FIND A POEM September 25, 2008
Posted by Ms. Klemundt in Help with Assignments.trackback
For students in Mrs. Martin’s English I classes, here are some suggestions about how to find a poem for your assignment.
You can find poems in anthologies (collections of poems by many different authors) or books of poetry by just one poet. If you want to browse the shelves of the Res Library (or another library), look under these call numbers:
- 808 (collections of poetry)
- 811 (American poetry)
- 821 (English poetry)
- 841 (French poetry)
- 861 (Spanish poetry)
Remember to look at all of the 811s for American poetry: 811.3, 811.54, etc. The same is true for the other call numbers as well. If you want to search a library’s catalog, try doing a Subject Search for “Poetry” or “American poetry” or “Lyric Poetry,” “Haiku,” or other styles of poetry.
Here are some books from the Res Library you might want to look at:
- The Norton Anthology of Poetry, shorter 5th ed. (821.008 NOR)
- The Oxford Book of American Poetry (811.008 OXF)
- Columbia Anthology of American Poetry; edited by Jay Parini (811.008 COL)
- The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (821.008 NOR)
- A Treasury of Great Poems, English and American; selected by Louis Untermeyer (811 TRE)
- Good Poems; selected by Garrison Keillor (811.008 GOO)
- 100 Great Poems of the 20th Century; edited by Mark Strand (821.9 ONE)
- Poetry 180; edited by Billy Collins (811.6 POE)
- 180 More; edited by Billy Collins (811.6 ONE)
- Cool Salsa : Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States; edited by Lori M. Carlson (811.008 COO)
- Peeling the Onion : An Anthology of Poems; selected by Ruth Gordon (808.81 PEE)
- The Sonnets : Poems of Love; by William Shakespeare (822.32 SHA)
- The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (811.54 SAN)
- A Maze Me : Poems for Girls; by Naomi Shihab Nye (811.54 NYE)
- The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (811.4 DIC)
- Leaves of Grass; by Walt Whitman (811.3 WHI)
Here are some web sites with poetry. These are the links to the sites listed on your handout:
- Poetry 180 (http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180)
- Representative Poetry Online (http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca)
- American Verse Project (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
- American Academy of Poets (http://www.poets.org)
- Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/)
- Poetry Archives (http://www.emule.com/poetry/)
- Poetry Daily (http://www.poetrydaily.org)
- Bartleby Verse : American and English Poetry, 1250-1920 (http://www.bartleby.com/verse/)
- Famous Poets and Poems (but beware the annoying pop-ups on this site) (http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com)
- Sonnet Central (http://www.sonnets.org)
- The Walt Whitman Archive (http://www.whitmanarchive.org)
- Internet Poetry Archive (http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/)
- Canadian Poetry Archive (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canvers/)
- Poets’ Corner (http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/)
- Cowboy Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch (http://www.cowboypoetry.com)
- The Swinburne Archive (http://swinburnearchive.indiana.edu/swinburne/www/swinburne/)
- Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org)
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