Poetry News

Project for Innovative Poetry Seeks Biographical Entries

Originally Published: August 04, 2011

Douglas Messerli, editor and publisher of Green Integer Books and well-known supporter of innovative and international poetry and literature, has posted a request for biographical information to be included on the PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) website. The site has received over 90,000 visitors since Messerli started the comprehensive PIP Project in 2000. The Project "publishes regular anthologies of major international poets and actively archives biographies of poets and listings of their titles." The image above is from Mina Loy's listing. Messerli writes on his blog:

I invite innovative poets with national or international reputations to send me information that will help me post their existence on our major PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) site. You can post for yourself or another poet. Please send a complete and detailed biography (check the site for what we are seeking), plus a complete list of books in the original language (with city, publisher name and date), a list of English language translations (if any have been done), and a selection of 4-6 poems in English, along with a photograph.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact me at my email (douglasmesserli@gmail.com). I will get back to you on your potential posting as soon as possible.

I am eager to include all major, serious poets from around the world. I'll also help to rewrite your bios, etc., but the final decision upon inclusion will be mine.

The site includes, so far, entries regarding the following poets (just keep on scrollin'!):

Helen Adam (b. Scotland/USA)

Adonīs (Alī Ahmad Sa’īd) (Syria/Lebanon)

Delmira Agustini (Uruguay)

Ilse Aichinger (Austria)

essay on Ilse Aichinger "A Werldy Country: Ilse Aichinger's Prose Poems by Uljana Wolf, followed by two short pieces by Aichinger

Naja Marie Aidt (Denmark)

Anna Akhmatova (Russia)

Rafael Alberti (Spain)

review on Rafael Alberti "Poet to Painter" by Douglas Messerli

George Albon (USA)

Will Alexander (USA)

Vincente Aleixandre (Spain)

Pierre Alferi (France)

Oswald de Andrade (Brazil)

Oswald de Andrade "Cannibal Manifesto"

Ralph Angel (USA)

interview with Syrian poet Aïcha Arnaout

David Antin (USA)

essay on David Antin "Fractures of Self" by Douglas Messerli

Arnaldo Antunes (Brazil)

Louis Aragon (France)

Braulio Arenas (Chile)

Walter Conrad Arensberg (USA)

Rae Armantrout (USA)

review-essay of Rae Armantrout "The Present's Chronic Revision" by Douglas Messerli

essay on on Rae Armantrout "Teaching the 'New' Poetries" by Marjorie Perloff

Tammy Armstrong (Canada)

Nelson Ascher (Brazil)

John Ashbery (USA)

review of John Ashbery's Wakefulness by Marjorie Perloff

Carlos Ávila (Brazil)

Ece Ayhan (Turkey)

essay on Ece Ayham "Flying" by Douglas Messerli

Thérèse Bachand (USA)

Ingeborg Bachmann (Austria)

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (Poland)

Manuael Bandira (Brazil)

Djuna Barnes (USA)

David Barnett (England/lives in Wales)

Todd Baron (USA)

Molly Bendall (USA)

Gottfried Benn (Germany)

Guy Bennett (USA)

Steve Benson (USA)

Irving Berlin (b. Russian/USA)

Tobias Berggren (Sweden)

J. Bernlef [Henk Marsman] (Netherlands)

Charles Bernstein (USA)

book by Charles Bernstein Dark City (1994)

essay on Charles Bernstein's Controlling Interests "Making the Mind Whole" by Douglas Messerli

review of Charles Bernstein's Republics of Reality

review of Charles Bernstein The Attack of the Difficult Poems,"Talking in Circles" by Douglas Messerli

"Poetics of the Americas," by Charles Bernstein

"Sixty-six Writing Expriments" by Charles Bernstein

Mei-mei Bersenbrugge (b. China/USA)

Lucian Blaga (Romania)

Robin Blaser (USA/Canada)

essay on Robin Blaser "The Fire Behind Myself" by Douglas Messerli

Johannes Bobrowski (Germany)

Maxwell Bodenheim (USA)

Paul Bogaert (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Christian Bök (Canada)

Klavs Bondejerg (Denmark)

Yves Bonnefoy (France)

Raul Bopp (Brazil)

Daniel Bouchard (USA)

Michael Boughn (b. USA/Canada)

Kay Boyle (USA)

Paul Braffort (France)

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (Germany)

Bob Brown (USA)

Franklin Bruno (USA)

João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil)

Jorge Luis Cáceres (Chile)

Martin Camaj (Albania)

Dina Campana (Italy)

Remco Campert (Netherlands)

Jorge Carrera Andrade (Ecuador)

C. P. Cavafy (Greece)

Louis Cernuda (Spain)

Andrée Chedid (Egypt/France)

Ingrid Christensen (Denmark)

essay on Christensen by Douglas Messerli "The Danish "It" Girl"

Hugo Claus (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Gentian Çoçoli (Albania)

Wanda Coleman (USA)

Stephen Cope (USA)

Kelvin Corcoran (England)

Julio Cortázar (Argentina)

review of Julio Cortázar's Save Twilight by Gregory J. Racz

Eva Cox (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Hart Crane (USA)

essay on Hart Crane: Douglas Messerli, "Out of the Square, the Circle: Vision in Nightmare"

Stephen Crane (USA)

CREACIONISMO/CREATIONISM

Robert Creeley (USA)

audio of Robert Creeley discussing Black Mountain College

essay on Robert Creeley "The Radical Poetics of Robert Creeley" by Marjorie Perloff

essay on Robert Creeley "Robert Creeley's Windows" by Marjorie Perloff

essay on Robert Creeley "Memory Gardens" by Arkadii Dragomoschenko

essay on Robert Creeley "One had the company..." by Pierre Joris

Harry Crosby (USA)

Elizabeth Cross (USA)

Robert Crosson (USA)

essay on Robert Crosson "Finding It Hard to Navigate" by Douglas Messerli

Countee Cullen (USA)

E. E. Cummings (USA)

Wystan Curnow (New Zealand)

Visant Abaji Dahake (India/writes in Marathi)

Stig Dalager (Denmark)

Rubén Dario (Nicaragua)

Michael Davidson (USA)

Christopher Davis (USA)

Milo De Angelis (Italy)

Connie Deanovich (USA)

Mohammed Dib (Algeria)

essay on Dib "A Quiet Man in the Vast and Chattering Desert" by Douglas Messerli

Eliseo Diego (Cuba)

Linh Dinh (b. Vietnam/lives England)

Sharon Dolin (USA)

Hilde Domin (Germany)

Arkadii Dragomoschenko (USSR/now Russia)

Charles Ducal [Frans Dumortier] (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (USA)

essay on Robert Duncan "All Duncan, All the Time" by Joshua Corey

Gunnar Eich (Germany)

Larry Eigner (USA)

video of Larry Eigner writing a poem

Gunnar Ekelöf (Sweden)

ELAN POETRY GROUP (ECUADOR)

Jan G. Elburg (Netherlands)

T. S. Eliot (USA/England)

Kenward Elmslie (USA)

Paul Éluard [Eugène Émile Paul Grindel] (France)

Elanie Equi (USA)

Seyhan Erözçelik (Turkey)

Gerhard Falkner (Germany)

Farough Farrokhzard (Iran)

Farough Farrokhzard's film The House Is Black

Hans Faverey (b. Surinam/Netherlands)

review of Hans Faverey's Against the Forgetting, "Standstill" by Douglas Messerli

Robert Fernandez (USA)

the "Fiftiers" (see Vijfigers)

Roy Fisher (England)

review essay on Roy Fisher "Roy Fisher's 'Language' Book" by Marjorie Perloff

review-essay on Roy Fisher "Hard Against Time" by Ange Mlinko

J. V. Foix (Spain/writes in Catalan)

THE FOLIO GROUP (Washington, D.C.)

Graham Foust (USA)

Niels Frank (Denmark)

Kathleen Fraser (USA)

Else van Freytag-Loringhoven (German/USA)

Robert Frost (USA)

Robin Fulton (England/lives Norway)

Pedro García Carbrera (Canary Islands)

Federico Garcia Lorca (Spain)

Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (France)

Abraham Lincoln Gillespie (USA)

Maruice Gilliams (Belgium)

Oliverio Girondo (Argentina)

Alfredo Giuliani (Italy)

Michael Gizzi (USA)

Peter Gizzi (USA)

Jonathan Greene (USA)

Luuk Gruwez (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Barbara Guest (USA)

essay on Barbara Guest "The Countess of Berkeley" by Douglas Messerli

Jorge Guillén (Spain)

Katrine Marie Guldager (Denmark)

Nicolai Gumilev (Russia/USSR)

Albert-Paris Gütersloh [Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber] (Austria)

Hagiwara Sakutarō (Japan)

Alan Halsey (England)

Marsden Hartley (USA)

Stefan Hertmans (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Miguel Hernández (Spain)

Leland Hickman (USA)

Dick Higgins "A Taxonomy of Sound Poetry"

Jóhann Hjálmarsson (Iceland)

Peter Holvoet-Hanssen (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Paul Hoover (USA)

Fanny Howe (USA)

Peter Huchel (Germany)

Langston Hughes (USA)

Peter Hughes (England)

Vicente Huidobro (Chile)

William Hurtado de Mendoza (Peru/writes in Quechua)

IMAGISM (Imagisme)

Mark Insingel (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Kenneth Irby (USA)

Julia Istomina (b. USSR/USA)

Andrew Joron (USA)

Robinson Jeffers (USA)

James Weldon Johnson (USA)

James Weldon John Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry

Patricia Spears Jones (USA)

Susanne Jorn (Denmark)

Roberto Juarroz (Argentina)

Pia Juul (Denmark)

Mark Kanak (USA)

Frigyes Karinthy (Hungary)

Robert Kelly (USA)

Sandro Key-Åberg (Sweden)

Ger Kileen (b. Ireland/USA)

Kim Su-yŏng (Korea)

David Kinloch (Scotland)

John Kinsella (Australia)

Joanna Klink (USA)

Edvard Kocbek (Slovenia)

Janus Kodal (Denmark)

Uwe Kolbe (GDR/now Germany)

Rutger Kopland (Netherlands)

Srečko Kosovel (Slovenia)

Gerrit Kouwenaar (Netherlands)

Alfred Kreymborg (USA)

Ryszard Krynicki (b. Austria/Poland)

Günter Kunert (DDR/Germany)

Kusano Shinpei (Japan)

Else Lasker-Schüler (Germany)

John Latta (USA)

Jan Lauwereyns (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Sarah Law (England)

D. H. Lawrence (England)

Katy Lederer (USA)

Eino Leino (Finland)

Michael Lentz (Germany)

José Lezama Lima (Cuba)

Alfred Lichtenstein (Germany)

Enrique Lihn (Chile)

Vachel Lindsay (USA)

Ramón López Velarde (Mexico)

Amy Lowell (USA)

essay "On Imagism" by Amy Lowell

Mina Loy (England)

essay on Mina Loy "On 'Songs of Love'/'Songs to Joannes' by Peter Quartermain

essay on Mina Loy " English as a 'Second' Language: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" by Marjorie Perloff

Rupert Loydell (England)

Lisa Lubasch (USA)

Leopoldo Lugones (Argentina)

Arthur Lundkvist (Sweden)

Antonio Machado (Spain)

Duda Machado (Brazil)

Archibald MacLeish (USA)

Jackson Mac Low (USA)

Aaron McCollough (USA)

Campbell McGrath (USA)

Claude McKay (USA)

Jayanta Mahapatra (India)

Barbara Maloutas (USA)

LA MANDRÁGORA (THE MANDRAKE GROUP)

Maruyama Kaoru (Japan)

Edgar Lee Masters (USA)

Medbh McGuckian (Ireland)

Deborah Meadows (USA)

Catherine Meng (USA)

Douglas Messerli (USA)

essay on contemporary poetry and reviewers "What Is to Be Done?" by Douglas Messerli

Henri Michaux (Belgium)

Christopher Middleton (England)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (USA)

O. V. de L. Milosz (b. Lithuania/France)

Ange Mlinko (USA)

Marianne Moore (USA)

Christian Morgenstern (Germany)

César Moro [Alfredo Quíspez Asín] (Peru)

Rusty Morrison (USA)

Erin Mouré (Canada)

Sandra Moussempès (France)

Jennifer Moxley (USA)

Harryette Mullen (USA)

Sheila E. Murphy (USA)

George Murray (Canada)

Martin Nakell (USA)

Ágnes Nemes Nagy (Hungary)

Paulo Neruda (Chile)

Vítězslav Nezval (Czechoslavakia)

Giulia Niccolai (Italy)

Nishiwaki Janzaburō (Japan)

Leonard Nolens (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Cees Nooteboom (Netherlands)

Andreas Okeopeko (b. Czechoslavakia/Austria)

Toby Olson (USA)

George Oppen (USA)

essay on George Oppen's Of Being Numerous by Marjorie Perloff

Maggie O'Sullivan (England)

Olga Orozco (Argentina)

Eugene Ostashevsky (b. USSR/USA)

Ron Padgett (USA)

Elio Pagliarani (Italy)

Aldo Palazzeschi (Italy)

Ethan Paquin (USA)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy)

Joaquím Pasos (Nicaragua)

Oskar Pastior (Romania/Germany/writes in German)

Octavio Paz (Mexico)

Okat p'Bitek (Uganda)

Juan Sánchez Pelález (Venezuela)

John Perreault (USA)

Saint-John Perse (b. Guadeloupe/France)

Dennis Phillips (USA)

János Pilinszky (Hungary)

Nick Piombino (USA)

Sybren Polet (Netherlands)

Francis Ponge (France)

Vasko Popa (Serbia)

Antonio Porta (Italy)

Ezra Pound (USA)

Antonia Pozzi (Italy)

Frances Presley (England)

PROFIL GROUP (Norway)

Meredith Quartermain (Canada)

Henrikas Radauskas (Lithuania/USA)

Sándor Rákos (Hungary)

Carter Ratcliff (USA)

Stephen Ratcliffe (USA)

Tom Raworth (England)

Christopher Reiner (USA)

Rendra [W. S. Rendra] (Indonesia)

Alfonso Reyes (Mexico)

Laura Riding [Jackson] (USA)

Michael Riley (Australia)

Joachim Ringelnatz [Hans Bötticher] (Germany)

Yannis Ritsos (Greece)

Lisa Robertson (Canada/lives France)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (USA)

Matt Robinson (Canada)

Paul Rodenko (Netherlands)

Gonzalo Rojas (Chile)

Martha Ronk (USA)

Claudia Roquette-Pinto (Brazil)

Jean-Pierre Rosnay (France)

Joe Ross (USA)

review of Joe Ross' Wordlick by Mark Wallace

Amelia Rosselli (Italy)

Michael Rothenberg (USA)

Jerome Rothenberg (USA)

Jaime Sabines (Mexico)

Nelly Sachs (Germany)

Mílos Sahtoúris (Greece)

Valentine de Saint-Point (France)

Mark Salerno (USA)

Carl Sandburg (USA)

Håkan Sandell (Sweden)

Leslie Scalapino (USA)

essay on Leslie Scalapino "Leslie Scalapino's Rhythmic Intensitites" by Charles Bernstein

Standard Schaefer (USA)

Bert Schierbeek (Netherlands)

Susan Schultz (USA)

Rocco Scotellaro (Italy)

Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslavakia)

Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal)

Ian Seed (England)

David Shapiro (USA)

Anne Shaw (USA)

Peter Jay Shippy (USA)

Rod Smith (USA)

Paul Snoek [Edmond Schietekat] (Belgium/write in Dutch)

Edith Södergran (Finland/writes in Swedish)

Gilbert Sorrentino (USA)

Roberto Sosa (Honduras)

interview with Phillipe Soupault

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INNOVATIVE POETS

Sjoerd Spanniga [Jan Dijkstra] (Netherlands/writes in Frisian]

Adriano Spatola (b. Yugoslavia/Italy)

essay on Adriano Spatola "Investigative Procedures: Publishing Spatola" by Douglas Messerli

Maria Luisa Spaziani (Italy)

George Stanley (b. USA/Canada)

Rob Stanton (England)

Gertrude Stein (USA)

essay on Stein "The Making of Tender Buttons..." by Joshua Schuster

essay on Stein: "Tender Buttons as Narrative Fiction" by Douglas Messerli

performance from Patriarchal Poetry by two high school students

Wallace Stevens (USA)

Alfonsina Storni (Argentina)

August Stramm (Germany)

David Levi Straus (USA)

José Antonio Ramos Sucre (Venezuela)

Jules Supervielle (b. Uruguay/France)

Abraham Sutzkever (b. Lithuania/Israel)

essay on Stuzkever "Hush and Travail" by Douglas Messerli

Cole Swenson (USA)

Tada Chimako (Japan)

John Taggart (USA)

Rabindranath Tagore (India/writes in Bengali and English)

Takahashi Matsuo (Japan)

poem by Takahashi Matsuo "This World, or Man of the Boxes" on the artist
Joseph Cornell

Brian Teare (USA)

Jorge Teillier (Chile)

Toon Tellegen (Netherlands)

Susana Thénon (Argentina)

John Thomas (USA)

Mark von Tongele (Belgium/writes in Dutch)

Jean Toomer (USA)

Rodrigo Toscano (USA)

Tomas Transtömer (Sweden)

Anja Utler (Austria)

César Vallejo, from Against Professional Secrets (Book of Thoughts)

Paul Vangelisti (USA)

Sarah Vap (USA)

Tarjei Vesaas (Norway)

Orhan Veli [Kanik] (Turkey)

Pasquale Verdicchio (b. Italy/USA)

Vijfigers (the "Fiftiers") (Dutch poetry group)

José Garcia Villa (Phillippines/USA)

Simon Vinkenoog (Netherlands)

Jan Erik Vold (Norway)

Karen Volkman (USA)

VORTICISM: essay by Douglas Messerli "Vorticist Lewis/Vorticist Pound"

Arnold de Vos (b. Netherlands/Italy)

Alexander Vvedensky (Russia/USSR)

G. C. Waldrep (USA)

Anne Waldman (USA)

Rosmarie Waldrop (b. Germany/USA)

Diane Ward (USA)

Lewis Warsh (USA)

John Wieners (USA)

essay on John Wieners "Between Visions" by Douglas Messerli

book by John Wieners 707 Scott Street

Nachoem M. Wijnberg (Netherlands)

John Wilkinson (England)

William Carlos Williams (USA)

essay on William Carlos Williams "A World Detached" by Douglas Messerli

Elizabeth Willis (USA)

Terence Winch (USA)

Allyssa Wolf (USA)

Grezogorz Wróblewski (b. Poland/Denmark)

Saül Yurkievich (Argentina)

Adam Zagajewski (Poland)

Andrea Zanzotto (Italy)

Visar Zhiti (Albania)