953]

Lajos Parti Nagy (Hungary) [1953]

Tonnus Oosterhoff (Netherlands) [1953]

Ralf Rothmann (Germany) [1953]

Erse Soteropoulou (Greece) [1953]

David Levi Straus (USA) [1953]

Edvin Sugarev (Bulgaria) [1953]

Sabine Techel (Germany) [1953]

Manuel Ulacia (Mexico) [1953-2001]

Patrizia Valduga (Italy) [1953]

John Wilkinson (England) [1953]

George Albon (USA) [1954]

Zoran Ančevski (Macedona) [1954]

Yuri Arabov (USSR / now Russia) [1954]

Elma van Aren (Netherlands) [1954]

Carlos Ávila(Brazil) [1954]

Ella Bat-Tsion (Israel) [1954]

Béla Bodor (Hungary) [1954]

Miguel Casado (Spain) [1954]

José Carlos Cataño (Canary Islands) [1954]

Vera Čejkovska (Macedonia) [1954]

Horácio Costa (Brazil) [1954]

Tahar Djaout (Algeria) [1954-1993]

Sylviane Dupius (Switzerland) [1954]

Fang Eghen (Malaysia/Taiwan) [1954]

Gőyőz Ferencz (Hungary) [1954]

Joy Goswami (India/writes in Bengali) [1954]

John Latta (USA) [1954]

Yves di Manno (France) [1954]

Hassan Al Nassar (Iraq/Italy) [1954]

Lyubomir Nikolov (Bulgaria) [1954]

Ysabel Novillo (Venezuela) [1954]

Alexei Parshchikov (USSR / now Russia) [1954]

Irina Ratushinskaya (USSR / now Russia) [1954]

Elisabeth Rynell (Sweden) [1954]

Tatiana Shcherbina (USSR / now Russia) [1954]

Hans Thill (Germany) [1954]

Aleksandr Tkachenko (USSR / now Russia) [1954]

Pasquale Verdicchio (b. Italy/USA) [1954]

Anka Zagar (Croatia) [1954]

Tibor Zalán (Hungary) [1954]

Kurt Aebli (Switzerland) [1955]

Antonella Amedda (Italy) [1955]

Edda Armas (Venezuela) [1955]

*Régis Bonvicino (Brazil) [1955]

Essay “The Professor of Everything and the Professor of Nothing” (on Bonvicino in

São Paulo) (with note)

Magda Cârneci (Romania) [1955]

Bo Green Jensen (Denmark) [1955]

Eva Jensen (Norway) [1955]

Ahmet Güntan (Turkey) [1955]

Hirata Toshiko (Japan) [1955]

Ann Jäderlund (Sweden) [1955]

Kim Hyesun (Korea) [1955]

Ito Hiromi (Japan) [1955]

Mark Insingel (Beligum/writes in Dutch) [1955]

Andrew Joron (USA) [1955]

Jayant Kaikini (India/writes in Kannada) [1955]

Stig Larsson (Sweden) [1955]

Sabine Macher (b. Germany/France) [1955]

Julián Malatesta (Columbia) [1955]

Julio Monteiro Martins (Brazil/Italy) [1955]

Lui Zhicheng (Taiwan) [1955]

Erin Mouré (Canada) [1955]

Brigitte Oleschinski (Germany) [1955]

Chus Pato (María Xesús Pato Díaz) (Spain) [1955]

Olivier Salon (France) [1955]

Robert Sheppard (England) [1955]

*Cole Swensen (USA) [1955]

Veronica Volknow (Mexico) [1955]

Wang Xiaoni (China) [1955]

Mubarak Wassat (Morocco) [1955]

*Yang Lian (China [b. Switzerland]/China/New Zealand] [1955]

María Auxiliadora Alvarez (Venezuela) [1956]

Jan Baeke (Netherlands) [1956]

Attila Balogh (Hungary) [1956]

Maréad Byrnne (Ireland/USA] [1957]

Todd Baron (USA) [1956]

Haydar Ergülen (Turkey) [1956]

Rajendra Ghandari (India/writes in Nepali) [1956]

*Olivier Cadiot (France) [1956]

Kelvin Corcoran (England) [1956]

Sharon Dolin (USA) [1956]

Michael Donhauser (Austria) [1956]

Arjen Duinker (Netherlands) [1956]

László Garaczi (Hungary) [1956]

Gu Cheng (China) [1956-1993]

Ha Jin (China) [1956]

Tomás Harris (Chile) [1956]

Peter Hughes (England) [1956]

Jiao Tong (Taiwan) [1956]

Laus Lynggaard (Denmark) [1956]

Marianna Marin (Romania) [1956]

*Deborah Meadows (USA) [1956]

Arto Melleri (Finland) [1956]

Hala Mohammad (Syria) [1956]

Rusty Morrison (USA) [1956]

Lale Müldür (Turkey) [1956]

Amir Or (Israel) [1956]

Bert Papenfuss (b. East Germany/now Germany) [1956]

Jean-Baptiste Para (France) [1956]

Park Kyong-Mi (Korea/Japan) [1956]

Karen Press (South Africa) [1956]

Tahar Riyadh (Jordan) [1956]

Mark Salerno (USA) [1956]

María Sanz (Spain) [1956]

Ian Seed (England) [1956]

Božidar Stanišić (Bosnia/Italy) [1956]

Søren Ulrik Thomsen (Denmark) [1956]

Jotie T’Hofft (Belgium) [1956-1977]

Mark van Tongele (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1956]

Carlos Vásquez (Columbia) [1956]

Diane Ward (USA) [1956]

Peter Waterhouse (Germany/Austria) [1956]

Mario Wirz (Germany) [1956]

Xia Yu [Tong Dalong] (Taiwan) [1956]

Josely Vianna Baptista (Brazil) [1957]

Ulrich Johannes Beil (Germany) [1957]

Jan Baetens (Belgium) [1957]

Alessando Cenci (Italy) [1957]

Chou Ping (China) [1957]

Adam Fehti (Tunisia) [1957]

Patrizia Gattaceca (France) [1957]

Gëzim Hajdari (Albania/Italy) [1957]

Pap Khouma (Senegal/Italy) [1957]

Thomas Kling (Germany) [1957-2005]

Uwe Kolbe (DDR/now Germany) [1957]

Valeria Magrelli (Italy) [1957]

Patricia de Martelaere (Belgium) [1957]

Jürgen Nendza (Germany) [1957]

Pak Nohae (Korea) [1957]

Pascal Nottet (Belgium) [1957]

Fabio Pusterla (Switzerland) [1957]

Manuel Rivas (Spain) [1957]

Hansjörg Schertenleich (Switzerland) [1957]

Tran Tien Dung (Viet Nam) [1957]

Nina Zivanćević (Serbia/lives France) [1957]

Haris Vlavianós (Greece) [1957]

Nelson Ascher (Brazil) [1958]

Essay “The Professor of Everything and the Professor of Nothing” (on Ascher in São

Paulo) (with note)

Pieter Boskma (Netherlands) [1958]

Age de Carvalho (Brazil/lives Austria) [1958]

Ariane Dreyfus (France) [1958]

Vladimir Druk (Russia) [1958]

Janko Ferk (Slovenia) [1958]

Luis García Montero (Spain) [1958]

Piet Gerbrandy (Netherlands) [1958]

Esther Jansma (Netherlands) [1958]

Abdullah Konushevci (Albania) [1958]

Tom Lanoye (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1958]

Pascalle Monnier (France) [1958]

Laura Mullen (USA) [1958]

Charl-Pierre Naudé (South Africa) [1958]

Anne Vegter (Netherlands) [1958]

Robert Fitterman (USA) [1959]

Peter Gizzi (USA) [1959]

Tamir Greenberg (Israel) [1959]

David Kinloch (Scotland) [1959]

Essay “Journey to the House of Shaws” (on Kinloch’s My Father’s House) by Douglas

Messerli

Barbara Köhler (Germany) [1959]

Erik Menkveld (Netherlands) [1959]

Emmanuel Moses (Morocco/France) [1959]

Hassan Najmi (Morocco) [1959]

Lauri Otonkoski (Finland) [1959]

András Petőcz (Hungary) [1959]

Satu Salminiitty (Finland) [1959]

Susan Schultz (USA) [1959]

Song Chanho (Korea) [1959]

Andrej Sosnowski (Poland) [1959]

Leo Tuor (Switzerland/writes in Sursilvan) [1959]

Mustafa Ziyalan (Turkey) [1959]

Eugenijus Ališanka (Lithuania) [1960]

Arnaldo Antunes (Brazil) [1960]

Daniel Bănulescu (Romania) [1960]

Ahmed Barakat (Morocco) [1960-1994]

Felipe Benítez Reyes (Spain) [1960]

Guy Bennett (USA) [1960]

Thomas Boberg (Denmark) [1960]

Angela de Campos (Brazil) [1960]

Eduardo Chirinos (Peru) [1960]

Connie Deanovich (USA) [1960]

Christopher Davis (USA) [1960]

*Dieter M. Gräf (Germany) [1960]

Bruno Grégoire (France) [1960]

H. L. Hix (USA) [1960]

Peter Holvoet-Hanssen (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1960]

Ger Killeen (b. Ireland/USA) [1960]

Ilya Kutik (b. Ukraine / Russia) [1960]

Wafaa Lamrani (Morocco) [1960]

Boiko Lambovski (Bulgaria) [1960]

Adília Lopes (Portugal) [1960]

Rupert Loydell (England) [1960]

Hélène Monette (Canada/writes in French) [1960]

Ian Monk (England) [1960]

Hrvoje Pejankovic (Croatia) [1960]

Lysandros Pitharas (Cyprus) [1960-1992]

Olga Popova (USSR / now Russia) [1960]

Delimir Rešicki (Croatia) [1960]

*Joe Ross (USA) [1960]

Book Wordlick [PDF file]

Erik Spinoy (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1960]

Wilfried Steiner (Austria) [1960]

Peter Theunynck (Belgium) [1960]

Dirk van Bastelaere (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1960]

Anamika (India/writes in Hindi) [1961]

Martine Audet (Canada/writes in French) [1961]

Carlito Azevedo (Brazil) [1961]

Federico Tavares Bastos Barbosa (Brazil) [1961]

Molly Bendall (USA) [1961]

Aleš Debeljak (Slovenia) [1961]

Anne Feddema (Netherlands) [1961]

Mohammed Fouad (Syria) [1961]

Alojz Ihan (Slovenia) [1961]

István Kemény (Hungary) [1961]

Zohra Mansouri (Morocco) [1961]

José Antonio Mazzotti (Peru) [1961]

Jorge Palma (Uruguay) [1961]

Christopher Reiner (USA) [1961]

Lisa Robertson (Canada/lives France) [1961]

Elizabeth Robinson (USA) [1961]

Zafer Şenocak (b. Turkey/Germany) [1961]

Peter Jay Shippy (USA) [1961]

Farhad Showghi (b. Czech Republic/Germany) [1961]

Marcin Świetlicki (Poland) [1961]

Elizabeth Willis (USA) [1961]

Nachoem M. Wijnberg (Netherlands) [1961]

Anna Aguilar-Amat (Spain) [1962]

Annemette Kure Andersen (Denmark) [1962]

Radu Andriescu (Romania) [1962]

Sami Baydar (Turkey) [1962]

Finuala Dowling (South Africa) [1962]

Ulrike Draesner (Germany) [1962]

Seyhan Erözçelik (Turkey) [1962]

Juan Carlos Flores (Cuba) [1962]

Durs Grünbein (Germany) [1962]

Norbert Hummelt (Germany) [1962]

Pia Juul (Denmark) [1962]

Karel Logist (Belgium) [1962]

Maran Masri (Syria) [1962]

Campbell McGrath (USA) [1962]

Rosano Rosi (Belgium) [1962]

Håkan Sandell (Sweden) [1962]

Sjón (Iceland) [1962]

Rod Smith (USA) [1962]

Tang Yaping (China) [1962]

Paulo Teixeiro (Mozambique) [1962]

Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (Poland) [1962]

Sádor Tatár (Hungary) [1962]

Peter Verhelst (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1962]

Nathan Wasserman (Israel) [1962]

Grezogorz Wróblewski (b. Poland/Denmark) [1962]

Mimoza Ahmeti (Albania) [1963]

Pierre Alferi (France) [1963]

Andreas Altmann (Germany) [1963]

Naja Marie Aidt (Denmark) [1963]

Ruxandra Cesereanu (Romania) [1963]

MTC Cronin (Australia) [1963]

Kristin Dimitrova (Bulgaria) [1963]

Linh Dinh (b. Vietnam/lives England) [1963]

*Oswald Egger (Austria) [1963]

Niels Frank (Denmark) [1963]

Frédérique Guétat-Liviani (France) [1963]

Abed Ismaïl (Syria) [1963]

Marzanna Kielar (Poland) [1963]

John Kinsella (Australia) [1963]

Birhan Keski (Turkey) [1963]

Krzysztof Koehler (Poland) [1963]

Gazmend Krasniqi (Albania) [1963]

Uche Nduka (Nigeria) [1963]

Mete Özel (Turkey) [1963]

Jacek Podsiadło (Poland) [1963]

Claudia Roquette-Pinto (Brazil) [1963]

Lutz Seiler (Germany) [1963]

Ulf Stolterfoht (Germany) [1963]

Jouni Tossaveinen (Finland) [1963]

Christian Uetz (Switzerland) [1963]

Henning Ahrens (Germany) [1964]

Szilárd Borbély (Hungary) [1964]

Ute Eisinger (Austria) [1964]

Emilian Galaicu-Păun (Moldova) [1964]

Nathalie Gassel (Belgium) [1964]

Küçük İskender (Turkey) [1964]

Margret Kreidl (Austria) [1964]

Michael Lentz (Germany) [1964]

Rob McKenzie (Scotland) [1964]

Drew Milne (Scotland) [1964]

Efrat Mishori (Israel) [1964]

Bart Moeyaert (Belgium) [1964]

Antônio Moura (Brazil) [1964]

Jennifer Moxley (USA) [1964]

Andreas Neeser (Switzerland) [1964]

Rasha Omran (Syria) [1964]

Sibila Petlevski (Croatia) [1964]

Lars Mikael Raatamaa (Sweden) [1964]

Martin Reiner (Czech Republic) [1964]

Davide Rondoni (Italy) [1964]

Raoul Schrott (Austria) [1964]

Barbara Serdakowski (b. Poland/Morocco/Canada/Italy) [1964]

Gali-Dana Singer (b. Russia/Israel) [1964]

Damir Šodan (Croatia) [1964]

Christophe Tarkos (France) [1964]

*Rodrigo Toscano (USA) [1964]

István Vörös (Hungary) [1964]

Anahid Baklu (Iran/Italy) [1965]

Marcel Beyer (Germany) [1965]

Zoran Bognar (Yugoslavia/now Serbia) [1965]

Jalal El Hakmaoui (Morocco) [1965]

Kirsten Hamman (Denmark) [1965]

Mark Kanak (USA) [1965]

Miroslav Kirin (Croatia) [1965]

Timothy Liu (USA) [1965]

José Tolentino Mendonça (Portugal) [1965]

Bart Meuleman (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1965]

Dunya Mikhail (Iraq/USA) [1965]

Sandra Moussempès (France) [1965]

Spale Miro Stevanović (Bosnia/Italy) [1965]

Vincent Tholomé (Belgium) [1965]

Peer Wittenbols (Netherlands) [1965]

Dana Amir (Israel) [1966]

Christian Bök (Canada) [1966]

Rui Coias (Portugal) [1966]

Elizabeth Cross (USA) [1965]

Lukman Derky (Syria) [1966]

Kersten Flenter (Germany) [1966]

Katrine Marie Guldager (Denmark) [1966]

Sharon Haas (Israel) [1966]

Pilote le Hot (France) [1966]

*Hsu Hui-chih (Taiwan) [1966]

Jouni Inkala (Finland) [1966]

Inman Mersel (Egypt) [1966]

Pavel Pepperstein (Russia) [1966]

Belázs Simon (Hungary) [1966-2001]

Menno Wigman (Netherlands) [1966]

Mahmoud Abdelghani (Morocco) [1967]

Kriszta Bódis (Hungary) [1967]

Pui Pires Cabra (Macedo de Cavaleiros) (Portugal) [1967]

Catherine Daly (USA) [1967]

Sarah Law (England) [1967]

Immanuel Mifsud (Malta) [1967]

Valérie Rouzeau (France) [1967]

Lyon Shternberg (Israel) [1967]

Ewa Sonnenberg (Poland) [1967]

Taguchi Inuo (Japan) [1967]

Karen Volkman (USA) [1967]

Achim Wagner (Germany) [1967]

Adam Wiedemann (Poland) [1967]

Christoph W. Bauer (Germany) [1968]

Paul Bogaert (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1968]

Franklin Bruno (USA) [1968]

Miles Champion (England) [1968]

Virág Erdös (Hungary) [1968]

Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria) [1968]

Mohammed Hmoudane (Morocco) [1968]

Janus Kodal (Denmark) [1968]

Francesco Levato (USA) [1968]

Erik Lindner (Netherlands) [1968]

Luljeta Lleshanaku (Albania) [1968]

Niels Lyngsø (Denmark) [1968]

Eugene Ostashevsky (b. USSR/USA) [1968]

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (Netherlands) [1968]

Giovanna Frene (Sandra Bortolazzo) (Italy) [1968]

Luís Quintais (b. Angola/Portugal) [1968]

Andrea Raos (Italy) [1968]

Abdel-Illah Salhi (Morocco) [1968]

Dariusz Suska (Poland) [1968]

Artur Szlosarek (Poland) [1968]

Tibor Vass (Hungary) [1968]

G. C. Waldrep (USA) [1968]

Daniel Bouchard (USA) [1969]

Mihai Mircea Butcovan (Romania/Italy) [1969]

Ranjit Hoskote (India/writes in English) [1969]

Gür Genç (Cyprus) [1969]

Marco Giovenale (Italy) [1969]

Matthais Göritz (Germany) [1969]

Joanna Klink (USA) [1969]

Elmar Kuiper (Netherlands) [1969]

Jan Lauwereyns (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1969]

David Lespiau (France) [1969]

Monika Rinck (Germany) [1969]

Gábor Schein (Hungary) [1969]

Albertina Soepboer (Netherlands) [1969]

Mark Boog (Netherlands) [1970]

Stephen Cope (USA) [1970]

Eva Cox (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1970]

Graham Foust (USA) [1970]

Kim Haeng-sook (South Korea) [1970]

Didem Madak (Turkey) [1970]

Ange Mlinko (USA) [1970]

Vincenzo Ostuni (Italy) [1970]

Laura Pugno (Italy) [1970]

Sabine Scho (Germany) [1971]

János Terey (Hungary) [1970]

Umar Timol (Mauritius/writes in French) [1970]

Kirmen Uribe (Spain) [1970]

Michele Zaffarno (Italy) [1970]

Péter Zilahy (Hungary) [1970]

Beert Buelens (Belgium) [1971]

Primož Čučnik (Slovenia) [1971]

Lidija Dimkovska (Macedonia) [1971]

Daniel Faria (Portugal) [1971-1999]

Tatjana Gromača (Croatia) [1971]

Hendrik Jackson (Germany) [1971]

János Lackfi (Hungary) [1971]

Aaron McCollough (USA) [1971]

George Murray (Canada) [1971]

Graham Nunn (Australia) [1971]

Marijana Radmilović (Croatia) [1971]

Standard Schaefer (USA) [1971]

Anna T. Szabő (Hungary) [1971]

Jan Wagner (Germany) [1971]

Allyssa Wolf (USA) [1971]

Shimon Adaf (Israel) [1972]

Lindita Arapi (Albania) [1972]

Gentian Çoçoli (Albania) [1972]

Caarle Coppens (Canada/writes in French) [1972]

Eva Corino (Germany) [1972]

Florinda Fusco (Italy) [1972]

Katy Lederer (USA) [1972]

Michael Riley (Australia) [1972]

Anne Shaw (USA) [1972]

Sébastien Smirou (France) [1972]

Parid Teferiçi (Albania) [1972]

Italo Testa (Italy) [1972]

Sarah Vap (USA) [1972]

Brian Blanchfield (USA) [1973]

Alessandro Broggi (Italy) [1973]

Romeo Çollaku (Albania) [1973]

Gerald Fiebig (Germany) [1973]

Andrej Khadarovich (Belarus) [1973]

Lisa Lubasch (USA) [1973]

Massimo Sannelli (Italy) [1973]

Ece Temelkuran (Turkey) [1973]

Anja Utler (Germany/lives Austria) [1973]

Ron Winkler (Germany) [1973]

Yin Lichuan (China) [1973]

Tammy Armstrong (Canada) [1974]

Marcos Canteli (Spain) [1974]

Beatrix Haustein (b. DDR/Germany) [1974-2002]

Jiba Karabassi (Iran/lives London and Paris) [1974]

Matteo Lefèvre (Italy) [1974]

Matt Robinson (Canada) [1974]

Brian Teare (USA) [1974]

Raphael Urweider (Switzerland) [1974]

Sara Ventroni (Italy) [1974]

Serhiy Zhadan (Ukraine) [1974]

Francesca Genti (Italy) [1975]

Catherine Meng (USA) [1975]

Ethan Paquin (USA) [1975]

Gojan Radašinovič (Croatia) [1975]

Mariago Alexopoulou (Greece) [1976]

Ubex Cristina Ali Farah (Somalia/Italy) [1976]

Eva Kallio (Russia) [1976]

Levente Király (Hungary) [1976]

Aliona Karimova (Russia) [1976]

Els Moors (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1976]

Jan Röhnert (b. DDR/Germany) [1976]

Aki Salmela (Finland) [1976]

Daniel Falb (Germany) [1977]

Jeoroen Theunissen (Belgium/writes in Dutch) [1977]

Rob Stanton (England) [1977]

Steffen Popp (b. DDR/now Germany) [1978]

Balázs Szalinger (Hungary) [1978]

Viktar Žybul (Belarus) [1978]

Vlado Bulić (Croatia) [1979]

Kim Doré (Canada/writes in French) [1979]

Sieger M. Geertsma (Netherlands) [1979]

Ana Gorría (Spain) [1979]

Uljana Wolf (Germany) [1979]

Lucía Estrada (Columbia) [1980]

Robert Fernandez (USA) [1980]

Kuba Mokrosinski (Poland/England) [1980]

Andrea Cote (Columbia) [1981]

Valzhyna Mort (Belarus) [1981]

Ann Cotton (b. USA/Austria) [1982]

Nora Sossong (Germany) [1982]

Julia Istomina (b. USSR/USA) [1983]

POETRY GROUPS, ORGANIZATIONS, MAGAZINES, PRESSES, CRITICS, TRANSLATORS, ANTHOLOGIES, AND OTHER RELATED POETIC MANIFESTATIONS

Acmeism (Russia)

The Antwerp Pink Poets (Belgium)

Albanian Poetry

Essay “The Unshackling of Albanian Poetry” by John Taylor

The Atom Poets (Iceland)

The Auden Group (England)

Avec (magazine) (USA)

The Beats (USA)

Beyond Baroque (USA)

Big Deal (magazine) (USA)

The Black Mountain Poets (USA)

Black Sparrow Press (USA)

Blast (magazine)/Vorticism(England)

The Brazilian Modernists (Brazil)

Brazilian Poetry (Brazil)

Burning Deck (USA)

Caterpiller (magazine) (USA)

Chelsea Review (magazine) (USA)

Circumcontetive Poetry (India and elsewhere, Bengali language) [link]

City Lights Books (USA)

Concrete Poetry (international)

Conjunctions (magazine) (USA)

Los Contemporáneos (The Contemporaries) (Mexico)

Creacionismo (Creationism) (Chile)

Cubism (France and elsewhere)

Dada (France and elsewhere)

The Deep Image Poets (USA)

Devetsil (Nine Powers) (Czechoslavakia)

De Bizige Bij (Netherlands)

Elan Poetry Group (Ecuador)

Eniuadi (Italy)

Expressionism (Germany and elsewhere)

Fata Morgana (France)

The “Fiftiers” (Vijifigers) (Netherlands and Belgium) / see Vijifigers

Flammarion (France)

Fluxus Movement (USA and elsewhere)

The Folio Group (USA)

From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry 1960-1995 (USA)

The Fugitives (USA)

Fulcrum Press (England)

Éditions Gallimard (France)

Garip (The Strange) (Turkey)

The Generation of ‘27 (Spain)

The Generation of ’68 (Poland)

Green Integer (USA)

Grove Press (USA)

Grupo dos Cinco (Group of Five) (Brazil)

Grupo Viennes (Venezuela)

Haiti Littéraire (The Literary Haiti Group) (Haiti)

The Harlem Movement (USA)

I Novissimi (The New Ones) (Italy)

Book I Novissimi [PDF file]

Imagism (Imagisme) (USA)

Invisible City (magazine) (USA)

Italian Futurism

Japanese American Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku (USA)

The Jargon Society (USA)

Katydid Books (USA)

Là-bas (magazine) (USA)

The “Language” Poets (USA)

Essay “Language Poetries” [with note] by Douglas Messerli

Essay “The Rhythms of the ‘Language’ Poets” (on Charles Bernstein and TedGreenwald) by Douglas Messerli

Essay-review “Wordscape Poets” (on works by Bernstein, Andrews, and Perelman)

by Douglas Messerli

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (magazine) (USA)

Littéraire Movement (Haiti)

Losada (Argentina)

La Mandrágora (The Mandrake Group) (Chile, Venezuela and other South American countries)

Mondadori (Italy)

The Negritude Movement (international)

Der Neue Club (The New Club) (Germany)

New American Poetry (magazine) (USA)

New Directions (USA)

The New Review of Literature (magazine) (USA)

The New York School (USA)

Oberiu Poets (USSR)

Objectivist Poets (USA and England)

OR (magazine) (USA)

The Origenes (Cuba)

Origin (magazine and Origin Press) (USA and Japan)

OULIPO-Ouvrior de literature potentielle (France and elsewhere)

The Parnassians (France)

Passa Porta Bookshop (Belgium)

Marjorie Perloff (USA)

Persea Books (USA)

Poet’s House (USA)

Poeticism (Czechoslavakia)

Poetry magazine (USA)

The Poetry Project Newsletter (magazine) (USA)

P.O.L (France)

Powell’s Books (USA)

Profil Group (Norway)

The Project for Innovative Poetry (USA)

Projectivist Poetry (USA and England)

Ribot magazine (USA)

Roof magazine (USA)

Russian Futurism (Russia/USSR)

Russian Symbolism (Russia/USSR)

St. Mark’s Poetry Project (USA)

The San Francisco Renaissance (USA)

Segue Press (USA)

Seix Barral (Spain)

Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art) (Brazil)

Shakespeare & Co. (France)

The Skrynia Group (The “Chest” Group) (Ukraine)

Southern California Innovative Poets (USA)

Spiraliste Movement (Haiti)

Station Hill Press (USA)

Suhrkamp Verlag (Germany)

Sulfur (magazine) (USA)

Sun & Moon: A Journal of Literature & Art (magazine)(USA)

Sun & Moon Press (USA)

Sun & Moon Press Literary Salons (USA)

Surrealism (France and international)

Temblor (magazine) (USA)

Transition (magazine)

University of California Press (USA)

The Vienna Group (Austria) / see Wiener Gruppe

Vijfigers (The “Fiftiers”) (Netherlands)

Villa Aurora (Los Angeles) (USA)

Village Voice Bookshop (France)

Vort (magazine) (USA)

Vorticism (England)

Review “Phantom of the Arts” (on Timothy Matrerer’s Vortex Pound, Eliot, and Lewis) by Douglas Messerli

Mac Wellman

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Mac [John] Wellman [USA]

1945

Born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 7, 1945, John Wellman (who later changed his first name to Mac) received his degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1968. Wellman began writing poetry and drama in the 1970s, including the poetry collection In Praise of Secrecy (1977) and the short dramatic book, Opera Brevis the same year. A play “Starluster” appeared in print in 1980, and another, "Harm's Way," was published in 1984. (For an essay by Marjorie Perloff on "Harm's Way," click on the drama title.)

Sun & Moon Press published his play The Professional Frenchman in 1985 in Wellman’s important drama anthology, Theatre of Wonders. Other plays of the period included “Energumen,” “Bodacious Flapdoodle,” “The Bad Infinity,” “Cellophane,” and “Whirligig.” His second collection of poetry, Satires, appeared in 1985.

In the 1990s Wellman developed into a major literary force in drama, creating a theater that eventually became associated with the “Language” poets, utterly transforming the alternative American stage. Among his numerous plays of the decade were “Crowbar,” “7 Blowjobs,” “Sincerity Forever,” “Three Americanisms,” “Albanian Softshoe,” “Bad Penny,” and the important Crowtetquartet of plays, “A Murder of Crows,” “The Hyacinth Macaw,” “Second-Hand Smoke,” and “The Lesser Magoo”—published in two volumes by Green Integer. (For reviews of these plays by Douglas Messerli, click on the individual play title).

Wellman won Obie awards for “Bad Penny,” “Terminal Hip,” “Crowbar,” and “Sincerity Forever.” Another Obie was awarded to him for “Lifetime Achievement.”

In 1998 Wellman co-edited (with Douglas Messerli) the landmark drama anthology, From the Other Side of the Century II: A New American Drama 1960-1995, a 2000-page book containing 38 plays by major American dramatists of the period.

In 1990 Sun & Moon Press published his collection of poetry, A Shelf in Woop’s Clothing, followed by his first volume of fiction, The Fortuneteller in 1991. In 1996 Sun & Moon also published his fiction, Annie Salem.

In the years since, Wellman has continued to produce new plays and opera librettos, including “Antigone,” “Cat’s Paw,” “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field,” “Dracula,” “Swoop,” 3 2’s; or AFAR,” “Left Glove,” and numerous other dramatic works, many of which have appeared in anthologies and published collections.

His fiction, Q’s Q: An Arboreal Narrative was published by Green Integer in 2006, and a collection of stories, A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Fields appeared from Trip Street Press in 2008. A fiction, Linda Perdido appeared from Fiction Collective2 in 2013.

New books of poetry included Miniature in 2002, Strange Elegies in 2005, and Split the Stick: A Miniaturist-Divan in 2012.

Wellman has been awarded numerous grants, including awards from the McKnight and Rockefeller Foundations, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is Distinguished Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College, and has had a major impact on a wide of range of contemporary play writers.

BOOKS OF POETRY

In Praise of Secrecy (1977); Satires (St. Paul, Minnesota: New Rivers Press, 1985); A Shelf in Woop’s Clothing (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1990); Miniature (New York: Roof, 2002); Strange Elegies (New York: Roof, 2005); Split the Stick: A Miniaturist-Divan (New York: Roof, 2012)

For an essay on Wellman’s dramatic kinship with “Language” poetry, go here:

https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/jdtc/article/viewFile/4383/4111

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Los Angeles poet Wanda Coleman, born in 1946, died at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center on November 22, 2013.

Somehow in those few days I grew somewhat close to Wanda, and during breaks we often chatted. At the time I was a young, brash, somewhat insensitive spokesman for innovative poetry. Evidently, I had already read some of Wanda’s writing, because I had the nerve to ask her right out why did she employ such normative language in her writing. Wanda looked at me for a second in what one might describe as her slightly outraged, evaluating stare, before answering: “Listen, you fool, I already speak another language, being a Black woman. When I write poetry, I want to communicate and not be misunderstood.”

One could almost perceive her various “Essays on Language” from her remarkable book Mecurochrome of 2001, as being linguistic explorations akin to the works of some “Language” poets:

snapping

a warped sense of communication
impairs the business of conventional narrative

like feeling robbed, the rules of orgasm no mystery

given a voice, one must struggle with one’s own

social type-casting on the edge of ambiguity

it’s exclusively inconclusive

…..

I am compelled to protest

the demise of the deliciously clandestine.

Certainly in this work’s advocacy of inconclusiveness and the clandestine, it is a long ways from wanting to straight-forwardly communicate.

If I live long enough, I’ll put the gory details in a memoir.

Now that books are going the way of dinosaurs, it appears
one will no longer be able to publish, therefore will one perish?
Will someone create an electronic book that one can
autograph? Or has that been done already? Will the opportunity
to be discovered posthumously become a thing of the past,
ruling out “better late than never?” Will the literary world
become as pornographic as the music business? A world in
which—with few exceptions—only the beautiful and attractive
mediocrities succeed while true singers are doomed to the
background?

Throughout that interview Coleman admits to what she now perceives as a kind of outlandish naiveté about the entire poetry world within which she began writing.

In her 2002 review in the Los Angeles Times of the beloved poet Maya Angelou, Coleman finally lashed out at what she now saw as mere fakery in that poets’ A Song Flung Up to Heaven:

in her usual name-dropping but shockingly makes that the
book's content. Shamelessly, she cannibalizes the reputations of
three major black figures: Malcolm X (Al-Hajj Malik El-
Shabazz), James Baldwin and King Jr., using them as linchpins
on which to promote her specious pose as an activist.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

along with her insipid comments: “He was the David of our society.”

like spellstuff all conceits I have shed

collect on sun-slashed soil where

three-headed woman gathers them to make

her hoodoo a powder in fire to summon a spirit

a finely ground pinch of alcohol to cure

a cough, or in a salve to beautify aging skin

make your wish for love for hate

and burn the fragrant wax with a hint of dust

chant toward the sky watch. the children gather

watch the children dance watching the children’s eyes

watch. the children with tongues like wolves.

And already as early as her selection from American Sonnets (1994), some reprinted in the Sun and Moon book, Place as Purpose: Poetry from the Western States of 2002, Coleman had expressed an anguish that proposed death as a solution:

i am seized with the desire to end

my breath in short spurts, shoulder pain
the world lengthens then contracts

(in deep water—my sudden swimming, the surface

breaks, thoughts leap, the Buick bends

a corner, an arc of light briefly sweeps the dark walls)

everywhere there are temples of stone

and strange chantings—ashes angels and dolls

i forget my lover. i want a stranger—

to shiver at the unfamiliar touch of the one

who has not yet touched me

a furred spider to entrap my hungers

in his silk, with virulent toxin

to numb my throat

Los Angeles, December 7, 2013

Reprinted from Or, No. 12 (Spring 2014).

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