July 2005


Is there already a project underway to create Wikipedia articles for contemporary poets? I mean it hardly need be a ‘project’ right. Anybody can.

Here’s their current list of American Poets.

With collaborative editing to handle fights, links to poems published online (or in the case of Creeley a whole mini-essay on “The Hero”) and a variety of categorical groupings to apply (geographic, aesthetic, gender, language-use) isn’t this exactly the messy-ass anthology Kasey and Ron have been talking about?