poetry

=Poetry Resources=

**BOOKS **
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Use Indexes || Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) ||
 * 808. || Anthologies  ||
 * 811. || American Poetry  ||
 * 821. || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British Poetry  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">REF 811. || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reference Section – American Poetry  ||
 * ====<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">**Reference:** ==== ||   ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literary Reference:
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literary Reference:
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 803 || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Handbook to Literature; Reader’s Encyclopedia  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 808.81 <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WOR  || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">World Poetry  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 809.103 || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 821.009 || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poets: American and British, 3 volumes.  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 809.1 || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magill: Critical Survey of Poetry  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 810.9 BEA || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Beat Generation, 3 volumes.  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 811.009 GRE || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 811.5 || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Encyclopedia of American Poetry  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 821.9109 || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contemporary Poets  ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ref 821.9109 || <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Twentieth Century Poetry  ||

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<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poets reading their works <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-CD’s in Reserve Room <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Phonograph records, designated by PR in Local Call No. <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">INTERNET SITES: **

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Subscription Databases:** <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Lit Finder]** [|Twayne’s Author Series] [|Poetry Criticism Ebook] [|Contemporary Literary Criticism Select]**
 * [|Dictionary of Literary Biography]

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Scholarly articles on specific research topics: [|JSTOR]**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Project Muse] **

**<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web Sites **
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**[|Voices and Visions]** - <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatic readings, archival photographs, dance, performances, and interviews.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|The Academy of American Poets]** Information for budding poets including a discussion forum, an online classroom and information about the poets whose works are posted. The current exhibits, and literary links are rich with resources.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|American Poetry Review] **

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|American Verse Project]** This collaborative project between the University of Michigan and the Univ. of Michigan Press is assembling an electronic archive of American poetry volumes prior to 1920.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry 1250-1920]** <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Critical Reading: A Guide]** This is a guide to what you might look for in analyzing literature, particularly poetry and fiction.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Cyber-Seuss]** This may be the only place where you can find Dr. Seuss crossword puzzles, games, and more.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Electronic Poetry Center]**<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">at SUNY Buffalo Information about digital delivery of poetry and links to the web sites of many poets.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|The Favorite Poem Project]** Robert Pinsky's special undertaking as Poet Laureate of the United States has been to promote poetry readings throughout the country. This site provides ideas and materials for hosting an event and offers audio and video excerpts accompanied by photos from the events.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Browsed by alphabetical entries of poetic terms, this dictionary features phonetic pronunciation, cross references, and hyper-linked keywords.
 * [|Glossary of Poetic Terms]**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|The Internet Poetry Archive]** <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brief biographies and selected poems of Phillip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czelaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur. Includes audio files and, in some cases, video, files of the poets reading the works.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|**Modern American Poetry**] <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000).

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|**Mother Goose Pages**] <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">A comprehensive list of traditional children's rhymes is available at this site. Also included are links to sources for nursery rhymes, as well as tips for performing them with an audience.


 * [|Norton Poets]**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Online Poetry Classroom]** <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">A virtual teaching community enabling teachers across the country to access free poetry resources online, including innovative, classroom-tested crricula.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Poetry Archives]** Full text of over 5000 classical poems searchable by first-line, author and poem title.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools]** <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">A project of the [|Poetry Center] of the Library of Congress.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Poetry Daily]** An anthology of contemporary poetry that each day brings readers a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print, along with information about featured poets and publishers.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Poetry in Motion]** New York City Subway inspires poetry reading.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Poetry Portal]** Lots of links to worldwide poetry resources.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Representative Poetry Online]** Explore poetry through indexes of the poets, poems by title, by first line, timelines of key events, a keyword search of words in the poems, a glossary of poetic terms and forms, and writings on poetry by great poets and readers. <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A new poem every day plus interesting information about writers.
 * [|Writer's Almanac]**