Poetry

[|Poets.Org] [|Poems for every occasion] [|Mobile Poetry] **__POETRY__**  __** Academy of American Poets **__ [|**http://www.poets.org/**] __Index with biographies, photos, poems, some sound files__ __**American Verse Project**__ [|**http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse**] __More than 150 volumes of American verse prior to 1920 online__

**Electronic Poetry Center** ** [] ** Information on poets and their works—mostly contemporary experimental poets

** Modern American Poetry ** ** [] ** Analyses of poems, biographical information, illustrations, historical background, interviews, etc

** National Poetry Month @ infoplease ** (grades K-12) Features a wide variety of poetry information, resources and activities. **__ [] __**Type in **National Poetry Month** ** Norton Poets ** ** [] ** Devoted to Norton’s poetry division and contains short biographies of 100 contemporary poets such as Adrienne Rich and Gerald Stern. PennSound creates new audio recordings of poets and preserves existing audio archives. On the Web site, part of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, you can keep up with news and listen to recordings.
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Timeline provides short biographies of all the poet laureates from 1937 to present. You’ll also find information explaining the [|position of poet laureate] and tips on writing poetry.
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** Poetry and Music of the War Between the States ** ** [] ** Collection of full-text poetry and music indexed by title, author, first line

[|Poetry Archive] Devoted to reestablishing the oral tradition of poetry. The site collects recordings of poets reading their work and enables visitors to search alphabetically by poet or poem name. There are also resources tailored for teachers, students and children to explore poetry.

** Poetry Lesson Plans ** (grades K-12) 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. **__ http://www.favoritepoem.org/forteachers/index.html __**

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

** Poetry Portal ** ** [] ** Directory to internet poetry world—poetry community, diversity of poetry, and resources and help

[|Poetry 180] Project headed by former poet laureate Billy Collins. Collins selected a poem for each day of the 180-day school year with high school students in mind. Students can read the poems themselves or, as Collins recommends, read them out loud at school.

= Poets.or for Educators = ** [] ** Biographies of hundreds of poets and nearly 2000 poems. Teacher forum; pedagogical & critical essays about poetry; extensive links to relevant websites.

** Types of Poetry ** (K-12) 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 __**

[|The Poetry Foundation]publishes Poetry magazine and offers robust online resources for reading poems, learning about poets and staying in touch with the poetry community. The archive includes a [|poetry tool] that makes researching poems easy, and the site is filled with articles about poetry and book recommendations. Don’t miss the [|Reading Guides] to supplement your understanding of particular works. [|Representative Poetry Online]is the University of Toronto Libraries’ poetry index and online archive. Not only can you search by poem or poet name, you can also search by first or last line of a poem, or even do a keyword search for words in a poem. You’ll also find readings and writings on the subject of poetry and an essential [|poetry timeline].
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//For indexes of specific types and periods of poetry// [|Sonnet Central]an archive of sonnets and commentary, and even accepts reader submissions. Explore [|authors alphabetically] or use the [|Java Navigation Page] to browse sonnets by subject. While it’s not the most modern looking site, it does offer readers a dependable source for reading, exploring and investigating sonnets.

[|The Online Medieval & Classical Library]is an archive of older literature, including poetry. Browse by author, title, genre or language. [|The Deapt of English at the Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne]provides an online companion to the “Anthology of Modern American Poetry.” Although the site was created in 2000, its database of modern American poets is still quite substantial. The [|Poets] section offers information on 161 poets with links to their poetry, commentary and analysis of various texts.