Poetry Pathfinder – 2009

for user names and passwords, go to: www.portal.ausd.net – log in with school ID and password, find Library Research, (ahspathfinders) – go to Categories on the right side, choose Citations & Passwords)

eLibrary/CE – http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/ce - On right side of the opening page, choose Literature – choose Study Pages, Poetry – About Poetry for definitions and essays; Websites for the best sources; Criticism or Poets for particular poets

Facts on File - http://www.2facts.com/ - choose Bloom's Literary Reference

Gale Group/Infotrac - http://infotrac.galegroup.com  Choose Literature Resource Center

American National Biography at: http://www.anb.org

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at: http://www.oxforddnb.com

Oxford Reference Premium Online – http://www.oxfordreference.com

Need to make a citation? - http://citationmachine.net/ or www.knightcite.com

Looking for Poetry in the Library:

You can find many poetry books and collections of poems on our shelves - try 808.1, 811 (American poetry), and 821 (English poetry); search individual poets by last name and then click on "Author"; search "poetry" as a "Subject"

LOTS MORE SOURCES:

Glossaries:

• Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
• Glossary of Literary Terms
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
• Glossary of Poetic Terms
• Glossary of Poetic Terms
• Shadow PoetryTypes of Poetry

To help you rhyme: Semantic Rhyming Dictionary

Poetry Portals

• *Poet's Corner http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
• Shmoop Poetry (study and research tools)
• *Poet's Corner--Poems
• *Poetry 180: A Poem a Day For American High Schools http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
• *Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry: 1250–1920 http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
• *Favorite Poem Project http://www.favoritepoem.org/
• *Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm
• *BBC Online: Poetry http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml
• Poetry Archive http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
• *Poetry Portal: What is Free Verse Poetry? http://www.poetry-portal.com/styles2.html
• *British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
• *Poetry on the Internet http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/poetry.html
• Poetry Daily (offers a new poem every day)
• Contemporary American Poetry Archive (full text of out-of-print books)
• Internet Poetry Archive
• Academy of American Poets
• Annotated listing of web sites containing poems (Kobe University)
• *Aha! Poetry http://www.ahapoetry.com/
• American Verse Project http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
• *Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/poetpage.htm
• Free Verse (examples) http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Pages/Poetry.htm
• About.com Poetry Home Page http://poetry.about.com/
• About.com 20th Century Poetry http://poetry.about.com/cs/20thcenturypoets/
• *Electronic Poetry Center http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
• *Representative Poetry Online http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
• *Poetry Archive http://www.emule.com/poetry/
• Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/
• *Internet Poetry Archive http://metalab.unc.edu/ipa/
• Lost Poets of the Great War http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/ThePoets.html
• *Modern American Poetry: A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetryhttp://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
• *Modern & Contemporary American Poetryhttp://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html
• Online News Hour: Poems http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/poems/poems.html
• Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/poetryindex.html
• *Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com
• Poetry Magic http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/
• Poetry Portal http://www.poetry-portal.com/
• Poetry Previews http://www.poetrypreviews.com/
• Poetry Society of America http://www.poetrysociety.org/
• Romantic Circles - http://www.rc.umd.edu/
• *Sonnet Central - http://www.sonnets.org/
• *United States of Poetry http://www.worldofpoetry.org/usop/index.htm
• War Poetry (World War I) http://firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/index.htm
• *World of Poetry http://www.worldofpoetry.org/

Lyrics

• Google Directory Lyrics http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Lyrics/Rock_and_Pop/
• Lyrics.com http://www.lyrics.com
• Yahoo! Lyrics http://search.yahoo.com/search/dir?p=lyrics&fr=FP-tab-dir-t&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8

Page adapted from sources found at: http://poetrystories.wikispaces.com/