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Celebrate National Poetry Month
Submit your own poetry to the library (in person or by email).
Selected poems will be posted on this Web page
and/or on the library's hallway bulletin board.
(Photos of poets of submitted poems are welcome!)
Click here for a list of over 400 ebooks on poetry (in IvyCat),
try LitFinder (for poems) linked on the Reference menu of the Virtual Library,
and don't miss our display of poetry books in the library!
Follow these Web links to learn about and celebrate
National Poetry Month:
- The Academy
of American Poets,
Sponsors of National Poetry Month, offers information on
poets and collections of poetry.
- InfoPlease
Feature on
National Poetry Month, http://www.infoplease.com/spot/pmonth1.html --Fabulous
resource – if you go nowhere else, try this site! Includes
quizzes and crosswords.
- The Poetry and Literature
Center of
the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/poetry/ --Offers
information on poetry awards and events at the Library
of Congress, "cybercasts" of readings by Robert
Pinsky and others, and a description of the library's
Archive of Recorded Poetry & Literature.
Also serves as the official site for the poet laureate
of the United States, with a history of that position
since 1937.
- 2003 U.S. Poet Laureate, Louise Gluck sites:http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html, http://www.artstomp.com/gluck/ and http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/gluck/gluck.htm
- Poetry.com (International
Library of Poetry), http://www.poetry.com/ --Comprehensive
site for finding poetrys, listening to poetry, poetry writing
help and sharing poetry.
- Poetry Portal --This
is a very comprehensive and informative collection of links
about poetry online, events, courses, styles, and publishing.
The site also covers "ezines, poetry sites, audio
poetry, literary appreciation, criticism and reviews, poetry
courses,
workshops, conferences, book and trade news, literary chit-chat
and trade news, plus sources to improve your own writing
and get it published."
- Shakespeare on the Web, http://shakespeare.palomar.edu
A complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare
resources available on Internet. Plus, it presents new
Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet,
such as: A Shakespeare Timeline; The Shakespeare Canon;
Rowe's prefaced to his 1709 edition of the Works; Charles
and Mary Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare; and The Prefatory
materials from the First Folio.
- 2003 Pulitzer Prize
winner for poetry reads his poems on web site: Paul
Muldoon http://www.paulmuldoon.net
- 2004
Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry: Franz Wright http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=536; http://www.pulitzer.org/
- Essay
against National Poetry Month by Charles Bernstein
- Yahoo.com's
National Poetry Month promotion
- Librarian's Index to
the Internet Poetry
Links
- Poetry feature from About.com (watch out for pop-up ads though -- or get Google's toolbar with a pop-up blocker)
- NewsHour Extra on Poetry with Jim Lehrer
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