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American poetry

      Titles Descriptions
  1. About.com: Poetry
  2. American Verse Project
  3. Bartleby Verse American and English Poetry 1250-1920
  4. Boston Review
  5. Canadian Poetry Archive
  6. CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive
  7. Cosmic Baseball Association
  8. Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
  9. Favorite Poem Project
  10. Index of US Civil War Information Available on the Internet
  11. Literary Kicks
  12. Modern American Poetry
  13. Nebraska Center for Writers
  14. Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Collection
  15. Poetry Daily
  16. Poetry Library
  17. Poets.org
  18. Twentieth Century Poetry in English
  19. University of Toronto English Library

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About.com: Poetry
Offers original articles and features about poetry, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Emphasis is on North American poets, such as Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman, but does feature Blake, Coleridge and Yeats. Also includes haiku and reviews.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: american poetry, poetry links
     DeweyClass: 811
     Resource type: forum, index, news
American Verse Project
Part of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form and coded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) using the TEI Guidelines, with various forms of access provided through the WWW. Poets featured include William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
     Author: University of Michigan
     Subjects: american poetry
     DeweyClass: 811.3
     Resource type: poems
Bartleby Verse American and English Poetry 1250-1920
Poetry resource bringing together contents of the Oxford Book of English Verse, Yale Book of American Verse, Modern British Poetry, Modern American Poetry, Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the 17th Century, and Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Indexes to poems are organised according to chronological order, author, title, and first line.
     Author: Bartleby
     Subjects: american poetry, english poetry
     DeweyClass: 809
     Resource type: poems
Boston Review
A broadly progressive bi-monthly journal of culture and politics with articles on political issues, fiction, poetry, and reviews. Authors include Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Joseph Brodsky, and Robert Pinsky.
     Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     Subjects: american poetry, contemporary fiction, cultural studies, political science
     DeweyClass: 320.973
     Resource type: journal
Canadian Poetry Archive
Selected poems from 19th and 20th century English and French language Canadian poets such as Duncan Campbell Scott, Susanna Moodie, Charles G D Roberts, Albert Ferland, Archibald Lampman, and E Pauline Johnson. Provides biographies, bibliographies of prominent poets, and a facility to search by author, title, keyword, and date.
     Author: National Library of Canada
     Subjects: american poetry, canadian literature, french literature
     DeweyClass: 810
     Resource type: poems
CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive
American poetry archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers. Includes works by Daniela Gioseffi, William Matthews, Philip Paradis and Robert Sward.
     Author: Connecticut College Department of English and the Connecticut College Libraries
     Subjects: american poetry
     DeweyClass: 811.5
     Resource type: poems
Cosmic Baseball Association
Verse by contemporary American artists such as Lynn Behrendt, Herm Card, and Anna Marie Kersade. Provides biographies of the poets, a journal discussing postmodern theory and criticism, and memorials of D H Lawrence, Allen Ginsberg, Frank Zappa, and Sappho.
     Author: Cosmic Baseball Association
     Subjects: american poetry
     DeweyClass: 811
     Resource type: biography index, journal, poems
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Set of articles addressing aspects of Poe's life in relation to drugs and alcohol, religion, family, friends, and enemies. Offers information on the writer's poems, tales, essays, literary criticism, with a selection of full text versions, and a collection of lectures and articles composed about him. Also provides specific information about Poe in Baltimore, the site of his birth, death, and burial.
     Author: Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
     Subjects: american literature to 1900, american poetry
     DeweyClass: 810
     Resource type: documents
Favorite Poem Project
Created by Robert Pinsky, the 29th Poet Laureate of the US, this resource features a series of poetry readings. Individuals are featured reciting and discussing their favourite poems, with searchable text versions also available. RealPlayer is required.
     Author: New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston University, and Library of Congress
     Subjects: american poetry, english poetry, poetry links
     DeweyClass: 809
     Resource type: moving images, poems, sounds
Index of US Civil War Information Available on the Internet
Includes links to archives and special collections online, civil war books and magazines, biographies of civil war personnel, a calendar of civil war events, general civil war information, unit and brigade information, diaries and documents, films, games, genealogies, historic sites, maps, music and poetry, photographs, reenactments and stories.
     Author: Weeks, Dick
     Subjects: american poetry, united states civil war
     DeweyClass: 973.7
     Resource type: index
Literary Kicks
Dedicated to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the beat generation in Literature.
     Author: Asher, Levi
     Subjects: american literature from 1900, american poetry
     DeweyClass: 810
     Resource type: documents
Modern American Poetry
Biographical information about prominent American poets arranged alphabetically by surname, along with bibliographies of their work, and excerpts from analyses and drafts of poems. Also offers a selection of modern American poetry course syllabi.
     Author: Department of English, University of Illinois
     Subjects: american poetry
     DeweyClass: 811
     Resource type: documents, images
Nebraska Center for Writers
An online resource for poets and writers, including profiles of contemporary writers and information by and about writers and writing. Includes writers groups online, tools for writers, online literature, publishing opportunities, arts advocacy, links to university creative writing programs, literary agents, and more.
     Author: Nebraska Center for Writers
     Subjects: american poetry, contemporary fiction, creative writing
     DeweyClass: 808.02
     Resource type: documents
Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Collection
Digital images from four of Walt Whitman's notebooks, one of which includes early drafts of Song of Myself.
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: american poetry
     DeweyClass: 810
     Resource type: images
Poetry Daily
Daily anthology of poetry including featured poets and books, poetry news and interviews.
     Author: Poetry Daily
     Subjects: american poetry
     DeweyClass: 811
     Resource type: journal
Poetry Library
The Poetry Library is located on the South Bank in London, and collects the work of all modern British poets, and also international poetry. Offers information about publications, enquiry services, education, poetry readings and collections.
     Author: The Poetry Library
     Subjects: american poetry, english poetry
     DeweyClass: 809
     Resource type: institution
Poets.org
Website of the non-profit organisation supporting and promoting the work of contemporary American poets. Features the full-text of 2,500 poems by American writers browable by name, title and first line, and searchable by keyword. Also provides information on contemporary poets with biographies and essays. Sound and video recordings of interviews and poetry readings are also available.
     Author: Academy of American Poets
     Subjects: american poetry, poetry links
     DeweyClass: 811
     Resource type: documents, moving images, poems, sounds
Twentieth Century Poetry in English
Collection of verse and bibliographies of poets writing in English including Auden, Eliot, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.
     Author: Hishikawa, Eiichi
     Subjects: american poetry, english poetry
     DeweyClass: 821
     Resource type: bibliography, poems
University of Toronto English Library
Database of poetry texts, arranged by author. Also includes literary theory and criticism and English composition resources.
     Author: University of Toronto
     Subjects: american poetry, english poetry, scottish poetry
     DeweyClass: 809
     Resource type: documents, poems