Poetry Resources at the Springfield City Library

Browsing Published Poetry in Print

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

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.