Listed below are a variety of poetry web sites that you can explore while we are studying poetry in class. Have fun and remember to bring in any poems you would like to share in class.

By Topic
http://www.poemhunter.com/This is the best resource for finding poetry related to almost any topic. Their database contains 36,466 poems from 5,315 poets. Scroll down past the news headlines and there is a list of the top 500 poems and the top 500 poets. Or you can click on the Poem Text bubble (underneath the search bar), and then type in your topic or key words for which you would like to search.

http://www.night.net/tucker/poetry-archive.html-ssi “Grandpa Tucker’s Poetry Archive” has poems listed by themes – funny stuff, short stuff, school, summer, etc.

By Poet
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/6865/poetryprimary.html “Favourite Poetry” includes links to pages including poetry by different poets. Nikki Giovanni’s poems are here, so I’m partial to this site.

Kristine George: If you scroll about halfway down this page there is a section entitled “Read Some of the Poems From My Books.” There are selected poems here, and Miss Blake has several of these books in her room if you’re interested in reading more! You can also click on the cover of a book and find out what inspired Kristine O’Connell George to write those poems. A very fun site!

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poets/ Click on a poet, and from there you can choose from several of their poems.

By Title
www.favoritepoem.org/poems/index.html Not a huge list, but there are some good poems here. Click on the title of the poem to read it.

Funny Poems
http://www.night.net/tucker/poetry-archive.html-ssi “Grandpa Tucker’s Poetry Archive” has poems listed by themes – funny stuff, short stuff, school, summer, etc.

http://www.gigglepoetry.com Bruce Lansky’s website, these poems are usually funny but always a lot of fun to read! He has links to school poems, poems of the day, etc.

http://www.poetry4kids.com Ken Nesbitt’s website, these are once again mostly funny poems. Click on the “Cool Kids Poetry Links” for some other great poetry sites!

More Advanced
http://www.poets.org/poems/: This site has over 1200 poems and is a good place to start your search. You may search for a poem by first line or by poet name. Most of the poems are of a high quality.

http://eserver.org/poetry The EServer Poetry Collection has a solid list of poems, listed by poet. Many of them are very well known although not always so easy to read. These are for more advanced poetry seekers.

General Search Engines
If you know a line of a poem but not the title or author, you can type it into one of these search engines and it might ‘magically’ appear! (Put the line, or part of the line, in quotation marks in the search box to make sure it searches for the whole line rather than just a few words.)

http://www.onekey.com Student Friendly version of Google.

http://www.yahooligans.com Student Friendly version of Yahoo!

http://www.kidsclick.org Organized by theme, look under “Literature” and click on the “poetry” link.

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