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- Poetry Archive - a British site that includes not only a great number of poems but audio files of poets reading their work.
- Academy of American Poets - a key poetry site, including their
- Audio Booth files - hear William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Kinnell, Kunitz, Levine, Yeats, Ginsberg and others reading their work
- FIND A POEM or FIND A POET
- Bartleby.com - public domain poetry, fiction, nonfiction, quotations etc.
- EveryPoet.com - many classic poems
- Poetry 180 - As Poet Laureate, Billy Collins assembled this collection of poems for use in American High Schools (which typically have 180 days of school) as a daily poem. Also available in print.
- Internet Poetry Archive - Robert Pinsky, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, Yusef Komunyakaa
- The Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages are their text files of articles & poems and often include audio links to readings of the poems.
- POETRY DAILY - set their page as your home page and get a new poem every day - news, reviews and a year's worth of archived poems - simply superb.
- The U.S. Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress - includes archive of poetry & recordings.
- The Poetry Resource - links to poets & also poetry by time period and regions.
- Poets & Writers magazine - good source of information on contests, prizes & publishing - the site also has a Teacher's Guide Online
- Chinese poetry - classical, in English
- The Shiki Internet Haiku Salon
- The art of Haiku poetry
- HAIKU for PEOPLE!
- The Japanese Haiku Masters
- Taoism and Poetry - Asian Philosophy and Poetry
- Poetry Society of America
- A Multimedia Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
- CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive - An Internet Archive for Out-of-Print Books on the Web
- Teachers & Writers Collaborative - includes poet interviews and a virtual poetry workshop with writing prompts.
- The Poet's Canvas
- The Borzoi Reader- Knopf Poetry Center
Contemporary Poet Sites
Kim Addonizio
Renee Ashley
Lucille Clifton
Billy Collins
Robert Creeley
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Daniela Gioseffi
Louise Glück
Seamus Heaney
Joy Harjo
Louis Jenkins
Yusef Komunyakaa
Stanley Kunitz
Dorianne Laux
Philip Levine
Diane Lockward
Thomas Lux
Sharon Olds
Linda Pastan
Robert Pinsky
Gary Snyder
Pattiann Rogers
Madeline Tiger
Jean Valentine
BJ Ward
Publishers of Poetry
- The American Literary Review
- Angelic Dynamo
- Atlantic Monthly Poetry Pages
- The Bellingham Review
- Beloit Poetry Journal
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- Borzoi - an imprint of Knopf
- Chicago Review
- DoubleTake
- Edison Literary Review
- The Electronic Poetry Review
- Fence
- Georgia Review
- Gravity: A Journal of On-Line Writing
- The Hudson Review
- Iowa Review
- Jacket
- Janus: A Journal of Poetry
- Kudzu
- Literal Latte'
- The Literary Review
- The Mississippi Review
- The Missouri Review
- New England Review
- Pacific Review
- Painted Bride Quarterly
- Ploughshares
- Poetry - for more than 80 years - THE magazine for poetry.
- Poetry Review - Britain's best-selling poetry magazine
- Poets and Writers - excellent source of grants, workshops & awards
- Prairie Schooner
- Salmon Publishing (Ireland)Sewanee Review
- Shenandoah
- Webdelsol - host to magazines like TLR, 5p, zyzzyva, mudlark and others
- Agni
- Alaska Quarterly Review
- American Poetry Review
- Antigonish Review
- Antioch Review
- Ascent
- Black Warrior Review
- Callaloo
- Carolina Quarterly
- Conjunctions
- Crazyhorse
- Cream City Review
- Creative Nonfiction
- Fence
- Field
- Five Points
- Georgia Review
- Gettysburg Review
- Grand Street
- Granta
- Greensboro Review
- Gulf Coast
- Harvard Review
- Hayden's Ferry Review
- Iowa Review
- The Journal
- Kenyon Review
- Literary Review
- Manoa
- Massachusetts Review
- Meridian
- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Mid-American Review
- Mississippi Review
- Missouri Review
- Nebraska Review
- New England Review
- New Criterion
- New England Review
- North American Review
- North Dakota Quarterly
- Notre Dame Review
- Ontario Review
- Open City
- Paris Review
- Pequod
- Ploughshares
- Poetry
- Poetry International
- Prairie Schooner
- Quarterly West
- Rattapallax
- Seattle Review
- Seneca Review
- Sewanee Review
- Shenandoah
- South Dakota Review
- Southern Review
- Spoon River Poetry Review
- Sycamore Review
- Tampa Review
- Tar River Poetry
- Tin House
- Threepenny Review
- Vestal Review
- Western Humanities Review
- Witness
- Yale Review
- Zoetrope: All-Story
- Zyzzyva
Poetry Workshops, Reading Series and Festivals
Warren County (NJ) Biennial Poetry Festival - a free early autumn event held on the years when the Dodge Poetry Festival does not occur. (September 26, 2009)
ShawGuides Guide to Writers' Conferences
Peter Murphy Writing Seminars and the Winter Prose & Poetry Getaway
Workshops at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA
Poetry NJ - literary events in the metro NJ, NY, Philadelphia area
Frost Place Annual Festival of Poetry
The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival - started as a biennial gathering of 3,000 in 1986, it has grown to 19,000 attendees in 2008.
New York State Writers Institute - Albany
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (VT)
Southampton College of Long Island University Summer Writers Conference (NY)
The Millay Colony for the Arts
poETryCETERA
- The Poetry Resource Page - information on retreats, contests, publishers and other esources for the poet.
- Bookcrossings.com - release your read books into the world for others to read and then follow them on their travels using this most unusual web site.
- U.S. Poetry Events Calendar - find events by date or state
- Glossary of Poetic Terms - with examples
- Online Rhyming Dictionary
- Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac- a daily almanac of things about writing and writers from MPR, host of Keillor's daily reading of a poem & the almanac - searchable by date. What happened on your birthday?
- The Associated Writing Programs - supporting writers and writing programs
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