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Return to Home Page Poems from well known children's poets, as well as many, many links to pages featuring poems written by schoolage children. Advice, articles, interviews, links, and forums for young writers. Information about online and offline writing groups, associations, workshops, and markets for young writers. YI have a set of magnets on my fridge at home-- they are very hard to resist-- and they are a wonderful way to help people introduce themselves to poetry! Poetry Pals K-12 Student Poetry Publishing Project �An educational project for encouraging the development of literacy, technology skills, and global communication through internet publishing and access to student poetry from around the world.� The Web site for the acclaimed PBS series on American poets. This site contains biographical information on all the poets featured, and has lots of good links to poet sites. For example, you can "tour" Emily Dickinson's family home and browse through her letters and poems, or listen to Langston Hughes reading his "Toast to Harlem" poem. Here are the folks who invented National Poetry Month! The largest organization in the United States dedicated specifically to the art of poetry, the Academy sponsors poets and programs across the country. Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry, which each day brings visitors a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print. Poems are chosen from the work of a wide variety of poets published in the English language. Famous poets are represented in the selections, but also poets who are less well known. The organizers of Poetry Daily write: "Our purpose is to make it easier for people to find poets and poetry they like and to help publishers bring news of their books, magazines and journals to more people ... we will [also] give you a daily poem to carry with you through your day and to share with others." Web-based projects at this site include the Cybpheranthology of Discontiguous Literatures the Machine Made of Words online gallery, the WrEyeTings Scratchpad laboratory for computer-based visual poetries, and TapRoot Reviews, which contains reviews of hundreds of poetry and literary micropress publications. Burning Press has also published over 75 books of poetry, by nationally known authors as well as Cleveland poets. Worth exploring! Go! Poetry, accessible via Pseudo.com GO! Poetry produces live theatre and poetry events, many presented in RealAudio. They also have a page featuring poems by young people. Visit GO! Poetry via Pseudo.com, then select GO! Poetry via their pull-down menu. The National Poetry Association "The NPA's mission is to promote poets and poetry to wider audiences by all possible means. Serving both the literary community and the general public, the NPA offers a variety of programs, publications, videos, special live events, and multimedia festivals." --www.books.com-- poetry page
Very cool site-- lots of bells and whistles.
This is a misnomer-- there is a LOT of poetry on this site!
Really psychoscientific chaotically beautiful splendifourous nonsense.
A valuable service, compiled and authors by Professor Michael Eiichi Hishikawa
Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, Japan.
Cool site about Garrison Keillor and the "Prairie Home Companion"
Send a friend poetry postcards via e-mail, courtesy of the
Poetry in Motion project. Some of the postcards are even in RealAudio format, for a real interactive treat!
The Mining Company Guide to Creative Writing for Kids An inviting and informative site with articles, practical tips, chats, bulletin boards, an excellent collection of links, and more. Includes a substantial links page. �Created by a 15 year old who is interested in writing and reading poetry. Positively Poetry is designed for children from the ages of 5 to 15 to share their artistic abilities in writing poetry with people around the world ... Children can send their poems to Positively Poetry and all work will be displayed for people on the Internet to view.� |