American Sentences Exploration of the haiku-based poetic form, known as American Sentences, created by Allen Ginsberg. Offers interviews, essays, resources and examples.
Appeal of James Whitcomb Riley, The Explores Riley's impact on American society and the 19th century literary world. Icludes original manuscripts of poetry, first editions of printed works, photographs, correspondence, memorabilia, art work, music.
Arthur Rimbaud Many of Rimbaud's poems in
French and English, letters and other documents, biographies and albums of Rimbaud and Verlaine.
Byron: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work Biography; timeline of his life and work; portraits of him, his friends, and his family; selections from his works; information on his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke, and his lover, Lady Carolyn Lamb.
Canadian Poetry Includes profiles of and poetry samples from Canadian poets, a random poem generator, links to poetry magazines, Canadian poetry presses, poetry readings and events, literary awards and grants, poetry courses, literary contests.
Funeral Poem, The Original and historic poetry verses for funeral, memorial service readings and programs.
Garment Worker's Legacy The Joe Fishstein collection of Yiddish poetry at McGill University. Contains a catalog of the collection and a thematically organized exhibit dealing
with the life and passions of Mr. Fishstein.
Gilgamesh Ancient Mesopotamia's most important literary product. Includes text with a recording of it being read, animated pictures, and music.
Joshua Mehigan Contains biographical information on the poet, a few translations, and poems from, The Optimist (Ohio University Press, 2004), named a 2004 Big Ten Pick by ForeWord Magazine.
Neurotic Poets Biographical sketches of famous poets discussing their work in context. Read about Byron, Shelley, Poe, Rossetti, Dickinson, Wilde, Thomas, and Plath.
Poems Club Beautiful poems from famous and amateur poets. Read the best poems about family, friendship and birthday. Searchable database. Site users may submit poems.
Poetry Archive Audio files of English-language poets reading their own work.
Poetry in Translation A.S. Kline's original poetry and translations of historically important poets, for browsing or download in several different formats.
Poetry International Web Worldwide forum for poetry. Poems, news, reviews, essays, interviews and discussion.
Poetry Magic For poetry fans, students, writers and teachers. Beginning topics include postmodernist poetry, finding a theme, word choice, and publishing. Advanced topics include literary criticism, poetry movements, and intellectual foundations
Poets.org Contains biographies and electronic texts of poems from poets writing in English (not just Americans). Provides a news service for American poets, prizes and awards, poetry discussion forums.
Prosody Anecdotes Alberto Rios of Arizona State University has posted introductions to some of the canonical forms of European poetry, with anecdotes and examples.
Representative Poetry Online Database of English poems; works of criticism and literary theory; a glossary and timeline.
Robert Burns Narrative of Burns' life and information about manuscript holdings.
Shadow Poetry A place where amateur poets can publicly display their poetry and short stories.
ShayariOnline Dedicated to provide the collection of hindi / Urdu poetry online. Adding daily lots of Urdu sher-o-shaiary / Poems of famous poets.
Sonnet Central English-language sonnets, articles about sonnets, and a message board.
Walt Whitman Archive Includes texts, facsimiles of his works, an audio recording "thought to be Whitman's voice reading four lines from the poem 'America'," photographs, biographical information, contemporary and current reviews of his works.