Poetry

Web Sites

• The Academy of American Poets
  The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary American poetry. Includes "Find a Poet or Poem" and the "Online Poetry Classroom."
• The American Verse Project
  The American Verse Project is an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. From the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press.
• The Atlantic Monthly Fiction and Poetry
  Reviews of current poetry publications and interviews of poets
• Bartleby Library
  Includes online editions of poetry by Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, as well as Modern American Poetry and Modern British Poetry edited by Louis Untermeyer and The Oxford Book of English Verse.
• The Borzoi Reader Poem-a-day
  Browse their collection of poetry books, learn more about their authors, and read exerpts from their works. From Knopf Publishing Group.
• Canadian Poetry
  Information on Canadian poets from the University of Toronto English Library
• Cowboy Poetry.com
  CowboyPoetry.com celebrates our Western heritage and today's working West, dedicated to preserving our important history and to promoting the Western arts that carry on those traditions. CowboyPoetry.com is a project of the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry, Inc.
• Electronic Poetry Center (EPC)
  The EPC serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics produced at the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as elsewhere on the Internet, with the purpose of making a wide range of resources centered on contemporary experimental and formally innovative poetries an immediate actuality. Includes a large collection of author information.
• Fooling with Words
  The companion website to a PBS TV special with Bill Moyers, highlighting a number of contemporary poets.
• Gale Group: Poet's Corner
  Includes a quiz to test your knowledge, biographies, timeline, activities, and links.
• Library of Congress: Poetry 180: A poem a day for American High Schools
  Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year.
• Modern American Poetry
  An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), Edited by Cary Nelson. "This web site grew out of the experience of editing Anthology of Modern American Poetry for Oxford University Press. Both I and the members of my Advisory Board realized that readers would benefit from having information readily available that could not possibly fit in a book. This ranged from historical background to analyses of the poems themselves. The site is designed to help all readers of modern poetry, not just readers of the Oxford anthology. Thus anyone interested in Robert Frost or H.D. or E. E. Cummings or Patricia Smith or any of the other poets should find interesting material here."
• Poetry Daily
  Poetry Daily is an online anthology of contemporary poetry published by the nonprofit Daily Poetry Association
• Poetry Foundation
  Features a Poem of the Day as well as a "Poetry Tool" for search their archive of poems. The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. Formerly the Modern Poetry Association.
  • Poetry Magazine
• Poetry Slam Inc.
  An organization that promotes performance poetry, especially through its National Poetry Slam.
• Poetry Society of America
  Whether you write poetry, read poetry, or simply want to widen your literary horizons, the Poetry Society of America has readings, seminars, and competitions intended to challenge and inspire. Their Poetry Resources link to Poetry Colonies, Conferences & Festivals and to Poetry Journals & Literary Magazines.
  • Favorite Poem Project
    Includes a collection of videos you can view online of people reading their favorite poems and talking about themselves.
• Writer's Almanac
  Listen to this short daily Public Radio program by Garrison Keillor. Includes a selected poem and literary and historical notes for the day. Available is also an archive of programs.

Pittsburgh Resources

• Pittsburgh Poetry Calendar
  The Online Pittsburgh Poetry Calendar is a comprehensive poetry calendar for readings, open mics and workshops that take place throughout the city. The online listing, which has links to the organizations' web site, allows users to print out listings of events by week, month and year.
• Autumn House Press
  publishes and promotes poetry and other fine literature for a discerning audience.
• Gist Street Reading Series
  The Gist Street readings are held monthly and feature local and national poets and writers. The series focuses on emerging writers either publishing in national journals and magazines or publishing their first or second books.
• International Poetry Forum
  Highlighting the spoken word in a public forum, the Interational Poetry Forum offers an annual series of poets.
• Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange
  is a community-based organization and information exchange that promotes poets and poetry.
• The Pittsburgh Quarterly
  The Pittsburgh Quarterly is a small press literary magazine that grew out of the community writing workshop movement.
• Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop
  The Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop is a group of poets, representing a diversity of viewpoints and poetic styles, in the Pittsburgh area who gather twice a month at the Squirrel Hill branch of Carnegie Library to discuss their work.

Pennsylvania

• Kelly Writers House
  a gathering place and a resource for all kinds of writers at the University of Pennsylvania. Recorded readings available online.