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If We Must Eat Escargot With Plastic Sporks
If we must eat escargot with plastic sporks In starred restaurants, where boys snort at our fare While round us they use ruby knives and forks To scrape Bazooka bubblegum from their chairs If we eat snails oh let us nobly munch So that ten-cents-a-spork be not in vain We…
Poet’s Paradise: A Collection of Helpful Resources
Amsterdam Printing, a maker of personalized pens and similar products, maintains this link directory of literary organizations and reference sites for students and teachers of writing
NewPages
News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more
Claire Mongeau
I am a high school student at a parochial school in Rochester, NY. Besides writing poems, I enjoy running, theater, music, and traveling. I have won several local awards including a library poetry contest and the Susan B. Anthony public speaking contest and essay contest. I have also been published…
Irish Writers Online
Bio-bibliographic database of over 500 classic and contemporary Irish writers, plus an impressive variety of links to authors’ websites, booksellers, publishers, and other literary resources
Electronic Poetry Center
Links to dozens of small presses and literary journals that publish poetry, plus selected poets’ webpages and historic documents, with a particular interest in experimental, postmodern and “language poetry”
Youth Speaks
A leading youth poetry and spoken word program
Tips for a Good Poetry Reading
This post from award-winning poet Diane Lockward’s blog offers sound advice for poets, hosts, and audience members
The Poetic Voice
Poetry podcast from educational publisher Houghton Mifflin features contemporary poets such as Donald Hall, Alan Shapiro and Natasha Trethewey reading and discussing their work
The Pedestal Magazine
Online journal of poetry, fiction, reviews, and artwork, edited by poet and songwriter John Amen
The Moth: True Stories Told Live
The Moth is a NYC-based literary organization and performance space dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling
The Drum
Published 10 times a year, The Drum is an online literary journal that features short fiction, essays, novel excerpts, and interviews, exclusively in audio form
Taylor Mali
Poetry slam champion and teachers’ advocate Taylor Mali is also a driving force behind the award-winning Urbana Poetry Slam team, which performs every Tuesday night at the famed Bowery Poetry Club in New York City
Slam News Service
Keep track of upcoming poetry slams and bouts across the US and the world
Six Video Poems at Poets & Writers
Multimedia presentations of poems by Anne Carson, Thylias Moss, and Aaron Fagan add new dimensions to the spoken word through interpretive dance, music, and graphics
Quiddity: International Literary Journal & Public-Radio Program
Quiddity is a literary journal published by Springfield College-Benedictine University in Illinois
Poetryvlog.com
Video archive of contemporary poets reading their own work features a new short video every week
Poetry.LA
Online video showcase of over 150 poets reading their work at various venues in Southern California
Poetry Series on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
PBS and the Poetry Foundation collaborated on this series of broadcasts featuring short-form profiles on living American poets and long-form segments on current debates in poetry
Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Project
This joint venture of the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts awards over $100,000 in scholarships annually to high school students for memorizing and performing classic poems
Periodically Speaking
Presented at the New York Public Library and co-sponsored by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, this reading series showcases poets and prose writers from influential literary magazines, introduced by their editors
PD Info: Royalty Free Music
This archive of sound clips in various genres, from the website of the Public Domain Information Project, can help you enhance podcasts or other audiovisual recordings of your creative writing
Online School of Poetry
New venture seeks to bridge the worlds of literary academia and slam poetry
National Jukebox
This project at the Library of Congress makes historic recordings of popular and classical music and spoken-word performances available online
MotionPoems
MotionPoems features short, evocative, professionally produced videos that dramatize the poems being read on the soundtrack
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
This annual celebration of Massachusetts poets and small presses is held every October
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam
This Cambridge, Mass. nightclub offers a poetry slam open mike followed by featured readers and jazz band every Sunday evening
Live Hope Love
Kwame Dawes, the University of South Carolina’s poet-in-residence, launched this multimedia site to chronicle the experiences of HIV patients and caregivers in Jamaica
Karla K. Morton
This Texas-based poet’s book/CD combo, ‘Wee Cowrin’ Timorous Beastie’, is a 17th-century Scottish epic story, written in rhyme, and set to an original musical score by the Juno award-winning Canadian composer, Howard Baer
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Blog
This blog from the sponsor of the renowned Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival features video clips of readings by major contemporary poets (see the “Poetry Fridays” sidebar link), plus news about other cultural programs that the Dodge Foundation sponsors in New Jersey and beyond
Oh Husband! My Husband!
O Husband! my Husband! our peaceful sleep is done; The squall that shook our very rack, resounds from Nature's gun; The hound has fled, much hair was shed, the bedding ripped asunder, While there you lay, a' slumber'd keel, oblivious to the thunder: But O fart! fart! fart! O legume…
From the Fishouse
Audio archive of emerging poets features text and recordings of work by dozens of contemporary writers as diverse as Matthea Harvey, Leslie McGrath, Tyehimba Jess, and Xochiquetzal Candelaria
Folded Word
Independent literary press with a special interest in adapting short written works into a variety of electronic media
Dodge Poetry Festival YouTube Channel
This YouTube channel features videos of readings and performances from the renowned Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, held biennially since 1986 in northern New Jersey
Coffee House to Go
ESC! Magazine’s monthly podcast for writers and the small press community offers readings of poetry, short fiction, interviews and reviews as well as featured music from independent bands and musicians
Clips: The Video Blog at Poets & Writers
A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily
Maggie Miner
Sometime during the Stone Age I received my BA in English (conferred with honors—Lambda Iota Tau—an International Honor Fraternity of Students of Literature). After graduation, I discovered that a reading knowledge of Middle English wasn't a terribly marketable skill, so I joined the work force and put aside my love…
Button Poetry
Founded by National Poetry Slam champion Sam Cook, Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of distribution, promotion and fundraising for performance poetry
Oops! I Donne It Again
Britney, be not proud, though some have called thee Blonde and talented, for thou art neither thing; Those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Mariah, Christina, unlike you can both dance and sing! Young teenage girls who wish like you to be Preen and pose to taped karaoke song, And…
Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge
Poetry slam open mike and featured readers can be enjoyed every Wednesday night at this Cambridge, Mass. club
Billy Collins Action Poetry
Delightful short animated films in which former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poems out loud as accompanying images illustrate his words
Audio Archives from the Academy of American Poets
Beginning with John Berryman’s historic first reading of The Dream Songs on Halloween night, 1963, the Academy of American Poets has presented and recorded over 700 poetry readings, lectures, and symposia, making the Poetry Audio Archive one the world’s richest aural records of poetry
Your Daily Poem
This growing archive of accessible contemporary and classic poetry will deliver a poem to your email inbox daily, weekly, or monthly
Verse Daily
Similar to Poetry Daily
The Writer’s Almanac
A daily program of poetry and history hosted by Garrison Keillor, suffused with his characteristic nostalgia and humor
The University of Texas at Austin - UT Library Online
This large page of links to etexts shows what a wealth of classic literature is available free online
Misty Massey
By light of day I'm a library assistant in a middle school, but when the sun goes down I become…da da da dum! A novelist! I finished my first book a year ago, and it's currently wandering around New York searching for a home.
The Post Office Poems
This blog is an interactive, ongoing poetry project highlighting Fall City, Washington, and the Snoqualmie Valley, written by an anonymous author and posted weekly on the bulletin board at the Fall City Post Office
The Poem Tree
This outstanding site reprints contemporary and traditional poetry, with an emphasis on formal (metered) verse
The NUB: Indie Arts Hub
The NUB is an app for iPhone and Android smartphones that provides a stream of independent arts and culture content from across North America directly to readers 5 times per week
