Poetry on the Web


Poetry Collections: The Classics    | Poetry Collections: Modern & Contemporary

  The World of Contemporary Poetry

Poetry Recordings    |   Pages of Links to Other Poetry Sites


Poetry Collections: The Classics

American and English Poetry 1250-1920 (Bartleby Project)
With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web.
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/

HTI American Verse Project
The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?page=main

British Poetry 1780-1910
A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

British Women Romantic Poets (UCDavis) - Online Texts
The British Women Romantic Poet's site is an online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act).
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/index.htm

CMU Poetry Databse
Canonical poets from Angelou and Anonymous to Wordsworth and Coleridge.
http://eserver.org/poetry/default.html

E-Mule Classic Poems
The Poetry Archive strives to be the largest collection of FREE classical poetry on the internet. We hope to achieve this by offering a simple, easy to use database system whereby users can search through our database of poetry by author, title, and first line of poem.
http://www.emule.com/poetry/?page=author_list

The Tennyson Page
Text, Audio, and Quicktime renditions of some of Tennyson's greatest poems.
http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/tennyson.html

The Blake Project - Online Texts and Concordance
On-line Blake Concordance, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman, graphical hypertext of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and more.
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/wblake/home1.html

Poetry Collections: Modern & Contemporary

Modern American Poets
161 Poets from Ai to Zukofsky: biographical notes, sample poems, critical appraisals, and bibliography. A terrific site!
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm

Internet Poetry Archive (UNC)
Phillip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czelaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, Richard Wilbur.
http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/

Knopf Poetry Center
A wide range of work by the  poets published by  Knopf. Learn more about the authors and read excerpts from their books. And sign up above to receive a poem-a-day during National Poetry Month, April, 2001.
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/poetry/

Electronic Poetry Center
The EPC serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics produced at the University at Buffalo as well as elsewhere on the Internet. "Our aim is simple: to make a wide range of resources centered on contemporary experimental and formally innovative poetries an immediate actuality."
http://epc.buffalo.edu/

Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (UPenn)
The Web site for English 88, Modern & Contemporary American Poetry, taught by Professor Alan ("Al") Filreis at the University of Pennsylvania. A great place to browse.
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html

Thomas Stearns ELIOT (1888-1965)
On this site are the original texts of most of Eliot's poetry up to 1925, some annotated and/or discussed. Also Eliot's collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, and articles on Eliot's development, influences and life, links, a  biography, further reading, etc.
http://people.a2000.nl/avanarum/index.html

Poetry Recordings

Favorite Poem Project
A project initiated by Poet Luareate Robert Pinsky, this site features individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love.
http://www.favoritepoem.org

The Academy of American Poets
"The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. The Academy maintains one of the liveliest and most comprehensive poetry sites on the Internet."
http://www.poets.org/

Contemporary Poetry Review

A list of Audio Sites from The Contemporary Poetry Review.
http://www.cprw.com/audclip.htm

Sites with Literary Audio
From the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/sound/links.html

Salon.com Audio
As eclectic a collection of modern and contemporary poetry as you'll find on the web. 
http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/poetry_audio/

The World of Contemporary Poetry

Organizations

The Academy of American Poets
"The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. The Academy maintains one of the liveliest and most comprehensive poetry sites on the Internet."
http://www.poets.org/

Assocaited Writing Programs
"Since 1967, AWP has supported writers and writing programs around the world. We now support over 20,000 writers at over 320 member colleges and universities and 60 writers' conferences and centers."
http://awpwriter.org/

PEN USA-West
"International PEN is a worldwide organization of professional writers founded in 1921 by D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, Clara Dawson Scott, and GeorgeBernard Shaw to develop a literary community not bounded by politics orgovernments. Today, PEN is composedof 130 centers inEurope, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas with atotal membershipof approximately 15,000."
http://www.pen-usa-west.org/

Poets & Writers
"P&W assists authors in their search for career-related information, outlets for their work, opportunities for professional advancement and community with other writers.P&W assists authors in their search for career-related information, outlets for their work, opportunities for professional advancement and community with other writers.Resources for creative writers."
http://www.pw.org/

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
Resources for publishers and writers.
http://www.clmp.org/

Newsletters, Magazines, Etc.

Poetry Daily
Poem of the day, news from the poetry world, book reviews, etc.
http://www.poems.com/
AGNI

Alaska Quarterly Review

The American Poetry Review 
 
Antioch Review

Bellingham Review 
 
The Beloit Poetry Journal

The Black Warrior Review

The Carolina Quarterly Online

Colorado Review

The Columbia Review 
 
Crab Creek Review

Crazyhorse!

The Cream City Review

Denver Quarterly

FIELD Magazine

Fine Madness 
 
Georgia Review

The gettysburg review

GRAND STREET

Indiana Review

The Iowa Review

Jeopardy Magazine

The Kenyon Review
The Literary Review

Mid-American Review

The Missouri Review

Notre Dame Review

New England Review

Nimrod International Literary Journal

North American Review

NORTHWEST REVIEW

The Paris Review

Partisan Review

Pequod 
 
Pleiades

Ploughshares

Poet Lore 
 
Portland Review Literary Journal

Prairie Schooner 
 
Quarterly West

Salamgundi

The Seattle Review

Sewanee Review

Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review

The Southern Review

Spoon River Review

The Threepenny Review

The Virginia Quarterly Review 
The Malahat Review

Seneca Review

EPC Small Press Alcove
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/mags/

Pages of Links to Other Poetry Sites

Poetry Society, U.K.
A wealth of links, under the headings: Writers' resources, Poetry around the World, Web publications, Internet Poetry, Bookshops and
 Publishers, Interesting sites, Twentieth Century Poets, and Pre-Twentieth Century Poets.
http://www.poetrysoc.com/links/links.htm

Poetry Links Library
Online Poetry Journals, Poetry Resource Sites, West Coast Independent Book Shops, Japanese Forms, Poets of Great Renown, Contemporary Poets on the Web
http://www.sonic.net/~layne/poetrylnk.html

Poetry Links
A listing of upcoming poetry readings in the Seattle area and poetry-related links, provided by the Salmon Bay Review.
http://www.serv.net/~jmg/sbr/poetrylinks.html