Poetry

• Columns, news & reviews: My poetry columns in the Dallas Morning News (DMN's Books section) | Poetry Daily | Arts & Letters Daily | Washington Post's "Sunday Book World" | New York Times' Sunday Book Review | Ed Hirsch's & Rita Dove's "Poet's Choice" columns (Washington Post) | The New Criterion: Search for columns by William Logan | Arts Journal

• Award Winners: Yahoo!'s list

• On-line collections: plagiarist.com (not sure how this works, or if it's legal, but there are thousands of poems here and not all are in the public domain) | Billy Collins' Poetry 180: A poem a day for America's high schools | Robert Pinsky's Americans' Favorite Poems Project | Columbia University: Bartleby Library | BartlebyVerse | Sam Hamill's poetsagainstthewar.org | Cary Nelson's Modern American Poetry website  (Oxford Univ. Press' "Anthology of Modern American Poetry": companion website (not the poems themselves)) | Cambridge History of English and American Literature (18 vols., © 1907-21) | Poetry from the Planet Earth (nice collection) | John Milton Reading Room (interactive site from Dartmouth) | Univ. of Toronto English Library (Search engine) | Robert Pinksy's 'Favorite Poem Project' |  Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages | DoubleTake's poetry page | About.com's "Poets You Ought to Know About" | Western Folklife Center's Cowboy Poetry on the Internet | Poet's Corner (6214 works by 678 poets) | Christian Science Monitor's poetry pages | American Verse Project (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative) | Sonnet Central | Poetry Cafe (contemporary poetry) | Writer's Almanac (Garrison Keillor's other NPR program) | Poems That Go | Poet's Corner | The Waste Land | Andrew Crume's "Scottish Writers" site | N.Y. Times Crossword as a poem | Granger's World of Poetry On-line (subscription service) | MIT: Triolets and Computing

• On-line journals: Frank | Poetry Magazine | Beloit Poetry Journal | The Paris Review | Jacket | DoubleTake | Five Points (journal of literature & art from Georgia State) | The Drunken Boat | Exquisite Corpse ( from Andrei Codrescu to you) | Expansive Poetry & Music Online | Literary Review | Nerve! | DoubleTake Magazine | The Cortland Review | the Marlboro Review | New England Review | Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages | Read Me | Poetry International | The New Criterion | Modern Haiku

• On the Web: Am Poet's links (phenomenal) | Yahoo! Poetry Links | Yahoo! Creative Writing Links |  About.com's Poetry Page (tons of links) | Bulfinch's Mythology (lots of links to poets and poetry) | InfoPlease's Poetry Page | All Info - About Poetry

• Dallas poetry: Paperbacks Plus (links to the Dallas poetry scene) | The Writer's Garrett | WordSpace | Dallas Poets & Writers Index | Oak Cliff Circle of Poets | Wheel of Darma/Paul Sexton

• Other poetry sources: Wings Press (San Antonio) | Univ. of Pittsburgh Press | Irish Writers' Centre (Áras na Scríbhneoirí) poetry resources  

• Readings: Listening Booth (fabulous sampling) | Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages | ABC News' Poetry Corner | Auden reading at the 92nd St. Y (March 27, 1972) 

• Resources for poets: Library of Congress' Poetry & Literature Center | Dana Gioia's essays and reviews | On-line Poetry Classroom | Hayes Walker's Poetry Criticism Service | Albany (Calif.) On-Line Poetry Workshop |SUN-Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center | Poets & Writers Online | Carolyn Forché's Website | Cary Nelson's Modern American Poetry website | On-line workshops, conferences & bulletin boards | "Fooling With Words" (Bill Moyers' PBS special) (Poetry Resources) (The Poets Read) (Teacher's Guide) (Lesson Plans) (Style Sheet for Revising Poetry) | Poetry Master (Dan Masterson) | Starlite Café | Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet | WritersWrite.com: Poetry | Poetry Quotations | Craft of Poetry (Vince Gotera, Univ. of Northern Iowa) | Online Symbolism Dictionary | Glossary of Poetic Terms | Semantic Rhyming Dictionary | WriteExpress On-line Rhyming Dictionary | RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary | The Poetry Kit | Magnetic Poetry | English 88 (UPenn): "Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (fabulous on-line course) | Knopf's 'Poets on Poetry' series | Literary History.com | BBC's "Poems to Make, Watch & Hear" 

• Individual poets: About.com's "Poets You Ought to Know About" | Leo Connellan (Poet Laureate of Connecticut (1996-2001), but a Down Easter through and through) | Carolyn Forché | Chaucer Meta-Page | John Milton Reading Room (interactive site from Dartmouth) | T.S. Eliot | William Stafford (Graywolf Press) (News from Nowhere) | Márcia Theóphilo | Stanley Kunitz | Dylan Thomas | Biography.com's website of 60 poets' bios (posted April 2002: not sure how long it will stay up) | Dana Gioia | R.S. Thomas | Neurotic Poets | Geoffrey Chaucer Website | John Donne (warning: annoying music plays when home page loads)

• Booksellers: Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge, Mass. (profile from Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 Sep 96) | Poetry Society of America's Independent Bookstore List  

• Organizations: Academy of American Poets | Poetry Society of America | Oxford University Poetry Society | Poets / Nobel Laureates in Literature (official site) | Pulitzer Prize (Searchable archive) | The Poetry Society (UK) | Flint Public Library's Julia A. Moore Poetry Contest

• Poet Laureates and Their  On-line Projects:

  • Library of Congress' Poetry & Literature Center

  • Billy Collins' Poetry 180: A poem a day for America's high schools

  • Robert Pinsky's Americans' Favorite Poems Project

  • Robert Hass started "Poet's Choice" in The Washington Post and prepared a weekly column for 4 years - links to some of them are here

    • The first two years' columns were collected in a book

  • Rita Dove's "Poet's Choice" columns start here

  • Millennium Evening 3 with the Poets Laureate (April 22, 2000)

  • Poetry and Politics: gathering of state poets laureate. April 25-26, 2003

• OuLiPo: Gordon Dow's Oulipo Page (a good introduction to Ouvroir de la Littérature Potentielle) | Raymond Queneau's 100,000,000,000,000 Sonnets | OuLiPo's Homepage (in French)  | George Perec, Le grande pallindrome | Paul Harris' page of OuLiPo links  

• Misc.: Poetry Alive (poetry in the Lehigh Valley (with interviews and readings) from The Morning Call; may not stay on the Web for very long) | Poetry in Seattle (excellent series from the Post-Intelligencer; may not stay on the Web for very long)  | World Prayers | Lawyers and Poetry (Prof. James Elkins' web site at WVU College of Law) | TextArc | Random haiku generator