Columbia University

Biography

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

  • One Train May Hide Another
  • Talking to Patrizia
  • The Study of Happiness

and The Poetry Foundation

  • A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead
  • Bel Canto
  • Down at the Docks
  • Fresh Air
  • From Seine
  • From The Duplications
  • Gigue
  • In Love with You
  • Ladies for Dinner, Saipan
  • Locks
  • Meeting You at the Piers
  • On Beauty
  • On the Great Atlantic Rainway
  • Permanently
  • Poem for My Twentieth Birthday
  • Pregnancy
  • Schoolyard in April
  • Sleeping with Women
  • Taking a Walk with You
  • Talking to Patrizia
  • Thank You
  • Thanksgiving
  • The Art of Poetry
  • The Brassiere Factory
  • The Circus
  • The History of Jazz
  • The Horse
  • The Magic of Numbers
  • The Trip from California
  • To Life
  • To My Father's Business
  • To My Heart As I Go Along
  • To My Old Poems
  • To Some Buckets
  • To Testosterone
  • To the United States Army
  • To You
  • What People Say About Paris
  • You Know All This
  • You Were Wearing

      • Adams, Michael. "Kenneth Koch". 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. 412-416.
      • Koch, Kenneth. Poems. New York, NY: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953.
      • --. Ko; or, A Season on Earth. New York, NY: Grove, 1959. PS3521 .O27 K6 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
      • --. Permanently. New York, NY: Tiber Press, 1960.
      • --. Thank You and Other Poems. New York, NY: Grove, 1962. PS3521 .O27 T48 Robarts Library.
      • --. Poems from 1952 and 1953. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. PS3521 .O27 P63 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Pleasures of Peace and Other Poems. New York, NY: Grove, 1969. PS3521 .O27 P5 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
      • --. When the Sun Tries to Go On. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. PS3521 .O27 W5 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
      • --. Sleeping with Women. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. pam 01842 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
      • --. The Art of Love. New York, NY: Random House, 1975. PS3521 .O27 A9 1975 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Duplications. New York, NY: Random House, 1977.
      • --. The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951. New York, NY: Random House, 1979. PS3521 .O27 B8 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
      • --. Days and Nights. New York, NY: Random House, 1982. PS3521 .O27 D3 1982 Robarts Library.
      • --. Selected Poems, 1950-1982. New York, NY: Random House, 1985. PS3521 .O27 S4 1985 Robarts Library.
      • --. On the Edge. New York, NY: Viking, 1986. PS3521 .O27 O49 2007X Robarts Library.
      • --. Seasons on Earth. New York, NY: Penguin, 1987. PS3521 .O27 S38 1987 Robarts Library.
      • --. Selected Poems. Manchester, England: Carcanet, 1991. PS3561 .O26 A6 1991 Robarts Library.
      • --. One Train: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, 1994. PS3521 .O27 O55 1994X Robarts Library.
      • --. On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988. New York, NY: Knopf, 1994. PS3521 .O27 O5 1994X Robarts Library.
      • --. Straits: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, NY), 1998. PS3521 .O27 S7 1998X Robarts Library.
      • --. New Addresses: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, 2000. PS3521 .O27 N49 2000X Robarts Library.
      • --. Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952-1954. New York, NY: Knopf, 2002. PS3521 .O27 A6 2002X Robarts Library.
      • --. A Possible World. New York, NY: Knopf, 2002.
        PS3521 .O27 P67 2002X Robarts Library.
Degree
Biography

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

  • One Train May Hide Another
  • Talking to Patrizia
  • The Study of Happiness

and The Poetry Foundation

  • A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead
  • Bel Canto
  • Down at the Docks
  • Fresh Air
  • From Seine
  • From The Duplications
  • Gigue
  • In Love with You
  • Ladies for Dinner, Saipan
  • Locks
  • Meeting You at the Piers
  • On Beauty
  • On the Great Atlantic Rainway
  • Permanently
  • Poem for My Twentieth Birthday
  • Pregnancy
  • Schoolyard in April
  • Sleeping with Women
  • Taking a Walk with You
  • Talking to Patrizia
  • Thank You
  • Thanksgiving
  • The Art of Poetry
  • The Brassiere Factory
  • The Circus
  • The History of Jazz
  • The Horse
  • The Magic of Numbers
  • The Trip from California
  • To Life
  • To My Father's Business
  • To My Heart As I Go Along
  • To My Old Poems
  • To Some Buckets
  • To Testosterone
  • To the United States Army
  • To You
  • What People Say About Paris
  • You Know All This
  • You Were Wearing

      • Adams, Michael. "Kenneth Koch". 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. 412-416.
      • Koch, Kenneth. Poems. New York, NY: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953.
      • --. Ko; or, A Season on Earth. New York, NY: Grove, 1959. PS3521 .O27 K6 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
      • --. Permanently. New York, NY: Tiber Press, 1960.
      • --. Thank You and Other Poems. New York, NY: Grove, 1962. PS3521 .O27 T48 Robarts Library.
      • --. Poems from 1952 and 1953. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. PS3521 .O27 P63 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Pleasures of Peace and Other Poems. New York, NY: Grove, 1969. PS3521 .O27 P5 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
      • --. When the Sun Tries to Go On. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. PS3521 .O27 W5 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
      • --. Sleeping with Women. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. pam 01842 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
      • --. The Art of Love. New York, NY: Random House, 1975. PS3521 .O27 A9 1975 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Duplications. New York, NY: Random House, 1977.
      • --. The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951. New York, NY: Random House, 1979. PS3521 .O27 B8 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
      • --. Days and Nights. New York, NY: Random House, 1982. PS3521 .O27 D3 1982 Robarts Library.
      • --. Selected Poems, 1950-1982. New York, NY: Random House, 1985. PS3521 .O27 S4 1985 Robarts Library.
      • --. On the Edge. New York, NY: Viking, 1986. PS3521 .O27 O49 2007X Robarts Library.
      • --. Seasons on Earth. New York, NY: Penguin, 1987. PS3521 .O27 S38 1987 Robarts Library.
      • --. Selected Poems. Manchester, England: Carcanet, 1991. PS3561 .O26 A6 1991 Robarts Library.
      • --. One Train: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, 1994. PS3521 .O27 O55 1994X Robarts Library.
      • --. On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988. New York, NY: Knopf, 1994. PS3521 .O27 O5 1994X Robarts Library.
      • --. Straits: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, NY), 1998. PS3521 .O27 S7 1998X Robarts Library.
      • --. New Addresses: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, 2000. PS3521 .O27 N49 2000X Robarts Library.
      • --. Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952-1954. New York, NY: Knopf, 2002. PS3521 .O27 A6 2002X Robarts Library.
      • --. A Possible World. New York, NY: Knopf, 2002.
        PS3521 .O27 P67 2002X Robarts Library.
Degree
Index to poems
Biography
  • McClaurin-Allen, Irma. "Audre Lorde". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 41: Afro-American Poets Since 1955. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Thadious M. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Gale Group, 1985. pp. 217-222.
  • Lorde, Audre. The First Cities. Introduction by Diane di Prima. Providence, RI :Poets Press, 1968.
  • --. Cables to Rage. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1970.
  • --. From a Land Where Other People Live. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1973. PS3562 .O75 F7 Robarts Library
  • --. The New York Head Shop and Museum. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1974.
  • --. Coal. New York, NY: Norton, 1976. PS3562 .O75 C6 Robarts Library
  • --. Between Our Selves. Crested Butte, CO: Eidolon, 1976.
  • --. The Black Unicorn. New York, NY: Norton, 1978. PS3562 .O75 B55 Robarts Library
  • --. Chosen Poems Old and New. New York, NY: Norton, 1982. PS3562 .O75 C4 1982 Robarts Library
  • --. Our Dead Behind Us. New York, NY: Norton, 1986. PS3562 .O75 O8 1986 Robarts Library
  • --. Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New. New York, NY: Norton, 1992. PS3562 .O75 C4 1992 Robarts Library
  • --. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance. New York, NY: Norton, 1993.
  • --. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New York, NY: Norton, 1997. PS3562 .O75 A17 1997 Robarts Library
Degree
Index to poems
Biography
  • Brown, Ashley. "Anthony Hecht". 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. 137-145.
  • Hecht, Anthony. A Summoning of Stones. New York: Macmillan, 1954
  • --. The Hard Hours. New York: Atheneum, 1967; London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
  • --. Millions of Strange Shadows. New York: Atheneum, 1977; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • --. The Venetian Vespers. New York: Atheneum, 1979.
  • --. Obbligati: Essays in Criticism. New York: Atheneum, 1986.
  • --. Collected Earlier Poems. New York: Knopf, 1990.
  • --. The Transparent Man. New York: Knopf, 1990.
  • --. The Presumptions of Death. Rockport, ME: Gehenna Press, 1995.
  • --. Flight among the Tombs: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, 1996.
  • --. The Darkness and the Light. New York, NY: Knopf, 2001
Degree
Index to poems
Biography
  • Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.
  • Bevington, Helen. Dr. Johnson's Waterfall, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, 1946.
  • --. Nineteen Million Elephants, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, 1950.
  • --.A Change of Sky, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, 1956.
  • --.When Found, Make a Verse Of. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Degree
Index to poems
Biography
  • Abbot, Leonard D. Ernest Howard Crosby: A Valuation and a Tribute. Westwood, Ma., 1907.
  • Crosby, Ernest Howard. Broad-cast. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1905.
  • --. Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. 3rd edn.: London: F.R. Henderson, 1901.
  • --. Soul of the World and Other Verses. Privately Published, 1908.
  • --. Swords and Plowshares. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902. London: Grant Richards, 1903.
  • --. War Echoes. Philadelphia: Innes & Sons, 1898.
  • Whittaker, Robert. "Tolstoy's American Disciple: Letters to Ernest Howard Crosby, 1894-1906." TriQuarterly (Winter 1996/97): 210-50.
Degree
Biography

Born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, Langston Hughes grew up and was educated in Lawrence, Kansas, and Cleveland, Ohio. He briefly enrolled in Columbia University in New York in 1921, the year that he published "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in Crisis, a journal which was edited by W. E. B. Du Bois. In 1923-24 Hughes worked as a seaman on trips to Africa and Europe. In April 1925 his poem "The Weary Blues" won first prize in a contest sponsored by Opportunity magazine. This notice led Alfred A. Knopf to bring out Hughes' first book of poems, The Weary Blues collection, in January 1926. It established him as a leading member of the Harlem Renaissance. In a life not without political turmoil, Hughes became a prolific playwright, short-story writer, opera composer, novelist, biographer, editor, and historian. Among his books of poems are Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), The Dream Keeper (1932), Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Fields of Wonder (1947), One-way Ticket (1949), Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), Ask your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961), and The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (1967). Following his visit to Russia in the 1930s, Hughes was frequently attacked for supposed communist sympathies. In 1953 he testified before Senator Joseph McCarthy's subcommittee on subversive activities in 1953 but escaped censure. He received the Spingarn Medal in 1960, the highest honour awarded by the NAACP, and in 1961 was made a member in the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He wrote two autobiographies, The Big Sea (1940) and I Wonder as I Wander (1956). Always a supporter of other writers, from imprisoned Ezra Pound to Alice Walker, Hughes edited several important anthologies of black poetry: with Arna Bontemps, The Poetry of the Negro 1746-1949 (1949), and Poems from Black Africa, Ethiopia, and Other Countries (1963). Alfred A. Knopf brought out his Selected Poems in 1959. He died on May 22, 1967, in Manhattan.

  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel (New York: Random House, 1994; PS 3515 U274 A17 Robarts Library)
  • Mikolyzk, Thomas A., comp. Langston Hughes: a bio-bibliography (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990; Z 8423.3 M53 1990 Robarts Library)
  • Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes, 2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986-88; PS 3515 U274Z698 Robarts Library)