My intention in creating this site, which officially opened on Columbus Day 1997, is ecumenical. I want it to represent everyone writing and/or commenting on poetry. I want it to be a center where not only information on unrecognized poets (like ME) can be found, but information on the many entire schools of poetry that few not members of them are aware of. Toward that end, I have set up a biographical dictionary that anyone calling himself either a poet or a poetry critic, or both, can get his bio into simply by filling out a form (see the table of contents below) or e.mailing his bio to me at bobgrumman@nut-n-but.net. I encourage you to include a page or two of your own poetry, and something by some poet you admire, for I want actual poems (from all schools, however few may seem so far to be represented here) to be a major presence at Comprepoetica. Because I consider discussions of poetry almost as important as poetry itself for generating interest in poetry, I have also provided sections to which anyone whose submission is not totally incomprehensible or unrelated to poetry can contribute poets' statements, criticism, definitions of terminology and the like. Please do not be put off by the fact that most of the texts so far collected here are by me or friends of mine about poets and kinds of poetry you may not be interested in. I very much want essays by others on other topics. I hope that the material having to do with my own special interests eventually become a small subsection of my site as a whole. For that to happen, however, many more people need to submit stuff to me! Go to it! . . . or at least browse through what's here. I can't believe any one genuinely interested in poetry won't find something here he'll enjoy.

Bob Grumman

Note: as of January 2002, the sitemaster has more or less been on vacation from this site; it doesn't look like he'll be back for at least a year (to any extent); for this he apologizes. He also apologizes, as of 7 February 2002, for the loss of messages posted to him via one or another of the various feedback boxes or whatever they're called during the past who knows how many months: it appears that they were not forwarded to his home address as he thought they would be but to his Yahoo mail account. He never checked this, so it was eventually de-activated. It is active again, though, and the sitemaster will do his best to keep it active.

Announcement from years later (10 February 2004): the sitemaster is still more or less on vacation, but has added a new feature, a blog. You can get to its homepage by clicking HERE