- Billy Collins, America's former poet laureate, has created a great site for easy to read contemporary poems.
Click to the Library of Congress and then click the "Poetry 180" box.
www.loc.gov
- Need to find out something about famous American poets and/or want to read a half dozen or so of their representative works?
Check out this great site.
www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org
- The Electronic Poetry Center. Over 100 post-modern writers. Check out "Reflections of Ways to Improve Death"
by Raymond Federman, "14 Stations" by Jerome Rothenberg and John Cage's Quotations. That should give you a feel for this
cutting edge site.
www.epc.buffalo.edu
- Very extensive collection of contemporary poets--mostly British and American--but there are also selections from the
major world poets: Neruda, Apollinaire, Milosz, Vallejo. Check out David Wagoner's "The Shooting of John Dillinger Outside
the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934"
http://www.poets.org
- Biographies and in-dept essays on the selected poems of 161 modern American poets. Excellent for analyzing a poem.
Unfortunately, the full text of the selected poems are seldom displayed.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps
- This is a link to many of the best poetry sites on the web. It's worth browsing.
http://www.libraryinjonesboro.org/poetry.htm
- Wonderful collection of videos of all sorts of average people talking about and then reading famous poems.
http://www.favoritepoem.org/
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