Poetry+Unit

American Poets - Websites

 * [[image:poetsorg.png width="100" height="91"]] || [|Poets.Org] || Biographies, photos, poems, some sound files for over 500 poets. ||
 * [[image:moder.jpg width="193" height="58"]] || [|Modern American Poetry] || Analyses of poems, biographical information, illustrations, historical background, interviews, etc . ||
 * [[image:shmoop.png width="95" height="73"]] || Shmoop Poetry || Lists poets and poems in alphabetical order, includes the full text of the poem along with summary and analysis ||
 * [[image:american vers.png width="119" height="68"]] || [|American Verse Project] || From the University of Michigan - an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. ||
 * [[image:famous.gif width="148" height="36"]] || [|Famous Poets and Poems] || Includes biographies of and poems written by famous American poets ||
 * [[image:poet soci.png width="146" height="135"]] || [|Poetry Society of America] || This society promotes poetry in all forms ||
 * [[image:ahsresearch/american Poewm.png width="123" height="92"]] || [|American Poems] || Showcasing famous American poets – offers biographical information and links to poems. ||
 * [[image:pro.png width="114" height="48"]] || [|Poets on Screen] || From Proquest - Poetry being read, often by the aythor . Be sure to click on the Windows Media Player link to listen ||
 * [[image:capabar.gif width="134" height="51"]] || [|Contemporary Poetry Archive] || Sho(full text of out-of-print books) ||
 * [[image:lib of congress.png width="129" height="112"]] || [|Civil War Poetry] || Samples of poetry from Famous poets and also from soldiers and citizens from the North and South ||
 * [[image:harlem.png width="158" height="138"]] || [|Writer and Poets of the Harlem Renaissance] ||  ||

Poetry Dictionaries

 * [[image:virtual.png width="137" height="48"]] || * [|Handbook of Rhetorical Devices] || Site offers definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices. ||
 * [[image:RPO.png width="158" height="73"]] || * [|RPO Glossary of Poetic Terms] || From the University of Toronto – Representative Poetry Online website ||
 * [[image:ahsresearch/shmoop.png width="133" height="123"]] || __ Shmoop Poetry Glossary __ ||  ||
 * [[image:bob byway.png width="153" height="154"]] || * [|Glossary of Poetic Terms] || Alphabetical list of Poetic Terms ||
 * [[image:shadow poetry.png width="160" height="116"]] || [|Shadow Poetry] || These are some example of different types of poetry. ||

Databases

 * [[image:proqu.png width="176" height="126"]] || Proquest Learning and Literature || Students can find author biographies, contemporary criticism, reviews, and multimedia resources and access to full-text literary journals and magazines for the latest in literary criticism. ||
 * [[image:gale lit.jpg]] || [|Gale Literature Resource Center] ||  ||

Ebooks

 * [[image:gut.png]] || [|Project Gutenberg] || Full Text of books written before 1928 ||
 * [[image:power.png]] || [|Power Library Ebooks Collection] || Links to thousands of full text books ||

__**Poetry Portals** (for finding poems)**__
 * *[|Poet's Corner]
 * *[|Poet's Corner--Poems]
 * [|Poetry Archives]
 * [|Poetry.com Online Database of Poems]
 * *[|Poetry 180: A Poem a Day For American High Schools]
 * [|*Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry: 1250–1920]
 * *[|Favorite Poem Project]
 * *[|BBC Online: Poetry]
 * [|Library of Congress Poetry Resources]
 * [|Poetry Foundation]
 * [|Poetry Archive]
 * *[|Poetry Portal: What is Free Verse Poetry?]
 * *[|British Poetry 1780-1910]: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
 * *[|Poetry on the Internet]
 * [|Poetry Daily] (offers a new poem every day)
 * [|Internet Poetry Archive]
 * [|Academy of American Poets]
 * [|Annotated listing]of web sites containing poems (Kobe University)
 * *[|Aha! Poetry]
 * [|Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages]
 * [|Famous Poetry]
 * [|Free Verse] (examples)
 * [|About.com Poetry Home Page]
 * [|About.com 20th Century Poetry]
 * [|*Electronic Poetry Center]
 * *[|Representative Poetry Online]
 * [|Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers]
 * *[|Internet Poetry Archive]
 * [|Lost Poets of the Great War]
 * *[|Modern American Poetry]: A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry
 * *[|Modern & Contemporary American Poetry]
 * [|Online News Hour: Poems]
 * [|Poetry Audio Recordings]
 * *[|Poetry Daily]
 * [|Poetry Magic]
 * [|Poetry Portal]
 * [|Poetry Previews]
 * [|Poetry Webcasts (Video)]
 * [|Poetry Society of America]
 * [|Romantic Circles]
 * *[|Sonnet Central]
 * [|Spoken Word, Performance Poetry]
 * *[|United States of Poetry]
 * [|Visual Poetry]
 * [|War Poetry] (World War I)
 * *[|World of Poetry]

**Electronic Poetry Center** Information on poets and their works—mostly contemporary experimental poets
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Features a wide variety of poetry information, resources and activities. **__ [] __**Type in **National Poetry Month**
 * National Poetry Month @ infoplease ** (grades K-12)

100 contemporary poets such as Adrienne Rich and Gerald Stern.
 * Norton Poets [] ** Devoted to Norton’s poetry division and contains short biographies of

Collection of full-text poetry and music indexed by title, author, first line.
 * Poetry and Music of the War Between the States **
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The lessons presented here focus on appreciating poetry — reading, discussing, and enjoying poems — rather than on the writing of original poetry. Several of the lessons emphasize the pleasure in the words and sounds of poems as place to begin — reminding students that poetry is art, and that it is satisfying and exciting to discover a poem that enthralls you and to say it in your own voice. **__ [] __**
 * Poetry Lesson Plans ** (grades K-12)

Resource center for theory and craft of writing poetry
 * Poetry Magic **
 * [|http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk] **

Directory to internet poetry world—poetry community, diversity of poetry, and resources and help = Poets.org for Educators = Biographies of hundreds of poets and nearly 2000 poems. Teacher forum; pedagogical & critical essays about poetry; extensive links to relevant websites.
 * Poetry Portal **
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These are just a very few example of different types of poetry. Most of the definitions have at least one example of each particular type of poetry for better understanding. **__ @http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html __**
 * Types of Poetry ** (K-12)

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