Poetry Online  

A Comprehensive List of Websites

Classic Poetry   Poetry Archives   Poetry Readings (Audio)
Love Poetry   Poetry Awards
Poesía, Poetas; La poésie, les poètesl; Poesia, Poeti; Dichtung, Dichter

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Contemporary Poems	Festivals	Interviews
Journals	Love Poems	Metre/Prosody
Poetics	Readings	Texts online/poetry online
Sonnet Form	Verse Forms	Blogs, forums

A

Arabic poetry, Wikipedia entry.

Assonance

Assonance. A definition.

Assonance
Wikpedia entry.

Assonance. A sample.

Atlas of poems about places.
Poetry Atlas is mapping the world with Poetry. Search for a place on Google maps.
The Poetry Atlas

Audio readings

Awards

B

Backdoor guide to e-poetry culture from  e-poets.net.
Anthologies & reviews, arts organizations, film, video & television, literary press, reference, music & theater, online arts & new media.

Blogs, poetry forums

See also:  Blogs, discussion, forums




BBC Audio Interviews.
Interviews with poets on radio.

British Library Sound Archives
Drama and literature pages.

British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions:
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia



C

Chapbooks, samples from from The Drunken Boat literary journal.

Children's poetry

Children's Poetry Archive
A searchable database from Poetry Archive.org.

Classic poems for children. Story-It.com

Poetry for Kids
Funny children's poems.

Nursery rhymes. Classical nursery rhymes, printable and illustrated. Story-It

Chinese poetry, Wikipedia entries.

Concrete and visual poetry

Contemporary poetry

Contemporary American Poetry Archive

Contemporary online poetry links (from Nagoya University, Japan).

Contemporary online poetry.
Electronic Poetry Center (from Buffalo University).

Contemporary Poetry Review
An online journal. Reviews, new poems, audio clips.

The Dead Poets Society. Wikipedia entry on the film.

Directories, etexts
See below

Poetry Corner
An extensive name index of poets, with live texts.

E

Essays on poetry

Essays on poetic theory.
Links to poetic theory websites from LitRefs, Cambridge University.

Essays on poetics and writing.
A directory of links to poetics pages from Blueline.

Explicator.com essay service.

T. S. Eliot essays on poetry. The Sacred Wood

Etexts, poetry extext archives

See also: Online literary texts

Poetry Corner  An extensive name index of poets, with live texts.

Project Gutenberg searchable archive of poetry. Over 100,000 titles are available.

Poetry Corner
An extensive name index of poets, with live texts.

Poetry Daily
A new poem every day.

Poetry and Poems
This website is a large collection of selected and famous poems for birthdays, weddings and a lot of other occasions.Poems are listed under 12 different categories so you can easily find a poem for a specific occasion.

The Poetry Foundation
Search thousands of poems by theme, occasion, and subject in their poetry archive; read poet biographies, poetry news, comics and articles about poets.

The Poetry Kit
Poetry events, listings, poet directory, poetry interviews, poetry magazines, poetry articles.

Ethnopoetics

F

Family Friend Poems
Relationship Poems about Family and Friends. A collection of poems describing the special relationship between brothers and sisters, the love for one's mother or father, the love of a mother for her child, the love between a grandmother and grandfather for their children.

Festivals/Poetry festivals

Poetry festival web directory from Poetrykit.
 

Bath Literature Festival

Berlin International Literature Festival

Cheltenham Literature Festival, U.K.

Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín

Los Angeles Poetry Festival

Moscow International Festival of Poets

Poetry Slam Festival

Rottterdam International Poetry Festival

St Anza Poetry Festival, Scotland.

French poetry 

See also: French Literature

French literature, French poetry.
Poésie contemporaine, Poésie moderne.

French poets and poetry (in French).
The Open Web Directory. Poésie, Poètes.

Poésie et Citations d'Amour -
La poésie la plus romantique sur le web. Des poèmes et des citations sur le thème de l’amour.

I

Indian poetry, Wikipedia entries.

Interviews with poets

BBC Audio Interviews.
Interviews with poets on radio.

James, Clive
Articles on poetry, criticism and poems by Clive James.
The Poetry Foundation

Journals  

See also: Literary Ezines and Journals

Poetry Daily  A new poem every day.

The Poetry Kit 
Poetry events, listings, poet directory, poetry interviews, poetry magazines, poetry articles.

Poetry Café
Contemporary poetry online. Poetry readings and poetry  talk on audio and video. Forums, discussions, submissions.

L

Love poetry, love poems

Best Love Poems.net.
A collection of romantic and love poems. Registered visitors can submit their own poems, comment on poetry and meet like-minded poets.

Best Love Poems
Poems by famous poets and poems submiited by visitors to the site.

Friendship Poems
Archive of the most beautiful love poems. You can submit here your own love poems, read poems written by other visitors.

Lovelandia. Love poems, lyrics.
A database of love poems, lyrics of love songs, love stories, St. Valentine Day ideas, books.

Love Poetry.com.
Submitted and classic poems, including quotes, most popular love poems.

Love Poems and Quotes
A collection of love poetry, as well as some famous quotes, friendship poems, inspirational quotes, and a poetry contest. 

Open Web Directory list of romantic poems.

Love Poems. A site Dedicated to Romantic Poets, Poetry and Biography
English-speaking poets from Blake to Yeats.

Poetry and Poems
This website is a large collection of selected and famous poems for birthdays, weddings and a lot of other occasions.Poems are listed under 12 different categories so you can easily find a poem for a specific occasion.

Shakespeare's Sonnets. Full texts.

Shakespeare's Sonnets. Oxford Shakespeare, full text.

M

Modernist poetry in English, Wikipedia entry.

MoontownCafe
A poetry resource to help get your poetry read, critiqued, and published.

N

The National Poetry Foundation, U.S.

P

Persian poetry
Wikipedia entry.

Poetcasting (UK)
PoetCasting is a poetry podcasting project which works with poets throughout the United Kingdom. The project features published, performance, emerging and established poets reading their own work online and out loud. The project has been live since April 2007.

Poetic metre, prosody, poetic terms

See also: Sonnet and Verse forms

Assonance, an definition.

Assonance
Wikpedia entry.

Blank verse
A definition from The Poetry Archive.

Couplets
Examples of poems using couplets.

Epic poetry.
Wikipedia entry.

Heroic couplet
Wikipedia entry.

Iambic pentameter, Wikipedia entry.

Iambic pentatmeter
Examples from the Poetry Foundation website.

Poetic terms, a glossary from Answers.com.

Poetic theory.
Links to poetic theory websites from LitRefs, Cambridge University.

Metre
Wikipedia entry.

Narrative poetry
Wikipedia entry.

Ode
Wikipedia entry.

Forms of poetry, a list of poetic forms with examples from well-known poets.
The Poetry Foundation

Rhyme schemes, Wikipedia entry.

Scansion
A definition and description from The Poetry Archive.

Sonnet form, Wikipedia entry.

Stanza, Wikipedia entry.

Thinking Poetry
Poetry information site and writing guide, with information on poetry competitions, poetical forms, types of meters and feet, and showcases.

Poetics

Journal for Cultural Poetics.  Kulturpoetik

Museum of American Poetics

XCP. A cross-cultural poetics web.

Poetry websites, directories, portals

Prose poetry

Readings, Poetry Readings Online

Audio books. Librivox. Audio readings of literary works.
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. They are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

The British Library Sound Archive

BBC Poetry Out Load
Poets perform their own work, recorded on audio.

The Poetry Archive, an online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.

The Poetry Foundation
Audio and podcasts of poets reading their work.

Internet Search Archive, poetry recordings.

Librivo
Audio readings of literary works. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. They are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

PennSound
PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives of poetry readings.
PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania.

Poetcasting (UK)
PoetCasting is a poetry podcasting project which works with poets throughout the United Kingdom. The project features published, performance, emerging and established poets reading their own work online and out loud. The project has been live since April 2007.

Poetry Matters Now
An online collection of readings and video interviews with poets.

A selection:

Allen Ginsberg reading A Supermarket in California

T.S. Eliot reading   La Figlia Che Piange

T.S. Eliot reading  The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot reading extracts from Four Quartets.
The Poetry Archive

UbuWeb. Concrete and visual poetry. An excellent, comprehensive online archive of poetry, as well as historical audio and filmed recordings.
UbuWeb's historical section primarily documents the trajectory of visual and concrete poetry, beginning with Simias Rhodius's "Wings of Eros in Theocritus", dating from 1516, and continuing all the way into the late 1970s.

W. H. Auden.
A reading by W. H. Auden, at the 92nd St. Y's Poetry Center, March 27, 1972. (New York Times, free online access.)

W. H. Auden, readings and interviews from the BBC sound archive.

W. H. Auden. After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics

The Listening Booth, The Academy of American Poets
Poetry readings recorded on audio, from Auden to W. B. Yeats.

Whitman, Walt. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Audio readings.

Read Print,  a free online library.
Their well-organized website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index.

Rhyme schemes, Wikipedia entry.

Romantic poetry

Romantic Literature, authors and poets.

Open Web Directory of romantic poems.

The Romantiic poets of the 19th Century (Browning, Byron, Coleridge, Keats,Shelley, Wordsworth). Open Web Directory

Russian poetry, a list of Russian poets from Wikipedia.

Russian Literature

Sonnet form

Traditional songs, hymns and spirituals

Traditional American and British songs, hymns and spirituals,
a collection of etexts from Poet's Corner.  The goal of this project is to create a user-friendly library of works that promotes browsing and exploring through a site that spans thousands of works by hundreds of authors covering thousands of years.

Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter. Wikipedia entry.

Isaac Watts. Cyberhymnal

Urdu poetry

Verse forms