Literature
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online: Bartleby lives up to its own proclamation of the preeminent publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web free of charge. You can select a genre: non-fiction, reference, fiction, or verse. You can search by title, author or subject. This is a gold mine for students and teachers with various kinds of literary assignments.
Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg puts thousands of books in electronic format available to anyone who has access to a computer. The goal was 10,000 books by the end of 2001. These files can be downloaded and used for free. What books will you find in Project Gutenberg? Authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Lewis Carroll. You can search by Author and/or Title words.
Poetry
The Writer's Almanac, a daily program of poetry and history hosted by Garrison Keillor, can be heard each day on public radio stations throughout the country. Each day's program is about five minutes long. Check your local radio listings for the station and time in your area. An entire year of almanac entries is available.
Poets' Corner: The editors state it is their mission to compile the largest, most diverse, and most accessible online collection of poetry in the world. The site has over 6,000 poems online by nearly 700 authors, comprehensive author, title/first line and subject indicies with a variety of additional features to increase interest or enhance ease of use.
National Poetry Month - The Academy of American Poets: This site brings together publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools, and poets around the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Visitors are encouraged to participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.
Poetry 180 - Home Page: Current U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, has designed this site to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year. Here are 180 poems specifically selected with high school students in mind.
Favorite Poem Project:The Poems: The archive now consists of fifty audio-visual documentaries which showcase individual Americans reading and speaking each about a particular poem they love. Robert Pinsky hopes for one more round of production that will make at least fifty more recordings.
Modern American Poetry Home: A companion to the text, the poets section includes excerpts from previously published analyses of poems, biographical information, relevant illustrations, manuscripts, drafts of poems, bibliographies, historical background, statements on poetics, interviews, etc. This is a great site for the study of poetry.
Maria Carillo Senior Poetry Project: This is a web site designed for MCHS seniors who are actively engaged in writing their own poems for and to each other and themselves. This project is an incredible learning and loving experience. The students always wish this project could go on forever. The site is interactive during the project in the fall and in readable format the rest of the year. You can read about this project in the December 2001 issue of the English Journal.
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