Ars Poetica
( The Poetic Art)

Poetry Collections & Collectives

• American Verse Project (University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative)
• British Poetry 1780-1910: An Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions, from the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789 through 1832: an electronic collection of texts from the University of California, Davis' General Library
• CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive (very accessible)
• DayPoems: A Seven-Century Poetry Slam (highly recommended)
  1. DayPoems' Poem Archive Indexed by Author (very accessible - Poets' names are actually used as the hyperlink text that leads to their poems!)
  2. DayPoems' Poem Archive Indexed by Title (recommended - the actual title of the poems themselves are actually used as the hyperlink text that leads to the poem itself!)
  3. DayPoems' Extrodinary Index of Poetry-Related Web Sites
• EPC: The Electronic Poetry Center at (SUNY-Buffalo)
  1. EPC's Index to Author Links on the Web (very accessible - Poets' names are actually used as the hyperlink text that leads to their sites!)
  2. EPC's Index of Poetry Links
• The eServer Poetry Collection
• IPA: The Internet Poetry Archive
• Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry: "an ongoing, pluralistic anthology of contemporary poetry, which includes complete out of print books, sub-sites for authors, genres, issues, and interchanges with poets in other countries.
• Poetry Archives at eMule
• Poets' Corner
  • Search the Poet's Corner
• The Germ: A Hypermedia Edition

Individual Poets: Living & Dead
(arranged alphabetically)

• Hayden Carruth Online
• Billy Collins' The Best Cigarette: poems, books and recordings by, and resources about, the former US' former Poet Laurate
• Linton Kwesi Johnson

Direct Links to Some Obscenely Inaccessible Sites
(arranged alphabetically)

Since the The Academy of American Poets' site is obscenely inaccessable -- where once it was merely frames-based, before there was screen-reader support for frame navigation -- it has been deconstructed below

• Poetry Events
• National Poetry Map (there is a combo box for those for whom a map is an abstract concept)
• Current Exhibits
• Literary Exhibits Archive
• The Listening Booth: poems read by their authors (format: Real Audio)
• Browse by Poet's Name
• Browse by Poem
• Literary Links
• What's New
• Find a Poet by Searching or Browsing
  1. Reformatted Accessible Poet Search Form
• The Academy of American Poets' Calendar of Events
• Membership Information
• About The Academy of American Poets
• Programs of The Academy of American Poets

This page was created on June 8, 1997
Contents of this page last updated April 10, 2006