American Poems
http://www.americanpoems.com/
"The website of American Poems contains biographies and electronic texts of poems by 237 poets including Maya Angelou, H.D., Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams. Each poet has a separate section devoted to him or her, containing a thorough biography as well as links to poems and often extra information charting the poet's critical reception. The website also contains discussion forums where interested parties can converse on particular poets and where students can request help with research. Although not frequently updated, the information on this website is likely to be of use to English students (at the secondary school and undergraduate levels) and poetry enthusiasts looking for general background information on some well known poets." (Intute: Arts & Humanities)
American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
"Searchable collection of hundreds of collected works of poetry, mostly from the 19th century, although a few 18th and early 20th century texts are included. From the University of Michigan." (New York Public Library)
BBC Poetry Out Loud
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml
"This BBC Arts website provides a small and varied collection of recordings of poets reading their own works. This diverse collection includes an 1890 recording of Tennyson reading 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'; Sylvia Plath reading 'Lady Lazarus', and contempory poets such as Benjamin Zephaniah and John Hegley. A Real One PLayer is required to hear the audio files. Although recreational rather than academic in scope, the site is still of interest as it gathers together in one place a very wide range of poets interpreting their own work. The site contains links to other BBC poetry sites, as well as the BBC's archive of interviews with poets." (Intute: Arts & Humanities)
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgwop/index.html
"The World of Poetry is a bibliography and collection of poems written in English, the vast majority of which are British and American. The project includes: citations for 250,000 poems; the full-text of 13,000 poems and excerpts from many more; biographies and commentaries on hundreds of poets and poems; and a searchable glossary of terms." (Intute: Arts & Humanities) You must set up a free trial subscription to use this database.
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
http://capa.conncoll.edu/
"The Contemporary American Poetry Archive (CAPA) is an electronic archive which aims to make freely available on the Internet out of print volumes of 20th Century American poetry. The material is arranged alphabetically by author and copyright information on reprinting the works is provided. The site provides limited biographical information about the poets. The archive is supported by Connecticut College." (Intute: Arts & Humanities)
Cortland Review
http://www.cortlandreview.com/
"The Cortland Review is an online poetry magazine featuring poetry, fiction, essays, interviews and reviews. The Review features new poetry and fiction by both emerging and established writers. Many of the poems, stories and interviews are published in html format and can also be heard (using Real Audio); many, however, are available in Real Audio format only. New issues of the Review are published quarterly. Some of the distinguished writers who have contributed to the review and provided readings of their own works or the works of others include Robert Pinsky, Charles Simic, Robert Creeley and John Kinsella. The site features a wide range of articles and discussions of literature, and is one of the best online resources for reading and hearing new poetry." (Intute: Arts & Humanities)
Everypoet.com
http://www.everypoet.com/
"Everypoet.com is a website aimed at poetry enthusiasts. Whilst not scholarly in orientation, the site does contain a large archive of electronic poetry. For example, there are good selections from: TS Eliot; William Wordsworth; Wallace Stevens; Edgar Alan Poe; Geoffrey Chaucer; Amy Lowell; Oscar Wilde; William Shakespeare. However, everypoet.com is more than just an etext resource. The site also offers poetry discussion forums, opportunities for new poets to publish their poetry online, and a haiku generator. A bespoke search engine makes finding poems very simple." (Intute: Arts & Humanities)
Internet Poetry Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
"The Internet Poetry Archive is a multimedia resource that aims to bring contemporary poetry to a larger audience and to offer new ways of teaching and studying such poems. The project contains selected works by Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and Czeslaw Milosz. The poems are presented in their original language and in English translation, and are accompanied by authors' comments; both poems and comments are also accessible as audio files. A critical biography and brief bibliography is provided for each poet. Additional features include "Questions from the audience" sessions, panels on the poetry of several featured poets, and the odd video file. Links are provided to talks, lectures, and other related events." (Intute: Arts & Humanities)
Poets.org: The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/
"Home page of the Academy of American Poets. Founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry, this is the largest organization in the country dedicated specifically to the art of poetry." (New York Public Library)
Poetry Daily
http://www.poems.com/
"Poetry Daily is an online and non-profit poetry anthology, newsletter and bookstore. Every day a new contemporary poem is featured, complete with information about the (usually American) author. An archive makes all past poetry available to readers, and includes work by well-known poets such as A. R. Ammons, Yves Bonnefoy and Seamus Heaney. However, of most interest to poetry scholars will be the archive of interviews with writers and the newsletter. Robert Bly, David Lehman and Ruth Stone have all submitted to interviews, which although pitched at the general reader are illuminating and probing. The newsletter is primarily a reviews section, and probably Poetry Daily's most impressive aspect. Some thirty or so reviews are carried at any one time, making the site an invaluable resource for those interested in contemporary poetry." (Intute: Arts & Humanities)
The Poetry Resource
http://www.pmpoetry.com/
This directory includes hundreds of annotated links and features an index of poets.
UbuWeb
http://www.ubu.com/
"UbuWeb is an online repository of concrete, sound and visual poetry, described as 'a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.' The database collects film and audio dedicated to avant garde art, film and poetry including Fluxus, Dada, Surrealism, Viennese Aktionists (Actionists), 1950s-1960s New York Underground Film, Sound Poetry as well as contemporary artists. Students of modernism and modern poetics will benefit from this invaluable site. All audio and video is available for download as long as it is used for non commercial purposes." (Intute: Arts & Humanities)
Yahoo's General Poetry Links
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Poetry/
Annotated links to thousands of poetry web sites, annotated and categorized.
Bibliographical Formats
Poem in a Print Anthology
Last
Name, First Name. "Title of Poem." Title of Anthology. Ed.
Editor’s Name.
City of Publication:
Publisher, Date. pp. first page #-last page #.
Kipling,
Rudyard. "Fuzzy Wuzzy." Poetry Out Loud. Ed. Robert Alden
Rubin.
Chapel Hill,
N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel
Hill, 1995. 50-52.
Poem in an Online Book by One Author
Last
Name, First Name. "Title of Poem." Title of Book. City of Publication:
Publisher, Date;
Information Supplier, Date
[copyright date or date of last update]. URL. [Access date].
Housman,
A.E. "Is my team ploughing." A Shropshire
Lad. London: K. Paul, Trench,
Treubner, 1896; Bartleby.com,
1999. www.bartleby.com/123/. [23 April
2001].
Poem in an Online Anthology
Last
Name, First Name. "Title of Poem." Title of Anthology. Ed.
Editor’s Name. City of
Publication:
Publisher, Date. Information Supplier, Date [copyright date or date of
last
update]. URL. [Access date].
Dickinson,
Emily. "Chartless." Modern American Poetry. Ed. Untermeyer,
Louis. New York:
Harcourt, Brace and Howe,
1919; Bartleby.com, 1999. www.bartleby.com/104/.
[Access date].
Poem in an Online Archive
Last
Name, First Name. "Title of Poem." Title of archive. Date
[copyright date or date of last
update].
Information supplier. URL. [Access date].
Nelson,
Marilyn. "Daughters, 1900." Poets.org. 1997-2000. The Academy
of American Poets.
http://www.poets.org/ [24
April 2001].
