Academy of American Poets Comprehensive and lively, this website features poetry icons and emerging poets. A wide resource for poems, biographies, audio, and pictures of authors. http://www.poets.org/index.cfm African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture sponsors this collection of electronic texts which represent the writers who founded the African American women's literary tradition. A growing selection of poetry, fiction, biography/autobiography, and essays are available in full text. http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/ American Verse Project A full text, electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. This project represents a collaboration between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and the University of Michigan Press. http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/ Poet's House A superb Poetry library located in New York City. Visit the link to get directions and do some onsite research at the largest and only complete poetry collection in the United States. http://poetshouse.org/about.htm Poetry Magazine The original and comprehensive magazine featuring new poets each month. Provides information for publishing and chapbook contests. http://www.poetrymagazine.org/ The Poetry Society of America The primiere United States poetry website showcasing various multimedia projects dedicated to the tradition of poetry. Find information about chapbook contests, poetry events, and access information about the PSA journal "Crossroads." http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa.html Project Gutenberg: Fine Literature Digitally Re-Published Online editions of nearly 2,000 public domain literary works, religious texts, and reference books. http://www.gutenberg.org/ Representative Poetry On-line Over 2,350 public domain poems by 368 English-language poets from the early Medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century are reprinted on this Web site. Each poem is indexed by title, author, first line, date, and keyword. http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm Top