Famous Poets From New Orleans and Their Selected Works.

Other Bob Kaufman exhibits on the web:

• Bob Kaufman, Beat Generation Writer
  Selected poems.
   
• Bob Kaufman
  Biography and four poems from "The Beat Page".
   
• About Bob Kaufman
  A collection of biographical, historical, and critical information from the Modern American Poetry website.
   
• "Bob Kaufman: Jazz Poet of the Streets"
  An essay by C. Natale Peditto.
   
• Beatitude Poetry
  San Francisco website devoted to Beat poets, constructed in memory of Kaufman.

Jan Heller Levi books 

Jan Heller Levi exhibits elsewhere on the web:

• Poet's Choice: "My Father Calls to Me Every Sunday Morning"
  Rita Dove intoduces Levi's poem, from the Washington Post, July 16, 2000.
   
• Late bloomers
  By Melanie Rehak for Salon.com.
   
• "Get This"
  From a piece called "Five poems to make you swoon" on Salon.com.
   
• "Circumstantial Evidence: Fall River Historical Museum"
  From The Cortland Review 17.

 
• Citation: 1998 Walt Whitman Award
  By Alice Fulton, who judged the contest. 

Other Nicole Cooley exhibits on the web:

• Two poems
  "New Orleans, 1995" and "A Woman Dreams in Cincinnati," from the Weber Studies website
   
• Resurrection
  A review of Resurrection from Louisiana State University Press.

Terrance Hayes, a native of Columbia, South Carolina, earned a B.A. from Coker College and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002) and Muscular Music (1999). His poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review and in two anthologies: Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (ed. Kevin Young, 2000) and American Poetry: The Next Generation (eds. Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels, 2000). He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997, and is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he lives with his wife, poet Yona Harvey, and their daughter.
Terrance Hayes books

Other Terrance Hayes exhibits on the web:

• "The Muppets"
  From Spring Street, Columbus State Community College's literary and visual arts magazine.
   
• "When the Neighbors Fight"
  From African American Review, fall 1999.

Walt Whitman

Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman was the second son of Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor. The family, which consisted of nine children, lived in Brooklyn and Long Island in the 1820s and 1830s. At the age of twelve Whitman began to learn the printer's trade, and fell in love with the written word.
In the early 1870s, Whitman settled in Camden, where he had come to visit his dying mother at his brother's house. However, after suffering a stroke, Whitman found it impossible to return to Washington. He stayed with his brother until the 1882 publication of Leaves of Grass gave Whitman enough money to buy a home in Camden. In the simple two-story clapboard house, Whitman spent his declining years working on additions and revisions to a new edition of the book and preparing his final volume of poems and prose, Good-Bye, My Fancy (1891). After his death on March 26, 1892, Whitman was buried in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in Harleigh Cemetery.
Poetry
    Leaves of Grass (1855) First edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1856) Second edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1860) Third edition.
    Drum Taps (1865)
    Sequel to Drum Taps (1865)
    Leaves of Grass (1867) Fourth edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1870) Fifth edition.
    Passage to India (1870)
    Leaves of Grass (1876) Centennial edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1881) Sixth edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1891) "Deathbed" edition.
    Good-Bye, My Fancy (1891)
Prose
    Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate (1842)
    Democratic Vistas (1871)
    Memoranda During the War (1875)
    Specimen Days and Collect (1881)
    November Boughs (1888)
    Complete Prose Works (1892)

Other Walt Whitman exhibits on the web:

• "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life"
  A special feature at Atlantic Unbound, including RealAudio readings by Frank Bidart, Marie Howe, and Galway Kinnell.
   
• Walt Whitman
  Biography, critical overview, bibliography, and links from Addison-Wesley's Literature Online, "A site to support Kennedy & Gioia's Literature, 7th Edition."
   
• Real Audio: "America"
  From Rhino Records' In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry.
   
• Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
   
• Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass
   
• Poet At Work
  Recovered Notebooks from the Library of Congress Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection.
   
• "Reminiscences of Walt Whitman"
  By John Townsend Trowbridge (February 1902), as originally published in The Atlantic Monthly .
   
• Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Campfire Chat
  Whitman discussion forum and links.
   
• Long Island Globalink: The Poetry of Walt Whitman
   
• Walt Whitman
  A detailed biography and an assortment of materials at Gale's Poetry Resource Center.
   
• Text & RealVideo: "Song of Myself" 46 & 52
  John Doherty discusses and recites two sections of Whitman's poem, at the Favorite Poem Project site.
   
• Walt Whitman: Life Stories, Books, and Links
  The Today in Literature website features original biographical stories about great writers, books and events in literary history.
   
• Walt Whitman: Life Stories, Books, and Links
  The Today in Literature website features original biographical stories about great writers, books and events in literary history.