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Poet and critic Charles Bernstein explains why National Poetry Month is bad for poetry.
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Originally translated by W. H. Fyfe, 1932, for the Loeb Classical Library. Greek text also available from The Perseus Digital Library. With links to relevant terms.
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An introduction to bad poetry, though not necessarily by bad poets, with texts of various exemplary poems. As selected and annotated by Professor Seamus Cooney.
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Journal of African and African-American writing containing original work by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.
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A 1991 essay examining why poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America.
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Reviews of Stephanie Bolster's White Stone: The Alice Poems and Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow.
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An article that examines the "free-for-all" atmosphere of performance poetry.
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A collection of poetry reviews. Authors reviewed include Ursula K. Le Guin and Robert Graves.
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Reviews of gay writing coming out of Australia.
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An online literary review.
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Report by Lynette Abel of a class given by Eli Siegel on the meaning of poetry. In it, he discusses Carl Sandburg's "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter."
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An essay on the work of Brian Patten, one of the Liverpool Poets.
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Aniina Jokinen's scholarly and entertaining take on Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century English literature: Texts, essays and articles, illustrations and music.
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Poetry reviews by New Age author Richard Fuller.
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Critical and historical essays and syllabi on modern American Poetry. Many of the works relate to poems in the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
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Studies of twentieth and twenty-first century poetry which focus on the "modernist" shift in style and subject matter.
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The Internet Public Library's enormous database of literary criticism.
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Articles about poets, poems, and poetry in general. Includes book reviews, student guides, and articles on writing poetry.
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Reviews of contemporary and classic English or English-language poetry collections.
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A selection of critical papers by Daniele DiGiacomo on poetry ranging from Old English to Sylvia Plath.
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Attacks on contemporary American poets. Featuring "Where Are They Know? Lost Poets of the 70s."
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An article on the poetry of the Eighties in Finland, using deconstructive close-reading. Also, three articles upon the subject in Finnish.
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An essay on the "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" by Steven Watson.
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William Lyon Phelps, professor of English at Yale, looks at the change in poetry after the Victorian era, up until about 1918. British, Irish, and American poets are studied in this book.
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Complete text of the work by Edward Bysshe, published 1702.
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An archive of interviews, readings, reviews and articles on poets and poetry - past and present.
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An essay by Albert Gelpi.
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An essay on today's poetry and how we feel about, the morning after National Poetry Month. At goodreports.net.
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A research Paper by C. Fernandez on the multicultural aspects of the romantic poetry of Charlotte Turner Smith.
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Senior thesis comparing modern and Classical Latin confessional poetry.
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A variety of media resources - including audio and video files - relating to 13 modern American poets: Bishop, Crane, Dickinson, Eliot, Frost, Hughes, Lowell, Moore, Plath, Pound, Stevens, Whitman and Williams.
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Anthologizing in the nineties. An essay by Marjorie Perloff.
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Book reviews by Bernadette "bernie" Geyer.
