The following are links to poetry and poetry-related associations, publishers, organizations, interest groups, awards, sites devoted to specific artists, as well as groups and resources from around the world that we think you will find useful.
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- Jordan Abel author page (Talonbooks)
- Un/inhabitated: EVENT interviews Jordan Abel
- Jordan Abel, Injun (rob mclennan’s blog)
- Etel Adnan (official web site)
- Etel Adnan profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Etel Adnan profile (artnet)
- Yehuda Amichai Tribute (The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature)
- Yehuda Amichai Profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Raymond Antrobus (official web site)
- Raymond Antrobus: ‘When my dad read me a story I’d feel it through the vibrations in his body’ (The Guardian)
- Deaf poet Raymond Antrobus wins Ted Hughes award (BBC News)
- Poetry in Aldeburgh: An Interview with Raymond Antrobus
- Raymond Antrobus (YouTube channel)
- John Ashbery profile and resources (Electronic Poetry Center)
- John Ashbery profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- The Instruction Manual – How to Read John Ashbery (Slate)
- Margaret Atwood (official web site)
- Margaret Atwood (Twitter)
- The Margaret Atwood Society
- Margaret Atwood (Wattpad)
- Margaret Avison bio, works, etc. (Canadian Poetry Online)
- Margaret Avison’s Concrete and Wild Carrot (Brick Books)
- Avison’s awesome afterlife (Globe and Mail)
- Ken Babstock profile (House of Anansi Press)
- Ken Babstock profile (Poetry International web site)
- Ken Babstock profile (internationales literaturfestival berlin)
- Hatchet Job: Ken Babstock returns with his fourth collection of poetry (National Post)
- Billy-Ray Belcourt (official web site)
- Everything is Something Else: In Conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt (PRISM international)
- ‘Overcome with emotion’: First Nations student named Rhodes scholar (CTV News)
- Billy-Ray Belcourt on the meditative power of prose (CBC Books – The Next Chapter)
- Frank Bidart profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Frank Bidart profile (Academy of American Poets)
- An Interview with Frank Bidart (The University of Arizona Poetry Center)
- James Franco Speaks with Frank Bidart About Poetry (Vice)
- Ana Blandiana Facebook page
- Ana Blandiana profile (Encyclopædia Britannica)
- Ana Blandiana and Hölderlin’s Eternal Question
- Robin Blaser profile (Electronic Poetry Center – University of Buffalo)
- Robin Blaser (Literary Encyclopedia)
- Robin Blaser readings – audio segments (University of Pennsylvania PennSound collection)
- Poetry Project featuring Blaser audio segments (Atwater Library and Computer Centre)
- Rachael Boast profile (Picador)
- Rachael Boast profile and resources (The Poetry Archive)
- Pilgrim’s Flower by Rachael Boast – review by Kate Kellaway (The Guardian
- Pilgrim’s Flower by Rachael Boast – review by Fiona Sampson (The Guardian
- Rachael Boast profile (Scottish Poetry Library)
- Yves Bonnefoy profile (Books and Writers)
- Yves Bonnefoy profile (Poetry International web site)
- Feature: Judith Bishop on Yves Bonnefoy (Jacket magazine)
- Interview with Yves Bonnefoy (The Paris Review)
- Yves Bonnefoy at 90
- The Rumpus Poetry Book Club interviews Shane Book
- Shane Book, selected by Thomas Sayers Ellis – Introduction to the work of Shane Book
- Q&A with Shane Book (Please Excuse This Poem)
- Roo Borson profile (University of Toronto – Canadian Poetry)
- Roo Borson profile (Canadian Women Poets)
- Daniel Borzutzky profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Daniel Borzutzky profile (Academy of American Poets)
- Poetry for Those Brutalized by Capitalism (Pacific Standard)
- Lake Michigan by Daniel Borzutzky (Into the Void)
- George Bowering feature (Jacket magazine)
- George Bowering profile (University of Toronto – Canadian Poetry)
- cancon interviews with George Bowering in 1999 and 2003
- George Bowering Manuscripts (Library and Archives Canada)
- Tim Bowling profile (Harbour Publishing)
- Tim Bowling interview (Open Book Ontario)
- A river runs through Tim Bowling’s The Tinsmith (National Post)
- Dionne Brand might be Toronto’s busiest author (NOW Toronto)
- An Interview with Dionne Brand (Room Magazine)
- Dionne Brand article (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Toronto’s Third Poet Laureate Dionne Brand 2009-2012
- Di Brandt (official web site)
- Di Brandt profile (Writers’ Union of Canada)
- Di Brandt profile (Manitoba Author Publication)
- Prof. Per Brask profile (University of Winnipeg)
- Per Brask profile (Fictive Press)
- Per Brask profile (Rhubarb Magazine)
- Kamau Brathwaite profile (books and writers)
- Kamau Brathwaite profile (East Carolina University – Writers of the Caribbean)
- Kamau Brathwaite profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Notebook of Roses and Civilization, by Nicole Brossard, translated by Robert Majzels and Erin Moure (Coach House Books)
- Where are they now? feature on Nicole Brossard (Montreal Mirror)
- 12 or 20 questions: with Suzanne Buffam (rob mclennan’s blog)
- Suzanne Buffam profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Suzanne Buffam profile (Canarium Books)
- John Burnside finally wins Forward poetry prize (The Guardian)
- John Burnside profile (Contemporary Writers)
- John Burnside profile (Poetry Archive)
- John Burnside profile (Poetry International)
- The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson (New York Times
- Anne Carson profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88 (Paris Review)
- Review of Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson (Salon)
- Review of Nox by Anne Carson (New York Times)
- On the Irreconcilable Temptations of Anne Carson by Karen Solie (Literary Hub)
- Abigail Chabitnoy – salmonfisher poet
- Abigail Chabitnoy in Chapter House Journal
- An Interview with Poet Abigail Chabitnoy (Colorado Review)
- Don Mee Choi (official web site)
- Don Mee Choi profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Disobeying History with Don Mee Choi (BOMB Magazine)
- A Conversation with Don Mee Choi (Lantern Review)
- Billy Collins, the US Poet Laureate
- Billy Collins profile (Steven Barclay Agency)
- Billy Collins profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- The Inside-Out Poet – interview with Kevin Connolly (Taddle Creek Magazine)
- Working overtime, profile of Kevin Connolly (Quill & Quire)
- Robert Creeley (Electronic Poetry Center – University of Buffalo)
- Robert Creeley profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Victor Hernández Cruz profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Maraca reviews and Victor Hernández Cruz biography (Coffee House Press)
- ‘Home Is Where the Music Is’ – A Review of Victor Hernandez Cruz’ Panoramas
- Jeramy Dodds (official web site)
- Jeramy Dodds profile (Desk Space)
- Coach House’s whistle stop tour(Quill and Quire)
- Crabwise to the Hounds review (Quill and Quire)
- Reality illuminated – Crabwise to the Hounds review (Toronto Star)
- Mark Doty (official web site)
- Mark Doty profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Mark Doty profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Norman Dubie profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Norman Dubie profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Norman Dubie profile (Blackbird Archive)
- Just Keep Running: A Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin by Jeffrey Grunthaner (BOMB Magazine)
- A Poet’s Principles (San Francisco Examiner)
- Our Generation: Rules Are Meant to Be Broken, an Interview With Tongo Eisen-Martin (Poetry Foundation)
- ‘Breaking’ Presents: Tongo Eisen-Martin, a Poet With Movement-Building In His Bones (Colorlines)
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger profile and bibliography (Wikipedia)
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger in conversation with Charles Simic
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger essay “The Radical Loser”
- Elaine Equi profile (Green Integer)
- Elaine Equi interview (MiPo magazine)
- Elaine Equi audio segments (The Cortland Review)
- Clayton Eshleman (official web site)
- Clayton Eshleman profile and resources (Electronic Poetry Center – University of Buffalo)
- Clayton Eshleman profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- KCRW Bookworm interview with Clayton Eshleman
- Patrick Friesen (official web site)
- Patrick Friesen profile (Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Poets on Record – Patrick Friesen (Contemporary Verse 2)
- Ulrikka S. Gernes profile (Wordfest)
- Ulrikka S. Gernes – Poetry As a Language of Resistance
- Frayed Opus For Strings & Wind Instruments – Ulrikka S. Gernes (Brick Books) (Today’s Book of Poetry by Michael Dennis
- Chantal Gibson (official web site)
- Chantal Gibson profile (Simon Fraser University)
- How She Read: Confronting the Romance of Empire
- Artist takes on colonialist culture with installation at Open Space (Times Colonist)
- Ani Gjika profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Interview with Ani Gjika (pif Magazine)
- The City and the Writer: In Tirana with Ani Gjika (Words Without Borders)
- Interview with Ani Gjika (Cervena Barva Press)
- John Glenday: An Annotated Bibliography (pdf) (Kalamalka Institute)
- John Glenday brief bio (Books from Scotland)
- Interview with John Glenday (Living Scotsman)
- John Glenday profile (Scottish Poetry Library)
- John Glenday and Kim Edgar reading/podcast (Scottish Poetry Library)
- Louise Glück profile (Academy of American Poets)
- Louise Glück profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Louise Glück biography, essays, poems (Modern American Poetry)
- Eleanor Goodman, writer & translator
- Interview with Eleanor Goodman, translator from Chinese (Poetry International)
- Poetry Night In Beijing: A Conversation With Eleanor Goodman
- Interview with Susan Goyette & Susan Gillis (Lemon Hound)
- Sue Goyette interview (CBC’s The Next Chapter)
- Ocean by Sue Goyette (Gaspereau Press)
- The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl by Sue Goyette (Gaspereau Press)
- Leslie Greentree (official web site)
- Leslie Greentree profile (Frontenac House)
- Leslie Greentree Facebook fan page
- Pamiec Smieny – Wioletta Grzegorzewska (in Polish)
- Women Online Writing – Wioletta Greg (Wioletta Grzegorzewska)
- Wioletta Grzegorzewska (literackie.pl)
- Durs Grünbein profile (Germany – Poetry International)
- Durs Grünbein at the Complete Review
- Review of Ashes for Breakfast (Verse Magazine)
- Kate Hall biography and links (Coach House Books)
- The Certainty Dream by Kate Hall (Advent Book Blog)
- Writing in the moment (The Kingston Whig-Standard)
- Phil Hall backlist (Brick Books)
- Phil Hall profile (Canadian Poetry – University of Toronto)
- Phil Hall profile (Writers’ Union of Canada)
- 12 or 20 questions: with Phil Hall (rob mclennan’s blog)
- The Conversation: Phil Hall with Beth Follett (Open Book Toronto)
- Joy Harjo profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Exclusive: Joy Harjo Speaks on Winning Poetry’s Most Prestigious Award (Indian Country)
- Joy Harjo’s ‘Crazy Brave’ Path To Finding Her Voice (National Public Radio)
- David Harsent profile (British Council Literature)
- David Harsent interview (The Guardian)
- David Harsent profile, resources and audio segments (The Poetry Archive)
- David Harsent speaks about the libretto for opera The Minotaur: The Myth (YouTube)
- David Harsent: A life in writing (The Guardian)
- David Harsent profile (Poetry International Web)
- Robert Hass profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Robert Hass: Online Resources (Library of Congress)
- Seamus Heaney profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet
- Seamus Heaney biography (Nobel Prize)
- What I’ve learned from Seamus Heaney (Irish Times article)
- Brenda Hillman (official web site)
- Brenda Hillman profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Brenda Hillman profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Brenda Hillman interview (The Rumpus Poetry Book Club)
- Michael Hofmann profile (Contemporary Writers)
- Michael Hofmann profile (University of Florida)
- An Interview with Michael Hofmann (Thumbscrew magazine – Summer, 1999)
- A short interview with Liz Howard (Jacket 2)
- Five Questions with … Liz Howard (IFOA Blog)
- Liz Howard, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (rob mclennan’s blog)
- Fanny Howe profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Fanny Howe Papers (Online Archive of California)
- Fanny Howe profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Interview with Fanny Howe by Kim Jensen (BOMB Magazine)
- Sarah Howe (official web site)
- Sarah Howe profile (Poetry Foundation)
- TS Eliot prize: poet Sarah Howe wins with ‘amazing’ debut
- Susan Howe profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Susan Howe, The Art of Poetry No. 97 (The Paris Review)
- Susan Howe’s Patchwork Poems (The New Yorker)
- Kim Hyesoon profile (Poetry Foundation)
- The Sick World of Kim Hyesoon (Hyperallergic)
- Kim Hyesoon: The Female Grotesque (Guernica)
- Mick Imlah profile and tribute (The Times)
- Mick Imlah profile and tribute (The Guardian)
- Mick Imlah profile and tribute (The Telegraph)
- Doyali Islam (official web site)
- Why Doyali Islam believes poetry and the physical body are connected (CBC The Next Chapter)
- 5 Questions with Doyali Islam (Toronto International Festival of Authors)
- Francois Jacqmin – Biographie (Service du Livre Luxembourgeois)
- The Coherence of Nothingness – review of The Book of the Snow
- Kathleen Jamie home page (University of St. Andrews, School of English)
- Kathleen Jamie author page (Bloodaxe Books)
- Three great Scottish poets
- Kathleen Jamie bio (BBC)
- In the nature of things – Kathleen Jamie profile (The Guardian)
- Kathleen Jamie profile and resources (The Poetry Archive)
- Aisha Sasha John (official web site)
- Multidisciplinary artist Aisha Sasha John is U of T Scarborough’s new writer-in-residence (University of Toronto News)
- Aisha Sasha John on the Epiphanic I have to live (Poetry Foundation)
- Rodney Jones profile (Blackbird Archive)
- Announcement of Rodney Jones winning prestigious 2007 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (Southern Illinois University Carbondale News)
- The winter of his content – interview with Rodney Jones (seMissiourian.com News)
- Eve Joseph (official web site)
- Writing Back to the Self: Corinna Chong in conversation with Eve Joseph (The Malahat Review)
- How a stroke changed how writer Eve Joseph views herself (Globe and Mail)
- Fady Joudah profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Lost Without Translation: Fady Joudah on the Poetry of Ghassan Zaqtan (Yale Press Log)
- Past the Centrality of Suffering: A Conversation with Fady Joudah (Poetry Daily)
- Fady Joudah receives 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship
- Ilya Kaminsky profile (official web site)
- Ilya Kaminsky profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Ilya Kaminsky profile (Academy of American Poets)
- ‘I will never hear my father’s voice’: Ilya Kaminsky on deafness and escaping the Soviet Union (The Guardian)
- Joan Kane profile (Poetry Foundation)
- A Long Way From Anchorage: Poet Joan Kane Gets a Boost in Santa Fe (Indian Country)
- Poems Against Loss: Joan Naviyuk Kane Talks About ‘Hyperboreal’ (New York Times)
- Marek Kazmierski: Tuwim with a Hashtag – Interview (Culture.pl)
- Interview: Marek Kazmierski, Managing Editor – Not Shut Up
- A review of Wioletta Greg’s Finite Formulae and Theories of Chance (Arc Publications, 2014) (Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre)
- Kaie Kellough (official web site)
- Take a walk through Kaie Kellough’s Montreal (CBC Arts)
- Kaie Kellough Sounds It Out (musicworks)
- August Kleinzahler profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Week-long electronic journal by August Kleinzahler (Slate)
- Yusef Komunyakaa profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Yusef Komunyakaa profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Yusef Komunyakaa audio selections (PennSound, University of Pennsylvania)
- Ben Lerner profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Ben Lerner talks about art, octopuses, and new ways of writing about families and politics (The Guardian)
- “You’re a poet; don’t you hate most poems?” (The Believer)
- The Hatred of Poetry: An Interview with Ben Lerner (The Paris Review)
- Luljeta Lleshanaku profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Luljeta Lleshanaku and Ani Gjika on Negative Space (Poetry Society of America)
- Luljeta Lleshanaku: Words Are Delicate Instruments (Guernica)
- Maverick political poet and playwright Christopher Logue dies at 85 (The Guardian)
- Christopher Logue profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- A Native American Poet Excavates the Language of Occupation (New York Times)
- The Freedom of Real Apologies (On Being)
- Poetry by Marie Howe and Layli Long Soldier (SFGate)
- Tim Lilburn profile (University of Victoria)
- Listening with Courtesy: A Conversation with Tim Lilburn
- Orphic Politics – Tim Lilburn
- Author: Michael Longley
- Michael Longley (The Poetry Archive)
- Michael Longley (Poetry Foundation)
- Michael Longley (War Poets Association)
- Derek Mahon profile (Irish Writers Online)
- Derek Mahon profile and selections (Poetry International)
- Derek Mahon profile (The Gallery Press)
- Jennifer Maiden profile (Poetry International)
- Jennifer Maiden profile (The Red Room Company)
- From Jennifer Maiden’s backlist
- Robert Majzels profile (University of Calgary)
- 12 or 20 questions with Robert Majzels (Alberta, Writing)
- Kim Maltman profile (Canadian Poetry Online – University of Toronto)
- Kim Maltman profile (Brick Books)
- Review of Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei by Pain Not Bread (Roo Borson, Kim Maltman, Andy Patton) (Quill and Quire)
- An Interview with Donato Mancini (CWILA – Canadian Women in the Literary Arts)
- Put on Your Negative Capability Helmet and Go with It: Excerpts from a Conversation with Donato Mancini (The Puritan)
- Buffet World – Donato Mancini (Full Stop)
- Bill Manhire profile (New Zealand Book Council)
- Mutes & Earthquakes, by Bill Manhire (The Poetry Kit)
- Khaled Mattawa profile and selections (Web del Sol)
- A Conversation with Khaled Mattawa (Blackbird Archive)
- Khaled Mattawa profile (University of Michigan)
- A loving tribute to Mr. 99
- Man of verse finds spotlight a curse
- David McFadden profile and resources (Canadian Poetry – University of Toronto)
- Proofing the World: The Poems of David McFadden, by George Bowering
- Heather McHugh profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Heather McHugh – “A good laugh is the best pesticide” – Nabokov
- Heather McHugh profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Heather McHugh profile (MacArthur Foundation)
- Don McKay profile (League of Canadian Poets)
- Don McKay profile (Writers Union of Canada)
- Don McKay interview (Gaspereau Press)
- Jane Mead (official web site)
- Jane Mead profile (Poetry Foundation)
- An Interview with Jane Mead (Bookslut)
- Tribute to Jane Mead (from Alice James Books)
- The Ireland Chair of Poetry – Professor Paula Meehan
- I believe that two lines of poetry can save a life – Paula Meehan (Independent.ie)
- Paula Meehan Facebook page
- Anne Michaels profile (Quill & Quire)
- Anne Michaels profile (Canadian Poetry – University of Toronto)
- Anne Michaels interview (The Guardian)
- Anne Michaels profile (McClelland & Stewart)
- Dunya Mikhail (official web site)
- Dunya Mikhail profile (Words Without Borders)
- Dunya Mikhail interview and reading (National Public Radio)
- Kei Miller profile (British Council Literature)
- Kei Miller maps the intersections of race, class and privilege in Jamaica (CBC Writers & Company)
- Kei Miller profile and resources (The Poetry Archive)
- Philip Mosley profile (Arc Publications)
- Professor Philip Mosley Awarded Prestigious Translation Prize
- Eirin Moure profile (Canadian Poetry – University of Toronto)
- Eirin Moure author page (House of Anansi Press)
- Erin Moure bibliography (Canadian Women Poets)
- Jane Munro official web site
- An Interview with Jane Munro (CWILA – Canadian Women in the Literary Arts)
- Jane Munro poems and Q&A (Canadian Literature Quarterly)
- The Poet Les Murray (official web site)
- Learning Human, by Les Murray (Complete Review)
- Les Murray profile (Duffy and Snellgrove)
- Hoa Nguyen (official web site)
- Hoa Nguyen profile (Poetry Foundation)
- An Interview with Hoa Nguyen (Bookslut)
- Hoa Nguyen profile (Academy of American Poets)
- Lee Maracle, Hoa Nguyen nominated for Neustadt International Prize (CBC Books)
- Translator Relay: Donald Nicholson-Smith (Words Without Borders)
- Listen to Donald Nicholson-Smith speak about Abdellatif Laâbi and read from In Praise of Defeat
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin profile and selected bibliography (Poetry International Web)
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: a select bibliography
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin profile, interviews, etc. (Wake Forest University Press)
- Alice Notley profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Alice Notley profile (Electronic Poetry Center – University of Buffalo)
- Interview with Alice Notley (Damian Rogers)
- Sean O’Brien profile, resources and audio segments (The Poetry Archive)
- Sean O’Brien profile (British Council Literature)
- Review of November by Sean O’Brien (The Guardian)
- Dennis O’Driscoll (official web site)
- Dennis O’Driscoll profile (Irish Writers Online)
- Dennis O’Driscoll interview (ReadySteadyBook)
- Sharon Olds profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Sharon Olds profile (Academy of American Poets)
- Sharon Olds, America’s Brave Poet of the Body (LitHub)
- Sharon Olds profile (New York State Writers Institute)
- Sharon Olds interview (Salon)
- Alice Oswald profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Interview with Alice Oswald (The White Review)
- Alice Oswald profile (British Council Literature)
- Alice Oswald profile (The Poetry Archive)
- P.K. Page (official web site)
- The Essential P.K. Page (The Porcupine’s Quill)
- Celebrated poet P.K. Page dies at 93 (CBC News)
- P.K. Page biography (Canadian Poetry Online – University of Toronto)
- Michael Palmer profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Michael Palmer profile and resources (Modern American Poetry)
- Review of Company of Moths (The Believer)
- Don Paterson profile and resources (The Poetry Archive)
- Don Paterson profile (Scottish Poetry Library)
- My Secret Life: Don Paterson, 49, poet (The Independent)
- Jules’ Tools for Social Change: Tell, an interview with Soraya Peerbaye (All Lit Up)
- In the Spotlight: Soraya Peerbaye (Story Is a State of Mind)
- An Interview with Toronto Poet Soraya Peerbaye
- Carl Phillips profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Carl Phillips interview (Shadowgraph Magazine)
- Silverchest by Carl Phillips (Lambda Literary Review)
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips (official web site)
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Q & A: Rowan Ricardo Phillips with FSG Poet Lawrence Joseph
- James Pollock profile (official web site)
- James Pollock profile (Poets & Writers)
- Interview with James Pollock (The Toronto Quarterly)
- Interview with Adélia Prado by Ellen Doré Watson (BOMB Magazine)
- Adélia Prado poems translated by David Coles (Antonio Miranda)
- Poem: Adélia Prado (J’s Theater)
- Ex-Voto: Poems of Adélia Prado by Adélia Prado and translated by Ellen Doré Watson
- Adelia Prado: Poet of “Excarnation!” (The Widening Spell)
- Michael Redhill profile (Canadian Poetry Online – University of Toronto)
- Michael Redhill profile (Quill and Quire)
- Srikanth Reddy (official web site)
- Srikanth Reddy profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Art Talk with NEA Lit Fellows Suzanne Buffam and Srikanth Reddy
- Spencer Reece (Poetry Foundation)
- Questions of Faith: Spencer Reece (Poetry Society of America)
- Post-40 Bloomer: Spencer Reece, The Poet’s Tale (The Millions)
- Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012 – A Poet of Unswerving Vision at the Forefront of Feminism (New York Times)
- Adrienne Rich dies at 82; feminist poet and essayist (Los Angeles Times)
- Adrienne Rich obituary – Radical poet revered by feminists and literary critics alike (The Guardian)
- Adrienne Rich profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Adrienne Rich profile and resources (Modern American Poetry)
- Adrienne Rich profile and resources (The Poetry Archive)
- Adrienne Rich – Selected literary criticism (Literary History)
- Sandra Ridley profile (Ottawa Writers Festival)
- Opening Small Moments up: An Interview with poet Sandra Ridley (Room Magazine
- A short interview with Sandra Ridley (Jacket2 Magazine)
- Sarah Riggs (official web site)
- Sarah Riggs – Five Questions on Etel Adnan’s Time
- Sarah Riggs profile (Poetry Project)
- Denise Riley profile (The Poetry Archive)
- Denise Riley profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Denise Riley profile (British Council)
- Michael Symmons Roberts (official web site)
- A Higher Place – BBC Radio 4 programme by Michael Symmons Roberts
- Michael Symmons Roberts profile (Contemporary Writers)
- Matthew Rohrer profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Review of A Green Light by Matthew Rohrer (Octupus Magazine)
- Tadeusz Różewicz – Honorary Patron of Culture, Wroclaw
- Tadeusz Różewicz profile (European Culture Congress)
- Review: Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems by Tadeusz Różewicz (MAKE Literary Productions)
- Tomasz Rózycki profile (Culture.pl)
- A World of Dew and Ash: The Poetry of Tomasz Rózycki (The Quarterly Conversation)
- A Letter to a Young Poet: On Tomasz Rózycki (Words Without Borders)
- Fiona Sampson profile and works (British Council Literature)F
- Fiona Sampson profile (Poetry Archive)
- Interview with Fiona Sampson (LIDIA VIANU, Desperado Essay-Interviews)
- Natalie Scenters-Zapico (official web site)
- Natalie Scenters-Zapico profile (Poetry Foundation)
- The KR Conversations – Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Kenyon Review)
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Review of Heavenly Questions by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (Quarterly Conversation)
- Interview with poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg (New Letters on the Air)
- Frederick Seidel author page (Macmillan)
- Frederick Seidel profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Reviews of Frederick Seidel’s The Cosmos Poems and Life on Earth (Boston Review)
- Laureate of the Louche – Frederick Seidel profile (New York Times Magazine)
- Jo Shapcott (official web site)
- Jo Shapcott profile, resources and audio segments (The Poetry Archive)
- Jo Shapcott profile (Poetry Foundation)
- it could not be helped (official web site)
- A Voice of Her Own (Tufts Now)
- An Interview with Natalie Shapero (The Journal – Ohio State University)
- Alan Shapiro profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Alan Shapiro talks to Andy Kuhn (Katohan Poetry Series)
- A Little on Poet Alan Shapiro (Revised)
- Brenda Shaughnessy profile (official web site)
- Brenda Shaughnessy profile (Academy of American Poets)
- Brenda Shaughnessy profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Charles Simic profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Interview with Charles Simic (The Cortland Review)
- Archive of Charles Simic Articles (New York Review of Books)
- Interview with Charles Simic (The Paris Review)
- A Conversation with Charles Simic (Artful Dodge)
- Anne Simpson profile (Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia)
- Anne Simpson’s Loop (McClelland & Stewart)
- Louis Simpson profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Louis Simpson profile (BOA Editions)
- Louis Simpson, Poet of Everyday Life, Dies at 89 (New York Times)
- Tracy K. Smith profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Makers Profile of Tracy K. Smith, Poet
- Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem, by Tracy K. Smith (New York Times)
- A Conversation with Tracy K. Smith (Harvard Magazine)
- Adam Sol: A conversation ending with a poem (Lemon Hound)
- Adam Sol profile (Open Book Toronto)
- ‘Complicity’ by Adam Sol – A Review (The Somerville Times)
- Karen Solie brief bio (House of Anansi Press)
- Canada by way of its wilderness (Globe and Mail review of Pigeon)
- The poetic world of Karen Solie (Open Book Toronto)
- John Glenday introducing Karen Solie (Arc Poetry Magazine)
- Karen Solie brief bio (Brick Books)
- Review of Short Haul Engine by Lynn Crosbie (previously on Globebooks.com)
- Don McKay introduces Karen Solie’s writing in Introductions … Poets Present Poets
- Review of Short Haul Engine in Canadian Literature
- Piotr Sommer profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Piotr Sommer profile (Poetry International)
- Piotr Sommer readings (Penn Sound)
- John Steffler profile (Canadian Poetry – University of Toronto)
- The Parliamentary Poet Laureate – John Steffler – 2006-2008
- Ten Questions with John Steffler (Open Book Toronto)
- Aleš Šteger profile (official web site)
- Aleš Šteger profile (Academy of American Poets)
- Three Berlin Essays by Aleš Šteger, translated by Brian Henry (Conjunctions)
- Gerald Stern profile (W.W. Norton and Company)
- Gerald Stern profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Interview with National Book Award winner Gerald Stern (1998) (PBS)
- George Szirtes blog
- George Szirtes profile (Poetry Foundation)
- George Szirtes profile (The Poetry Archive)
- Souvankham Thammavongsa profile (official web site)
- Laughter as a Shield: An Interview with Souvankham Thammavongsa (The Paris Review)
- Souvankham Thammavongsa Shows Us the Beauty of a Furious Poem (The Walrus)
- Sharon Thesen brief bio (House of Anansi Press)
- Sharon Thesen profile (University of British Columbia)
- Russell Thornton blog
- Any Semblance of Departure Will Be a Continuation: An Interview with Russell Thornton (Event Magazine)
- Russell Thornton poems and Q&A (Canadian Literature Quarterly)
- Colm Toíbín (official web site)
- Colm Toíbín biography and bibliography (Contemporary Writers)
- An Interview with Colm Toíbín (Bookslut)
- Sarah Tolmie (official web site)
- Sarah Tolmie profile (University of Waterloo)
- Review of The Art of Dying by Sarah Tolmie (Michael Dennis blog)
- Tomas Tranströmer Official web Site (in English)
- Nobel prize for literature goes to Tomas Tranströmer (The Guardian)
- Swedish poet Tomás Tranströmer wins Nobel Prize (Toronto Star)
- Swedish Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature (New York Times)
- Tomas Tranströmer profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Tomas Tranströmer profile (books and writers)
- Review of The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer (Contemporary Poetry Review)
- Joanna Trzeciak profile (Kent State University)
- Joanna Trzeciak profile (The Virginia Quarterly Review)
- Chase Twichell profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Chase Twichell biography (Poetry Foundation)
- Chase Twichell – Perceiving human consciousness through award-winning poetry
- Cesar Vallejo profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Cesar Vallejo: The Poet, the Militant, the Communist
- Cesar Vallejo Criticism
- Derek Walcott Nobel Lecture (December, 1992)
- Derek Walcott, The Art of Poetry No. 37 (Paris Review)
- Derek Walcott (Poetry Foundation)
- Wang Ping (official web site)
- Wang Ping’s Kinship of Rivers Project
- Wang Ping profile (University of Minnesota)
- Profile of Wang Xiaoni (Poetry International)
- Poetry review: Something Crosses My Mind, by Wang Xiaoni (South China Morning Post)
- On Translating Wang Xiaoni (PEN America)
- Ian Williams profile (official web site)
- Interview with Ian Williams (Desk Space)
- Stories for thirtysomethings – Williams tackles tough issues being faced by young Canadians
- Ian Williams: Poet seeking reader
- Ian Williams profile (Poetry In Voice)
- Susan Wicks biography, bibliography, etc. (Contemporary Writers)
- Susan Wicks biography (Bloodaxe Books)
- Poetry Focus: Susan Wicks (Eyewear)
- C.D. Wright bio and news (Brown University)
- C.D. Wright profile and resources (Modern American Poetry)
- C.D. Wright profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- C.D. Wright article/review (Open Letters)
- C.D. Wright interview (Jacket magazine)
- Charles Wright profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Charles Wright profile and resources (Modern American Poetry)
- Charles Wright interview (PBS)
- Dean Young profile (The Academy of American Poets)
- Dean Young interview (Jubilat)
- A Reading by Dean Young (Blackbird Archive)
- Adam Zagajewski profile (Poetry Foundation)
- Adam Zagajewski profile (Poetry International Rotterdam)
- “Dawn Always Tells Us Something”: On the Poetry of Adam Zagajewski (Bookslut)
- Lvov story
In the first of a series introducing poets from the new EU countries, Colm Tóibín celebrates the playful gravity of Polish émigré Adam Zagajewski
(Guardian)
Great list of poets! Keep up the good work Griffin Poetry.
Please note that all three links associated with Margaret Avison need updating.