- B., Cheryl
- Official site for writer Cheryl B. featuring poetry, prose, articles, and information on readings. - Bakker, Pamela
- Offers background details, poems, the chance to buy her first poetry collection, Web of Cries, and information on her illness ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. - Balaban, John
- Official site for the poet and translator. Includes interviews, poetry, books, and book reviews, and information about Vietnamese poet Ho Xuan Huong. - Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones) (16)
- Find out about Imamu Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones), the American poet, playwright, music critic, and writer of essays through sites featuring biography, photos, poems, and filmography.
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- Features biography of the young artist from Folkestone in Kent.- Basho, Matsuo (1644-1694) (4)
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- Biography of the 18th century playwright. Behn, Aphra (1640-1689) (4)
- Belew, Ellie
- Novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer based in Roslyn, Washington. Belew's work includes Run Plant Fly, About Wallowa County, and Fully Involved. - Bell, Eddie
- Author, poet, photographer, and educator. - Bell, Marvin (6)
- Bellen, Martine
 - Bello, Andrés (1781-1865)
- Venezuelan writer and poet (in Spanish). Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953)@
- Benedikt, Michael
- Contemporary American poet. - Benet, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943) (2)
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- Bilgere, George
- Collections include The Going and Big Bang. - Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) (14)
- Blackman, Nicole
- Official site of the spoken word diva. Blake, William (1757-1827) (13)
- Find sites for William Blake, the great English Romantic poet, engraver, and painter. Sites offer his biography, poetry archives, paintings, illustrations, as well as literary analysis of his works such as Songs of Innocence and Experience, and The Book of Job.- Bly, Robert (6)
- Boake, Barcroft Henry (1866-1892)
- Australian bush poet and author of the outback poem, Where the Dead Men Lie. - Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) (5)
- Find sites for Giovanni Boccaccio, the 14th century Italian poet and author who played a significant role in Renaissant humanism and known for his work, Decameron. Sites offer biography, paintings, historical perspectives, and English translations of his works.
- Bogan, Louise (1897-1970) (4)
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Boran, Pat
- Poet and writer whose works include The Shape of Water and Ireland: An Encyclopedia for the Bewildered.- Bowers, Edgar (1924-2000) (4)
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- Breit, Luke
- Includes some words by Norman Mailer, and complete literary listings for northern California. - Breton, Andre (1896-1966)@
- Find sites for André Breton, the French writer, poet, and critic best known as the main founder of surrealism. Sites feature biography, bibilography, lectures, and excerpts from Breton's works who defined surrealism as 'pure psychic automatism.'
- Brilliant, Ashleigh
- Official site of the UC Berkeley street philosopher. - Brodsky, Joseph (1940-1996) (6)
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- Sydney author of poetry and prose. - Brown, Sterling Allen (1901-1989) (6)
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- Budbill, David
- Vermont-based poet, essayist, and playwright. Features calendar of events, biography, and bibliography. - Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994)@
- Find out about Charles Bukowski, the prolific poet and novelist from Los Angeles who influenced contemporary authors and popular culture with his works like Ham on Rye, Love Is a Dog From Hell, Post Office, and the screenplay for Barfly. Sites feature biography, photographs, his works, bibliography, and tribute pages.
Bunting, Basil (1900-1985) (3)
Burns, Robert (1759-1796) (21)
- Learn about Robert Burns, the 18th century Romantic poet, through sites featuring life, poems, songs, essays, bicentenary exhibits, literary reviews, and sites for Burns' Nights, celebrating the birthday of the Bard of Scotland who wrote Auld Lang Syne.- Buson, Taniguchi (Yosa) (1715-1783) (2)
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