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Other Web Sites Devoted to DC-Area Poets
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Ramola D
Bio, reviews, and ordering info by the author
of Invisible Season. Sponsored by Washington Writers Publishing
House.
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/d.shtml
Gayle Danley
Bio, photos, and booking info on the National Slam Champion.
http://www.gayledanley.com
Kyle
Dargan
Fishhouse site includes short bio, and audio files of readings
and interviews. Reading Between A & B site includes bio,
3 poems, and links. Dargan teaches at American University and is the
author of two books, most recently Bouquet of Hungers.
http://fishousepoems.org/archives/kyle_g_dargan/index.shtml
http://www.readab.com/kdargan.html
Tina Darragh
One poem, sponsored by the DC Poetry web site.
http://www.dcpoetry.com/?module=keywords&keyword=Darragh,%20Tina
Clarissa M. Scott Delaney
Bio and 4 poems by former Dunbar High School teacher, active during
the Harlem Renaissance, sponsored by DC Public Library web site.
http://029c28c.netsolhost.com/blkren/bios/delanycms.html
Toi Derricotte
First site sponsored by the Academy of American poets contains bio,
photo, links, and 1 poem by the former DC resident and author of Tender
and Captivity. Second site from the Poetry Foundation includes
photo, bio, bibliography, and 9 poems.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/107
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81170
Joel
Dias-Porter (aka DJ Renegade)
4 poems, by the author of the CD
Libation Song, sponsored by Seeing Black.
http://www.seeingblack.com/x040901/renegade_poetry.shtml
James
Dickey
Photo, bio, and 13 poems by the former Consultant in Poetry to the
Library of Congress (1966-68), sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1772
Abena Disroe
Bio, contact information, and links,
sponsored by The Authors Den, on the host of The Poet's Den reading
series.
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=7962
Jean
Donnelly
Poems by the author of Anthem;
sponsored by the DC Poetry site.
http://www.dcpoetry.com/anthology/153
Rita Dove
Photo, bio, and 17 poems by the former US Poet Laureate, sponsored
by the Poetry Foundation. Second site, from the University of Virginia,
includes photos, bio, videos, reviews, interviews, links.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1850
http://people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/home.html
Buck Downs
Poems by the author of marijuana softdrink. Sponsored by the
DC Poetry web site.
http://www.dcpoetry.com/?module=keywords&keyword=Downs,%20Buck
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Reprints of poems and a well-written biographical essay about the
author of Violets and Other Tales. On the Modern American Poetry
site, sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Wikipedia page includes photo, bio, and links.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dunbar-nelson/dunbar-nelson.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Dunbar-Nelson
Paul
Laurence Dunbar
Excellent site sponsored by the University of Dayton; provides bio,
photos, and poems. Second site, sponsored by the Poetry Foundation,
includes a photo, short bio, and 13 poems.
http://www.dunbarsite.org/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81336
Cornelius Eady
11 poems sponsored by the Poetry Foundation. Eady, the author
of Brutal Imagination and Victims of the Latest Dance
Craze, is co-founder of the Cave Canem workshops and a former
faculty member at American University.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81993
Richard Eberhart
Photo, bio, and 5 poems, by the former Consultant in Poetry
to the Library of Congress (1959-61), sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.
Academy of American Poets site includes bio and links.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1972
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/623
Moira Egan
Bio, photo, and poem by the author of Cleave, sponsored by
Washington Writers' Publishing House.
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/egan.shtml
Greta
Ehrig
Bio and schedule of upcoming events for a poet and singer/songwriter
from Takoma Park, MD.
http://www.gretaehrig.com
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Web site on the author of The Good Junk and The Maverick
Room, who teaches at Case Western University but was raised in
DC.
http://www.tsellis.com
Julie R. Enszer
A poet and lesbian activist based in Maryland.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/julie-enszer
Paul Estaver
Bio and contact information on the author of Salisbury Beach, 1954,
sponsored by The Authors Den.
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=6145
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Bio on the novelist and poet active in the Harlem Renaissance, who
taught high school in DC for 13 years. First site from the DC Public
Library. Second site, from the Academy of American Poets, offers an
essay by Anthony Walton (with links to poems) on how Fauset and other
women poets suffered from the "Double Bind" of being both
female and African American.
http://029c28c.netsolhost.com/blkren/bios/fausetjr.html
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19694
Gideon Ferebee, Jr.
Photo, bio, 2 poems, and a section for friends and admirers to
share their memories of the author of Searching for the Boy
and Reflections Of. Sponsored by Rainbow History.
http://www.rainbowhistory.org/gideon.htm
Robert Fitzgerald
Photo, bio, and 3 poems by the US Poet Laureate (1984-85), on
the "Poets of Cambridge" site, sponsored by the Harvard
Square Library in MA. Wikipedia site includes bio, bibliography, links.
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/fitzgerald.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitzgerald
Stephen Fitzpatrick
3 poems by an Annandale-based author on the DC Poetry web site.
http://www.dcpoetry.com/?module=keywords&keyword=Fitzpatrick,%20Stephen%20J.
Roland
Flint
Wikipedia page has a short bio, bibliography, and links on the former
Poet Laureate of Maryland and Professor at Georgetown University.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Flint
Calvin Forbes
Bio, photo, and poem by the author of The Shine Poems.
Forbes is a professor at the Art Institute of Chicago, but formerly
served on the faculty at Howard University and American University.
Site, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, contains short bio,
photo, 1 poem.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/454
Carolyn Forche
Wikipedia page provides bio, bibliography, and links. The second site,
sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, includes a short bio and 11 poems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Forch%C3%A9
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81854
Brandel France de Bravo
Bio, photo, and 2 poems from the author of Provenance.
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/francedebravo.shtml
David Friedman
Wikipedia page for the author of The Welcome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Friedman_%28poet%29
Robert Frost
Photo, bio, and 18 poems by the former Consultant in Poetry to
the Library of Congress (1958-59), sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.
Second site from Academy of American Poets includes photo, bio, selected
bibliography, 13 poems (one with audio), links.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2361
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192
Ethan Fugate
5 poems by a DC poet and editor, sponsored by the DC Poetry site.
http://www.dcpoetry.com/?module=keywords&keyword=Fugate,%20Ethan
Heather Fuller
Poems by the author of Eyeshot, and one of the editors
of the Washington Review. Sponsored by the DC Poetry web site.
Second link is sponsored by SUNY Buffalo, with photo, bio, links to
on-line works, sound file, and reviews.
http://www.dcpoetry.com/?module=keywords&keyword=Fuller,%20Heather
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/fuller/
Martin
Galvin
Photo, bio, and sample poem, and ordering information for Wild
Card. Sponsored by Washington Writers Publishing House.
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/galvin.shtml
Patricia Garfinkel
Bio and ordering information for From the Red Eye of Jupiter.
Sponsored by Washington Writers Publishing House.
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/garfinkel.shtml
Claudia Gary
Photo, bio and links to poems by the author of Ripples in the Fabric.
http://www.claudiagary.com
David
Gewanter
Five poems, bio, and photo by the author of In the Belly and
faculty member at Georgetown University.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/david-gewanter
Bernadette
K. Geyer
Two web sites from the Arlington, VA author of What Remains.
The first gives biographical information, reprints poems, and provides
select links. The second is BerniE-Zine, a site in which Geyer
publishes short-format reviews of poetry, literary journals, novels
and nonfiction.
http://bernadettegeyer.homestead.com
http://rantsravesreviews.homestead.com
Dana Gioia
Photos, bio, bibliography, interviews, essays and reviews, 12
poems by the former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts and
author of Daily Horoscope and The Gods of Winter.
Second site, sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, includes a photo,
bio, 8 poems, and 1 article.
http://www.danagioia.net
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2549
Louise Glück
Photo, bio, poems, and criticism on the former US Poet Laureate
(2003-04), sponsored by Modern American Poetry. Academy of American
Poets site includes photo, bio, video, 6 poems (one with audio), links.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/gluck/gluck.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/82
Sid Gold
Bio, photo, 2 sample poems, and ordering info for Working Vocabulary.
Sponsored by Washington Writers Publishing House.
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/gold.shtml
Joshua Gray
Photo, poems, and contact info on a poet from Takoma Park. Also includes
a description of a new poetry form Gray has developed, the "sympoe."
http://www.joshuagraynow.com
Angelina
Weld Grimké
Poems and biographical information on the author of the posthumous
Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimke. Grimke lived in DC
for part of her adult life, teaching gym and English at two DC high
schools. First link sponsored by the DC Public Library site. Second
from Harvard Square Library, includes two poems.
http://029c28c.netsolhost.com/blkren/bios/grimkeaw.html
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/grimke.php
JoAnne Growney
Poems, bio, photos, translations of Romanian poets, examples of poems
that use math imagery, and links, from the author of My Dance
is Mathematics.
http://joannegrowney.com
Daniel
Gutstein
10 poems by a teacher at GW University, and author of
non/fiction and Bloodcoal & Honey.
http://www.dcpoetry.com/?module=keywords&keyword=Gutstein,%20Daniel
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/gutstein.shtml
Piotr
Gwiazda
Photo, bio, links, 2 sample poems, and ordering information for Gagarin
Street. Sponsored by Washington Writers Publishing House.
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/gwiazda.shtml