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Author's site collects his L.A.-area spoken-word poetry readings and published material in themed collections from 1998 to present.
Jo Bell is a poetry freelancer, working on commissions, projects and courses all over the UK. Includes activities and events as well as profile.
News, poetry samples, and information about ordering his books.
The poet's homepage. Includes work from various published and pre-publication collections.
Arthur Quiller-Couch ed. 1919. Chronologic and alphabetic indices.
Biography and criticism of four famous Elizabethans - Essex, Raleigh, Marlowe, and Donne, from the perspective of poetry, and the history of ideas.
Author's website contains biographical information, list of book publications, professional activities, a selection of published poems, and contact information.
A description of the form with instructions on how to write one.
By English journalist Edmund Clerihew Bentley, the inventor of the form.
This interactive 'net artifact is an exercise in computer glossolalia that allows users to randomly generate metrically perfect nonsense-limericks--in an "alien" (that is, not spoken, now nor ever, on Earth) language.
The two earliest known books of limericks, with a link to a third. Part of an Edward Lear home page.
A limerick page for children, with a simple explanation and some family-friendly examples, including the option to print out limericks in color. Be warned: the site generates pop-up and new-browser-window ads.
A brief history and explanation along with numerous examples from "A Book of Nonsense" by Edward Lear.
A blog that collects a number of sites relating to Edward Lear, the creator of the limerick.
A description and explanation of the form, with examples and a step-by-step guide to writing one.
By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Unusual in its use of rhyme.
Translations into English of Korean sijo from poets of the Classical period.
An introductory page by Larry Gross, a leading proponent of writing sijo in English, with some of his poems and links to his several pages on the subject, and an e-mail discussion list on the subject.
Instructions on how to write a Shakespearean sonnet with an analysis of the form and content of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.
An eleven sonnet sequence by George Eliot.
By Brandon Astor Jones, as of 1996 a prisoner on death row. From the archives of The Green Left Weekly.
By Oscar Wilde.
Web site of this worldwide membership group, with pages of scores of members' haiku and other resources. Webmaster Bin Akio, a senior member of Japan's haiku community.
Web site of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of United States and Canada, a Bay Area group with international membership and extensive activities built around a tradition-based understanding of haiku.
This is a group for discussing the art and the problems of translating haiku, from any language into another. Managed by Gabi Greve.
Samples of poetry and some thoughts on haiku by Dan Brady.
Regular notes from poet and author Edward Weiss
A haiku weblog by jem.
A haiku and related poetry weblog in Scots and English by John McDonald.
A weblog community of poets, sharing haiku on the subject of this winter, 2007-2008, hosted by Isabel and Mandy.
Essays, examples, links and interviews presenting a uniquely American form of haiku, created by poet Allen Ginsberg. Features the "American sentences" of Paul Nelson.
The Genuine Haiku Generator, powered by JavaScript, creates evocative, meaningful verse (?) using completely random combinations of individual words. Save your favorite haiku online, or send one to a friend. (May be X-rated.)
If programmers were more into Haiku these are the sort of error messages you might see. (This appears to be the same as the original Salon.com set, see below.)
The official site of humorous poet Darren Sardelli.
(Official site) Information about Julia Donaldson, poet/author of many rhyming picture books and books for young readers, as well as original songs.
Features links to collections and essays on the genera.
Translations, articles, and reading and class lists on Hebrew poetry from the Fourth to the Eighteenth Centuries. User submissions accepted.
Words and images from Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", calligraphy, acrylic work and digital images.
Biography, publications list and critical review.
Ongoing collection of news articles, commentary, photos and multimedia about Emily Dickinson.
Encyclopedia article including biography and major works.
Text of an interview discussing her work.
Biography and e-mail address.
Dates on which the poet has been featured. Includes text of some poems, and RealAudio files of Garrison Keillor reading more than a dozen of Jenkins' poems.
Complete electronic text of the poet's third book, with notes.
Presents a biography, photograph and selected poems.
Professional biography, bibliography, awards and critical perspective.
Includes excerpted text of letters to Emily's friend and sister in-law Susan Dickinson nee Gilbert.
From "Late Poems" (1950-55)