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Poetry

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Norton Poets Online
If you love poetry, be sure to stop here. You'll find poet profiles, selected poems, and links to additional resources about poets. You can even listen to poets reading their works! Poets include: Rita Dove, Maxine Kumin, May Sarton, e.e. cummings, Hart Crane, and Seamus Heaney.
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Poets.org
At this site from the American Academy of Poets you can visit the listening booth to hear poets reading their works, read biographies and representative works for over 450 poets, join a discussion forum, or find out what poetry activities are happening in your area. Featured poets include: Donald Hall, Maya Angelou, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Burns, e.e. cummings, Nikki Giovanni, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Maxine Kumin, Amy Lowell, and Carl Sandburg.
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Poetry Archive
Pull up a chair and listen to contemporary poets and poets from the past read their poems. The site even has live readings! Be sure to check out the Children's Poetry Archive featuring poets reading poems for kids!
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300 Tang Poems
Here is another site with English translations of poems from the Tang Dynasty.
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Classical Chinese Poetry
This site has English translations of classic Chinese poems organized by poet and poetry readings.
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Online Video

Voices and Visions
The lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatic readings, archival photographs, dance, performances, and interviews. Source: Annenberg Media


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