Our modern days began in the mid-20th century, between the two great wars but art, and especially poetry, was undergoing modernization before then, at the beginning of that century.

After Henry Ford initiated his innovative ideas on car assembly in the 20s, even more giant steps were taken in technology by his contemporaries and those who came after them. Of the many breakthroughs that amazed people in those heroic times, two of the most far-reaching were the electric dynamo and broadcast radio. At the same time, poetry was being modernized by a group of poets like Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell Ezra Pound and others.

Also during this period, Albert Einstein presented his Theory of Relativity and, by the mid-century mark, mankind had begun conquering space and rebel poets introduced “beat” poetry. In entertainment, The Beatles burst onto the popular music scene, adding zest to our life. Then came the digital age, which gave us access to the World Wide Web. And this brought even more major changes to our way of life.

The New Authors

This page contains works by authors born in various parts of the world, many of them having known television and the computer since childhood. We hope you will enjoy browsing through some of the most wonderful examples of poems ever written, like maia´s, whose unique, universal scope and voice touches the hearts and minds and souls of audiences all over the world...those in Africa, South America and Asia, equally as well as those in the 'sophisticated' countries of the northern hemisphere.

Other authors represented here are the well known Sylvia Plath, England’s A. Alvarez, and the American Maya Angelou, all of whose works raise the quality of these pages.
And the newly-discovered, excellent writers that have begun to shine in the sphere of American poetry are: Ruth Powers; Tami Krueger, a versatile poet who writes modern sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, etc.; the Australian Jenni Nixon; and others. The addition of new, poets will be continual. Keep browsing these pages to see what’s new.