( Updated May 2004)
Here are some sites I hope all students in my literature courses will find useful.
American Academy of Poets: This site contains audio recordings of dozens of poets reading their works. Included are Frost, Stevens, Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, H.D., and many, many more. From this page you can also access brief bios of the poets.
American Authors on the Web: This site comes from Japan and has dozens and dozens of links to other sites.
Bookwire: An excellent site that includes links to book reviews, literary discussion areas, schedules of authors' personal appearances and book signings, etc.
Giacobazzi's American Literature Site: This site, maintained by Frederic Giacobazzi at Kirtland Community College here in Michigan, has very useful links to all major periods and movements in American literature. My students in English 251 will find this site particularly interesting for the amount of information it has on the Colonial and Federal periods.
Harlem Renaissance: Here you will find a number of e-texts by Harlem Renaissance writers as well as a number of paintings by Renaissance painters. There are also good links here.
The Harlem Renaissance site at Perspectives in American Liteature: A valuable resource for students in my American Lit class as we study the Harlem Renaissance. The site features all the maljor writers we study.
Latino/HispanicLiterature: This website, lasCulturas.com, provides links to websites and resources for a couple dozen Latino/Hispanic writers, including Isabel Allende, Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, as well as links to sites such as ChicanaWriter.com
Literary Kicks: This an independent site dedicated to experimental movements, including The Beats, and filled with excellent information and many other links.
Litlinks: Maintained by St. Martin's press, this is the companion site to Abcarian and Klotz's Literature: Reading, Writing, and the Human Experience. Included are biographies of all the writers in the collection and links to other websites.
Modern American Poetry: A really terrific site featuring dozens of poets. There are photographs, biographies, criticism, and further external links. Use this site often.
Perspectives in American Literature: Maintained by Professor Paul Reuben of Cal State Stanislaus, this scholarly site beings with Early American Liteature to 1700 and goes right on through to the late 20th century. The are chapters devote to American Drama and to the Harlem Renaissance and information about tens of dozens of authors.
Vietnam Resources: Here are a number of websites to help us in our study of the Vietnam war and the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
Voices from the Gap: Dedicated to "women writers of color," this site from the University of Minnesota covers a wide range of women writers from the past to contemporary authors: Sandra Cisneros, Toni Cade Bambara, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Gloria Chavez, Gish Jen, Naomi Shahib Nye, to name only a few.
Listed Alphabetically by Author's Last Name
The Atlantic Unbound interview with Erdrich, January 2001.
The Salon interview with Louise Erdrich .
A very detailed Ojibwe
history.
Esquivel, Laura
A Salon interview with Esquivel in which she talks about Like Water for Chocolate and The Law of Love.
Forché, Carolyn.
Carolyn Forche's personal website.
Hegland, Jean
At Random House: Be sure to read Hegland's essay, "Learning to Listen to the Land." You can also listen to a ten-minute excerpt of Heglund reading from the beginning of Into the Forest.
An interview with Hegland.
Declan McCullagh's Photographs: Here you can find wonderful photographs of the Big Sur coastline, source of much of Jeffers' inspiration.
Jeffers Studies: Maintained by California State University Long Beach (my alma mater), this is a good, scholarly site for Jeffers criticism.
Shakespearean Insults: Check this site out and throw around insults even the Bard would be proud of. "Thou art a frothy, weather-bitten puttock."
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