Research Guides: Poetry: Open Access

Poetry Websites

Bartleby
A free, online website that contains anthologies, collected works, and poetry volumes. A good source if you are looking for older poems.
Poet Laurate
Poetry Archive
A place you can find recordings of poems read by different poets.
Poetry Foundation
The official website for the magazine Poetry.
Poetry Out Loud
A poetry contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
Poets.org
A website of the Academy of American Poets. A good resource for poets' biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings. A great place to look for recent verses.
Presidents as Poets: Poetry Written by United States Presidents
A guide made by the Library of Congress about United States Presidents who write poems.