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Reference – 1st Floor
Granger’s Index to Poetry -
R 808.81 G
Indexes more than 50,000 poems by over 250 authors.
Poetry Criticism -
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808.1 Poe
Critical excerpts and biographical information on poets from around
the world. Cumulative author/title index in each volume.
Masterplots II - Poetry Series -
R 808.81 Mas
Synopses of and essays on selected poems.
Finding Additional
Material
Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, EBSCOhost
and Infotrac Onefile - Access from the Library or
at home using your library card
number at
www.wppl.org.
Search for full-text articles in these online databases using
your choice of keywords. You can limit
the search to a certain year or even a certain magazine.
Web Sites
About.com's Poetry Pages:
About.com's organized and multi-linked poetry pages. Much
historical information.
The Academy of American Poets:
Essays, short biographies, poems, poetry forms, essays,
RealAudio of poems read by the authors.
The Drunken Boat:
An online journal of international poetry, essays, reviews, and
interviews.
Modern American Poetry –
MAPs:
Essays addressing the works of 161 poets. Includes syllabi for
teachers.
The Page:
An eclectic mix of poems and
articles from hundreds of the top contemporary journals and web
sites.
The Poetry Archive:
From England, an extensive collection of poets reading
their works. Resources for teachers & students, poetic forms, &
theme finder.
The Poetry Archives:
A large collection of "classical" poetry. Search by author,
title or first line of poem.
Poetry Daily:
A new poem
daily from the country's best poetry journals and books, news from
the poetry world and more.
Poetry 180:
From the Library of Congress, a poem a day for American high
schools by some of America’s top poets.
Poetry Magazine:
America’s premier poetry journal, publishing the country’s top
poet’s since 1912.
Poetry Society
of America:
Since
its founding in 1910, America’s top poets have belonged to the PSA.
Open to all.
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