Links to poetry literary resources online. Please note that while some recognized poets may indeed build and maintain their own homepages, and many individuals voluntarily contribute their time, enthusiasm and talent to the appreciation and study of the literary art of verse on the internet, this category and the categories under it are not for personal homepages containing poetry or "amateur" poetry published to the internet.
Spiritual poetry from masters such as Rumi, Rabindranath Tagore, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christina Rossetti, Kahlil Gibran, Anna Akhmatova. www.allspirit.co.uk
A forum for innovative and experimental poetry which offers a bimonthly web-publication, archives, the 'Tiny Press Center,' information on membership, workshops, upcoming events. www.poetryproject.com
Features a survey form for poets, critics, editors, publishers and readers. Its main purpose is to provide data for the biographical entries in the Comprepoetica Dictionary of Contemporary American Poetry, Poetics and Poets. www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1492/index.html
At killdevilhill.com. Features an online chat, and users can sign up to have the selected poem automatically delivered to their mailboxes daily. killdevilhill.com/poemday.shtml
A personal website devoted to poetry, these pages include several sections devoted to specific poets, a large selection of texts of favorite poems, essays on the reading, study and discussion of poems, and a small but discriminating selection of links to www.cswnet.com/~erin
A selection of poems about winter, snow, and ice from Charles Baudelaire, Yves Bonnefoy, John Hollander, Victor Hugo, Gail Mazur, Robert Pack, and Paul Verlaine. www.press.uchicago.edu/News/winterpoems.html
Website based on the University of Pennsylvania's online poetry course--includes lists of poetic terms as well as links to online poetry resources. www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html
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. unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/index.html
Poems in English, French, Arabic, German, some Russian, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew. Mostly by famous poets, mostly Marxist, revolutionary, or otherwise political. Classified by author, country, and date. www.geocities.com/marxist_lb
Poetry and some prose by vintage and young poets. The young poets are in the main a local group of West Wales based writers, with biographical information. www.geocities.com/dragonvalleypoetry
Poetry by well known poets, their biographies, and short stories by the site owner. Poets include Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Robert W. Service, Maya Angelou, and Anne Sexton. www.geocities.com/infinitum_poetry
A random walk through eight centuries of English-language verse, updated daily. Visitors can add their poems by email, and webmasters can link to individual poems. Indexed by poet and title. Illustrated. www.daypoems.net
An eclectic mix of poems from the classics to postmodern. Includes some biographical information and listing of selected poetry resources online. Suitable for children, young adults and adults. www.euronet.nl/users/jubo/poetry.html
An introduction to the reading of poetry, with short introductions to several well known modern poets and audio files with discussions or readings of their works. www.uvm.edu/~sgutman
Webzine and poetry resource offering original poems, essays, translations and links to alliterative poems, original medieval epics and verse romances. alliteration.net
Consists of a resource for writers and readers of poetry, emphasizing Asian and orientalizing forms such as cinquain, ghazal, haiku, renga, sijo and tanka. www.faximum.com/AHA!POETRY