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  • CHARLES OLSON (1919–1970)
  • In Cold Hell, in Thicket
  • I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
  • Letter 3 ("Tansy Buttons")
  • Maximus, to himself
  • The Librarian
  • JOHN CAGE (1912–1992)
  • 25 Mesotics Re and Not Re Mark Tobey
  • Writing through the Cantos
  • JAMES LAUGHLIN (b.1914)
  • The Inn at Kirchestetten
  • Then and Now
  • ROBERT DUNCAN (1919–1988)
  • A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
  • Often, I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
  • Poetry, A Natural Thing
  • The Torso, Passages 18
  • Songs of an Other
  • Close
  • LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (b. 1919)
  • [In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see]
  • [In Golden Gate Park that day]
  • [Constantly risking absurdity]
  • I Am Waiting
  • Monet’s Lillies Shuddering
  • A Dark Portrait
  • HILDA MORLEY (b.1919)
  • The Lizard
  • Curve of the Water
  • Made Out of Links
  • For Elaine De Kooning
  • Parents
  • CHARLES BUKOWSKI (b.1920)
  • crucifix in a deathand
  • startled into life like fire
  • i am dead but i know the dead are not like this
  • the mockingbird
  • my old man
  • BARBARA GUEST (b.1920)
  • Red Lillies
  • River Road Studio
  • Prairie Houses
  • Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights
  • An Emphasis Falls on Reality
  • Twighlights Polka Dots
  • JACKSON MAC LOW (b. 1922)
  • The Pronouns
  • 1ST DANCE—MAKING THINGS NEW—6 February 1964
  • 6TH DANCE—DOING THINGS WITH PENCILS—17–18 February 1964
  • 12TH DANCE—GETTING LEATHER BY LANGUAGE—21 February 1964
  • Trope Market
  • 59th Light Poem: for La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela—6 November 1982
  • Antic Quatrains
  • Twenties 26
  • Twenties 27
  • JACK KEROUAC (1922–1969)
  • Mexico City Blues
  • The Thrashing Doves
  • PHILIP WHALEN (b.1923)
  • The Slop Barrel
  • DENISE LEVERTOV (b.1923)
  • Overland to the Islands
  • Illustrious Ancestors
  • The Ache of Marriage
  • The Wings
  • Stepping Westward
  • Williams: An Essay
  • Wavering
  • Where is the Angel?
  • JAMES SCHUYLER (1923–1991)
  • A Man in Blue
  • The Crystal Lithium
  • Letter to a Friend: Who is Nancy Daum?
  • Korean Mums
  • JACK SPICER (1925-1965)
  • Imaginary Elegies
  • I ("Poetry, almost blind like a camera")
  • II ("God mu’s other eye is good and gold. So bright")
  • Morphemics
  • Phonemics
  • KENNETH KOCH (b. 1925)
  • Permanently
  • Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
  • Alive for an Instant}
  • The Circus
  • With Janice
  • FRANK O’HARA (1926–1966)
  • Poem ("The eager note on my door siad Call Me,")
  • Poem ("At night Chinamen jump")
  • Meditations in an Emergency
  • Ode to Joy
  • The Day Lady Died
  • Personal Poem
  • Ave Maria
  • Steps
  • Poem (’Lana Turner has collapsed!’)
  • Why I Am Not a Painter
  • ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
  • Howl
  • I ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,")
  • A Supermarket in California
  • America
  • Kaddish
  • I ("Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village)
  • To Aunt Roses
  • First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell’s Angels
  • On Neal’s Ashes
  • ROBERT CREELEY (b. 1926)
  • After Lorca
  • A Form of Women
  • The Flower
  • The Rain
  • For Love
  • The Language
  • The Window
  • "I Keep to Myself Such Measures. . ."
  • The World
  • Self-Portrait
  • Bresson’s Movies
  • Age
  • PAUL BLACKBURN (1926–1971)
  • Brooklyn Narcissus
  • El Camino Verde
  • Park Poem
  • The Net of Place
  • LARRY EIGNER (b.1927)
  • [trees green the quiet sun]
  • [how it comes about]
  • open air where
  • Wholes
  • [a temporary language]
  • JOHN ASHBERY (b.1927)
  • The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers
  • "How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher. . ."
  • Leaving the Atocha Station
  • The Skaters
  • I ("These decibels")
  • Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
  • The One Thing That Can Save America
  • The Other Tradition
  • Paradoxes and Oxymorons
  • Flow Chart
  • I ("Still in the published city but not yet")
  • HANNAH WEINER (b.1928)
  • Clairvoyant Journal
  • 3/10 ("How can I describe anything when all these interruptions keep arriving and then"
  • 3/15 ("LOW INCOME")
  • Fri May 17 ("Whisper Think of Rhys see his image large, behind you, NOT IN LOVE you call")
  • KENWARD ELMSLIE (b.1929)
  • Feathered Dancers
  • Japanese City
  • Amazon Club
  • Big Bar
  • ED DORN (b. 1929)
  • The Rick of Green Wood
  • Geranium
  • From Gloucester Out
  • An Idle Visitation
  • HARRY MATHEWS (b. 1930)
  • The Sad Birds
  • Histoire
  • GERGORY CORSO (b. 1930)
  • The Mad Yak
  • Dream of a Baseball Star
  • I Held a Shelley Manuscript
  • Marriage
  • Love Poem for Three for Kaye & Me
  • GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)
  • Riprap
  • The Bath
  • Avocado
  • As for Poets
  • Axe Handles
  • Right in the Trail
  • JEROME ROTHENBERG (b. 1931)
  • Cokboy, PART ONE
  • Cokboy, PART TWO
  • DAVID ANTIN (b. 1932)
  • a private occasion in a public place
  • KEITH WALDROP (b. 1932)
  • Shipwreck in Haven
  • I ("Balancing, Austere. Life-")
  • Will to Will
  • Wanding Curves
  • MICHAEL McCLURE (b. 1932)
  • Hymn to St. Geryon
  • Ode to Jackson Pollack
  • AMIRI BARAKA (LE ROI JONES) (b. 1934)
  • Political Poem
  • Three Modes of History and Culture
  • The New World
  • Leadbelly Gives and Autograph
  • Ka ’Ba
  • Henyatta Listening to Mozart
  • Leroy
  • The Nation is Like Ourselves
  • AM/TRAK
  • DIANE DI PRIMA (b. 1934)
  • The Practice of Magical Evocation
  • On Sitting Down to Write, I Decide Instead to Go to Fred Herko's Concert
  • For H.D.
  • Backyard
  • The Loba Addresses the Goddess/ or The Poet as Priestess Addresses the Loba-Goddess
  • TED BERRIGAN (1934–1983)
  • The Sonnets
  • II ("Dear Margie, hello. It is 5:15 a.m.")
  • XXXVI ("It’s 8:45 a.m. in Brooklyn, it’s the 28th of July and")
  • LXXXVIII A Final Sonnet
  • Words for Love
  • Bean Spasms
  • ANSELM HOLLO (b. 1934)
  • Journey, 1966
  • Shed the Fear
  • The Dream of Instant Total Representation
  • Godlike
  • Italics
  • Wild West Workshop Poem
  • JOSEPH CERAVOLO (1934–1988)
  • Ho Ho Ho Caribou
  • Pregnant, I Come
  • Geological Hymn
  • New Realism
  • JOHN WIENERS (b. 1934)
  • A poem for the insane
  • The Waning of the Harvest Moon
  • A Poem for Trapped Things
  • My Mother
  • Two Years Later
  • The Lonliness
  • ROBERT KELLY (b. 1935)
  • Coming
  • The Rainmakers
  • [Bittersweet growing up the red wall]
  • A Woman with Flaxen Hair in Norfolk Heard
  • LAYTON ESHLEMAN (b. 1935)
  • The Lich Gate
  • Notes on a Visit to Le Tuc d’Audoubert
  • ROSMARIE WALDROP (b. 1935)
  • Inserting the Mirror, 1-14
  • GUSTAF SOBIN (b. 1935)
  • Out of the Identical
  • What the Music Wants
  • Eleven Rock Poems
  • RUSSELL EDSON (b. 1935)
  • Conjugal
  • Ape
  • A Performance at Hog Theatre
  • The Toy-Maker
  • The Optical Prodigal
  • JOHN GIORNO (b. 1936)
  • Life is a Killer
  • Scum & Slime
  • JAYNE CORTEZ (b. 1936)
  • For the Poets (Christopher Okigbo & Henry Dumas)
  • I See Chano Pozo
  • Rape
  • CLARENCE MAJOR (b. 1936)
  • Swallow the Lake
  • Isolate
  • Inside Diameter
  • DIANE WAKOSKI (b. 1937)
  • Blue Monday
  • Hummingbird Light
  • For Craig Who Leapt Off a Cliff in to Hummingbird Light
  • SUSAN HOWE (b. 1937)
  • Speeches at the Barriers, 1-4
  • White Foolscap: book of Cordielia
  • KATHLEEN FRASER (b. 1937)
  • re:searches (fragments, after Anakreon, for Emily Dickinson)
  • TONY TOWLE (b. 1939)
  • North
  • Painting the Eaves
  • Random (Re-arrangeable) Study for Views
  • BILL BERKSON (b. 1939)
  • Russian New Year
  • Rebecca Cutlet
  • Melting Milk
  • ED SANDERS (b. 1939)
  • The Cutting Prow
  • LARK COOLIDGE (b. 1939)
  • Brill
  • Styro
  • On Induction of the Hand
  • The Hand Further
  • Noon Point
  • The Crack
  • At Egypt
  • I ("I came here. I don’t know you here."
  • STEPHEN RODEFER (b. 1940)
  • Pretext
  • FROM Plane Debris
  • Codex
  • ROBERT GRENIER (b. 1941)
  • Has Faded in Part but Magnificent Also Late
  • Crow
  • Wrath to Sadness
  • Sunday Morning
  • LYN HEJINIAN (b. 1941)
  • My Life
  • A pause, a rose, something on paper
  • As for we who "love to be astonished"
  • Like plump birds along the shore
  • Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance
  • MIGUEL ALGARĠIN (b. 1941)
  • Tato-Reading at the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe
  • Nudo de claridad
  • San Francisco
  • TOM CLARK (b. 1941)
  • You (I)
  • You (III)
  • "Like musical instruments. . . "
  • Baseball and Classicism
  • Suicide with Squirtgun
  • Society
  • CHARLES NORTH (b. 1941)
  • A Few Facts about Me
  • Elizabthan & Nova Scotian Music
  • A Note to Tony Towle (After WS)
  • RON PADGETT (b. 1942)
  • Wonderful Things
  • Nothing in That Drawer
  • Falling in Love in Spain or Mexico
  • Big Bluejay Composition
  • Who and Each
  • ANN LAUTERBACH (b. 1942)
  • Mimetic
  • Platonic Subject
  • Here and There
  • Clamor
  • Boy Sleeping
  • WILLIAM CORBETT (b. 1942)
  • Vermont Apollinaire
  • Wickson Plums
  • Cold Lunch
  • TOM MANDEL (b. 1942)
  • Say Ja
  • Realism
  • Jews in Hell
  • MICHAEL PALMER (b. 1943)
  • Notes for Echo Lake 3
  • Notes for Echo Lake 5
  • The Project of Linear Inquiry
  • Voice and Address
  • Fifth Prose
  • RAY DIPALMA (b. 1943)
  • [Rumor’s rooster]
  • [Each moment is surrounded]
  • [A pink maniac]
  • [Memory’s wedge]
  • Rebus Tact
  • MAUREEN OWEN (b. 1943)
  • All That Glitters
  • for Emily (Dickinson)
  • African Sunday
  • PAUL VIOLI (b. 1944)
  • Index
  • Rifacimento
  • When to Slap a Woman
  • MICHAEL DAVIDSON (b. 1944)
  • Et in Leucadia Ego
  • The Form of Chiasmus; The Chiasmus of Forms
  • Thinking the Alps
  • MARJORIE WELISH (b. 1944)
  • Respected, Feared, and Somehow Loved
  • Veil
  • Within This Book, Called Marguerite
  • Skin
  • Crossing Disappearing Behind Them
  • LORENZO THOMAS (b. 1944)
  • The Marvelous Land of Indefinitions
  • Instructions for Your New Osiris
  • ANNE WALDMAN (b. 1945)
  • Makeup on Empty Space
  • Berthe Morisot
  • skin Meat BONES (chant)
  • ALICE NOTELY (b. 1945)
  • Poem ("You hear that heroic big land music?")
  • Jack Would Speak through the Imperfect Medium of Alice
  • A California Girlhood
  • How Spring Comes
  • BERNADETTE MAYER (b. 1945)
  • Gay Full Story
  • Sonnet ("Beauty of songs your absence I should not show")
  • Sonnet ("A thousand apples you might put in your theories")
  • Birthday Sonnet for Grace
  • First Turn to Me. . .
  • JOHN GODFREY (b. 1945)
  • Our Lady
  • Wings
  • So Let’s Look at It Another Way
  • Where the Weather Suits My Clothes
  • WANDA COLEMAN (b. 1946)
  • the ISM
  • Brute Strength
  • Essay on Language
  • African Sleeping Sickness
  • ANDREI CODRESCU (b. 1946)
  • Work
  • Against Meaning
  • Paper on Humor
  • Circle Jerk
  • Telyric
  • PAUL HOOVER (b. 1946)
  • Poems We Can Understand
  • Heart’s Ease
  • Desire
  • RON SILLMAN (b. 1946)
  • FROM Tjanting
  • Paradise
  • [A SENTENCE in the evening]
  • [DEEP IN GENITAL SOUP]
  • BOB PERLMAN (b. 1947)
  • Cliff Notes
  • Let’s Say
  • Things
  • Chronic Meetings
  • NATHANIEL MACKEY (b. 1947)
  • Ghede Poem
  • The Shower of Secret Things
  • DAVID SHAPIRO (b. 1947)
  • The Counter-Example
  • Commentary Text Commentary Text Commentary Text
  • A Realistic Bar and Grill
  • Tracing of an Evening
  • A Book of Glass
  • RAE ARAMANTROUT (b. 1947)
  • Necromance
  • Language of Love
  • Attention
  • MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE (b. 1947)
  • Alakanak Break-Up
  • Texas
  • Jealousy
  • LESLIE SCALAPINO (b. 1947)
  • Crowd and not evening or light
  • The Series-3
  • Flush a play
  • BRUCE ANDREWS (b. 1948)
  • Stalin's Genius
  • Species Means Guilt
  • Bomb Then, Bomb Now
  • ARRETT WATTEN (b. 1948)
  • Statistics
  • Radio
  • FROM Progress
  • DAVID LEHMAN (b. 1948)
  • The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke
  • Toward the Vanishing Point
  • First Offense
  • GEORGE EVANS (b. 1948)
  • A Renaissance Drunk
  • Revelation in the Mother Lode
  • Horse on a Fence
  • AUGUST KLEINZAHLER (b. 1949)
  • An Autumnal Sketch
  • Hamburger
  • Poetics
  • Spleen
  • The Lunatic of Lindley Meadow
  • Ebenezer Californicus
  • A Case in Point
  • EILEEN MYLES (b. 1949)
  • December 9th
  • New England Wind
  • The Sadness of Leaving
  • VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ (b. 1949)
  • Areyto
  • An Essay on William Carlos Williams
  • Problems with Hurricanes
  • JESSICS HAGEDORN (b. 1949)
  • Latin Music in New York
  • Something About You
  • CHARLES BERNSTEIN (b. 1950)
  • The Klupzy Girl
  • Whose Language
  • Of Time and the Line
  • Wait
  • JOHN YAU (b. 1950)
  • Chinese Vilanelle
  • Cenotaph
  • Engines of Gloom and Affection
  • JIM CARROLL (b. 1951)
  • Withdrawal Letter
  • Maybe I’m Amazed
  • Paregoric Babies
  • CARLA HARRYMAN (b. 1952)
  • My Story
  • Realism
  • The Male
  • MAXINE CHERNOFF (b. 1952)
  • The Man Struck Twenty Times by Lightening
  • Lost and Found
  • Breasts
  • Japan
  • Amble
  • Black
  • How Lies Grow
  • ART LANGE (b. 1952)
  • Sonnet for the Season
  • Perugia
  • JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA (b. 1952)
  • Voz de la Gente
  • Mi Tio Baca el Poeta de Socorro
  • Matanza to Welcome Spring
  • DAVID TRINIDAD (b. 1953)
  • Movin’ with Nancy
  • Double Trouble
  • ELAINE EQUI (b. 1953
  • A Bouquet of Objects
  • Puritans
  • In a Monotonous Dream
  • A Date with Robbe-Grillet
  • DENNIS COOPER (b. 1953)
  • Being Aware
  • No God
  • Drugs
  • AMY GERSTLER (b. 1956)
  • The True Bride
  • BZZZZZZ
  • Bitter Angel
  • Marriage
  • DIANE WARD (b. 1956)
  • Immediate Content Recognition
  • Glass House
  • Lovely Stuff
  • POETICS
  • CHARLES OLSON
    • Prospective Verse
  • JOHN CAGE
    • From Themes & Variations
  • ROBERT DUNCAN
    • Equilibrations
  • DENISE LEVERTOV
    • Some Notes on Organic Form
  • FRANK O’HARA
    • Personism: A Manifesto
  • ALLEN GINSBERG
    • Notes from Howl and Other Poems
  • ROBERT CREELEY
    • To Define
    • Form
  • JEROME ROTHENBERG
    • New Models, New Visions: Some Notes Toward a Poetics of Performance
  • AMIRI BARAKA
    • How You Sound??
  • SUSAN HOWE
    • There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover
  • CLARK COOLIDGE
    • Words
  • LYN HEJINIAN
    • FROM The Rejection of Closure
  • BERNADETTE MAYER
    • The Obfuscated Poem
  • RON SILLMAN
    • Of Theory, To Practice
  • NATHANIEL MACKEY
    • FROM Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol
  • BRUCE ANDREWS
    • Poetry As Explanation, Poetry as Praxis
    • I Get Impatient
    • Method
  • VICTOR HERNĦANDEZ CRUZ
    • Mountains in the North: Hispanic Writing in the U.S.A.
  • CHARLES BERNSTEIN
    • Semblance

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