Pictures of Poets

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania has digitized and made available over 2,000 photographs of poets that originally appeared in the pages of the American Poetry Review between 1971-1998.

Though many poets pictured have faded a bit from view and are worthy of a ‘Where Are They Now’ segment the archive is still packed with a plethora of “A” list poets of the last quarter-century.

There are also multiple shots of a number of poets, like Hayden Carruth above, that offers one a peek at  poets at different stages of their career.

Clearly a tremendous resource and one in which you can easily get lost.

Thanks to harriet the blog of the Poetry Foundation for the lead