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Sources for Poems
[|Poetry foundation] At the core of the site is [|an archive] of more than 3,000 contemporary and classic poems in English by more than 250 poets, which includes poems and essays from back issues of //Poetry// magazine.

[|Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest] "Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation, this program encourages high school students to memorize and perform great poems."

[|Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools] Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States, has compiled a list of poems that can be read aloud to students every day school is in session. Each poem has publishing and copyright information related to it. From the Library of Congress site.

[|Poetry Daily] posts a new poem daily. "Poems are chosen from the work of a wide variety of poets published in the English language. The daily poem is selected for its topical or seasonal interest, as well as for its literary quality." Past poems are archived for a year and arranged by author, title, or date used. //News// contains links to recent articles, reviews, and interviews of poets.

[|The Writer's Almanac] The Web site for "a daily program of poetry and history hosted by Garrison Keillor," broadcast on public radio. Provides a brows-able list of poetry read on the show, as well as a searchable archive of the programs (in audio as well as print). "Be well, do good work, and keep in touch."

[|Favorite Poem Project] Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States, created this audiovisual poem project to reflect America's diversity. Brief videos, the heart of the site, show Americans describing and reciting a personally meaningful poem. Other features include poem texts, teaching suggestions, and an invitation to submit a favorite poem. This project is contained in the Library of Congress Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.

[|The Poetry Archive] The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.

[|The Internet Poetry Archive] Brief biographies and selected poems of Phillip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czelaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur. Includes audio files and, in some cases, video, files of the poets reading the works. Sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the North Carolina Arts Council.

[|Poetry] Every week POETRY offers online, a new poetry selection from the current issue.

[|Verse - Bartleby.com] This site has a combined database of more than twenty respected reference works and several anthologies and individual works of highlight poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. In addition to out-of-copyright editions of classic works such as //Bartlett's, Bulfinch//, and the //Cambridge History of English and American Literature// the collection also includes recent editions of the //Columbia Encyclopedia, The World Factbook, Roget's II: the New Thesaurus the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language//, and much more. Searchable.

[|World Poetry Directory] is from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It has worldwide lists of poetry festivals, prizes, journals, and associations. Web links are provided where available and there is also a directory of other Web sites for poetry activities in both UNESCO member and non-member countries.

[|Norton Poets Online] includes brief biographies of over 75 poets, past and present, with links to selected works.

[|World of Poetry] The basic concept is to match up poets with filmmakers to produce a single video poem or a series of poems. This approach invites experimentation and new ideas, and an approach that is designed for both new and traditional technology and media.

[|Poetry Archives] is an educational resource to aid students, educators, and the curious. Thousands of classical poems have been collected to help recall fond memories or to help create new ones. The goal is to provide the largest free archive of classical poetry available on the internet with a simple user interface.

[|The PoetryMagic Home Page] Poetry Magic is a resource centre for the theory and craft of writing poetry.

[|Academy of American Poets] offers hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of more than 500 poets, over 1,700 poems, and audio clips of one hundred poems.

[|Poets Against War] continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

Tools for Writing Poetry
[|RhymeZone] "A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems."

[|A Guide to Verse Forms] A guide to verse forms, aimed mainly at the would-be poet.

Analysis
[|Poet's Corner] Read biographies of more than thirty well-reviewed poets, follow a timeline of events in poetry's history, and discover two dozen poems and the explanations behind them. You will also find a quiz based on the poets and their works and an annotated list of links to further resources. From the reference works publisher Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation.

[|Critical Reading: A Guide] Designed for first year college students, this is a basic guide to what you might look for in analyzing literature, particularly poetry and fiction. For poetry, includes sections on genre, speaker, structure, setting, and imagery. For fiction, topics include plot, character, setting, figurative language, world-view. Also has a section on writing an analytical essay.