poems

Some poets I like

Shakespeare's plays Shakespeare's sonnets Gareth Owen Clemente Rebora Thom Gunn Clara Janës Rose Auslander Gerard Manley Hopkins Eavan Boland Dylan Thomas Ilhan Berk Edward Bond Derek Walcott Fernando Pessoa Forugh Farrokhzad Theodore Roethke Dritero Agolli Marcel Beyer Ovid Chen Ziang Homer: The Odyssey (trans. Samuel Butler) Homer: The Iliad (trans. Samuel Butler) Paul Celan Ezra Pound Basho Craig Raine Maya Angelou Peter Reading Anna Akhmatova Zhang Huai Juvenal Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo Fred D'Aguiar Stevie Smith Isla Correyero Les Murray Annette M'Baye d'Erneville Edward Thomas Dante Alighieri Horace Li Bai Arthur Rimbaud Percy Bysshe Shelley Saadi Baba Taher al-Mutanabbi Hashimoto Takako Virgil Stephane Mallarme Rainer Maria Rilke Aleksandr Pushkin Charles Baudelaire

Prosody

Arnaut & Kaukur’s Ultimate On-Line Prosody Resource

Haiku – A Definition
By Ray Rasmussen.

Epic Poetry (Wikipedia entry)

Lyric Poetry (Wikipedia entry)

Poetic Meter (Wikipedia entry)

Poetry Terms and Poetry Forms

Journals

Abalone Moon
Poetry & the arts.

Arc
“Canada’s national poetry magazine” online.

The Alsop Review
Formerly a US showcase of internet poetry, now seemingly a discussion board.

Blackbird
Online journal of literature & the arts.

Eclectica Magazine
Poetry, opinion, nonfiction, travel…

fifteen credibility street
Anti-naturalist magazine.

Gowanus
International online journal of “idea and observation.”

Guernica
Art and Politics.

In Posse Review
Poetry, micro-shorts, flash fictions…

Intercultural Platform
International literature and art.

Moria
Experimental poetry journal edited by William Allegrazza.

Poetry Magazine
Usually excellent English-language poetry magazine.

Sidereality
“Speculative and experimental poetry.”

Times Literary Supplement
Sometimes pretentious guide to British literary events.

Village Voice Literary Supplement
Sometimes pretentious guide to what’s on in NYC.

Sources

Academy for Ancient Texts
Translations of The Epic of Gilgamesh and many others – a superb resource! Please donate $1 to keep them going!

American Verse Project
Attempted online archive of all pre-1920 American poetry, from the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and University of Michigan Press.

Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)

Arabic Poetry (from Princeton University Online)

Bibliomania
Bibliomania’s collection of “classic” works in poetry.

The British Library
UK’s most well-known copyright library. Annoyingly, library membership is restricted.

Classical Chinese Poetry

Decji Svet (Kids’ World)
Children’s poetry site, written by and for children. In English and Serbo-Croatian.

Forgotten Ground Regained
Alliterative and accentual poetry collection and information.

Francophone African Poets in English Translation

Friendly Street Gallery of Poets
Poets affiliated to Adelaide’s Friendly Street poetry nights.

Haiku for People

Haïku sans frontières
Andre Duhaime’s international haiku site.

In the Heydays of His Eyes
“An Anthology of Poems about Being Young and Growing Up.”

Jolly Roger
“Classic” books library, etc.

Isle of Lesbos
Lesbian poetry by women and men!

Lettriste Pages
Fascinating website with much work from various Lettristes (including Isidore Isou, Frederique Devaux, Roland Sabatier, etc) complete with Lettrisme manifestos, et al.

Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry
A large and varied collection.

LitLine
Organisations, journals, presses, etc.

Mediaeval Irish Poetry
Contains Mediaeval Irish poems (with translations) and some information on Irish poetic forms.

Modern American Poetry

Mythopoetry
For those of us who love myths and folklore – dedicated to “making poetry of myth, myth & poetry.”

Il Narratore
Italian and English site with literary recordings and information on contemporary poetry.

Nubian Poets
Great resource with information on African poets, “how to write a sonnet/haiku/limerick,” black history, etc.

Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Varied bill of poetry slams, theatre, live music, etc. (Based in NYC, obviously!)

Pathetic.org
Online community of poets.

Persian Poets, Poetry and Poetic Art

PM Poetry
Patrick Martin’s excellent poetry resource.

Poetropical
Matthew John Williams’ website – with African poetry links, etc.

Poetry Daily
Daily poems in English.

Poetry International Web
Brilliant worldwide poetry magazine.

The Poetry Library
Fantastic resource at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

The Poetry Society
UK Poetry Society.

Poets’ Corner
“One of the largest and oldest text resources on the web.”

Reflections – Leon Malinofsky
Brilliant site with thousands of text, graphic and audio files.

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
A wonderful resource with links to Native American storytellers, poets and authors online, mp3s of readings, etc.

Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
Excellent Modernist links and poems.

VI Radio
Streaming audio poetry slams, podcasts, etc.

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