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Additional Resources

Audio and Video Resources: links to audio and video interviews or readings of poems

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Want to Read some Poems?  Recommended Poetry Books for Teens

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Books in Verse:

Using Poems to Tell A Story

 


Web Sites

Poetry Magic:  A resource centre for the theory and craft of writing poetry

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Poetry Pages From The Atlantic Monthly
Articles, interviews and poems are presented by one of America's greatest literary magazines, The Atlantic Monthly. Included are many modern and historic poems and poets.

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Poets & Writers
A place for poets to find out about the market for their poems. Includes addresses of poets and discussions about poetry.

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April Is National Poetry Month

 

   

Poetry Resources

Audio and Video Poetry Resources

Audio Poets Online: Here are sites that have poet/poetry information, much of it in audio format.

BBC: Poetry: Listen to interviews with major poets
BBC: Poets reading and talking about poetry
PennSound: Featured Authors
PennSound: Index to Audio Poets
PennSound Poetry Series
Electronic Poetry Center Author Home Page Library
Eclipse: Modern Audio/Written poetry: Title Index
e-poets: catalog of artists
POETS: Interviews and Articles

 

Favorite Poems Projects: American Saying Poems They Love

Contains videos of Americans reading their favorite poems as well as the full text of the poems.  Go to "The Videos" for a list of poems included in the project.

 

Listening Booth (The Academy of American Poets)
Listen to recordings of poets reading poems of their own or those written by other poets.

 

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

These are recorded (video) talks from the Museum of American Poetics by "poets speaking about the lives and works of other poets or poetry movements they feel passionately about or influenced by in their own writing visions."

 

 

 

 

  Literary  Criticism and Info on Poets

 

LitLinks: Poetry

Find links to a variety of sites listed by the poet's name.  For example, if you are using a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, click on the link for her name and you'll find a list of links about her and her poetry.

 

Norton Websource to American Literature

A list of American authors by name; click on your poet's name to find their place on the literary timeline and to get biographical info and links

 

Modern American Poetry

Resources on Modern American Poets; an online and multimedia companion to the book Anthology of Modern American Poetry.

 

The Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism

A huge number of links to lit crit resources on the web.  You can look them up by the author's name or the title of the work.  This site isn't just for poetry, but for all kinds of literature.