Museum of American Poetics Exhibits

EuroAmerican Shapeshifters

This exhibit features 20th Century heaves by Euro-American male shapeshifters working to open poetic form.

 

      Sam Abrams
Sam Abrams
  John Ashbery
John Ashbery
 
  Ted Berrigan
Ted Berrigan
John Berryman
John Berryman
 
Paul Blackburn
Paul Blackburn
    Robin Blaser
Robin Blaser
  Robert Bly
Robert Bly
   
   

Richard Brautigan
 
   
Joseph Brodsky
 
Lenny Bruce
 
  Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
John Cage
John Cage
   
   
George Carlin
 
  Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
   
    Jack Collom
Jack Collom
  Clark Coolidge
Clark Coolidge
 
        Cope
David Cope
Cid Corman
Cid Corman
     
     
Hart Crane
Hart Crane
   
  Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley
 
   
  E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings
Edwin Denby
Edwin Denby
 
James Dickey
James Dickey
   
    Ed Dorn
Ed Dorn
Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan
     
    T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
 
William Everson
William Everson
     
  B. H. Fairchild
B. H. Fairchild
 
      Kenneth Fearing
Kenneth Fearing
    Ernest Fenollosa
Ernest Fenollosa
 
     
   
Robert Frost
 
Lowell George
 
     
John Giorno
John Giorno
   
   
Mike Gold
 
   
  Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
 
    Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley
Dick Higgins
Dick Higgins
   
    Jack Hirschman
Jack Hirschman
 
    Anselm Hollo
Anselm Hollo
   
Buddy Holly
   

Robinson Jeffers
     
       
  Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly
   
    Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell
 
Bill Knott
Bill Knott
   
  Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Kostelanetz
   
      Philip Lamantia
Philip Lamantia
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
 
  Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell
 
 
Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Mac Low
   
  W.S. Merwin
W.S. Merwin
   

Jim Morrison
     
   
Phil Ochs
 
    Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara
Charles Olson
Charles Olson
 
    George Oppen
George Oppen
Joel Oppenheimer
Joel Oppenheimer
 
     
Gram Parsons
     
     Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen
    Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
  Carl Rakosi
Carl Rakosi
   
      Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth
 
Charles Reznikoff
Charles Reznikoff
   
    Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke
   
    Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg
   
Carl Sandburg
 
David Schubert
David Schubert
     
   
Pete Seeger
Charles Simic
Charles Simic
   
  Jack Spicer
Jack Spicer
 
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
 
     
Hunter S. Thompson
    John Wieners
John Wieners
Elie Weasel
Elie Wiesel
   
    Hank Williams Sr.
Hank Williams
 
     
    William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
  James Wright
James Wright
 
      Louis Zukofsky
Louis Zukofsky