English 9 - Mr. Ubriaco

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
    Just get people to stop reading them.
~ Ray Bradbury test

Poetry Page

The largest organization in the United States dedicated to the art of poetry
Electronic Poetry Center The home page of the Electronic Poetry Center, an edited site devoted to the presentation of full-text resources for innovative writing.
Understanding and Appreciating Poetry: Afro-Americans and Their Poetry Web site from Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
The Atlantic Online: Poetry Pages Select poems from new and recent issues of The Atlantic along with essays, interviews and their "audible Anthology of readings, with poems dating back a half-dozen years.
Glossary of Poetic Terms The glossary of poetic terms presented on this site features " Phonetic pronunciation , Cross references, Broad range of definitions, Numerous examples, A wealth of poetic quotations, Writers' guidelines, Hyper-linked keywords & cross references"
The Internet Poetry Archive Sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the North Carolina Arts Council, this site features seven contemporary poets so far: Seamus Heney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Phillip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur.
LionHeart A searchable collection (no charge) of love poems taken from Chadwyck-Healey's English, American and African-American Poetry databases.
Modern American Poetry This website organizes some 160 poets.
The Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress The Home Page for the Poetry and Literature Center for the Library of Congress.
Poetry 180
180 poems of interest to high school students selected by Billy Collins
The Poetry Society of America With a lyre serving as their organization's totem, the Poetry Society of America has served the poetry community of the United States for over seventy years.
Representative Poetry

 

 This website offers thousands of representations of various kinds of poetry spanning a timeline from Old English poetry (449-1066) to Postmodern poetry (1980 to today). You can search the site by poem title, poet name, and even by the first line or last line of a poem. The site also contains a timeline of poetry and a poetry calendar that commemorates the days of the year through the births and deaths and work of innumerable poets.