Web Directory

» Against National Poetry Month As Such
   Poet and critic Charles Bernstein explains why National Poetry Month is bad for poetry.
   http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/044106.html

» Aristotle's Poetics
   Heavily annotated translation at the Perseus Project's website.
   http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Aabo%3Atlg%2C0086%2C034&query=1447a

» Bad Poetry
   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.
   http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/index.html

» Callaloo
   Journal of African and African-American writing containing original work by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.
   http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/index.html

» Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia
   A 1991 essay examining why poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America.
   http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/gioia/gioia.htm

» Criticizing the Poetry Slam by John Brady
   An article that examines the "free-for-all" atmosphere of performance poetry.
   http://eserver.org/bs/08/Brady.html

» Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Poetry
   A collection of poetry reviews. Authors reviewed include Ursula K. Le Guin and Robert Graves.
   http://dannyreviews.com/s/poetry.html

» DiversityBay: Book Reviews
   Reviews of gay writing coming out of Australia.
   http://members.tripod.com/~DiversityBay/books/page1.html

» Electronic Book Review
   An online literary review.
   http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev8/index.html

» It Is, As It's Elsewhere
   Report by Lynette Abel of a class given by Eli Siegel on the meaning of poetry. In it, he discusses Carl Sandburg's "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter."
   http://www.lynetteabel.org/Report-Sandburg.html

» Life, love, death, and poetry in the work of Brian Patten
   An essay on the work of Brian Patten, one of the Liverpool Poets.
   http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/patten.html

» Luminarium
   Collection of classical literary criticism on the Internet (1350 to 1660 A.D.)
   http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

» Metaphysical Reviews
   Poetry reviews by New Age author Richard Fuller.
   http://www.metarev.com/cat/poetry/

» Modern American Poetry
   Critical and historical essays and syllabi on modern American poetry. Many of the works relate to poems in the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
   http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/

» Online Literary Criticism Collection
   The Internet Public Library's database of literary criticism.
   http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

» Plagiarist.com Poetry Articles
   Articles about poets, poems, and poetry in general. Includes book reviews, student guides, and articles on writing poetry.
   http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/

» Poetry Snark
   Attacks on contemporary American poets.
   http://poetrysnark.blogspot.com/

» Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s
   An essay on the "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" by Steven Watson.
   http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/

» The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
   William Lyon Phelps, professor of English at Yale, looks at the change in poetry after the Victorian era, up until about 1918. British, Irish, and American poets are studied in this book.
   http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7930

» The Art of English Poetry
   Complete text of the work by Edward Bysshe, published 1702.
   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BysEngl.html

» The Genealogy of Postmodernism
   An essay by Albert Gelpi.
   http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/gelpi.html

» The Morning After
   An essay on today's poetry and how we feel about, the morning after National Poetry Month. At goodreports.net.
   http://www.goodreports.net/essays/themorningafter.htm

» Whose New American Poetry?
   Anthologizing in the nineties. An essay by Marjorie Perloff.
   http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/perloff/anth.html

» berniE-Zine: Rants, Raves & Reviews
   Book reviews by Bernadette "bernie" Geyer.
   http://rantsravesreviews.homestead.com/