Resources - Poetry

  • Poetry 180
    Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year. This site is maintained by Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States. 
  • Bartleby.com
    With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web.
  • The Atlantic Monthly Poetry Pages
    The Atlantic Monthly's home on the Internet
  • Fooling With Words
    Fooling With Words with Bill Moyers captures the vitality and diversity of contemporary poetry on the web.
  • Representative Poetry On-Line
    Representative Poetry On-line, includes 2,300 English poems by over 359 poets from the Old English period to the work of living poets today.
  • The International Library of Poetry
    Poetry.com, sponsored by the International Library of Poetry, is the largest poetry site on the Internet.
  • Favorite Poem Project
    Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky founded the project to document American's love of poetry. Site includes online submission form, videos, anthologies, and a selection of collected poetry.
  • Poet Biographies
    Type in 'poet' for a search term to find bios on thousands of poets
  • Poetry Slam
    A non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the poetry slam, or the "competitive art of performance poetry." Sit includes slam venues, slam links and slam forums.