Literature: Poetry

From The Poetry Foundation.

An excellent collection of over 500 poet biographies, 1,400 poems and 100 audio clips.

Information on the life and work of each poet who has been designated Poet Laureate from 1986 to the present, and for earlier years (1935-1985), when the position was called Consultant in Poetry.

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The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.

Their mission is to build a larger and more diverse audience for poetry.

Full text of every sonnet, with descriptive commentary providing explanations of difficult and unfamiliar words and phrases.

With tens of thousands of poems by thousands of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest and oldest free full-text collections of verse on the web.