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Poetry Sites

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Academy of American Poetry
Click on links to find information on particular poets or search for a favorite poem. Also contains essays, links to individual poets’ sites, and more. Try "advanced search," "essays & interviews," "poetic schools and movements" for an article on the Harlem Renaissance.
Annenberg Learner: American Passages - Chapter 10 Rythyms in Poetry
Helpful for biography and historical context to the poetry of the 1920s. Includes Harlem Renaissance figures: Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer.
Bartleby.com
Searchable website, great for full-texts of older, copyright free poems. Click on “Verse” tab for classic poetry anthologies. Contains mini-biographies and photos of many poets.
BBC Poetry Please
A BBC radio show with tons of episodes on poetry.
Also a great feature - how Poetry Poetic Could You Be. Take the interactive quiz.
BBC Poetry Season
Look for your favorite poets and find out what they really meant to say in their work. Also contains audio versions of poems read by the authors. Helpfully included is a glossary of poetic terms.
E-Server Poetry Collection
A collection of many famous full-text poems and links to other poetry sites.
The Favorite Poem Project
Dig around the site to see full texts of poems and videos of ordinary and prominent people reciting their favorite poems.
Gale Literary Index
Access print and online articles of criticism in Gale / Cengage resources including the Poetry for Students e-book. The index does not provide full texts of criticism or poetry; instead provides the indexing.
Harper Audio Poetry Readings
Enjoy famous poems read by famous readers.
Internet Poetry Archive
Presents the works of 7 noted living poets along with biographies and some related material.
Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection
See these pages for links to online literary criticism. Some scholarly information can be found on the free Internet, but most is not.
Modern American Poetry
An alphabetical listing of noted American poets, including photographs, interviews, essays, and full texts of poetry from the Anthology of Modern American Poetry~ (Oxford University Press).
The Poem Hunter
A friendly poetry site. Find poems by theme or by author. Includes the poetry of popular musicians.
Poetry 180
Billy Collins, the former United States Poet Laureate, presents a collection of full-text poems for high school students
The Poetry Foundation
Has a browse for poets, poems, and terms. This will be helpful when you need to identify 2 significant devices the poet uses.
Poets' Corner
This poetry site provides over 6,700 full-text poems and information on 780 poets. It is searchable by author, title and subject, and provides links to other poetry websites.
University of Michigan
The American Verse Project of the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative. Searchable poetry archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
The Writer's Almanac Archive
From Garrison Keillor's well known and loved radio program. Search by author or by title of poem. Good stuff here!

Poetry Criticism eBooks (from Gale & Salem)

American Poetry of the 20th Century by Salem Press Staff
Call Number: EBK 811 AME
ISBN: 9781619257139
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
Critical Survey of Poetry (Salem Press) by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
Call Number: EBK 809.1 CRI
ISBN: 9781587655852
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
Poetry for Students (Gale / Cengage)
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.

Research Databases

Don't forget to use our MBHS Media Center Online Databases.

ProQuest Learning: Literature (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Collection of author biographies, contemporary criticism, reviews, and multimedia resources. Great for poetry readings.
Gale in Context High School (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Gale in Context High School offers current and authoritative information to meet the needs of today's learners with a mobile-responsive design that is easy to navigate.
Users can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more
SIRS Issues Researcher (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Find quality pro/con articles and great websites. Also click on the icon for Global Impact for a more international perspective on your topic. Use your planbook to find the home use username and password.

Search all of Gale Reference & Salem Press eBooks at once

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
This link searches our entire Gale eBooks collection at once. Use the Gale Cengage password.
Salem Literature e-books This link opens in a new window
Critical Insights: works
Critical Surveys
Introduction to Literary Context

Ms. Mathews' Poetry Project

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