Curated OER
Computers in the Classroom
Tenth graders identify and interpret modern poetry through exploration with guided instruction. Students use the Encarta Encylcopedia site to explore further modern poetry and locate poetry that inspires them. Students identify themes...
Cengage Learning
Heath Online: H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Even though this site is particularly designed for teachers, it provides good information to help students understand H. D.'s (1886-1961 CE) poetry. Focuses on putting her work in the context of her time.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Mona Van Duyn
In addition to biographical notes about Van Duyn, this site has four essays about her poetry, one by Van Duyn.
Other
The Poetry of John Haines
This introduction to a new collection of John Haines' poetry by poet and critic Dana Gioia surveys Haines' work and includes the poem, "The Flight."
Yale University
Open Yale Courses: Modern Poetry
Twenty-five lectures from Yale course, ENGL 310: Modern Poetry, with a syllabus, handouts, reading assignments, activities, and a final exam study guide. Lectures are available as text transcripts, audio, and video. Poets and topics...
Yale University
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Harriet Monroe and the "Imagists"
This excellent site pays tribute to Harriet Monroe, her works, and her contemporaries. Contains the history of the term, published in 1915.
PBS
Pbs: Poetry Everywhere
Part of a plan to move poetry more firmly into the public sphere, the Poetry Everywhere project offers readings of sixteen poems and animated interpretations of a dozen others. Some poems are read by their authors; others are read by...
Other
The Cortland Review: Billy Collins
The texts of the poems "I Ask You" and Neither Snow" are included at this site, along with the audio versions read by the author, Billy Collins. Also includes a brief summary of Collins' literary work.
Other
Lib.ru: Russian & World Poetry in Russian
Large online collection of Russian and world poetry, in Russian. Includes classics by English language poets like Dante, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Frost, Eliot, Ginsburg and a few by Russian-American poets. Helpful support for the upper...
Other
Dpa: Billy Collins "Introduction to Poetry"
The text of Collins' poem, "Introduction to Poetry," from his poetry collection The Apple That Astonished Paris. In this poem, he talks about the difference between the way he wants students to read poetry and the way they approach it.
Other
Billy Collins: "Dear Reader"
This site has the text of Collins' poem, "Dear Reader," from his poetry collection, The Art of Drowning.
The Washington Post
Washington Post: Robert Hass on Octavio Paz
In a Washington Post essay written the week of Paz' death, Hass discusses his work and presents one poem in translation, "Wind and Water and Stone."
The Washington Post
Washington Post: Poems by Theodore Roethke and Elizabeth Bishop
Poet laureate Robert Hass writes about the poetry form called villanelle and uses poems by Roethke and Bishop to demonstrate the form.
Other
Grace Interviews u.s. Poetrs Laureate: Howard Nemerov
This personal site provides an interview with Howard Nemerov, third poet laureate of the United States. Interviewer is Grace Cavalieri, and this is part of her PBS series on The Poet and the Poem. The subject matter spreads from the...
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: A Brief Guide to Modernism
Concise explanation of modernism as it applies to literature. It's mainly a discussion of the poetic movement of the early twentieth century, and it discusses many of the important figures of the era.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Billy Collins
An biography of Billy Collins is provided here. The site also provides information about 450 other American poets and their works.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: John Haines
This note on the poet John Haines includes an example of one of his verses.