The Academy of
American Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm
The Academy of American poets is an organization dedicated to
promoting the art of poetry. This sight includes profiles of poets, a selection
of literary links, and resources for teachers.
American Verse
Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
The American Verse Project at the University of Michigan has an
extensive collection of texts by American poets, and provides students with a
variety of ways to search its database.
BBC Arts: Poetry
Out Loud
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml
Poetry Out Loud is maintained by the British Broadcasting
Corporation. It includes archived files of poets performing their own work.
Bartleby—Verse:
Poetry Anthologies and Thousands of Poems
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
Bartleby has a large selection of classic texts online. This link
goes directly to the page related to poetry.
British Poetry
1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly
Editions is maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of
Virginia. It also includes texts from outside the indicated time frame.
Connecting with
Seamus Heaney
http://fawbie.com/
David
Fawbert, an award winning former Modern Language teacher in Secondary Education
in the UK has created a compilation of HeaneyÕs texts and a set approach to the
content and style of the poems. He
has posted additional resources for students who join in his appreciation of
connecting with the works of Seamus Heaney.
Favorite Poem
Project
http://www.favoritepoem.org/index.html
The Favorite Poem Project was founded by past Poet Laureate,
Robert Pinsky. The site includes videos of average Americans reading poems they
love, as well as lists of resources for teachers and communities.
Internet Poetry
Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the North
Carolina Arts Council, The Internet Poetry Archive has texts and readings by
some of the most prominent contemporary poets.
The Internet Public Library2
Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
The
ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites
about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by
nationality and literary period.
This site includes glossaries!
www.literaryhistory.com/index.htm
A selective list of literary criticism maintained
by Jan Pridmore, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and
articles published in peer-reviewed sources. The Internet Public Library ranks this site very
highly. Among those poets indexed
here is Seamus Heaney. http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Heaney.htm.
Modern American
Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
Modern American Poetry includes biographies and criticism of 161
of the most prominent American poets of the modern period. It also includes
pages with sample course syllabi and links to poetry publishers.
NewsHour Extra:
Poetry
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/poetry/
The PBS program The News Hour with Jim Lehrer maintains this site,
which includes accessible introductions to the art of poetry, resources for
teachers, and a selection of helpful links.
The New York Times Archives
on Seamus Heaney
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/seamus_heaney/
News
about Seamus Heaney, including commentary and archival articles published in
The New York Times.
Poetry Daily
http://www.poems.com/
This site posts a new poem each day. In addition, it maintains an
archive of past postings and provides links to essays and reviews dealing with
literary news and criticism.
Poetry
International Web
http://www.poetryinternational.org/
This site allows students to see and hear poets from a variety of
countries reading their own work. It also includes critical essays on some of
the poets and on poetry in general.
Site includes native languages as well as English translations.
The Poetry Kit
A major poetry writers resource site with listings including publishers,
competitions, courses, funding, events, festivals and magazine listings. A
Who's Who in Poetry and a listing of blogs and poets on the internet are
features. Poetry Kit is also the
home of the internet based "Poetry Kit Magazine" and a monthly newsletter
of competitions and events round the world.
The Poetry and
Literature Center of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/
The Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress
includes information on the Poet Laureate, a schedule of readings and links to
cybercasts of poets reading and discussing their work.
Poetry Magic
Poetry Magic is resource centre for the theory and craft of
writing poetry and offers an introduction to poetry for students, amateurs and
poetry lovers. In addition to a
page on ÒWhat is poetry?Ó the site also includes guides to imagery, rhythm, and
word choice. The Advanced section
of the site map links the user to philosophers on the aesthetics of poetry as
well as to poetry and emotion in science and psychology. This is an excellent site for ToK
students exploring Art as an area of knowledge! The Language A1 IB student will find brief literary theory
and criticism sections.
Poetry Portal
Poetry Portal is a directory of worldwide poetry online. Listings include poetry events, poetry
courses, ezines, poetry sites, audio poetry, literary appreciation, criticism
and reviews, poetry courses, workshops, conferences, book news, literary
chit-chat and trade news, plus sources to improve poetry writing and
publishing.
Representative
Poetry Online
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm
The library of the University of Toronto maintains this site which
includes some of the best-known poems in English. Students can search by poem,
poet or time period. The site also includes a section dedicated specifically to
Canadian poetry.
UC Davis:
British Women Romantic Poets Project
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/index.htm
British Women Romantic Poets is maintained by the Shields Library
at the University of California, Davis. The site houses texts by a wide variety
of women authors and useful links to other web sites.
The World Poetry
Audio Library
http://www.english.eku.edu/Pellegrino/worldpoetry/
This site includes audio files of a number of important poems,
although they are not read by the poets themselves.
Compiled by Sue
Brown. Descriptions adapted from sites' self description and search engine
references. Last updated 10/13/13.