American Literature: American Writers, American Poetry

A Comprehensive Index of the Best U. S. Literature Websites

Dorothy Parker Society of New York

Literary awards in the U.S.A.
Wikipedia entries.

C

Contemporary and Modern American Poetry
An alphabetical link index of American poets and poetry pages from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dactyl Foundation, New York.
A Foundation for the Arts and Humanities, a non-profit organization. Poetry, writings, critcism, art exhibitions, new media.

E

Electronic texts

Festivals

Journals

Literary museums in the U.S.
The Museums Register

M

Modern American literature

Modern American Literature Resources
The University of Virginia

Modern American poetry.
This web site grew out of the experience of editing The Anthology of Modern American Poetry for Oxford University Press.The anthology itself is designed to win new readers for the poets included, and the web site is designed to help draw attention to many fine critical and historical books written about American poetry.

20th Century English and American literature.
Author webpage directory. From Voice of the Shuttle.

Novelists

List of novelists from the United States.
Wikipedia entries.

The Early American Novel: Introductory Notes

The American Novel, by Van Doren.

The American novel: Internet Archive search results.
View classic books and texts from The Open Library.

O

Oxford American Magazine. Southern writing.

P

Pennsound
PennSound is an ongoing contemporary writing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.

Poetry

Contemporary and Modern American Poetry
An alphabetical link index of American poets and poetry pages from the University of Pennsylvania.

Famous American Poets and Poetry
Famous American Poets, with poems and  biographical information.

Modern American Poetry
Critical and historical essays and syllabi on modern American Poetry.

American Poems
American poetry, from the classic to the latest contemporary poets.

The Academy of American Poets
Discussion, poetry exhibits, poets listed by name, poets on internet audio. Find a Poet. An online poetry classroom.

Scanned books on American poetry or by American poets
from the Internet Archive and Open Library.

Pulp.net.
Guide to pulp fiction magazines.

S

Southern literature

T

20th Century English and American literature.
Author webpage directory. From Voice of the Shuttle.

W

Wikipedia entries on American Literature.