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Academy of American Poets

American Verse Project - (dead link)
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
"The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920."

Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages

Kelly Writers House
Includes live and archived webcasts of contemporary poets.
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

Library of Congress - Poetry & Literature Center

• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress
• Poetry 180
  A Poem a Day for American High Schools

Literary Kicks - (dead link)
A wonderful site on the Beat Poets

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
Website for English 88, an online class offered by the University of Pennsylvania

Modern American Poetry
A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), edited by Cary Nelson

Modern American Poetry
Alphabetical listing of links to over 150 poets

Modern Language Association of America (MLA)

Nubian Poets
"...a tribute to legendary poets of African descent, such as Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Countee Cullen, and other noteworthy poets displayed on our opening page. In addition to the aforementioned, the goal is to also highlight the talents of up and coming poets. With the offering of our Poetry Contests, Discussion Board, and Featured Poets, it is our intention to form a bonding on-line interactive poet community."

Online Poetry Classroom
"...combines poetry, pedagogy, and technology with the belief that poetry is an essential part of America's heritage and a vital tool in helping students comprehend and articulate human experience...Designed to enhance poetry education on a national level, OPC employs technology to encourage the development of new poetry curricula and teaching strategies by high school English and Language Arts teachers."
- A Program of The Academy of American Poets

Poesia en EspaÒol
Hispanic-American poetry

Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance - (dead link)
"Provides the text of poems and by prose by authors such as Countee Cullen, Angelina Grimke, Esther Popel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and other figures of the Harlem Renaissance."

Wall Street Journal

• OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
  • A Day of Poetry for the War
    By James Taranto, February 12, 2003

W.H. Auden

W.H. Auden Society
Sections include: Books ; Poems ; Recordings ; News ; Notes ; Criticism ; Links ; Archives ; Members.

• Auden on Bin Laden
  By Eric McHenry
  Slate, September 20, 2001.
• Auden's Poem is Drawing New Attention
  By Peter Steinfels
  New York Times (free registration required), December 1, 2001.

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Page - (dead link)
"This page is a repository of links to information about her. We have a section on her life, the e-mail discussion list (emweb), other references to her, and a list of frequently asked questions or "FAQ." This site also has a page of Dickinsonian products & services and a page of related poet and poetry links."
Includes 490 of her poems online.
Created by Paul E. Black and maintained by Kris Selander

Dickinson Electronic Archives
"...the Collective is editing images of her manuscripts for electronic distribution so that all her readers can enjoy her graphic productions. By gaining a more vivid and nuanced sense of the hand-to-hand circulation of her work that Dickinson and her contemporary readers witnessed, Dickinson's 21st-century readers are likely to deepen and broaden understandings of her poetic project."

The Dickinson Discussion List
"We discuss issues in recent scholarship, offer announcements of events and publications of interest,and discuss what draws us to the work of this poet."

Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS)

Language as Object : Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art - (dead link)
"The first major exhibition to explore the impact of Dickinson's enigmatic poetry and her elusive personality on contemporary visual arts."
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Robert Frost

Google Web Directory - Frost, Robert - (dead link)

Allen Ginsberg

City Lights Books - Howl
Celebrate 50 Years of Ginsberg's Howl!
Sections include: A History of Howl ; Howl Celebrations ; Howl On Trial.

John Holmes

The John Holmes Collection at Tufts University - (dead link)
Sections include: The Poet's World ; The Poet's Life ; The Poet's Words.
University Archives, Tisch Library, Tufts University

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Robert Lowell
- The American Academy of Poets

Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
"Carl Sandburg celebrated his romance with America in these two famous collections: Chicago Poems ; Cornhuskers."
From Bartleby.com

Wallace Stevens
Feigning With the Strange Unlike: A Wallace Stevens Site
By Dr. David Lavery

Harper Audio: Wallace Stevens
"Wallace Stevens reads his own poetry. Stevens was born in 1879, and these recordings were made shortly before his death in 1955. Although he published poetry as early as 1914, Stevens did not receive widespread recognition until the publication of his collected poems in 1954, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Stevens' poems focus on the sound of language, on obscure vocabulary, and on imaginative images."

Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens - (dead link) "From 1916 until his death in 1955 Wallace Stevens lived with his wife and daughter in Hartford, where he worked as a vice-president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. Here you will find some of his poetry, a walking tour, event notices, a discussion group and artwork."

Wallace Stevens
Listing of resources and excerpts from his books on Stevens.
By Alan Filreis, University of Pennsylvania

• "'Beyond the Rhetorician's Touch'- Stevens's Painterly Abstractions"
  Essay by Alan Filreis, originally published in American Literary History.

Wallace Stevens On-Line Discussion List

The Wallace Stevens Journal

Wallace Stevens Picture Gallery

Wallace Stevens: From the Archive of the New York Times
Includes reviews and biographies.

• Wallace Stevens, Noted Poet, Dead
  New York Times obituary

Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Sections includes Primary Texts ; Biography ; General Interest

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

Robert Penn Warren
Academic site "honoring the life and works of Robert Penn Warren."

Western Kentucky University - Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies

Western Kentucky University Libraries - Robert Penn Warren Library

Walt Whitman
I Hear American Singing
"This Web site invites visitors to experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library of Congress's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials."
- Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress

• Walt Whitman
  "Learn more about Walt Whitman and his poem 'I Hear America Singing.'"

Mickle Street Review
An Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies
Part of the Camden Online Poetry Project

Poet at Work
Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection
"This collection offers access to the four Walt Whitman Notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995."
- American Memory Project, Library of Congress

Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
"This exhibition traces the different occupations and preparations that led Whitman to become the author of Leaves of Grass, as well as his subsequent evolution as a poet. Over almost forty years Whitman produced multiple editions of Leaves of Grass. By his death in 1892, Leaves was a thick compendium representing Whitman's vision of America over the last half of the nineteenth century."
- American Treasures, Library of Congress

The Walt Whitman Archive
"...The archive is a structured database holding digitized images of Whitman's works in their original documentary forms. Whitman's poetical manuscripts, early printed texts -- including proofs and first editions -- are stored in the archive, in full color when possible, and available as needed. The materials are marked up for electronic search and analysis, and they are supplied with full scholarly annotations and notes."
By Charles B. Green

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
"Visit us for news, announcements, bibliography, notes, articles and back orders. Also available on this site is a complete index to the journal."
Articles are not available online.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American Poet & Journalist & Free Thinker (1850-1919)
Sections include: Poems ; Books ; Biographies ; Photographs ; Bibliography ; Miscellaneous ; What's New.
Created by Richard A. Edwards

The Ella Wheeler Wilcox Society

• Newsletter - (dead link)

Copyright 1998-2006

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