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Poetry

Poets - Contemporary

Alexie, Sherman Angelou, Maya Ashberry, John Bell, Marvin Bly, Robert Brodsky, Joseph Bukowski, Charles Cisneros, Sandra Collins, Billy Dickey, James Doty, Mark Dove, Rita Gluck, Louise Hall, Donald Heaney, Seamus Hughes, Ted Justice, Donald Koch, Kenneth Kunitz, Stanley Larkin, Philip Neruda, Pablo O'Hara, Frank Oliver, Mary Palmer, Michael Pinsky, Robert Shange, Ntozake Simic, Charles Strand, Mark Tate, James Walcott, Derek

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Poets - Early/Mid 20th Century

Aiken, Conrad Auden, W. H. Benet, Stephen Vincent Berryman, John Bishop, Elizabeth Brooke, Rupert Cummings, E. E. Eliot, T. S. Frost, Robert Ginsberg, Allen Graves, Robert Hughes, Langston Jeffers, Robinson Lorca, Fredrico Garcia Lowell, Robert Masters, Edgar Lee Millay, Edna St. Vincent Moore, Marianne Nash, Ogden Owen, Wilfred Parker, Dorothy Pasternak, Boris Plath, Sylvia Pound, Ezra Rilke, Rainer Maria Roethke, Theodore Sandburg, Carl Sexton, Anne Stevens, Wallace Szymborska, Wislawa Thomas, Dylan Valery, Paul Warren, Robert Penn Williams, William Carlos Yeats, W. B.

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Poets - 19th Century

Apollinaire, Guillaume Arnold, Matthew Baudelaire, Charles Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Byron, Lord Carroll, Lewis Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Dickinson, Emily Emerson, Ralph Waldo Hardy, Thomas Hopkins, Gerald Manley Housman, A. E. Keats, John Kipling, Rudyard Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Poe, Edgar Allan Rimbaud, Arthur Shelley, Percy Bysshe Tennyson, Lord Alfred Verlaine, Paul Whitman, Walt Wilde, Oscar Wordsworth, William

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Poets - 18th Century

Blake, William Burns, Robert Pope, Alexander Smart, Christopher

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Poets - 17th Century

Bacon, Francis Donne, John Herbert, George Jonson, Ben Marvell, Andrew Milton, John Suckling, John

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Poets - Medieval/Renaissance

Beowulf Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy Chaucer, Geoffrey. Caneterbury Tales Marlowe, Christopher Shakespeare, William Spenser, Edmund

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Poets - Ancient

Epic of Gilgamesh Homer Horace Ovid Virgil

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Poetry Anthologies

Best American Poetry Good Poems Making of a Poem Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry Norton Anthology of Poetry Postmodern American Poetry The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry

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Periodicals

Magazine - General Interest

Atlantic Monthly New Yorker

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Magazine - Literary

3 am Agni American Poetry Review Bellingham Review Black Warrior Review Boulevard Chicago Review Colorado Review Conjunctions Crazyhorse CutBank Drunken Boat failbetter Florida Review Gettysburg Review Iowa Review Iowa Review Kenyon Review Literal Latte Missouri Review Missouri Review mudlark New England Review Nimrod Open City Paris Review Partisan Review Ploughshares Poetry Prairie Schooner Quarterly West Shenandoah Southern Review Swink Tin House TriQuarterly Witness X CLMP litmag list X Poets & Writers litmag list Zyzzyva

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Magazine - Literary Scene

Bloomsbury Review Poetry Today Poets & Writers Writer's Chronicle X Links to Lit Blogs

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Reference

Craft Books

New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Corn, Alfred. The Poem's Heartbeat Drury, John. Creating Poetry Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter& Poetic Form Hollander, John. Rhyme's Reason Packard, William. Poet's Dictionary Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet Wood, Clement. The Complete Rhyming Dictionary

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Poetry

Academy of American Poets Constant Critic Duotrope Favorite Poem Project Luminarium New Pages Poetry Archives

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Directories

CLMP Directory of Literary Magazines and Presses Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses Poet's Market Writer's Market Writer's Market (online version)

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Literary Supplements

Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database Spark Notes

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Organizations

Academy of American Poets Associated Writing Programs Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Poetry Society of America

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Poetry Links

Poet's House Links Yahoo Poetry Links

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General Resources

Link List

Gotham Reading/Resources Lists New York Times Navigator Ref Desk University of Texas Reference Yahoo Reference

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Reference

Bartleby Encyclopedia Britannica First Chapters Google Google Earth Google Maps Lexis/Nexis Library of Congress National Geographic Atlas Poets & Writers Tools for Writers Shaw Guides US Copyright Office Wikipedia

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Words/Usage

American Heritage Dictionary Associated Press Stylebook Chicago Manual of Style Elements of Style Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus (online) Oxford English Dictionary (2 volume) Oxford English Dictionary (20 volume) Oxford English Dictionary (online) Roget's II Thesaurus (alphabetized) Roget's International Thesaurus (categorized) University of Calgary Grammar Guide

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