Poetry Resources at the Springfield City Library |
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Browsing Published Poetry in Print
Circulating volumes are shelved in Rice Hall; new acquisitions are shelved in the Rotunda.
808.81 |
General collections |
811.1 – 811.6 |
American poetry |
811.54 / 811.6 |
American poetry post-1945 |
821 - 822 |
English poetry |
831 |
German poetry |
841 |
French poetry |
851 |
Italian poetry |
861 |
Spanish poetry |
871 - 873 |
Latin poetry |
881 - 882 |
Classical Greek poetry |
891.71 |
Russian poetry |
892.71 |
Arabic poetry |
895.9221 |
Vietnamese poetry |
895.1 |
Chinese poetry |
Selected Collections:
- Aloud : voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe / edited by Miguel Algarín and Bob Holman, 1994.
- 811.5408086 ALOUD
- Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, 2004.
- 808.81 BARTLETT
- American Religious Poems: An Anthology by Harold Bloom, 2006.
- 811.0080382 AMERICAN
- The Best American poetry [annual series].
- 811.5408 BEST
- Bum rush the page : a Def Poetry Jam/ edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera, 2001.
- 811.608 BUM RUSH
- An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology / edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz, 2004.
- 808.81 INVITATI
- The language of life : a festival of poets / Bill Moyers, 1995.
- 811.5409 M874l
- The Oxford Book of American Poetry / chosen and edited by David Lehman, 2006.
- 811.008 OXFORD 2006
- The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry / edited by Jeffrey Paine, 2000.
- 808.81045 POETRY O
- The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men / Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade, editors, 1992.
- 808.810081 R126
- The Vintage book of African American poetry / edited and with an introduction by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton, 2000.
- 811.0080896 VINTAGE
- Words for the Hour: A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry / edited by Faith Barrett and Cristanne Miller, 2005.
- 811.0080358 WORDS
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See also the S.C.L. booklist:
“Collections of Love Poetry”
Periodicals
Current issues in the Periodicals Room; back issues in the STACKS
- Massachusetts Review:
- an independent quarterly of literature, the arts, and public affairs.
- Poetry:
- International journal of poetry and commentary; published monthly by the Poetry Foundation.
Selected Resources For Writers and Readers
Browse at Dewey # 808.1
- Poet's guide : how to publish and perform your work / Michael J. Bugeja, 1995.
- 808.1 B865p
- Fooling with words : a celebration of poets and their craft / [interviews by] Bill Moyers, 1999.
- 808.1 FOOLING
- How to read a poem : and fall in love with poetry / Edward Hirsch, 1999.
- 808.1 HIRSCH How to r
- Poetry matters : writing a poem from the inside out / Ralph Fletcher, 2002.
- 808.1 FLETCHER
- The discovery of poetry : a field guide to reading and writing poems / Frances Mayes, 2001.
- 808.1 MAYES
- The poet's companion : a guide to the pleasures of writing poetry / Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, 1997.
- 808.1 ADDONIZI
Reference Works
Shelved in Wellman Hall.
- Poet's market / Edited by Jerome Judson .
- 808.025 POETS 2005
A comprehensive guide to more than 1,800 publishing opportunities, contests, organizations, and more.
- Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry.
- 016.82 G76 1993
Find poems by title, author, subject, first or last line.
- Contemporary poets.
- 821.910903 CONTEMPO 2001.
This volume is also available online via the Gale Virtual Reference Library. - Critical survey of poetry : English language series, 1982.
821.009 C869 v. 1-8
- Poetry criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature.
- 809.1 POETRY
Online Resources
Accessed via the Springfield City Library Database page:
- American Poetry Review (Expanded Academic Index)
- full text since 1993.
- Contemporary Poets , 7 th ed., 2001 (Gale Virtual Reference Library).
- Poetry (Expanded Academic Index)
- full text since 1998.
- Victorian Poetry (Expanded Academic Index)
- full text since 2001.
See also the Springfield City Library Directory of the Web > Books and Readers > Poetry Resources.
A collection of annotated web links compiled by S.C.L. librarians.
Read the winning poems from the 2006 Springfield City Library Poetry Contest.
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