Creative Writing

For Better for Verse: An interactive learning tool that can help you understand what makes metered poetry in English tick.

The University of North Carolina Press joins the UNC Office of Information Technology in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive. The archive makes available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts.

The Library of Congress promotes poetry and literature year-round through our online and in-person programs, our honors and prizes, and our ambassadors.

MAPS was initially created in 1999 at the University of Illinois as a companion site to the first edition of the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford UP, 2000). The anthology contains poems by hundreds of different modern and contemporary poets, including several poets—among them women, minorities, and progressives—who previously had not been published in anthology form.

The idea for the Museum of American Poetics (MAP) began upon the death of American poet Allen Ginsberg on April 5, 1997. Jim Cohn, a poet and former teaching assistant to Mr. Ginsberg at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, had a dream the night Ginsberg died that much of the wisdom and compassion found in the growingly diverse demotic lineages of U.S. poetry would be dissipated under the influx of the Big Data Age.

PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.

Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry. Each day, we bring you a new poem from new books, magazines, and journals. Below, learn more about our mission, the partnership between the Daily Poetry Association and George Mason University, our selection guidelines and how you can subscribe to our daily e-mail newsletter.

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.

Poets House seeks to document the wealth and diversity of modern poetry, to stimulate dialogue on issues of poetry in culture, and to cultivate a wider audience for the art.

Verse Daily is a poetry daily on the worldwide web. By republishing one new poem a day from fine literary magazines and books, Verse Daily promotes poets and their publishers while providing a wealth of excellent poetry to the public free of charge. Verse Daily makes its selections from review copies of all magazines and books it receives. With each poem republished on Verse Daily appears information about the poet and the publisher, including how to purchase the book or subscribe to the publication.