"April is the Cruelest Month"
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Biographical notes on T.S. Eliot
Hypertext and Audio of Eliot's The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
Fragmentation in The Waste Land: Why T.S. Eliot Tears Down London Bridge
By Emily Hilligoss
Hypertext version of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" at The Prufrock Papers
"I hate to see that evening sun go down."
T. S. Eliot is said the best line of iambic pentameter in English was not in Shakespeare but in W. C. Handy's St. Louis Blues
Much of T.S. Eliot's poetry brings to mind the poems of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg
Wired for Books Interview with Allen Ginsberg
Howl: The Poem That Changed America
NPR : Revisiting Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' at 50
Allen Ginsberg - NYTimes Featured Author
States of Altering Consciousness
Ginsberg's COLLECTED POEMS 1947-1980 reviewed
Photographs from the Allen Ginsberg Trust
Read a poem a day selected by Billy Collins at Poetry 180
Today's Poem from Poetry Daily
"Poetry" By Marianne Moore
"The Red Wheel Barrow" and "This is Just to Say" By William Carlos Williams
Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan - U.S. Library of Congress
Poem in Your Pocket Day - April 30
It is difficult
to get the news from poems,
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
- W.C.Williams
Spoon River Anthology to memorize.
(Alternate source: Spoon River Anthology on Bartleby.com).