Poetry Archives

by L-C on January 14, 2005

The quest began with a simple request by a friend to help with her son’s homework assignment. There were choice fruits to be picked along the way.

Poets.org - Academy of American Poets web site

Poetry Archives at eMule.com - This is a classical poetry archive though

Poetry Daily - The urge to “tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it*” lessens when poetry arises freshly each day
*from Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

Poetry 180 - Library of Congress site - A Poem a Day for American High Schools

Poetry 4 Kids - Ken Nesbitt’s site for the “funniest poetry for children on the internet”. Kids can publish their own poems here, and there are rhyming and other resources for poets