Multicultural Poetry Archive

—a links tool for students and educators
Under Construction*

*Please recommend poets/poems to Ken Weisner

Library of Congress Resources

Library of Congress: "Poet and the Poem" Webcasts: Discussions with contemporary poets 

Library of Congress: "Poet Vision Webcasts" (1988-90): Poets read and discuss work with students

Unites States Poet Laureate Timeline

WEB RESOURCES

• Academy of American Poets "Poets.org"

• The Poetry Foundation

• Great Poems to Teach (from teachers & writers collaborative)
  

• The Favorite Poem Project:  Americans Saying the Poems They Love

• Poetry Out Loud

ANTHOLOGIES

• Unsettling America: A Multicultural Poetry Anthology

• Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness

• The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry

• The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, 2006

• The WInd Shifts: New Latino Poetry
  

• Staying Alive: Real Poems for  Unreal TImes

• Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation
  

• Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americans

• The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets

• Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time

• No More Masks!: Anthology of 20th Century American Women Poets

AUDIO/VIDEO RESOURCES

• From the Fishouse: An Archive of Emerging Poets

• Video Series: The Poetry Foundation

• Lunch Poems: U.C Berkeley Readings & archive

***POET ARCHIVE

Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio's Home Page

Poetry Foundation Addonizio Page

Anna Akhmatova

Akhmatova transations by Judith Hemschemeyer and Jane Kenyon

Francisco X. Alarcon

Alarcon on line interview with audio tracks

Alarcon as Featured Poet: Poetry Magazine

Yehuda Amichai

Poetry Foundation Amichai Page

Jimmy Santiago Baca (poets.org)

Poetry Foundation Baca Page

Baca's own home page

"El Gato"

"Tire Shop"

"Crying Poem"

"This Day"

Other Baca Poems at "poem hunter"

Amiri Baraka

Poetry Foundation Baraka Page

Amiri Baraka home page

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Poetry Foundation Cervantes Page

Marilyn Chin

Poetry Foundation Chin Page

The Survivor, Turtle Soup, Moon and Oatgrass, The Barbarians are Coming

Sandra Cisneros

Cisneros Home Page

Paul Celan

"Todesfugue" ("Death Fugue")

Lucille Clifton (poets.org)

Poetry Foundation Clifton Page

Clifton's Boa Editions page

Clifton Poems online from "The Circle Association"

Billy Collins

Poetry Foundation Collins Page

Collins "Poem 180" Project: "A Poem a Day for American High Schools"

Victor Hernandez Cruz

Victor Hernandez Cruz at Poetry Foundation

Bei Dao

A poem by Bei Dao, "Ramallah"

Mahmoud Darwish

Darwish's Home Page

Mark Doty

Mark Doty Poetry Foundation Page

Mark Doty's Home Page

Martin Espada

Poetry Foundation Espada Page

Alabanza: In Praise of Local 10

Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz's home page

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry Foundation Ferlinghetti Page

"Lunch Poems"—Reading at U.C. Berkeley, 2005

Juan Felipe Herrera

Two Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera, "La Muerte" y "El angel de la guardia"

Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo's Home Page

Poetry Foundation Harjo Page

"She Had Some Horses"

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes at Americanpoems.com

Poetry Foundation, Langston Hughes page

Bill Knott

Bill Knott's Blog

Tom Lux's Bill Knott retrospective in Ploughshares

Yusef Komunyakaa

Komunyakaa at Poetry Foundation

Komunyakaa's "Facing It"

Stephen Kuusisto

Kuusisto's Poetry Foundation Page

Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux at "Web del Sol"

Li-Young Lee

Poetry Foundation Lee Page

"Lunch Poems" YouTube— Reading,Berkeley 2002

Phil Levine

Poetry Foundation's Levine Page

Thomas Lux

Poetry Foundation Lux Page

Osip Madelstam

"The Stalin Epigram" by Osip Mandelstam, tr. W.S. Merwin

W.S. Merwin

Merwin's Poetry Foundation Page

Excerpt from Dante's Purgatorio (XXXI)

Janice Mirikitani

"For a Daughter Who Leaves"

"A Woman's Face" and "When We Leave": Glide online

Pat Mora

Pat Mora Home Page

Pablo Neruda

Poetry Foundation Neruda Page

Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry Foundation Nye Page

Frank O'Hara

Poetry Foundation Frank O'Hara Page

Sharon Olds

Poetry Foundation Page for Sharon Olds

Kay Ryan

Poetry Foundation Ryan Page

Poet Laureate page through Library of Congress (2008/9)

Ishmael Reed

Poetry Foundation Ishmael Reed Page

Ishmael Reed Page: Circle Literature (Buffalo, NY)

Ishmael Reed Links Page (Spring Pages)

"Jacket Notes," "Mumbo Jumbo," and "beware: do not read this poem"

Adrienne Rich

Poetry Foundation Adrienne Rich Page

Gary Snyder

Poetry Foundation Gary Snyder Page

Gary Soto

Poetry Foundation Gary Soto Page

Gary Soto's Home Page

PT3 Readers Are Leaders

Quincy Troupe

Poetry Foundation Troupe Page

Essay and links to other "Black Arts Poets"

Brian Turner

Brian Turner "From the Fishouse"—audio recording

Cesar Vallejo

Ten Poems tr. Clayton Eshleman

Charles Wright

Charles Wright's Poetry Foundation Web Page

Al Young

Al Young's Home Page (links pages)