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Amiri Baraka

Painted Voices: Amiri Baraka
Biographical note and a painting by Gilbert Fletcher of the poet, from Black Collegian Online.

Phat African American Poetry Book: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Text of various poems, including "Ancient Music," "In the Funk World," and "leroy." Includes several portraits of the poet. Page constructed by enthusiast "bonVìbré" (who may or may not be Scott W. Williams, a professor of mathematics at SUNY Buffalo). (Readers may wish to compare these online poems with their published versions to ensure authenticity.)

Paul Beatty

"Darryl Strawberry Asleep in a Field of Dreams"
Full-text poem, from Poetry into the Twenty-First Century. Reproduced by an anonymous Slam Poetry fan at geocities.com. (Readers may wish to compare these online poems with their published versions to ensure authenticity.)

Dialogues: Paul Beatty / Wing Young Huie
Online materials accompanying an exhibit and performance by Beatty and Huie at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Includes brief biographical information on Beatty, photos, and video clips of Beatty's performance, readings (including a reading from White Boy Shuffle) and an interview. (Note: QuickTime audio clips currently (8/99) not functional in Library.)

"For a Copy of This Transcript"
Full-text poem, published in the online journal, World, vol. 51. From the Poetry Project.

"A Three Point Shot from Andromeda"
Full-text poem, from the United States of Poetry / World of Poetry website, where Beatty is called "... the T.S. Eliot of his generation."

Sterling Brown

Academy of American Poets: Sterling A. Brown
Biographical entry and links to other scholarly Internet sites on the poet. Also includes a photograph, a sound file of the poet reading "Slim Greer in Hell," and the text to "Riverbank Blues" and "Southern Road."

Callaloo: Sterling A. Brown (ISU only)
Special issue of Callaloo 21(4), 1998 dedicated entirely to Sterling Brown. Includes a Brown chronology, many photographs of the poet, eight full-text poems by Brown and five others (including Sonia Sanchez and Michael S. Harper) in celebration of the poet, numerous critical essays (including several essays by Brown), an interview, bibliography, and more. (Journal available at ISU Parks Library PS508.N3 C34x)

Painted Voices: Sterling Brown
Biographical note and a painting by Gilbert Fletcher of the poet, from Black Collegian Online.

Sterling Allen Brown
Brief biographical information on the poet, plus links to other Internet resources on Brown. From the African American Literature Book Club.

Sterling Brown
Includes a web biography of Sterling Brown, and a sound file of the poet reading "Slim in Hell" [sic]. (RealAudio's Real Player Plus software is available for downloading on the site.) By Mark Patrick; from Ann Arbor Poetry Forum.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Academy of American Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks
Brief biographical information on the poet and a selected bibliography of some of her works. Includes links to other scholarly Gwendolyn Brooks sites on the Internet, a photo, and a sound file of the poet reading "We Real Cool."

Painted Voices: Gwendolyn Brooks
Biographical note and a painting by Gilbert Fletcher of the poet, from Black Collegian Online.

Poetry Author Casebooks: Gwendolyn Brooks
Lengthy and authoritative biographical profile of the poet. From Literature Online, a website to support Kennedy's & Gioia's textbook, Literature (7th edition).

Cyrus Cassells

"Liberation in Venice"
Full-text poem, published in online magazine Provincetown Arts, vol. 12, 1996.

"Poem for the Artists of the Holocaust"
Full-text poem, accompanied by a photo and brief biographical information on the poet. From online program to the Dia Center for the Arts' Readings in Contemporary Poetry, New York City, March 15, 1996.

"The Toss"
Full-text poem, published in the Boston Review, vol. 18(6).

Rita Dove

Academy of American Poets: Rita Dove
Brief bio-bibliographical information, links to other scholarly Internet sites, and the text to "The Bistro Styx."

Callaloo: Rita Dove's Mother Love: A Discussion (ISU only)
Three scholarly research papers by Alison Booth, Stephen Cushman, and Lotta Lofgren on Dove's work Mother Love, from Callaloo, a major research journal on African American and African diaspora literature. Special section edited by Mark Edmunson. (Journal available in ISU Parks Library, PS508.N3 C34x)

"Dawn Revisited" (ISU only)
Full-text poem by Dove from Callaloo 22(1), 1999, p. 24. (Journal available at ISU Parks Library PS508.N3 C34x)

"Heroes" (ISU only)
Full-text of poem by Rita Dove, published in Callaloo 18(2), 1995, p. 231. Includes link to brief biographical note on the poet. (Journal available in ISU Parks Library PS508.N3 C34x)

Poets in Person: Rita Dove
Features a sound file of the poet reading " Flash Cards." (Note that link on page is broken, but link here is accessible.) Includes a very brief paragraph of biographical information, and a link to Dove's résumé at the Univ. of Virginia. From Wilmington University's Poets in Person project, which was a joint project of the American Poetry Association, the American Library Association, and the National Endowment of the Humanities. Although the pages are still up, the website is no longer being maintained.

Robert Hayden

Academy of American Poets: Robert Hayden
Brief bio-bibliographical information, scholarly links elsewhere, and the text to the poems "Full Moon," "Middle Passage," "The Whipping," "Those Winter Sundays," and "Soledad."

Painted Voices: Robert Hayden
Biographical note and a painting by Gilbert Fletcher of the poet, from Black Collegian Online.

Poetry Author Casebooks: Robert Hayden
Lengthy and authoritative biographical profile of the poet. From Literature Online, a website to support Kennedy's & Gioia's textbook, Literature (7th edition).

Etheridge Knight

Academy of American Poets: Etheridge Knight
Brief bio-bibliographical information on the poet, links to other scholarly websites, and a sound file of the poet reading "The Idea of Ancestry."

Callaloo: Etheridge Knight (1931-1991), Poet (ISU only)
Special section in Callaloo v. 19(4), 1996 on the poet, edited by Jean Anaporte-Easton. Includes many color photographs of Knight, five full-text poems, letters, an interview with the poet, and a critical essay by Anaporte-Easton. (Journal available in ISU Parks Library PS508.N3 C34x)

Yusef Komunyakaa

Academy of American Poets: Yusef Komunyakaa
Brief bio-bibliographical information on the poet, scholarly links elsewhere, a sound file of the poet reading "My Father's Love Letters," and the text to the poem "The Whistle."

Callaloo: Poems (ISU only)
Seven full-text poems by the poet published in Callaloo 20(1), 1997, including " Bennelong's Blues," " Heroes of Waterloo," " Red Dust," " A Story," " Strands," " The Tally," and " The Trapper's Bride." (Journal available in ISU Parks Library PS508.N3 C34x)

Internet Poetry Archive: Yusef Komunyakaa
Full-text and sound files of twenty four poems by Komunyakaa, plus links to several online critical essays, a select bibliography, and a biography of the poet. From the Univ. of North Carolina.

Thylias Moss

"Beginning the Rock at Abbot School" (ISU only)
Full-text poem by the poet, published in Callaloo 19(3), 1996, p. 708. (Journal available in ISU Parks Library PS508.N3 C34x)

"A Way of Breathing" (ISU only)
Full-text poem by the poet, published in Callaloo 19(3), 1996, p. 709. (Journal available in ISU Parks Library PS508.N3 C34x)

Internet Resources on Other Poets

Academy of American Poets: Poets of the Harlem Renaissance & After
Short summary essay with links to biographical information, poems, and some recordings of representative poets of this period reading selected works. Includes Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer.

Internet Poetry Archive: Margaret Walker
Full-text and sound files of sixteen poems read by the poet, plus links to essays, sound files of an interview with the poet, a select bibliography, and a biography. From the Univ. of North Carolina.

Painted Voices
Biographical notes and painted portraits by Gilbert Fletcher of contemporary African American poets, including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson. From Black Collegian Online.

Poetry Author Casebooks
Lengthy and authoritative biographical profiles of many world poets, including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, and August Wilson. From Literature Online, a website to support Kennedy's & Gioia's textbook, Literature (7th edition).

Voice of the Shuttle: Afro-American Literature
Extensive list of links to online resources relevant to African American literature and writers of many periods. Includes some poets, such as Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes, among others. Generally a good resource, but one that currently (8/99) includes many dead links particularly in the African American section. By Alan Liu, of the Univ. California, Santa Barbara English Department.

Writing Black
Another extensive list of links to online African American texts available on the Web. Includes texts by many authors, poets such as Sonia Sanchez, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Maya Angelou, as well as full-text speeches delivered by individuals such as Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and others. By Andrew L. Graham of Keele University, UK.

Library Research

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