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The Academy of American Poets - http://www.poets.org/
Organization presenting poems, biographies of poets, historical and thematic poetry exhibits, events calendars, discussion forums and contest information. |
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Wikipedia: Poetry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry
Article discussing the nature of the form, its history, terminology and the different traditions. |
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Glossary of Poetic Terms - http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html
"A unique guide for the study of poetry, with an extensive range of definitions, cross-references between related terms, informative sidelights, hyperlinked keywords, phonetic pronunciation guides and numerous examples." |
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Online Poetry Database - http://reference.aol.com/poetry
Read feature poems, see user-submitted poetry videos and browse through a directory of famous poets. |
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Fooling with Words - http://www.thirteen.org/foolingwithwords/
Website for the PBS television special hosted by Bill Moyers includes performances and interviews with some of America's most accomplished poets. |
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Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/
A brief glossary of literary terms, focusing on poetic terms in particular. |
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Passions in Poetry - http://www.netpoets.com/
Archive of contemporary and user-submitted poetry with categories dedicated to love, sadness, friendship and life. |
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Forgotten Ground Regained - http://alliteration.net
Webzine and poetry resource offering original poems, essays, translations and links to alliterative poems, original medieval epics and verse romances. |
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Aha! Poetry - http://www.ahapoetry.com/
Consists of a resource for writers and readers of poetry, emphasizing Asian and orientalizing forms such as cinquain, ghazal, haiku, renga, sijo and tanka. |
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DayPoems - http://www.daypoems.net/
A random walk through eight centuries of English-language verse, updated daily. Visitors can add their poems by email, and webmasters can link to individual poems. Indexed by poet and title. Illustrated. |
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A Poetry-Lover's Guide to the World Wide Web - http://www.serve.com/Lucius/PLG.index.html
Personal collection of links to online texts and resources of traditional and "imagist" poetry. |
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EnviroArts - http://arts.envirolink.org/
Emphasizes the literary and visual arts in relation to nature, with poetry and essays by contemporary authors (culled mostly from the pages of Orion and Orion Afield magazines--which co-sponsor this site) and information on historic naturalism and naturalist literature. |
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Selected International Poems - http://www.geocities.com/marxist_lb/
Poems in English, French, Arabic, German, some Russian, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew. Mostly by famous poets, mostly Marxist, revolutionary, or otherwise political. Classified by author, country, and date. |
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Erin's Poetry Palace - http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/
A personal website devoted to poetry, these pages include several sections devoted to specific poets, a large selection of texts of favorite poems, essays on the reading, study and discussion of poems, and a small but discriminating selection of links to poetry-related websites on the Internet. |
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Poems for a Long Winter's Night - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/News/winterpoems.html
A selection of poems about winter, snow, and ice from Charles Baudelaire, Yves Bonnefoy, John Hollander, Victor Hugo, Gail Mazur, Robert Pack, and Paul Verlaine. |
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Infinitum Poetry - http://www.geocities.com/infinitum_poetry/
Poetry by well known poets, their biographies, and short stories by the site owner. Poets include Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Robert W. Service, Maya Angelou, and Anne Sexton. |
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Modern Poets - University of Vermont - http://www.uvm.edu/~sgutman/
An introduction to the reading of poetry, with short introductions to several well known modern poets and audio files with discussions or readings of their works. |
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Tangerine - http://library.thinkquest.org/3721/laapp.html
Includes sections on poetic forms, famous poets, links to poetry related resources. |
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Dragon Valley Poetry - http://www.geocities.com/dragonvalleypoetry/
Poetry and some prose by vintage and young poets. The young poets are in the main a local group of West Wales based writers, with biographical information. |
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Inspired Poems - http://www.beilharz.com/insp/
A bilingual English and German anthology of poems inspired by other poems and poets. |