This list comprises a selection of materials available in our Library Media Center. Search the library catalog (OPAC) for additional print materials.  

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REFERENCE SOURCES (a sampling)

Websites: 

Online Poetry Classroom  This site is a program from the Academy of Poets. It offers teachers, students, and poetry lovers a vast collection of ALL things related to poetry. Discover biographies of hundreds of poets, as well as examples of their work.

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html 

Uniondale High School Library Media Center's  poetry links (Backflip websites)

World's Best Poetry offers 85,000 full-text poems, critical and explanatory essays, biographies of poets, pictures, a glossary, and study guides. As part of the library's database collection, you will need to log in to access this information.

http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

• Academy of American Poets This comprehensive website provides poems, literary links, a listening booth, info on poetry awards and much more!
   
• Anthology Arizona-based poetry magazine. Click on Contests and Events for poetry-related activities.
   
• Bartleby Verse One of the largest free collections of verse on the web!
   
• Poetry 180 A poem a day for America's high schools. Read a new poem every day of the school year.
   
• Magnetic Poetry A virtual version of the popular refrigerator game.
   
• Poets' Corner Large collection of poems which can be searched by author, subject, title or fist line.
   
• Shakespearean Homework Helper Link to Shakespearean resources and ask questions.  This site is being expanded, so there is much more to come.

http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/anp/index.html

http://www.poets.org/index.cfm

http://www.resourcehelp.com/qserpoet.htm

HAIKU

• Another Attempt to Define Haiku - a detailed article, but full of good info, on haiku and forms of poetry that came before it.
  
• Children's Haiku Garden - take a look at haiku poems and drawings submitted by kids.
  
• Haiku for People - explains what makes this form of poetry unique and gives some examples.
  
• History of Haiku - includes info and examples of haiku during the 15th and 16th centuries to the present.
  
• Japanese Haiku - read some student haiku written as part of their study of Japan.
  
• Try Your Hand at Haiku - learn about this Japanese form of poetry, read some samples, and submit your own.
  
• http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku5.htm
  
• http://www.hsa-haiku.org/index.htm -Haiku Society of America website.
  
• http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku4.htm Teaching Haiku poetry.
  
• http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=250
  
• http://www.haiku.com/reference.html
  
• http://www.jocolibrary.org/index.asp?DisplayPageID=810
  
• http://www.dpsk12.org/programs/almaproject/pdf/HaikuandBeyond.pdf
  
• http://www.zenhaiku.com/archives/mapping_the_web_sites.html

OTHER WEBSITES

• Favorite Poem Project - this fantastic project has audio and video of people reading their favorite poems, and invites readers to send in their favorite poems with a few sentences about why it is special to them.
• Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky - learn how to write a poem that Jack will publish! Includes poetry writing tips, a huge collection of students' writing, Jack's biography, and sound clips of his poems.
  
• Academy of American Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks - check out info about this poet's life, and listen to her read We Real Cool.
• James Weldon Johnson Facts - profile and examples of his work, from the Academy of American Poets.
• Listen & Write - find out how rap is like poetry, learn about wonderwords and similes, write and send in your own poems, or read the work of other kids.
• Poetry and Music of the War Between the States - great collection of songs and poetry from the Union and the Confederacy. Includes sound clips.
• Selected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar - listen to the RealAudio clips of several poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet.
• http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/world_literature -features poetry web sites.

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