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POETRY RESEARCH
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SELECTED
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BOOKS |
The electronic books
listed below are available through the
CCM Library Catalog.
Bush, Andrew. The
Routes of Modernity : Spanish American Poetry from the Early Eighteenth to the
Mid-Nineteenth Century. Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press ;
London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, 2002.
eBook PQ7082.P7 B87 2002eb
Chism, Christine.
Alliterative Revivals. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2002. eBook PR317.A55 C48
2002eb
Delchamps, Stephen W.
Civil Humor : the Poetry of Gavin Ewart. Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University
Presses, 2002. eBook PR6055.W3 Z63 2002eb
Propertius, Sextus.
Propertius in Love : the Elegies. Berkeley : University of
California Press, 2002.
eBook PA6645.E5 S58 2002eb
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DATABASES |
Contemporary Authors
Literature Resource
Center
Literary Reference Center
MagillOnLiterature Plus
MLA International Bibliography
Twayne's Authors Series |
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GENERAL SOURCES |
Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org
The
official site for National Poetry Month. It has a special Langston Hughes
Centenary Exhibit page and a Calendar of Events for National Poetry
Month. A wonderful feature of this site is the Listening Booth, an audio
collection of several American poets reading their own works. This site
has an online Poetry Discussion Forum. You must
register with the Academy before posting messages to the discussion groups, but
membership is free.
Favorite Poem Project
http://www.favoritepoem.org
This site
was coordinated by Robert Pinsky, the former poet laureate of the United
States. The site has an indexed database of over 18,000
letters from Americans revealing the personal meaning they derive from their
"favorite poem." At the heart of the site is a video gallery of
"50 short video documentaries showcasing individual Americans reading and speaking personally
about poems they love."
Poetry
http://www.loc.gov/poetry
"Today, the Poetry and Literature Center is
the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.
In addition to supporting the Poet Laureate’s activities and interests, the
Center sponsors an annual series of public poetry and fiction
readings, lectures, symposia, occasional dramatic performances, and other
literary events." The PLC also administers several prestigious poetry
prizes and maintains an archive which contains sound recordings of over 2,000
poets reading their own work. Visit the Poetry Cybercast section for
multimedia presentations of LC poetry events.
The Poetry Archive
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
Online collection of poets reading their
own works.
Poetry Archives
http://www.emule.com/poetry
This
database contains the full-text of over 4,000 classical
poems, searchable by title, author or first
line.
Poetry Daily
http://www.poetrydaily.org
An excellent
resource for contemporary poetry. "Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry which each
day brings you a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print.
Poems are chosen from the work of a wide variety of poets published in the
English language.... The daily poem is selected for its topical or seasonal
interest, as well as for its literary quality. Included with each poem are
information about the poet and attribution of the poem's source. Our purpose is
to make it easier for people to find poets and poetry they like and to help
publishers bring news of their books, magazines and journals to more people."
Poetry Portal
http://www.poetry-portal.com
A very
comprehensive site, covering "ezines, poetry sites, audio poetry, literary
appreciation, criticism and reviews, poetry courses, workshops, conferences,
book news, literary chit-chat and trade news, plus sources to improve your own
writing and get it published." It also links to Poetry Magic, a UK
site that covers all areas of prosody. The Poetry Online sidebar
has a wonderful collection of international poetry links as well.
Poetry Society of America
http://www.poetrysociety.org
A
great poetry Metasite that has links to Poetry Colonies, Conferences &
Festivals, Poetry Journals, Poetry Book Publishers, MFA Programs in Poetry,
Literary Organizations & Miscellaneous Resources, and Independent Literary
Bookstores. The PSA also offers Crossroads Online, a select online
archive of articles culled from The Journal of the Poetry Society of America
and transcripts of PSA sponsored panel discussions and debates. The
PSA also sponsors the NYC Poetry in Motion contest and several poetry awards.
Poets House
http://www.poetshouse.org
Poets' house is a
literary center and poetry archive located at 72 Spring Street in
Manhattan. The organization sponsors over 50 public programs each
year. The Poets' House library is free and open to the public.
"A national archive of 40,000 volumes of poetry, the Poets' House collection
includes books, chapbooks, literary journals, an audio and video tape archive, CDs, and
electronic media. It is the largest and most comprehensive poetry collection
available to the public in open stacks anywhere in the country."
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JOURNALS |
Languages and Literatures
http://wc5ca4yl9r.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=WC5CA4YL9R&S=SC&C=08
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NEW JERSEY POETRY |
Cavalcade of Poetry
http://www.poetology.com/?p=55
This site contains a great list of venues for open mikes, poetry slams and
readings in New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
Geraldine R. Dodge
Poetry Program
http://www.grdodge.org/poetry/
The Dodge Poetry Program works with NJ teachers to bring
poetry to high school students. It also sponsors the biennial Poetry Festival in
Waterloo Village in addition to several Min-Festivals throughout NJ high
schools. The Program also sponsors poet visits to high schools, hosts a NJ High
School Student Poetry Contest, and provides lesson plans and teacher's guides
for poetry studies.
NJPoets.com
http://www.njpoets.com
A collection of portraits, essays and interviews covering celebrated New Jersey
poets, including Whitman, Williams and Ginsberg.
Poetry Center
http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/poetry/
Each month, the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community
College publishes
a Calendar of Events listing poetry readings in New Jersey. This
organization also sponsors the Distinguished Poets Reading Series, publishes the
Paterson Literary Review, houses a 10,000 volume Poetry Library and
sponsors the Allen Ginsberg and Paterson poetry prizes.
The Poetry Project at
St. Mark's Church
http://www.poetryproject.com
The St. Mark's Poetry Project offers a webzine, a small
press center, online bookshop, weekly readings, writing workshops at the church,
a poetry newsletter, an annual literary magazine, the New Year's Day Marathon
Poetry Reading, and a poetry archive containing documents and sound recordings.
SpiralBridge Writers Guild
http://www.spiralbridge.org
Spiral Bridge Writers Guild is a non-profit poetry organization based in
Montclair, NJ. The Guild organizes poetry readings throughout Northwest Jersey
and also hosts writing workshops for aspiring poets and children.
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WORLD POETRY |
Arabic Literature
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/arabic_lit.html
Has full-text
poems in English and Arabic.
Classical Chinese Poetry
http://www.chinapage.com/poetry9.html
Poetry
in Chinese and English.
Poetry International
http://www.poetry.nl
The homepage of the Poetry International Festival of the
Netherlands has links to many international poetry sites.
Japanese
Text Initiative
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/index.html
Classical Japanese literature from the University of Virginia
Library.
World Poetry Directory
http://www.unesco.org/poetry
The World Poetry Directory has a list of associations,
prizes, festivals and journals organized by country or territory.
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SELECTED LIBRARY RESOURCES
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AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS |
Poets Laureate: the
American Voice in Poetry. Washington, DC : White House Millennium
Council, 1998.
Video PN1064 .M55 1998
The World of Emily
Dickinson. [Monterey, Calif.] : Monterey Home Video ; [Malibu, Calif.]
: Distributed by the Monterey Movie Co., [1997].
Reserve Video PS1541 .A6 1997
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BOOKS |
Critical Survey of
Poetry. (2nd
rev. ed.) Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2003.
Reference PN1021
.C7 2003
Literature and Its
Times. Detroit : Gale Research, 2003.
Reference PN50
.L574
Medieval Love Poetry.
Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005.
PN682.L68
M44 2005
Miller, James Edwin.
T.S. Eliot : the Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922. University
Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
PS3509.L43
Z7856 2005
Neruda, Pablo.
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2005. PQ8097.N4 A2 2005
The Norton Anthology
of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. (3rd ed.) New York : W.W.
Norton, 2003.
PS613 .N67 2003
Paglia, Camille.
Break, Blow, Burn. New York : Pantheon Books, 2005.
PR502 .P25 2005
The Poets of New
Jersey : from Colonial to Contemporary.
Bay Head, N.J. : Jersey Shore Publications, 2005.
PS548.N5 P64 2005
Vendler, Helen
Hennessy. Coming of Age as a Poet :
Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
Press, 2003.
PR502 .V46 2003
Whitman, Walt. Earth,
My Likeness : Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman. N. Ferrisburg, Vt. :
Heron Dance Press, 2005.
PS3204 .N46 2005
Whittemore, Reed.
Against the Grain : the Literary Life
of a Poet : a Memoir.
Washington,
D.C. : Dryad Press ; [Fairbanks, AK] : In association with
the University of Alaska Press ; [Chicago] : Distributed by
the University of Chicago Press, 2007.
PS3545.H868 Z53 2007
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JOURNALS |
The American Poetry Review
(1972-1993)
Journal of New Jersey Poets (1988-2005)
Poetry (1975-1995)
The Wormwood Review
(1984-1991)
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