National Recitation Contest. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.

This is a place for poems, essays, stories, book reviews, and other materials that I've written—plus a few surprises.

Switchback is a publication of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program of the University of San Francisco. Switchback publishes fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and critical essays and displays visual art. An issue's theme presents a platform from which to investigate writing from contrasting points of view.

An application that illustrates your poem from Flickr images.

Voices & Visions, a video series from Annenberg Media, explores the lives and works of 13 of America's most famous modern poets. Learn more about these poets by visiting Web sites that explore their lives and works.

An introduction to the principal collection of Elizabeth Bishop Papers, housed at Vassar College. Provides bibliographies, links to other collections of Bishop papers and to related websites, and information about the Bishop societies.

The Favorite Poem Project is dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry’s role in Americans’ lives.

I watched this last night and it is nothing short of amazing. Anyone who loves poetry or American history must watch this film.

The Walt Whitman Archive is a scholarly resource co-directed by Dr. Ed Folsom (U. Iowa) and Dr. Kenneth M. Price (U Nebraska-Lincoln).

The official web-site for Ted Kooser, 13th Poet Laureate of the United States. View poems, read his biography, and check his latest press attention.

The Knowledgerush.com book directory is a catalog of free books available on the internet. It's a community effort and we're hoping that you can contribute by helping us find and categorize books.

The blog for the now defunct poetry magazine Samizdat.

dancing girl press, an indie publisher, was founded in 2004 to publish and promote the work of women poets through chapbooks, journals, and anthologies.

Poets & Writers is the primary source of information, support and guidance for creative writers.

Haiku.

An independent publisher of feminist poetry.

An audio archive of emerging poets.

Shel Silverstein's children's books, stories, poetry, illustrations, fun activities for kids, and teaching resources.

Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

Search thousands of poems by theme, occasion, and subject in our poetry archive; and read poet biographies, poetry news, comics, and articles about poets and poetry.

Guernica is a magazine of art and politics.

A resource from the Academy of American Poets with thousands of poems, essays, biographies, weekly features, and poems for love and every occasion

Poems from different poets all around the world. Thousands of poems and poets. Search for poems and poets using the Poetry Search Engine..