California State University, Northridge
College of Arts, Media, and Communication
Department of Communication Studies

Christie Logan, Ph.D.

COMS 304: Poetry in Performance

Poetry Resources Online

If you don’t have much exposure to poetry, here are some suggestions for places to look:

check out these online sources:

The Poetry Society of America (PSA)http://www.poetrysociety.org has several projects to link to:
The PSA inaugurated POETRY IN MOTION® in New York in 1992 and has since expanded the program to numerous cities from coast to coast. The program, which places poems in buses and subways, currently reaches over 10 million Americans on a daily basis.

The Def Poetry Jam website offers more than merchandise - events calendars, poetry contests & news, etc.

Check out the Favorite Poem Project, a compendium of folks reading their favorite poems: Click “poems” for the written texts

The Poetry Archives at Emule.com http://www.emule.com/poetry/

The Eserver Poetry connection is at http://eserver.org/poetry/

The Electronic Poetry Center is at http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/

Poetry in the Arts has a great listing of poetry journals and ezines.

Poets & Writers is still the most reputable of the commercial writing magazines out there and they have a range of writing resources on the website.

Poetry Flash is a "Poetry Review and Literary Calendar for the West" that features California poets and has a current calender of readings here and in SF.

The Academy of American Poets is a rich site with lots of resources, including a search function for poets and poems. Also offers new writings and a calendar of events. Covers special events, especially on and around Poetry Month [April].

Other online resources below will give you information on poems, styles, compendia of poems -- lots to find

About Poetry - you can search their database by poet, by poem title, by theme (e.g. poems on war, on love, etc.), by era.  There are also sections on reading/studying poetry, writing poetry, in addition to interviews with and biographies of poets.

Poetry Online in Ezines & Magazines

Los Angeles/Southern California Poets - a listing is available through Poets.org; you can search for poets from any state.

SFSU: The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives offers a searchable catalog of audio and video recordings of poets performing.  Their Links
section includes literary journals, and many grants available to poets.

Internet Poetry Archive

Find a Poet: the all-poetry encyclopedia

Poets' Corner - "one of the largest and oldest text resources on the web."  Searchable database, great for browsing.


This page created & maintained by Christie Logan, Ph.D.
Last update: January 8, 2010.