Looking for Poetry and Short Stories

Poetry on the Free Web  //  Helpful Tools for Thinking About Poetry // Lyrics // Short Stories

You can find many poetry anthologies on our shelves.  Try 808.1, 811 (American poetry), and 821 (English poetry).  For other works, visit our Catalog.

We have two major sets of criticism in Reference: Poetry Criticism (R 809.1 Poe) and  Poetry for Students (R 808.1).

Databases:  

• Poetry Finder/ LitFinder (in ACCESS PA) for full text poems, explanations,  and biographical information about poets. 
  (To use this database at home, visit the Montgomery County login page and enter the barcode number on your library card or get a password from the public library.)
• Gale's Literature Resource Center.
• GALE's Literary Index http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex (To quickly find out which of the Gale reference books analyzes your poem)

Helpful tools for thinking about poetry

To help you analyze: Critical Reading: Poetry http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html

Glossaries:

• Glossary of Literary Terms: http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/glossary/index.htm

• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices: http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm

• Glossary of Poetic Terms  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/poetterm.cfm

• Glossary of Poetic Terms http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary2.html

• Shadow Poetry: Types of Poetry http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html

To help you rhyme: Semantic Rhyming Dictionary http://www.rhymezone.com

Poetry on the Free Web

• *Poetry Portal: What is Free Verse Poetry? http://www.poetry-portal.com/styles2.html
• *Poet's Corner--Poems http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/poems/index.htm
• *Poetry 180: A Poem a Day For American High Schools http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
• *Poet's Corner http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
• *Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry: 1250–1920 http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
• *Favorite Poem Project http://www.favoritepoem.org/
• *Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm
• *BBC Online: Poetry http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml
•  Poetry Archive http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
  
• *British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
• *Poetry on the Internet http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/poetry.html
  
• *Aha! Poetry http://www.ahapoetry.com/
• American Verse Project http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
• *Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/poetpage.htm
• Free Verse (examples) http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Pages/Poetry.htm
• About.com Poetry Home Page http://poetry.about.com/
• About.com 20th Century Poetry http://poetry.about.com/cs/20thcenturypoets/
• *Electronic Poetry Center http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
• *Representative Poetry Online http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
• *Poetry Archive http://www.emule.com/poetry/
• Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/
• *Internet Poetry Archive http://metalab.unc.edu/ipa/
• Lost Poets of the Great War http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/ThePoets.html
• *Modern American Poetry: A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry
• http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/  
• *Modern & Contemporary American Poetry http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html
• Online News Hour: Poems http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/poems/poems.html
• Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/poetryindex.html
• *Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com
• Poetry Magic http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/
• Poetry Portal http://www.poetry-portal.com/
• Poetry Previews http://www.poetrypreviews.com/
• Poetry Society of America http://www.poetrysociety.org/
• Romantic Circles - http://www.rc.umd.edu/
• *Sonnet Central - http://www.sonnets.org/
• *United States of Poetry http://www.worldofpoetry.org/usop/index.htm
• *World of Poetry http://www.worldofpoetry.org/

• Google Directory Lyrics http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Lyrics/Rock_and_Pop/
• Lyrics.com http://www.lyrics.com
• Yahoo! Lyrics http://search.yahoo.com/search/dir?p=lyrics&fr=FP-tab-dir-t&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8

Short Stories on the Web

• LitFinder (in ACCESS PA)
• Classic Short Stories http://www.bnl.com/shorts/
• Bibliomania Short Stories http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/frameset.html
• 20 Great American Short Stories http://www.americanliterature.com/SS/SSINDX.HTML
• Bartleby http://www.bartleby.com/195/
• English Server http://fiction.eserver.org/short/
• StoryBites http://www.storybites.com/
• Google Directory: Short Stories http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Short_Stories/Classics/
• Short Story Classics http://ee.1asphost.com/shortstoryclassics/index.html
• Classic Reader http://www.classicreader.com/toc.php/sid.6/
  • Elements of a short story organizer  http://go.hrw.com/resources/go_mk/la/latm/EO71LETP.PDF
  • Elements of a Short Story (Yale) http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.09.x.html

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