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Dodds, Jeramy (1974 - 0)
Index to poems
  1. Heimlich
  2. The Easiest Way to Empty a Seashell is to Place it on an Anthill
Biography

Jeramy Dodds is 2011--12 Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

Christakos, Margaret (1962 - 0)
Index to poems
  1. Air Travel
  2. An Open Erotics of Gzowski
  3. Birch
  4. Bringing You Up
  5. G1. Video Technician
  6. G2. Host
  7. G3. Social Scientist
  8. Grounds 18A
  9. Grounds 5B
  10. /harsher sentences
  11. Lovely One
  12. Matin
  13. Queen (9-10 p.m., Eastern Standard Time)
  14. Relative
  15. Restaurant
  16. Retreat Diary
  17. Shopping
  18. The Lovely Figure
Biography

Margaret Christakos teaches creative writing at the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto. She also works as a poetry advisor/mentor with WIER (Writers in Electronic Residence), with the MFA program at the University of Guelph-Humber, and with Diaspora Dialogues. From 1992 to 1997 she taught Creative Writing at the Ontario College of Art; and she served as Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor in 2004-05.

 

  • Christakos, Margaret. Not Egypt. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1989.
  • --. With all my heart i heard u speaking. Toronto: Ice Floe Press, 1991.
  • --. Other Words for Grace. Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press, 1994. PS8555 .H753 O84 1994 Robarts Library
  • --. The Moment Coming. Toronto: ECW, 1998. PS8555 .H753 M65 1998 Robarts Library
  • --. Charisma. Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2000. [fiction] PS8555 .H753 C43 2000 Robarts Library
  • --. Wipe Under A Love. Toronto: The Mansfield Press, 2000.
  • --. Excessive Love Prostheses. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2002. PS8555 .H753 E9 2002 Robarts Library
  • --. Retreat Diary. Toronto: Book Thug, 2005.
  • --. Sooner. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2005. PS8555 .H675 S66 2005 Robarts Library
  • --. Adult Video. Vancouver: Nomados, 2006. canlit pam 03711 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
  • --. My Girlish Feast. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Belladonna, 2006.
  • --. What Stirs. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2008. PS8555 .H675 W48 2008 Robarts Library
  • --. Welling. Sudbury: Your Scrivener Press, 2010. PS8555 .H675 W44 2010 Robarts Library
  • --. Facebook Page.
Caple, Natalee (1970 - 0)
Index to poems
  1. Christmas Poem by My Mother
  2. Do you Understand
  3. Happy Animal
  4. People are Brave
  5. Poor Girl
Biography
  • Caple, Natalee. The Heart is its own Reason. London, ON: Insomniac Press, 1998. [fiction]
  • --. Mackerel Sky. Markham, ON: Thomas Allen, 2004. [fiction]
  • --. A More Tender Ocean. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2000.
  • --. The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1999. [fiction]
  • --. The Semiconducting Dictionary (Our Strindberg). Toronto: ECW Press, 2010. PS 8555 A653S45 2010 Robarts Library
  • -- and Michelle Berry, eds. The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction From Young Contemporary Authors. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2002.
Lowell, Robert (1917 - 1977)
Index to poems
  1. For the Union Dead
Biography
  • Brown, Ashley. "Robert Lowell". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 169: American Poets Since World War II, Fifth Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Joseph Conte, State University of New York at Buffalo. Gale Research, 1996. pp. 165-178.
  • Lowell, Robert. Land of Unlikeness. Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1944; reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1971.
  • --. Lord Weary's Castle. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1946; reprinted, 1985. PS3523 .O89 L67 1946 Robarts Library.
  • --. Poems, 1938-1949. London, England: Faber and Faber, 1950; reprinted, 1987. PS3523 .O89 P6 Robarts Library.
  • --. The Mills of the Kavanaughs. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1951. PS3523 .O89 M5 Robarts Library.
  • --. Life Studies. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1959; 2nd edition published with prose memoir "91 Revere Street", London, England: Faber, 1968. PS3523 .O89 L52 Robarts Library.
  • --. For the Union Dead. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964. PS3523 .O89 F6 Robarts.
  • --. Selected Poems. London, England: Faber, 1965; reprinted, 1966.
  • --. The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems. Edited and introduced by William J. Martz. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1966. PS3523 .O89 A6 1966 Robarts Library.
  • --. Near the Ocean. London, England: Faber and Faber, 1967. PS3523 .O89 N4 1967 Robarts Library.
  • --. Notebook 1967-1968. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969; 3rd edition revised and expanded as Notebook, 1970.
  • --. Fuer die Toten der Union (English with German translations; contains poetry from Life Studies, Near the Ocean, and For the Union Dead). Frankfort on the Main, Germany: Suhrkamp, 1969.
  • --. Poems de Robert Lowell (English with Spanish translations). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Sudamericana, 1969.
  • --. Poesie, 1940-1970 (English with Italian translations). Milan, Italy: Longanesi, 1972.
  • --. History. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. PS3523 .O89 H5 1973 Robarts Library.
  • --. For Lizzie and Harriet. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. PS3523 .O89 F56 1973 Robarts Library.
  • --. The Dolphin. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. PS3523 .O89 D6 1973 Robarts Library.
  • --. Robert Lowell's Poems: A Selection. Edited and introduced, with notes, by Jonathan Raban. London, England: Faber, 1974. PS3523 .O89 A6 1974 Robarts Library.
  • --. Ein Fischnetz aus teerigem Garn zu knuepfen: Robert Lowell (English with German translations; contains poems from Lord Weary's Castle, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, The Dolphin, and For Lizzie and Harriet). Berlin, Germany: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1976.
  • --. Day by Day. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. PS3523 .O89 D39 1977 Robarts Library.
  • --. A Poem. Vermillion, SD: Menhaden Press, 1980.
  • --. Collected Poems. Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter; with the editorial assistance of DeSales Harrison. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. PS3523 .O89 A17 2003 Robarts Library.
MacEwen, Gwendolyn (1941 - 1987)
Index to poems
  1. Letter to a Future Generation
Biography
  • Grace, Sherrill. "Gwendolyn MacEwen". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 53: Canadian Writers Since 1960, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by W. H. New. The Gale Group, 1986. 279-82.
  • MacEwen, Gwendolyn. Selah. Toronto, Ontario: Aleph, 1961. PR6063 .A2 S4 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University
  • --. The Drunken Clock. Toronto, Ontario: Aleph, 1961. PR6063 .A26 D7 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
  • --. The Rising Sun. New York, NY: Contact Press, 1963; published as The Rising Fire, 1964. PS8524 .E95 R5 Robarts Library
  • --. A Breakfast for Barbarians. Toronto, Ontario: Ryerson, 1966. PS8524 .E95 B7 Robarts Library.
  • --. The Shadow-Maker. Toronto, Ontario: Macmillan, 1969. PS8524 .E95 S4 Robarts Library.
  • --. The Armies of the Moon. Toronto, Ontario: Macmillan, 1972. PS8524 .E95 A8 Robarts Library.
  • --. Magic Animals: Selected Poems Old and New. Toronto, Ontario: Macmillan, 1974; published as Magic Animals: Selected Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Don Mills, ON: Stoddart Publishing, 1984. PS8524 .E95 M3 Robarts Library.
  • --. The Fire-Eaters. Ottawa, Ontario: Oberon Press, 1976. PS8524 .E95 F5 Robarts Library.
  • --. The T. E. Lawrence Poems. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1982. PS8524 .E95 T22 1982 Robarts Library.
  • --. Earthlight: Selected Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen, 1963-1982. Toronto, Ontario: General Publishing, 1982. PS8524 .E95 E3 Robarts Library.
  • --. Afterworlds. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart, 1987. PS8524 .E95 A47 1987 Robarts Library.
  • Sullivan, Rosemary. Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Toronto: Harper Collins, 1995.
Wakoski, Diane (1937 - 0)
Index to poems
  1. Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
  2. The Girls
Biography

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

and The Poetry Foundation

 

  • Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences
  • Belly Dancer
  • Blue Monday
  • Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
  • Inside Out
  • Picture of a Girl Drawn in Black and White
  • Smudging
  • Tearing Up My Mother's Letters
  • Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
  • The Father of My Country
  • The Hitchhikers
  • The Photos
  • The Ring
  • The Story of Richard Maxfield
  • Uneasy Rider

     

      • Harris, Mark. "Diane Wakoski". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1980. pp. 355-366.
      • Wakoski, Diane. Coins and Coffins. New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1962.
      • --. Dream Sheet. New York, NY: Software Press, 1965.
      • --. Discrepancies and Apparitions. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1966.
      • --. The George Washington Poems. New York, NY: Riverrun Press, 1967.
      • --. The Diamond Merchant. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press, 1968.
      • --. Inside the Blood Factory. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
      • --. Greed. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, Parts 1 and 2, 1968, Parts 3 and 4, 1969, Parts 5, 6, 7, 1971, Parts 8, 9, 11, 1973.
      • --. The Lament of the Lady Bank Dick. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press, 1969.
      • --. The Moon Has a Complicated Geography. Palo Alto, CA: Odda Tala Press, 1969.
      • --. Poems. Key Printing Co., 1969.
      • --. Some Black Poems for the Buddha's Birthday. Pierripont Press, 1969.
      • --. Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969.
      • --. Love, You Big Fat Snail. San Francisco, CA: Tenth Muse, 1970.
      • --. Black Dream Ditty for Billy "the Kid" M Seen in Dr. Generosity's Bar Recruiting for Hell's Angels and Black Mafia. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
      • --. The Wise Men Drawn to Kneel in Wonder at the Fact So of Itself. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
      • --. The Magellanic Clouds. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
      • --. On Barbara's Shore. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
      • --. The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
      • --. This Water Baby: For Tony. Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, 1971.
      • --. Exorcism. Boston, MA: My Dukes, 1971.
      • --. The Purple Finch Song. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1972.
      • --. Sometimes a Poet Will Hijack the Moon. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1972.
      • --. Smudging. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
      • --. The Pumpkin Pie: or, Reassurances Are Always False, Tho We Love Them, Only Physics Counts. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
      • --. Winter Sequences. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
      • --. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
      • --. Stilllife: Michael, Silver Flute, and Violets. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut Library, 1973.
      • --. The Owl and the Snake: A Fable. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press , 1973.
      • --. The Wandering Tatler. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1974.
      • --. Trilogy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
      • --. Looking for the King of Spain. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
      • --. Abalone. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
      • --. Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975.
      • --. The Fable of the Lion and the Scorpion. Milwaukee, WI: Pentagram Press, 1975.
      • --. The Laguna Contract of Diane Wakoski. Madison, WI: Crepuscular Press, 1976.
      • --. George Washington's Camp Cups. Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1976.
      • --. Waiting for the King of Spain. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
      • --. The Last Poem. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
      • --. The Ring. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
      • --. Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
      • --. Overnight Projects with Wood. Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1977.
      • --. Pachelbel's Canon. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
      • --. The Man Who Shook Hands. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.
      • --. Trophies. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979.
      • --. Cap of Darkness. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
      • --. Saturn's Rings. New York, NY: Targ Editions, 1982.
      • --. Divers. Barbarian Press, 1982.
      • --. The Lady Who Drove Me to the Airport. Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1982.
      • --. The Magician's Feastletters. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
      • --. The Collected Greed, Parts 1-13. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984.
      • --. The Managed World. New York, NY: Red Ozier Press, 1985.
      • --. Why My Mother Likes Liberace: A Musical Selection. Tucson, AZ: SUN/Gemini Press, 1985.
      • --. Celebration of the Rose: For Norman on Christmas Day. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1987.
      • --. Roses. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1987.
      • --. Husks of Wheat. Northridge, CA: California State University, Northridge Library, 1987.
      • --. Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1988.
      • --. Medea the Sorceress ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991.
      • --. Jason the Sailor ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Black Sparrow Press. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
      • --. The Emerald City of Las Vegas ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995.
      • --. Argonaut Rose ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1998.
      • --. The Butcher's Apron: New and Selected Poems. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 2000.
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