Poetry: Websites

National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture.

Poemhunter offers a rich database of classic, contemporary, and modern poetry pieces. It features tens of thousands of poets from the classical age to the modern times.

The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. You can enjoy listening here, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and of poets from the past.

LISTEN to poetry, old and new, read aloud by the authors themselves and others.

The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture. It was formed from Poetry magazine, which it continues to publish, with a 2003 gift of $200 million from philanthropist Ruth Lilly.

A guide to the poetic endeavors of U.S. presidents, whether it be the anguished love poems of a youthful George Washington or the religious poetry of John Quincy Adams, many presidents of the United States turned to poetry at certain points in their lives

This site links to high quality literature and literary criticism resources that can be used to find information about novelists, poets, essayists, and short story writers in all genres.