Websites with Poet Biographies

Post-Colonial Studies at Emory Web Site
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Contents.html

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
http://www.postcolonialweb.org

Prentice Hall Literature @ School
http://www.phschool.com/atschool/literature/author_biographies

Authors' Calendar from Finland
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calendar.htm

Authors at OldPoetry.com
http://www.oldpoetry.com/oauthor/list

Renditions, a Window onto Chinese Literature
http://www.renditions.org/renditions/biography/au-down1.html

African Websites

Contemporary Africa Database from the Africa Centre, London
http://people.africadatabase.org/

University of Florida Africana collection
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana

African Writers
http://www.flippedeye.net/profiles.html

Various Poets

Poetry International.
http://www.poetryinternational.org
Choose a country, then a poet.
"Poets of the Quarter" will yield the most information.

Poems from India, Turkey, Korea,Bangladesh, etc.
http://www.shelterbelt.com/dailypage.html

"The Poet"
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~theresalee/poet.htm
This website is about a movie called "The Poet" which is about the life of GuCheng. Synopsis of his life, love affairs, and violent end.

South Asian Women Writers
http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php

World Lit Assignment Sheet - Bentley School - List of Poets
http://www.bentleyschool.net/intranet/upper/faculty/elott/termpaper.htm

Journal Articles

EBSCO. Choose only Academic Search Premier to get excellent results. Recommended by several University sites. You can use the school's card, or your own.

Books on Reserve in our library

A Chorus of Peace, a Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (808.81)

Global Voices, Contemporary Literature from the Non-Western World (808.8)

The Vintage Book of Contemporary Poetry (808.8104)

The Poetry of Our World (808.81045)

The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry (891.1)

Nuanua, Pacific Writing in English Since 1980 (HWN 820.8)

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (808.819)

Native North American Literary Companion (810.80897)

One World of Literature (808)

Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (808.81)

Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry (895.11508)

12 Spanish American Poets, an Anthology (861.08)

Canto General (861)

Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry (861)

Crossing Water (811.08)

African Voices (808.89)

World Beat (808.8104)

Whetu Moana - Polynesian Poems in English (820.8099965)

Harpers' Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry (811.5)

Poetry of Arab Women (892.71608092)

These Are Not Sweet Girls (861.2)

Penguin Book of Women Poets (808.31)