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April 1, 1997
A Pride of Poets
by Roger Gottlieb
April wears many hats. To Chaucer, it was a time when folk longed to go on pilgrimages. To Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock, it was the cruelest month. And it's not such a happy month for tax-payers either. But April is also National Poetry Month. To honor that noble purpose, here is a treasure-trove of Web-based poetry resources for teachers, students, and anyone who loves the written word, for better or "verse."
National Poetry Month - Resource Guide
Everything you wanted to know about poetry but didn't know where to ask is here, in a categorical index which includes: Poetry Publishers, Periodicals, Educational Organizations, Publishing Organizations, Literary Arts Organizations, Library Organizations, and Distributors.
List of Poetry Webring sites
They say that good poetry has a ring ý but here's a ring that has poetry. The Poetry Webring is an easily navigable link-up of some 479 poetry sites on the World Wide Web. Each site is linked to the next so that wherever you start you will eventually be able to make your way around all the sites and end up back at the beginning.
Positively Poetry
Have your students bookmark this site. The creation of a 14-year-old, Positively Poetry showcases poems submitted by 5 to 15-year-olds from around the globe.
Poetry in The Atlantic Monthly
Even folk along the Pacific read the Atlantic Monthly. And now this long-running bastion of culture presents a multimedia site devoted to poets and poetry, both classic and contemporary. It features poets from current issues as well as selections from The Atlantic's archive.
Chinese Poetry Sites On the Web - China the Beautiful
Chinese Poems with English translation- poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all times.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, also called Hyakunin Isshu, is an anthology of 100 poems by 100 different poets. The poems, which date back to the earliest days of Japanese poetry, are in the 31-syllable Waka or Tanka format which pre-dates the more familiar Haiku.
An Index of Poets in Representative Poetry On-line
The second version of Representative Poetry On-line includes about 1,340 English poems from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Poets' Corner - Home
Named for the famed burial site in Westminster Abbey, this is no "Dead Poets' Society." Instead it features 2,111 poems from 357 poets, both obscure and familiar. Works range from medieval ballads to mid-20th Century free verse.
Project Bartleby
Unlike Melvilleýs, this Bartleby is no Scrivener! Based at Columbia University, it is the primo online library for poems, books, and reference materials. In addition to the works of Walt Whitman, Eugene O'Neill, and Agatha Christie, it also features the full text of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
The World of Poetry
This site aspires to some very lofty goals, including: "To promote cultural exchange, tolerance, and understanding through the power of the individual voice," "To inspire thought, reading, writing, and listening," and "To reveal poetry as living art." Also see below.
The United States of Poetry
This particular portion of the World of Poetry site is related to the 1996 Public Broadcasting System series of the same name. That series, which attempted to present a portrait of the U.S.A. through its language and poetry, received rave reviews from a diverse range of media, including The Wall Street Journal and Sassy.
HTI American Verse Project
The goal of this ambitious University of Michigan-based project plans is to assemble an electronic digital archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
Biography of Allen Ginsberg (LeviAscher)
The son of an English teacher, poet Allen Ginsberg was a major voice in contemporary American counter-culture.
Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:Literature:Genres:Poetry
Once again our favorite web-crawler does the job, bringing home not just the Bacon but also the Byron, Keats, and Shelley!
Email: Roger Gottlieb
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