American Poets: Reference Works
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945
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The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years. - The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. - The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry provides a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics include: the influence of jazz on beat poetry, surrealist influences on American verse, disability poetics, Asian American poetry, and more.
The poem is you : 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them by The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today. It presents a wide range of poems selected by Burt for this volume, each accompanied by an original essay explaining how a given poem works, why it matters, and how the poem speaks to other parts of art and culture.
American Poets: Web Sites
- Academy of American PoetsBiographies, bibliographies, and poems from a wide range of American poets, including audio recordings.
- Library of Congress Poetry ResourcesThis site is a comprehensive guide to locating poetry resources available on the Library of Congress's Web site.
- Poetry FoundationPoems, poetry news, and the entire 100-year archive of POETRY magazine (including audio recordings).
- Poetry Society of AmericaThe Poetry Society of America places poetry at the crossroads of American life. The PSA transforms public spaces into sites for imaginative encounters with poems, engages diverse and often underserved communities, amplifies the voices of poets around issues of common concern, and honors their aesthetic contributions to our lives.
- United States Poets Laureate Research GuidesEach guide offers an overview of the activities of the poet laureate during his or her tenure, and provides access to press releases, webcasts, blog posts, and a wealth of other resources through the Library's website and elsewhere on Web documenting the laureate's work.
- University of Arizona Poetry CenterThe Poetry Center is a leading literary institution and a living archive of poetry. As a premier example of a thriving public/private partnership, the Poetry Center connects the University of Arizona with the greater literary community in Tucson and beyond.