American Poetry
A Project for Information Resources in the Humanities
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

American Poetry
at Amazon.com

American Poetry Month April 2000 Exhibits at: Books.Com and at the Academy of American Poets

At the Poetry Society of America, Send someone a Poetry in Motion Postcard
1997 Pulitzer
Prize Winner

U.S. Poet Laureate,
Robert Pinsky

The Best Websites

Academy of American Poets Find out all about National
Poetry Month, and get your free poster here!

American Verse Project Full text of over 25 volumes
of poetry written before 1920

Atlantic Unbound Poetry Page Atlantic Monthly's poetry
pages--over 70 poems by more than 50 contemporary poets

Best Loved Poems, Pete's Poems chosen
from the Best Loved Poems of the American People

Boston Book Review: Poetry and Poetics Reviews of
71 poems or collections of poetry

Electronic Poetry Center Features a sound room with
over 20 hours of poetic and literary audio

Poems from the Planet Earth Biographies of poets,
thoughts, reflections, essays and more

Poetry Alive! Bringing poetry to the stage and to the web

Poetry Daily Bookmark this site for a new poem each day
...and more.

Poetry Society of America Read about the "Poetry in
Motion" project, & send someone a poetry postcard

Poets Corner A very nice site--a large database of
poetry plus great photos of the poets

Project Bartleby Many volumes of American poetry along
with other literary works

Spondee: Poems, Poetry, Poets Poems by the Wisconsin
Fellowship of Poets and famous historical poets, plus many links

Twentieth Century Poetry in English Works of 159 poets,
and excellent individual pages for 11 poets.

The United States of Poetry The PBS special's site.
Great graphics!

Voices and Visions: The Poet's Gallery TheAnnenberg/CPB
Multimedia collection featuring thirteen famous American poets

Zuzu's Petals Quarterly Online An award-winning site
that has everything literary

Best Individual Poets Websites

Emily Dickinson International Society The Emily Dickinson
Journal, Emily Dickinson Newsletter, and the Listserv

The Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar Excellent site about the
first African American poet to gain national eminence

Robert Frost in Cyberspace A very complete site, with
everything about Robert Frost

Walt Whitman Notebooks Preserving the Walt Whitman
notebooks at the Library of Congress

Movements and Poets

Life Studies: American Poetry from T.S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg
20th Century: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath
The Fugitive Poets: John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Alan Tate
The Black Mountain Poets: Robert Creeley, Charles Olson,
The Beat Poets: Alan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder

Other Interesting Sites ...

American Poetry for Students of English Worldwide
American Reader Poetry Page
Confederate Broadside Poetry at Wake Forest
Mudlark: An Electronic Journal
Museum of American Poetics

... All about Poetry

Poetry Index
Poem of the Week
Poetry Readings/Poetry Poll
Poetry Wall: Modern Poetry
Southern Poetry Association

Poetry in All
its Varieties

Native American Poetry
Cowboy Poets on the Internet
Women Weave Their Words

Poems on Libraries and Books
Medical Humanities
Window on My Mind

Librarians as Poets

Librarian Poets Hall of Fame
Librarians are Poets Too Winners Anthology
Librarians are Poets Too Contest

Listservs, Newsgroups, and Forums

Literature Online Discussion
Poetics Listserv
Poetry Forum, jstarr's
Usenet: rec.arts.poetry
Usenet: rec.arts.poems
ZuZu's Petals Discussion

Online Resources for Libraries

Roth's PoemFinder

From Chadwyck Healey:
American Poetry 1600-1900
African American Poetry 1750-1900
American Poetry 2, 1919 to Present

Reference Books

American Poets, 1880-1945, Third Series, Peter Quartermain, ed.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1987, (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 54)

American Poets Since World War II, Fourth Series, Joseph Conte, ed.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 165)

American Poets Since World War II, Fifth Series, Joseph Conte, ed.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 169)

Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry
1997 ed. Alan F. Pater, ed. Palm Springs: Monitor Book Co., 1997.

Chapman, Dorothy. Index to Black Poetry. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1974.

The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies. William Katz,
Linda Sternberg Katz and Ester Crain, eds. New York: Columbia Univ. Press,
1994.

The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry 10th ed., Edith P. Hazen,
ed., New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry Anthologies 2nd ed.
William Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz, eds. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1994.

A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. New York:
Poets & Writers, distributed by Pushcart/W.W. Norton, 1997.
(There is also an online version at: http://www.pw.org/directry.htm)

Guide to American Poetry Explication. Boston: G.K. Hall,
1989, v. 1-2.

The New Oxford Book of American Verse. Richard Ellmann, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics. Alex Preminger and
T.V.F. Brogen eds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Pres, 1993.

Poetry Criticism Margaret Haerens & Christine Slovey, eds.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1991-1997, v. 1-16.

Journals

American Poetry Review. World Poetry, Inc. 1721 Walnut St. Philadelphia
Pa. 19103.

The Antioch Review. Antioch University, 150 E. South College St.,
Yellow Springs, Ohio

The Beloit Poetry Journal. RFD2, Box 154, Ellsworth, Me.
04605. http://zinnia.umfacad.maine.edu/~sharkey/bpj

Birmingham Poetry Review. BPR, English Dept., University
of Alabama, Birmingham, University Station, Birmingham, AL 35294
http://www.uab.edu/english/bpr/

The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review. P.O. Box 126, Hampden-
Sydney, Virginia 23943. http://www.moonstar.com/~rosebowr/review.html

The Kenyon Review. Kenyon College. Gambier, Ohio. 43022
http://www.kenyonreview.com/issues/welcome.htm

Ploughshares. Emerson College. Boston, Massachusets. 02116-1596.
http://www.emerson.edu/ploughshares/Ploughshares.html

Poetry. Modern Poetry Association. 60 West Walton Street,
Chicago, Ill. 60610. http://www.poems.com/poetrull.htm

Partisan Review Boston University, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215.

Poets & Writers 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012. http://www.pw.org/

The Sewanee Review University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
37383. http://www.sewanee.edu/sreview/home.html

Shenandoah Washington and Lee University Review. Troubadour
Theater, 2nd Floor, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
24450. http://www.wlu.edu/~shenando/

Circulating Books

Bellamy, Joe David. American Poetry Observed: Poets on their
Work
. Urbana: University Press of Illinois Press, 1984.

The Generation of 2000: Contemporary American Poets. Edited
by William Heyen. Princeton, N.J.: Overview Review Press, 1984.

Pearce, Roy Harvey. The Continuity of American Poetry
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1961.

The Poetics of the New American Poetry. Donald Allen & Warren
Tallman. New York: Grove Press, 1973.

Simpson, Eileen. Poets in their Youth: A Memoir. New York:
Random House, 1982.

Stewart, John L. The Burden of Time: The Fugitives and Agrarians: The
Nashville Groups of the 1920's and 1930's, and the Writings of John Crowe
Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 1965.

Waggoner, Hywatt H. American Poets: From the Puritans to the
Present.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1984.


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