Poetry Online  A Web List

Classic Poetry . Poetry Archives . Poetry Readings (Audio) . Love Poetry . Poetry Awards
Poesía, Poetas . La poésie, les poètes . Poesia, Poeti . Dichtung, Dichter
A B C E F I L P R S
Contemporary Poems
 Festivals Interviews
Journals Love Poems Metre/Prosody
Poetics Readings Texts online/poetry online
Sonnet Form
 Verse Forms



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Arabic poetry, Wikipedia entry.
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Assonance
Assonance. A definition.
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Assonance
Wikpedia entry.
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Assonance. A sample.
The Atlantic Monthly Poetry Page
Includes reviews, poems and poetry readings on audio files.
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Audio readings
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 Awards

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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.
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Blogs
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BBC Audio Interviews.
Interviews with poets on radio.
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British Library Sound Archives
Drama and literature pages.
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British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions:
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

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Chapbooks, samples from from The Drunken Boat literary journal.
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Children's poetry
Children's Poetry Archive
A searchable database from Poetry Archive.org.
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Classic poems for children. Story-It.com
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Nursery rhymes. Classical nursery rhymes, printable and illustrated. Story-It
Chinese poetry, Wikipedia entries.
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Concrete and visual poetry

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.
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The Gates of Paradise, by David Daniels, plus many other visual poems by other poets.
Contemporary poetry
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
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Contemporary British and Irish poetry. The Poem
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Contemporary online poetry links (from Nagoya University, Japan).
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Contemporary online poetry.
Electronic Poetry Center (from Buffalo University).
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Contemporary Poetry Review
An online journal. Reviews, new poems, audio clips.
The Dead Poets Society. Wikipedia entry on the film.
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Directories, etexts
Poetry Corner
An extensive name index of poets, with live texts.
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Essays on poetry
Essays on poetic theory.
Links to poetic theory websites from LitRefs, Cambridge University.
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Essays and on poetics and writing.
A directory of links to poetics pages from Blueline.
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Explicator.com essay service.
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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.
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Project Gutenberg searchable archive of poetry. Over 100,000 titles are available.
Ethnopoetics
UbuWeb
A collection of ethnopoetic openings, a sampler of what they take to be the second great breakthrough of the modernist poetry project. The search here is for a range of poetries outside the domain of customarily accepted literature.

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Family Friend Poems
elationship 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.
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Festivals . Poetry festivals
Poetry festival web directory from Poetrykit.
 

Bath Literature Festival
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Berlin International Literature Festival
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Cheltenham Literature Festival, U.K.
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Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín
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Los Angeles Poetry Festival
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Moscow International Festival of Poets
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Poetry Slam Festival
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Rottterdam International Poetry Festival
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StAnza Poetry Festival, Scotland.
French poetry  See also: French Literature
French literature, French poetry.
Poésie contemporaine, Poésie moderne.
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French poets and poetry (in French).
The Open Web Directory. Poésie, Poètes.
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Poésie et Citations d'Amour -
La poésie la plus romantique sur le web. Des poèmes et des citations sur le thème de l’amour.
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Indian poetry, Wikipedia entries.
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Interviews with poets
BBC Audio Interviews.
Interviews with poets on radio.
Journals  See also: Literary Ezines and Journals
Poetry Daily  A new poem every day.
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The Poetry Kit 
Poetry events, listings, poet directory, poetry interviews, poetry magazines, poetry articles.
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Poetry Café
Contemporary poetry online. Poetry readings and poetry  talk on audio and video. Forums, discussions, submissions.
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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.
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Best Love Poems
Poems by famous poets and poems submiited by visitors to the site.
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Friendship Poems
Archive of the most beautiful love poems. You can submit here your own love poems, read poems written by other visitors.
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Lovelandia. Love poems, lyrics.
A database of love poems, lyrics of love songs, love stories, St. Valentine Day ideas, books.
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Love Poetry.com.
Submitted and classic poems, including quotes, most popular love poems.
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Love Poems and Quotes
A collection of love poetry, as well as some famous quotes, friendship poems, inspirational quotes, and a poetry contest. 
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Open Web Directory list of romantic poems.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets. Full texts.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets. Oxford Shakespeare, full text.
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Modernist poetry in English, Wikipedia entry.
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MoontownCafe
A poetry resource to help get your poetry read, critiqued, and published.

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The National Poetry Foundation, U.S.

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Persian poetry, Wikipedia entry.
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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.
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Poetic metre, prosody, poetic terms
See also: Sonnet and Verse forms
Assonance.  A definition.
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Assonance. Wikpedia entry.
Epic poetry, Wikipedia entry.
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Iambic pentameter, Wikipedia entry.
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Poetic terms, a glossary from Answers.com.
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Poetic theory.
Links to poetic theory websites from LitRefs, Cambridge University.
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Metre, Wikipedia entry.
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Narrative poetry, Wikipedia entry.
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Ode, Wikipedia entry.
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Rhyme schemes, Wikipedia entry.
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Sonnet form, Wikipedia entry.
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Stanza, Wikipedia entry.
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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
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Museum of American Poetics
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Pala. The official website of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, UK
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XCP.A cross-cultural poetics web.
Poetry against the War  (the Iraq war).
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Poetry Corner
An extensive name index of poets, with live texts.
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Poetry Daily
A new poem every day.
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The Poetry Foundation
Search thousands of poems by theme, occasion, and subject in our poetry archive; and read poet biographies, poetry news, comics, and articles about poets.
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The Poetry Kit
Poetry events, listings, poet directory, poetry interviews, poetry magazines, poetry articles.
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Poetry Out Loud
Thhe U.S. National Recitation Contest. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
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Poetry Today Online
Contemporary poetry on the internet.
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Poetry Café
Contemporary poetry on line. Poetry readings and poetry  talk on audio and video. Forums, discussions, submissions on line.
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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.
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The British Library Sound Archive
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BBC Poetry Out Load
Poets perform their own work, recorded on audio.
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 The Poetry Archive, an online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.
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Internet Search Archive, poetry recordings.
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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.
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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.
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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.


Allen Ginsberg reading A Supermarket in California
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T.S. Eliot reading   La Figlia Che Piange
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T.S. Eliot reading  The Waste Land
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T. S. Eliot reading extracts from Four Quartets.
The Poetry Archive
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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.
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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.)
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W. H. Auden, readings and interviews from the BBC sound archive.
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W. H. Auden. After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics
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The Listening Booth, The Academy of American Poets
Poetry readings recorded on audio, from Auden to W. B. Yeats.
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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.
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Rhyme schemes, Wikipedia entry.
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Romantic poetry
Open Web Directory of romantic poems.
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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.
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Russian Literature
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Sonnet form

Edmund Spenser's Sonnets
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Francesco Petrarch's sonnets, English translations.
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Shakespeare Sonnets, a searchable database.
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Sonnets. Sonnet Central
An archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets.org
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Edmund Spenser's Sonnets
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The Elizabethan Sonnet,
by Prosser Hall Frye.
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Francesco Petrarch's sonnets,
English translations.
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Shakespeare Sonnets,
a searchable database.
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Sonnet Central
An archive of English sonnets, commentary, relevant web links and a forum.
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Sonnet form, metrics, history of the sonnet, Shakespeare' s sonnets.
An introductory course from the J Sargeant Reynolds Community College.
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Sonnet Writers,
a comprehensive collection of sonnets.
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Sonnet Central
An archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets.org
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The Sonnet,
Wikipedia entry.

Traditional songs,  hymns and spiritual
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.
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Isaac Watts. Cyberhymnal
Verse forms
Poetry. A Dictionary of Poetic Terms
Prosody, metre, verse forms, rhetorical terms, literary terms, etc.
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Sonnet form, metrics, history of the sonnet, Shakespeare' sonnets.
An introductory course from the J Sargeant Reynolds Community College.
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Quatrain examples

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