Individual Poets

Angelou, Maya

• Maya Angelou Official Site
• African American Literature Book Club – Maya Angelou
• Academy of Achievement – Maya Angelou
• Note that there is a biography, interview, and photo gallery in addition to the brief profile

Brooks, Gwendolyn

• In Montgomery and Other Poems: A Bio-Literary Sketch - Chicken Bones
• Gwendolyn Brooks - Pearson Literature

Clifton, Lucille

• The Circle Association's Lucille Clifton Page
• Washington Post Obituary of Lucille Clifton - Feb. 21, 2010
• Remembering Lucille Clifton - New Yorker, Feb. 17, 2010

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Spartacus
• The Romantics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - BBC

Cummings, E.E.

• Salon.com – e.e. cummings reading his own poems
• decapitalization of E.E. Cummings
• E.E. Cummings - Unitarian Universalist Historical Society

Dickinson, Emily

• Emily Dickinson International Society
• Emily Dickinson - Pearson Literature

Eliot, T.S.

• Nobel Prize for Literature – T.S. Eliot
• T.S. Eliot, the Poet, is Dead in London at 76 - New York Times Obituary

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

• Transcendentalists.com – Emerson
• Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Also includes biography and other information

Frost, Robert

• The Friends of Robert Frost
• Robert Frost Dies at 88; Kennedy Leads Tribute - New York Times Obituary
• Robert Frost - Pearson Literature

Giovanni, Nikki

• Nikki Giovanni's official website

Housman, A.E.

• The Housman Society

Hughes, Langston

• Library of Congress/America’s Library – Langston Hughes
• Thompson Gale Free Resources – Langston Hughes biography
• New York Times obituary of Langston Hughes
• Salon.com Voice of the Poet – Langston Hughes
• Langston Hughes, Writer, 65, Dead - New York Times Obituary
• Langston Hughes - Pearson Literature

Kipling, Rudyard

• The Kipling Society
• Poetry Lover’s Page Complete Collection of Poems – Rudyard Kipling

Koch, Kenneth

• PBS Newshour interview with Kenneth Koch
• The Borzoi Reader Online – Kenneth Koch

Lear, Edward

• A blog of bosh: Edward Lear and Nonsense Literature
• The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear - The Academy of Natural Sciences

Li Po

• English Translations of Li Po’s poetry
• Asian Topics: An Introduction to Li Po

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

• The Longfellow Society
• The Atlantic Online – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Poetry and information about the poet
• Poetry Lover’s Page – Best Poems of H.W. Longfellow
• Public Poet, Private Man - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200

Lowell, Robert

• Random House - Robert Lowell
• Salon.com – Robert Lowell reading his own poems
• New York Times Featured Author - Robert Lowell

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

• Salon.com – Millay reading her own poems
• Salon.com – article, “The Siren” about Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Edna St. V. Millay Found Dead at 58 - New York Times Obituary

Momaday, N. Scott

• PBS New Perspectives on the West – N. Scott Momaday
• Canku Ota – A Newsletter Celebrating Native America – N. Scott Momday
• Academy of Achievement – N. Scott Momaday
  • Note that there is a biography, interview, and photo gallery in addition to the brief profile

Moore, Marianne

• Marianne Moore, The Art of Poetry No. 4 - The Paris Review, 1961
• This is primarily an interview conducted with Moore.
• Paper Trail: The True Legacy of Marianne More - Slate, 11/11/03
• Review of The Poems of Marianne Moore
• Marianne Moore - LiteraryHistory.com
• Links to various sites with literary criticism or other articles.

Poe, Edgar Allen

• Poe Museum
• Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore
• Knowing Poe
• Poetry Lover’s Page Complete Collection of Poems by Edgar Allen Poe

Sandberg, Carl

• Carl Sandberg Historic Site
• Carl Sandberg – Chicago Poems - Also includes biography

Soto, Gary

• Gary Soto Official Site
• Gary Soto - Hispanic Heritage Foundation

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• New York Times Obituary – R.L. Stevenson
• Poetry Lover’s Page Complete Collection of Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson

Swenson, May

• May Swenson Society
• May Swenson - Weber, The Contemporary West Journal
• May Swenson Criticism - eNotes

Teasdale, Sara

• Selected Poetry of Sara Teasdale
• Sara Teasdale - Lulu Poetry - includes biography and links to poems
• Sara Teasdale - PoemHunter.com

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

• Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Victorian Web
• Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Twickenham Museum

Whitman, Walt

• Walt Whitman Archive
• Library of Congress: Walt Whitman Collection
• Walt Whitman - Pearson Literature

Wordsworth, William

• William Wordsworth - Pearson Literature
• William Wordsworth - The Victorian Web

Kinnell, Galway

• Salon online magazine: Galway Kinnell
• Galway Kinnel's website

Lowell, Amy

• About.com Women’s History – Amy Lowell

Nash, Ogden

• Ogden Nash website - Links off to Blogden Nash and to lots of Nash's poems
• Ogden Nash - from Teen Ink

Schuyler, James

• Faux Press: James Schuyler Biography
• James Schuyler – Hymn to Life and Other Poems (audio)
• James Schuyler, Poet, Dies at 67 - New York Times Obituary

Shakespeare, William

• Shakespeare's Biography - Shakespeare Resource Center
• Shakespeare Resource Center home page

Silverstein, Shel

• Shel Silverstein Obituary - New York Times, May 11, 1999
• ShelSivlerstein.com - official site operated by his estate

Snyder, Gary

• Kent State Univ. - Gary Snyder Manuscripts
• The Beat Page – Gary Snyder
• Kerouac Alley - Gary Snyder

Stafford, William

• A Sleep of Grass, a Tribute in Poetry to William Stafford
• Poems by William Stafford
• William Edgar Stafford, Professor and Poet of the West, Dies at 79 - New York Times Obituary
• William Stafford, The Art of Poetry No. 67 - The Paris Review
  • Interview with Stafford

Williams, William Carlos

• Penn Sound - William Carlos Williams
• U. Texas Arlington English Dept. –
• William Carlos Williams - Pearson Literature