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Websites of Interest to Poets

(From Poet’s Market)

The Internet can be a useful tool for crafting and publishing poetry. Doing searches for specific forms of poetry will bring up many sites catering to your forms of choice. The following list can be used as a starting point for investigating pertinent websites for poets. We have broken them into four categories: The Business, The Organizations, The Search, and The Craft.

THE BUSINESS

IRS: http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/basic/cover.html

Information, forms and publications, plus comments and help.

U.S. Copyright Office: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/

General information and forms you can print.

THE ORGANIZATIONS

The following websites contain information about the organization, list poetry awards and

contests, and provide links to other literary resources, conferences and workshops.

The Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org

A Poet Born: http://www.apoetborn.com/

The International Organization of Performing Poets: http://www.slamnews.com/iopp.htm

Poets & Writers: http://www.pw.org

Poetry Society of America: http://www.bookwire.com/psa/psa.html

Teachers & Writers Collaborative: http://www.twc.org

Zuzu’s Petals Organizations of Interest: http://www.lehigh.net/zuzu/wrt-org.htm

THE SEARCH

The following are search directories providing literary links.

Electronic Poetry Center: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/

Factsheet Five—Electric ‘Zines!: http://www.factsheet5.com

John Hewitt’s Writer’s Resource: http://www.azstarnet.com/~poewar/writer/writer.html

John Labovitz’s e-zine-list: http://www.meer.net/-johnl/e-zine-list

The Poetry Exchange: http://www.w3px.com

The Poetry Forum World Wide Registry: http://www.poetryforum.org/registry.htm

Poetry Today Online: http://www.poetrytodayonline.com

Writer’s Resources: http://www.arcana.com/shannon/writing.html

Writers Write tm -The Write Resource~: http://www.writerswrite.com/

THE CRAFT

These sites can serve as a source of inspiration when creating your poetry.

Alan Cooper’s Homonym List: http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html

The Albany Poetry Workshop: http://www.sonic.net/poetry/albany/

JavaScript Vocabulary Stretchers: http://www.netnet.net/~jgales/game1.html

Richard Lederer ‘s Verbivore Page: http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/index.htm

Rhetorical Figures: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html

Rhyming Dictionary: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html

A Word a Day: http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

The Word Wizard: http://wordwizard.com/