| Site: Academy of American Poets |
| Webauthor: the Academy of American Poets |
| URL: http://www.poets.org |
| As a site for eliciting membership, the Academy of American Poets web site is also a valuable repository of information about American poets, including the famous and not so famous, and their works. A quick click on the "Find a Poet" link will produce an index of hundreds of names of choose from. Each poet link as a biography, bibliography of primary works and a listing of other links on the internet concern that figure. Some primary texts of poems are also available. There are historical and thematic "Poetry Exhibits" intent on "showcasing American poetry in the Twentieth Century." Two of the best of the current exhibits are on the Modernist Revolution and the Harlem Renaissance. Also available at this site are lively discussion forums, "The Listening Booth," with RealAudio sound clips of poems read aloud, and an online poetry classroom project. The page has a search engine for rapid location of specific information. |
| Site: The Academy of American Poets' Poetry Exhibits |
| Webauthor: the Academy of American Poets |
| URL: http://www.poets.org/exh/index.cfm |
| This site makes a great starting place for exploring almost all of America's best know poets. The site provides many of its own resources and carefully catalogs the best of the related sites on the Web for each of the authors it covers. The site also offers many detailed exhibits, ranging from historical sections covering the Harlem Renaissance or Modernism, to thematic sections covering love, children, grief and work, to name several. Unlike many sites that offer primary resources for poets whose work is already in the public domain, the Poetry Exhibits also feature twentieth-century poets and reprint with permission some of their best know works. Especially exciting are audio files, such as Robert Lowell reading "The Public Garden," or Wallace Stevens reciting his "The Idea of Order at Key West." |