Madigan Library

American Poetry

The Poetry Literature Center of the Library of Congress
Home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1918-2003
Visit the official Pulitzer Prizes page to find out this year's winner, announced on April 5. Established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), the prizes honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama.

Favorite Poem Project
In April 1997, when the Library of Congress named Pinsky Poet Laureate, he created the Favorite Poem Project as his special undertaking. Among the goals of the project: encourage live reading events in communities across the country, create a database of thousands of letters from Americans, and produce a series of short audio and video documentaries that capture American voices, faces and choices and represent people from many states and with varying regional accents, ages, professions, kinds of education and backgrounds.

The Poetry Society of America
Founded in 1910, the PSA is the oldest United States poetry organization supporting poetry and poets through programming and awards.

American Verse Project
This project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

The Academy of American Poets
The largest poetry organization in the nation encourages the study and writing of poetry at college and universities and ensures the success of National Poetry Month, and other programs "designed to build a larger, more devoted readership for this essential part of our culture."

Children's Poetry

Poetry4Kids.com
Created by poet, author, father, and software developer Kenn Nesbitt with cartoon drawings by Michael Roberts.

KidzPage
Poetry and verse for and by children of all ages. Submit a poem to be included on this page.

Children's Poetry Corner
A children's poetry site from award winning poet, teacher, and PBS consultant Kristine O'Connell George.

Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales
Funny stories that deliver a message, silly poems that will bring a smile and allow you to share some thoughts.

A Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme Book
This website was created for the child of the computer age. The use of imaginative word images teaches children abstract thinking. This is the kind of thinking that will engage children of the twenty first century.

Kids Corner - Beatrix Potter page
From the Ohio University, a slide show of Beatrix Potter books.

Pennsylvania Poetry

Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Public Poetry Project
The Public Poetry Project's first hint of life formed from the fertile imagination of Kim Fisher, the first Paterno Family Librarian for Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. Kim's vision was to display poetry in public places so that it might become part of the daily lives of a greater number of people.

Shirazad - A Home for Writers and Artists in Central Pennsylvania
Poetry as a healing tool has a long history beginning in pre-history with sound, rhythm and form.

World Poetry

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Pages for the Humanities
Produced by Alan Liu, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara. Search and browse the following pages for poetry written in English from England, United States, and other countries.

English Literature Main Page
English Literature" includes works written in English taught in departments of English and American literature

Other Literatures Written in English
Includes Anglophone, Postcolonial, and World Literature in English. Countries, continents, and regions represented include Africa, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Caribbean, Ireland, Scotland, South Asia, and Wales.

Beowulf
Classic Anglos-Saxon epic poem, translated here by Dr. David Breeden who has "... attempted to recreate the poem as a contemporary poet would write it, a practice assumed in the oral tradition."

Introduction to First World War Poetry
An award winning site from the English department and the Humanities Computing Unit of Oxford University.

Poetry International
Annual journal of contemporary poetry published by San Diego State University. Excerpts are contained on the website along with information on the journal's history and submission guidelines.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A page devoted to the famous rubaiyat (a quatrain) of Persian author Omar Khayyam and historical context of the work and its translations. Visit the most famous translation by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. Also available in the Penn College Madigan Library.

Temps Libres - Free Times
International haiku site in English and French, featuring haiku theory and practice, publication, rules, reading corner, library, publications, favorites.

Other Poetry Sites

Against National Poetry Month as Such
Charles Bernstein, Director of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York, Buffalo offers an alternative view of National Poetry Month.

Project Gutenberg
Full-text classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, and other works generally published prior to 1923. More details on public domain and copyright rules are available from site. Search for a particular poet or poem or select advanced search and search for poetry as a subject.

Beat Generation Resources Page
Comprehensive information resources on all the beats, from Ginsberg to Ferlinghetti to Gary Snyder.

Sonnets
About.Com's comprehensive page of links to all expressions of the sonnet form.

Brilliant Corners
The only national journal to focus on jazz-related literature. Edited by Sascha Feinstein, Professor of English, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pa.

Poets and Writers Online
From the nonprofit organization, Poets & Writers, established in 1970 supporting writers at all stages of their development. P & W Online provides a "central meeting place and community center for writers."

Modern Poets Forum website
Compiled by Timothy Materer, author and professor of English at University of Missouri-Columbia.

Electronic Poetry Center
Central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics produced at the University at Buffalo as well as elsewhere on the Internet

Representative Poetry On-Line
From the University of Toronto Department of English faculty. Includes a searchable index of poets and poetry.

The Internet Poetry Archive
From the University of North Carolina Press and other sponsors, includes poetry and poetry readings by Robert Pinksy, Seamus Heaney, and Margaret Walker, among others.

Bob Yantosca's Epic Poetry Quiz
You must discern from which epic poem each quote is taken.