Poetry Blogs
For centuries poets have kept journals, diaries and notebooks, often the raw material from which their poems grow. Web logs are a natural medium for poets, many of whom are busily blogging in public -- here are links to the most interesting poet blogs.

Contemporary Poets
Tributes & commentary, biographies, online poems & self-promotions from all manner of poets, performers & literary folk who are still alive, making poetry right now, referenced by name...

20th Century Poets
An alphabetical catalog of links to poets of the just-past century, indexed by name... Eliot, Bukowski, Ginsberg, Micheline, Paz, Plath, Pound, Roethke, Thomas, Williams...

19th Century Poets
Poets of the 19th century, referenced by name... Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Dickinson, Whitman...

18th Century Poets
Poets of the 18th century, referenced by name... Swift, Pope, Gray, Blake...

17th Century Poets
Poets of the 17th century, referenced by name... Donne, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Rochester...

Renaissance Poets
Poets of the 15th & 16th centuries, referenced by name. . . Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare. . .

Medieval Poets
The earliest practitioners of English poetry, referenced by name... anonymous troubadours, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Langland, Petrarch...

Classical Poets
The poetic voices still speaking to us from 1,000 or more years ago, now immortalized on the Net & referenced here by name. . . Homer, Li Po, Sappho, Virgil. . .

General Poetry References & Resources
Check this page if you want to look something up, need a rhyming dictionary, or want to get in touch with one of the national poetry organizations.

Poet Biography & Interview Collections
A number of poetry reference sites & online journals have gathered large collections of poet biographies & interviews -- sometimes specialized, like women poets or Native American poets or contemporary formalist poets, and sometimes quite broad, like the “Find a Poet” collection at the Academy of American Poets site. Check here for access to these vast & growing libraries.

Calendars & Local Poetry Organizations
Here's where you'll find reading & performance schedules, poetry activists & activities for the city you're living in or planning to visit. To the road!

Classic Poetry Text Archives
These major collections of classic and popular poetry etexts are your best resources when searching for the text of a well-known poem.

Online Lit Zines & Poetry Anthologies
An alphabetical listing & links to online lit zines, poetry anthologies & the online sites of print poetry magazines. . . from online versions of established print poetry journals, to ephemeral, experimental zines whose only medium is pixels. . . from hyperlinked Net anthologies to netizens' private collections of poetry. . .

Audio Poetry Archives & Anthologies
The real poetry is in the body, in the human voice, & you can listen to it on these sites on the Web.

Poetry Shows & Video Archives
Poetry has long had a home on the screen, whether video or film or Netcast -- check these links to live online poetry shows, online video archives & the Net sites of poetry tv shows & films.

Publishers & Online Poetry Catalogs
Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble aren't the only booksellers online -- look here for online access to the independents, the underground, the hard-to-find sources of poetry books & recordings, as well as the big traditional poetry publishers.

Haiku, Senryu, Tanka
From Haiku Headlines of the Day to the Spam Haiku Archive, these shortest but most flexible & evocative poetic forms are a powerful presence on the Web.

Nursery Rhymes
Nonsense rhymes, traditional songs, Mother Goose rhymes & their derivations -- all are collected on the Net.

Pantoums
Victor Hugo imported this Malaysian folk form made of interlocking repeated lines to Western literature & it now thrives in English on the Net.

Sonnets
From its Italian origins to its English florescence, the 14-line sonnet in all its variations is the best-known means of compressing passion into a short poem until it glows.

Multilingual Poetry & Translations
As we prepare for a world where poetry is lingua franca international, why not see poems made from many languages, poems translated into every language on earth -- and beyond!

Word Games & Online Poetry Collaboration
This is the fun stuff -- puzzles, wordplay, poets interacting across the Net, making something new online.

Poetry Journals & Reviews
Links to scholarly or academic journals focusing on poetry, review periodicals, collections of poetic lit crit are gathered here (as compared to individual articles, which are linked in our Reviews & Essays library.

Poetry Book Reviews & Essays on Poetry
Journalism, critical articles, reviews of readings, books or recordings -- look here for links to poets & other writers writing about poets, poems & the poetry scene.

Poetry Contests, Competitions & Prizes
Ready to submit your work to be judged in competition, whether for prize money or publication? Read our articles to decide if you are ready & think about your approach, then use these links to choose the contests you want to enter.

Online Poetry Workshops & Conferences
Poets have been using the Net to work together -- conferencing in the WeLL, one of the Net's oldest communities, exchanging ideas in email discussion groups, posting in poetry bulletin boards, or meeting for real-time Web-based workshops.

Poetry Newsletters & Mailing Lists
Want to get poems & poetry news in your emailbox or participate in an email-based discussion group? Subscribe to one of these newsletters or listservs.

National Poetry Month
Since the Academy of American Poets instigated the first National Poetry Month in 1996, every April has been filled with special events focused on poetry in American life.

Festivals & Live Poetry Events
Slams, academic conferences, big & small poetry festivals -- wherever poets get together to talk about & do Po, if it's on the Net it will be here.