Vallejo Library Poets Review

Welcome to the Vallejo Library monthly poetry event!

Meet Your Poetic Cousins & Ancestors

This guided review of legacy poets from around the world is an intimate exploration group, meeting to review many fine & famous (or infamous, or not-so-famous) poets of the past & present who have left a mark on literature, the art of poetry, and society as a whole.

JOIN US to discover (or re-discover) male, female & other poets of all ethnicities.

We’ll review poets romantic & erotic, political, pastoral & personal, dreamers, ragers, firebrands, sensualists – poets of all colors & stripes – names you will recognize, and (we hope) many you don’t recognise.

To keep in touch with interested poets & potential participants, the library will publish this growing list on its website of all the poets currently suggested for review, with a short bio & picture, plus a selection of poems titles for all the poets listed.  Our Facebook page will also show reviews & suggestions from participants.  We also plan a separate website in the future.

On the Second Wednesday of each month, we will gather for a round-table review of several poets, with each participant at that meeting having chosen a poet to explore for the evening.  Participants will have unlimited time before the meeting to read about their chosen poet, explore one or more biographies & several poems, and sketch out in advance a piece to read at the next gathering.

We will open with a participant reading on of the chosen poet’s poems, then we will open a discussion among the participants, after which that participant can read his or her written offering.  The next participant will then read a chosen poem, followed by a discussion, as well as his or her written offering.  This pattern will follow until all the participants have read – ending at 8pm.  Depending on how many people are present, each segment will have to be timed so that everyone can read.

A working list at press-time includes:

Alex Pushkin

Alla Gutnikova

Allen Ginsburg

Andrei Codrescu

Anna Akmatova

Cesar Vallejo

Dylan Thomas

E.E. Cummings

Elizabeth Bishop

Emerald GoingSnake

Federico Garcia Lorca

Hannah Arendt

Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jessie Lamont

Jesus Papoleto Melendez

Joy Harjo

John Berryman

Kahlil Gibran

Shams Hafez

Katrine O Jensen

Langston Hughes

Maria Stepanova

Mary Oliver

May Sarton

May Swenson

Maya Angelou

Omar Khayyam

Pablo Neruda

Silvia Plath

Wallace Stevens

Vaclev Pavel

V. Mayakovski

A. Voznesensky

W H Auden

Walt Whitman

William Carlos Williams

Y. Yevtushenko

List of Online Resources on Poets   

https://poets.org
https://www.loa.org
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets 
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-female-poets
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/ee-cummings-facts#
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/sylvia-plath-famous-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/pablo-neruda-famous-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/category/top-ten-lists/lists-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-female-poems 
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/maya-angelou-famous-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/ts-eliot-famous-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-modern-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-free-verse-poems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-short-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/walt-whitman-famous-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/emily-dickinson-famous-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-odes
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-indian-poems
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-african-american-poems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/sylvia-plath-famous-poems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire
https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poets/most_popular_famous_poets.aspx
https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/best-poets/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/best-poets/
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/poets.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca
https://poets.org/poem/earth-your-dancing-place

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