Contest: Online study guide provider Shmoop just announced an essay contest for high school students. Shmoop's Poetry Essay Contest asks students to write a 500 word analysis of Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. The winner of the contest, judged by Jim Burke, will receive an iPad. The entry deadline is May 28, 2010.
The Academy of American Poets -- Poets.org...provides a wealth of content on contemporary American poetry and receives an average of 400,000 unique users each month. It also provides online educational resources such as free poetry lesson plans for teachers.
American Poets Society - We are here to give ordinary people like you the opportunity to have their poems published. Not all who write poetry can be published or attain recognition through the general media. In the United States of America we believe in the freedom of speech.
Archive of the Now is an electronic and print collection of poetry and text-based work. It is offered as a scholarly, aesthetic, social and political resource for writers and readers of innovative poetry.
Favorite Poem Project - dedicated
to celebrating, documenting and promoting poetry’s role in Americans’
lives.
FOOLING
WITH WORDS...with Bill Moyers... helps poetry assume its rightful
place in the center of our imaginative and emotional lives.
gigglepoetry - Fill-in-the-blank
poems, poetry theater, and more;Learn how to write nursery rhymes, limericks,
list poems, and more! Once you learn how to write poetry, enter our poetry
contests and read the winning entries.
HarperAudio! -
Readings by famous poets including Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot
Internet Poetry Archive...includes the work of living poets from around the world...the archive entry for each poet comprises audio clips of the poet reading several poems, the poet's comments on the works, a photograph of the poet and any other graphics that would help a reader understand the poem (e.g., a map or illustration of a particular place mentioned in the poem), texts of the poems, a critical biography of the poet prepared by a scholar familiar with the poet's work, and a short bibliography.
Poetry 180...designed
to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180
days of the school year. I have selected the poems you will find here
with high school students in mind.
Poems that Go - Artists and
writers join together to probe the Web’s creative potential at Poems
That Go.
POETRY
CONTEST - Poetry.com will award 1175 prizes totaling ,000.00 to amateur
poets in the coming months Anyone can enter the competition simply by
submitting an original poem, 20 lines or fewer, on any subject, in any
style. Previous winning poems posted.
POETRY DAILY - The Daily Poetry
Association spotlights a new work each day from some of the U.S.’s
premier and lesser known contemporary poets. Poems are chosen from books
or journals which are currently or imminently available in print or online
publications.
Poetry Everywhere project offers readings of sixteen poems and animated interpretations of a dozen others. Some poems are read by their authors; others are read by other poets.
poetryexpress... intended for all poets, from inexperienced to advanced. To get the most from the website, take time to explore it and get a broad overview. Sense how the activities relate to your own needs and interests.Some users, for instance, will want to focus on Making new poems, while others will be more interested in Sharing or Revising their current work.
Poets' Corner...one
of the largest and oldest text resources on the web. The goal of this
project is to create a user-friendly library of works that promotes browsing
and exploring through a site that spans thousands of works by hundreds
of authors covering thousands of years.
RBR Poetry - A collection of
contemporary poems along with some critiques. Be sure to click on the
link to flatulence!
Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
Shiki
Internet Haiku Salon - syllables each, and must have a special word
which evokes the season. This site provides samples of many haiku, including
some from the most famous haiku poet, Basho. Suggestions for writing your
own haiku are helpful as is a list of terms related to natu
The Academy of American Poets -
highlights American poets with biographies, selected poems, and photos.
If you have RealAudio, you can also hear some of the poets reading their
works. There are also historical and thematic exhibits including Poetry
with Children, Poems of Grief, and Poe
THE Creative
Stuff! - Original Poetry and Fiction by Women
The Internet
Poetry Website of Doug Tano - Read an ebook - Save a tree Visit my
ebook Internet website at: http://home.comcast.net/~dtanoury1/Tanoury.html
Voices
& Visions...a video series from Annenberg Media, explores the
lives and works of 13 of America's most famous modern poets.
The Walt Whitman Hypertext
Archive - Through the various portals, the user can reach digitized
images of original documents, transcriptions of those documents, and an
elaborate body of introductions, commentaries, and other materials useful
in interpreting Whitman’s works including audi
William Blake Archive - an
online glimpse into the world of poet William Blake