Monthly Top Ten Websites
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http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry Magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
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http://poetry.eserver.org/ Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary.
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http://www.loc.gov/poetry/ Library of Congress poetry resources including poems, poetry readings, poetry news and events, and information about U.S. poet laureates.
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www.poetryarchive.org/ The Poetry Archive is an ever expanding archive of poets reading their own work.
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www.bartleby.com/verse With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse, poems and poetry anthologies on the web.
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famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets_african_american.html Here you will find African American poets such as Rita Dove, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes and other Famous and Contemporary Black poets.
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www.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/afampoet.htm African-American poetry of the nineteenth century : an anthology / edited by Joan R. Sherman. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1992.
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www.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/afr_am_poetry.shtml
This database is an invaluable resource for not only literary scholars but also researchers in black studies, linguistics, women's studies, the black literary heritage, and comparative studies.
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www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/africam1.htm Text of an exhibition about African American Poetry at the University of Delaware Library.
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www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=400&resourceId=11 Includes poetry by both well-known and lesser-known African-American poets from 1760-1900.
