Poetry Resources
In the Library
The Athenian School Library has an extensive poetry section which begins at 808.1.
Locate our poetry collection with this map of the Library.
Online Poetry Resources
Consult the Literature Online Database for additional research material.
Click on the underlined links to access these web sites.
O.P.C. provides a virtual community enabling teachers across the country to access free poetry resources online, including innovative, classroom-tested curricula.
This web site matches poets with film-makers to produce a single video poem or a series of poems. There is no specific delivery format or prescribed themes, so the poems featured can be on any topic and of any length.
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.
One of the most comprehensive poetry web sites on the Internet.
A web site featuring phonetic pronunciation, cross references, a broad range of poetic definitions, numerous examples, and a wealth of poetic quotations.
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. This site links to their poetry resources page.
Ishmael Reed
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, edited by Ishmael Reed.
Critical Review of this Anthology
Ishmael Reed: Biographical Information
An Interview With Ishmael Reed
Rap
Evolution of Rap Music in the United States
Hip-Hop
Additional Poetry Resources