The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania celebrated the 700th anniversary of Francesco Petrarca's birth in 1304 with an international conference, The Complete Petrarch: A Life's Work (1304-1374), April 16-17, 2004. This exhibit, mounted on the occasion of this conference, concentrates on Petrarch's own work. Petrarch wrote more than love poetry. He wrote a wide variety of forms in both Italian and Latin, among them invective, bucolic poetry, letters, and epic.

Don L. Lee poem

a garbage can lid smashed into a likeness of the mad English king, George the Third.

the actual manuscript, making the format more intelligible to me

Robert Burns may also have been suffering from a rather nasty STD, according to a collection of explicit writing apparently by Scotland's national bard

Hunger allows no choice / To the citizen or the police; / We must love one another or die.

my father's transation of the Rilke poem

beat poetry generator

short, funny

And what Ron Paul, his hour come round at last...

adolescent poem generator

Gardening with Baudelaire

36 seconds of Walt reading four lines, from a wax cylinder

audio archive of poets reading their works

the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature, a group of writers and mathematicians.

Delayed or receding pustular eruption Child pale, breathless with asphyxia neonatorum;

Tons of Blakeiana

poem by Barbara Hamby

Mac OS X dashboard widget that generates random "haiku"