AMERICAN POETRY WEBSITES LIST

Compiled by Prof. Liana Sakelliou-Schultz and reviewed Dr. Christina Dokou

  1. You can find poems, essays, biographies, external links and audio material. Currently hard to use due to a glitch in the poetry segment.
  2. Online books. You can read poems and articles.
  3. Robert Frost only. It offers essays and poems. Students can submit questions.
  4. Online encyclopaedia, texts and short biographies. However, there are poets missing.
  5. It offers bibliography and poems.
  6. There is a page on Black Arts Movement. The texts and biographies are short.
  7. It contains information about various poetry movements.
  8. It offers links to journals but only recent editions are available.
  9. It has videos fort hose who want to find extra data.
  10. analyses, and relevant links. Well-organized and user-friendly.
  11. Electronic poetry site, fresh texts published on the net.
  12. Index with poems, info on poets, criticism and a bonus feature on Canadian poetry.
  13. A magazine dedicated to poetry.
  14. The British, and much more user-friendly version of the organization for poetry aficionados and amateurs.
  15. Limited Internet Poetry Archive, for verse published online.
  16. An article database on American poetry.
  17. Archive for poetry published online. Limited references.
  18. A good overview of the progress of American poetry, divided by timelines and schools.
  19. Site of limited range, only useful if one is interested in the featured poets. Reproduces the MLA bibliography on poetry.
  20. A great site, with rich material and a large index of poets.
  21. Short biographies, a few texts per poet, and book promotions for a fairly large number of modern poets.
  22. A “link farm” pointing to various sites with specific themes related to poetry and poets.
  23. Norton Poets Online, with brief bios, links and audiovisuals.
  24. Bibliographies, pictures and bios of many american poets.
  25. The Writers’ Index for the American Literature Anthology online. Conservative selection, favors the great white classics.
  26. An anthology of odds and ends Anglophone verse spanning continents and eras.
  27. Our UOA Library portal as an access point to electronic source and corpora on all subjects, poetry included
  28. Another UOA Library site with useful links and info.
  29. Our very own Hom(ag)e in Translation website, with biographies, bibliographies, and translations of famous American poets.