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All Poetry - The World's Largest Poetry Community
https://allpoetry.com
Submit your own, enter poetry contests, or search for poems by well-established poets.
American Life in Poetry
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/
"American Life in Poetry provides newspapers and online publications with a free weekly column featuring contemporary American poems."
American Verse Project
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/
A searchable archive of American poetry prior to 1920. You can, for example, find the texts of all the poems by Emily Dickinson in which she mentions bees.
Archipelago
http://www.archipelago.org
This online journal features contemporary poetry, fiction, and more.
Favorite Poem Project
https://www.favoritepoem.org/
"The Favorite Poem Project is dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry’s role in Americans’ lives."
Guide to Poetry & Literature Webcasts
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/webcasts/
Prepared by the Library of Congress, this list features links to podcasts of many poets.
Modern American Poetry: The Poets
https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/
A richly diverse array of writers, with a sampling of their poems along with biography and criticism, this site is a companion to The Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
NJ Poetry Events
https://www.njpoetryevents.com
A calendar of poetry events in New Jersey.
Poetry Archive
https://poetryarchive.org/
Read and listen to great poets of the English language. With comments by authors, interviews, lesson plans. Searchable by author, title, and genre.
Poetry Center Digital Archives
https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter
From San Francisco State University, the archive offers early audio recordings from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives collection, enhanced by select archival texts and images.
Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Find a poem by category, occasion, or first line, locate poetry events, podcasts, and more.
Poetry International
https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/
A "worldwide forum for poetry on the Internet...with news, reviews, essays, interviews and discussion, but, first and foremost, hundreds of poems by acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the original language and in English translation."
Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/
Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins assembled this beautiful collection, one for every day of the typical school year. Not for teens only. Refer also to the main poetry page.
Poets’ Corner
https://www.thepoetscorner.org/
Named for the memorial section of Westminster Abbey, Poets’ Corner provides author, title, and subject indexes, biographies, references, and links, with an emphasis on the traditional canon of English and American literature.
Poets.org
https://poets.org/
Features events from the Academy of American Poets, information about National Poetry Month, as well as awards, essays, exhibits, news, programs, and more.
Representative Poetry Online
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
A collection of over 2,000 poems by approximately 300 poets who wrote from the medieval period into the early years of the twentieth century.
Voices and Visions: Poets in Person
https://www.learner.org/series/voices-visions/
Aimed at teachers and students but great for every reader of Bishop, Crane, Dickinson, Eliot, Frost, Hughes, (Robert) Lowell, Moore, Stevens, Whitman, and Williams.
The Writer's Almanac
https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html
Literary history, with a poem for every day from 1995, as well as literary links.
Writers Write Poetry - Literature Resources and Resources for Poets
https://www.writerswrite.com/poetry/
A nearly comprehensive directory.
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