Explorations of poets of the twentieth century, and some of their precursors, in audio and text.

Welcome to the Modern Poetry home page, which serves as an introduction and gateway to some of the richest and most wonderful poetry ever written.

Brought to you by Huck Gutman, Professor of English, The University of Vermont.

My name is Huck Gutman, and I am interested in poetry. I teach at the University of Vermont, and am so fascinated by what poems can do, so entranced by them, that I would like to share my fascination with others. I’ve developed web pages on which I talk about some of the poets who fascinate me the most, hoping to enable those of you who visit to find an entrance, a broad and sunlit path, into the works of a number of this century’s finest poets. [Baudelaire wrote in the nineteenth century, but he is a major fore-runner to the poets who followed him.]