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United States Poets Laureate: Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the U.S. poet laureateship.
New Guides to Poets Laureate Available
New Web guides to online resources for former U.S. poets laureate Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove, and Robert Hass are now available.
Poet Laureate Charles Simic Gives Swan Song Lecture
Charles Simic made the final appearance of his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry when he presented a lecture on poetry translation at the Library of Congress.
XVI Poetry Marathon of Teatro de la Luna
The Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress hosted an afternoon of Spanish poetry featuring poets from Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean. Each poet read a selection in Spanish, followed by an open discussion in English moderated by Dominican poet Rei Berroa of George Mason University. Featured poets were Spaniards Ana Rossetti, Juan Carlos Mestre and Vicente Cervera Salinas. From Mexico were Hector Carretto, Dana Gelinas, Hernan Bravo Varela and Ciprian Cabrera Jasso. Also participating were Mateo Morrison, Dominican Republic; Otoniel Guevara, El Salvador; Marcelo Pellegrini, Chile; Ivon Gordon-Vailakis, Ecuador; and Juana Goergen, Puerto Rico.
Octavio Paz Symposium
Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was a world-famous poet, writer and essayist. His writing, which garnered him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, has been characterized as impassioned and marked with sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. A two-hour symposium, "A Tribute to Octavio Paz," was sponsored by the Library's Hispanic Division and the Poetry Office, in cooperation with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C.
United States Poets Laureate: A Guide to Online Resources
Locate online resources related to U.S. poets laureate. Completed guides link to Library of Congress Web pages that include information on the poet laureate's life and work, as well as to external Web sites that feature biographical information, interviews, poems, audio, video, and other materials that highlight the activities of each poet.

Poetry 180

Poem 180 - "Break"
A poem by Dorianne Laux from the Library's Poetry 180 project. This is the final Poetry 180 poem of the school year.
Poem 179 - "Bike Ride with Older Boys"
A poem by Laura Kasischke from the Library's Poetry 180 project.
Poem 178 - "End of April"
A poem by Phillis Levin from the Library's Poetry 180 project.
Poem 177 - "Eagle Plain"
A poem by Robert Francis from the Library's Poetry 180 project.
Poem 176 - "How to Change a Frog Into a Prince"
A poem by Anna Denise from the Library's Poetry 180 project.
Poem 175 - "Gretel"
A poem by Andrea Hollander Budy from the Library's Poetry 180 project.

Fiction & Poetry

Thirteen Hundred Rats
T. Coraghessan Boyle Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the ceremony in the chapel he looked so scorched and . . .
Songs of a Season
Maureen N. McLane Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
for here or to go-- a glass mug, a paper cup-- life is fast, art slow only a few years before all that I am blows free, subatomic not for me that life the careless joy of the dog not for me that leap how to say beautiful weekend in . . .
After Love
Jack Gilbert Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
He is watching the music with his eyes closed. Hearing the piano like a man moving through the woods thinking by feeling. The orchestra up in the trees, the heart below, step by step. The music hurrying sometimes, but always returning to quiet, like the man remembering and hoping. It . . .
The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away
Charles Wright Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The mares go down for their evening feed into the meadow grass. Two pine trees sway the invisible wind-- some sway, some don’t sway. The heart of the world lies open, leached and ticking with sunlight For just a minute or so. The mares have their heads on the ground . . .
Return of the Prodigal
Charles Wright Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Now comes summer, water clear, clouds heavy with weeping. Tall grasses are silver-veined. Little puddles of sunlight collect in low places deep in the woods. Lupine and paintbrush stoic in ditch weed, larch rust a smear on the mountainside. No light on ridge line. Zodiac pinwheels across the heavens . . .
Propofol
Karl Kirchwey Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Moly, mandragora, milk of oblivion: I said to Doctor Day, “You bring on night.” “But then,” he said, “I bring day back again,” and smiled; except his smile was thin and slight. I said to him, “Sleep and Death were brothers, you know. They carry off great Troy’s Sarpedon in . . .

 

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Bartleby.com - American and English works between 1250 and 1920. Offers numerous anthologies including The Oxford Book of English Verse, the Yale Book of American Verse and Modern American and British Poetry
Meta Description: [ With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse, poems and poetry anthologies on the web. ]

A Small Anthology of Poems - Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information.
Meta Description: [ An anthology of poems from many periods and languages, some with study questions. ]

A Small Collection of Poetry - Poetry by famous British and American poets including Wendy Cope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Oscar Wilde.

American Verse Project - Organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts. Includes a bibliography and a mission statement.

Anthology of Poetry - Contains about 650 poems by 117 great poets.

Beautiful Words - Small personal collection of favourite poetry and selected other texts.
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Bibliomania Poetry Archive - An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript.
Meta Description: [ 800+ texts of classic literature, drama, and poetry together with detailed literature study guides. Large reference book and non-fiction section ]

British Poetry 1780-1910 - A hypertext archive of scholarly editions from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.

Canadian Poetry Archive - Selected poems from over 100 early Canadian poets in both English and French.
Meta Description: [ Collection of poems by and biographies of English and French-language Canadian poets from the 19th and early 20th centuries. ]

Categorized Poetry by Pros - Collection of mostly humorous but sometimes sentimental poetry by authors such as Housman, Herrick, Cope, and Chesterton, sorted by categories such as Advice, Animals, Death, and War.
Meta Description: [ Poetry, often humorous, sorted by category, written by professionals (not me). ]

Chesil's Favorite Poetry - An archive of classic poetry including Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Coleridge. Includes brief biographies and personal commentary.

Classic Poetry Treasure Chest - Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums.

CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse - Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary.

Contemporary American Poetry Archive - Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.

404 David P Brown - Favorite Poetry - Personal collection of favorite poetry and passages from poets such as Robert Frost, William Shakespeare and Edward Lear; includes related links.

Digital Poets Society - Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and Wilde. Includes related links.
Meta Description: [ Digital Poets Society: classic poetry online; Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's 'Poems Collection' and 'Faust : the tragedy'; Lord Byron's 'Don Juan' and selected poems, Shakespeare's sonnets and poems,William Blake selected poems; Chinese Poetry from the Tang period and more ... ]

Dream Wine - Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos Williams and A.A. Milne.

eMule.com: Poetry Archives - Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.

EveryPoet.com - Archive of World Poetry - Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.
Meta Description: [ Archive of World Poetry: Complete text of over 4,000 classic poems from Milton, Frost, Keats, Shakespeare, Kipling, Whitman, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and dozens more. ]

Internet Poetry Archive - Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.

LionHeart - Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name.
Meta Description: [ Full texts of 1,000 love poems from the 1500s to 1900 ]

Our Favorite Poems - Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors.

Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive - Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.
Meta Description: [ Plagiarist.com: A searchable archive of classic and contemporary poetry, articles about poetry, analysis, and reviews. ]

Poem of the Week - Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes submission guidelines and related links.
Meta Description: [ Poem of the Week Page - founded August 1996. Includes archive of past poems and a free subscription service. ]

Poems - Personal and eclectic online collection of poems by many well-known authors and songwriters.

Poems, Short Stories, Quotes - A small collection of poems, short stories, and quotes.

Poetry - Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords.
Meta Description: [ A collection of assorted poems written by a small number of more or less famous poets, indexed by author, title, first line and keywords. ]

Poetry 180 - A poem a day provided by the Library of Congress, one for each of the 180 days of a typical American high school year.
Meta Description: [ Home page of the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project ]

404 Poetry and Music of the War Between the States - Archive of American Civil War poetry from both sides of the conflict. Also includes an archive of music from the era.

Poetry Archive - Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.
Meta Description: [ An online collection of the world's greatest poetry. ]

Poetry In Translation - An electronic archive of browsable and downloadable English translations of major European and Chinese Classical poets. Also offers original works by A.S. Kline.
Meta Description: [ Poetry translations including Dante, Ovid, Goethe and many others. ]

Poetry Through the Ages - Collection of well known poems categorized by subject: love, religion, myth and fantasy, nature, children, philosophy, love of country, war. Section for submission of personal poems to be included on site.

Poetry X » Poems - Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.
Meta Description: [ A web site devoted to reading, analyzing, and discussing the best in classic and contemporary poetry. ]

Poetry.com.au - Archive of classic poetry, including original poetic works by independent writers. Includes links to related resources.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to one of the largest online archives of original and classic poetry. Features works from such masters as Keats, Shakespeare and Dickinson, through to independant post-modern poets who have yet to become household names. These pages are filled with motivational, romantic and inspirational... ]

Representative Poetry Online - Collection of poetry, edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present. Indexed by poet, title and first line.

Rhythm and Pain - Archive of poetry and lyrics by a variety of poets and songwriters including Leonard Cohen, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan.
Meta Description: [ The page of poetry. Original poetry by raincloud and favorite poetry by a lot of really famous people. ]

Snap Dragon Poetry Corner - A collection of poems (all on one page). Also includes a selection of Bad Poems

The Compendium - Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and title.

The Poem Tree - Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.
Meta Description: [ An online poetry anthology featuring metered poetry and some free verse. ]

The Poetry Place - Personal archive of poems from poets including Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickinson. Includes pictures and artwork.

The Poetry Searcher - Searchable database of poems from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Good for English translations of non-English poems.
Meta Description: [ find classical poetry as well as modern poems using our search engine ]

500 The Scratch Pad - Small archive of poems and lines from both established and emerging authors.

The Wondering Minstrels - Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information.
Meta Description: [ The Wondering Minstrels is a daily poem mailing list and archive, flush with commentary from the anthologists and the readers. ]

Womenpoets - Biographies and selected works of thirty women poets from various countries.

World Wide School: Literature-Poetry - Collection of rare and popular works including Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde and The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll.
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