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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

 


 

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

 

 

Find Full Text Poems

 

 

 

Search for Poems by Subject or Theme

 

LitFinder *Trial Database*

An online database that contains the full text of poems, short stories, essays, plays & more.  Search by keyword, author, or title.  You can also "browse" by subject.

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Poets.Org

The site of the Academy of American Poets; search by poem's title to find full text of poems.  To search by theme, click on "advanced search."

 

American Verse Project

An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920 searchable by title, author or search for individual words.

 

Poet's Corner

Poems on display range from single stanzas to entire books, with a large selection of sonnets, narrative poems, and topical works to choose from. Click on Subject Index to search the site by topic/theme.

 

Representative Poetry Online
This excellent collection of the great poets of the English language includes about 2,500 English poems by 403 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. Click on "Keyword Search" to search for poems by thematic words.

 

Morning Earth Poems

Morning Earth Poems connect poetry and ecology.  You can view sample ecology poems online or view the work of artists whose works deal with our connection with nature

 

Lost Poets of the Great War

Poetry written by and about World War I.  Contains brief biographies as well as some full text poems from each poet.

 

 

Search for Poems by Author, Title or Other Criteria

Poetry 180

A poem a day for each day of the school year.  To view a list of all 180 poems, click here.

 

Bartleby.com: Verse

Bartleby.com contains the full text of many poetry anthologies published before 1920.  Collections may be searched by keyword, and browsed by indexes to poems, chronologic order, author, title, or first line. Designed to be easy to browse and enjoy.

 

British Poetry 1780 - 1910 : A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions

Contains full text versions of many British poems from this period

 

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789 - 1832

Contains full text of poems & some additional information.

 

DayPoems: A Seven-Century Poetry Slam

Search by author or search by title for a variety of poems

 

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.

 

The Internet Poetry Archive

The archive makes available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets.

 

Poetry Daily: Poems Arranged By Author Name
A collection of poems by mostly living or contemporary poets; of poems by mostly living or contemporary poets, which are selected from literary publications. Poems are arranged according to their author's surnames. Usually only one poem per author is available.

 

Teen Ink: Poetry By Teens

Teen Ink is a monthly print magazine, website, and a book series all written by teens for teens.  Check out their published poetry here, alphabetical by title.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  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.