April certainly is not the cruelest month if you’re looking for poetry resources from the Library of Congress. LOC.gov has loads of treasures to choose from.
Teaching resources
Library Collections
- Collection Spotlight: Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature
- Collections with significant poetry-related content
- Living Nations, Living Words story map featuring 47 contemporary Native Nations poets
PSN poet primary source collections
- Sherwood Anderson
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Billy Collins
- Emily Dickinson
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Robert Frost
- Langston Hughes
- James Weldon Johnson
- Helen Keller
- Stanley Kunitz
- Vachel Lindsay
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Archibald MacLeish
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Gabriela Mistral
- Pablo Neruda
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Patricia Smith
- Tracy K. Smith
- Natasha Trethewey
- Robert Penn Warren
- Phyllis Wheatley
- Poets & the Seasons
Poetry featured images
- The Book of Kings by Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī
- El Paso Herald 1915 Christmas Page
- A Happy New Year 1914 by Lord Tennyson
- Winged Time by William Blake
Digitized poetry materials
- Poetry books
- William Blake collection
- Little Ann and Other Poems by Jane and Ann Taylor; illustrated by Kate Greenaway (1883) Page Turner – PDF – Bibliographic Information
- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe; illustrated By Gustave Doré; (1884) Page Turner – PDF – Bibliographic Information
From the Catbird Seat: Poetry from the Library of Congress archived recordings of poets reading and discussing their work
Multimedia & music
- Poetry of America: Readings & Commentary collection of field recordings
- Poetry event video recordings
- Poetry audio recordings
- Poet Vision Video Series
- “The Poet and the Poem” Audio Podcasts
- Poetry image set
- Songs about poets (audio)
- Poetry sheet music
Poetry online exhibition materials
- A Century of Creativity: The MacDowell Colony 1907-2007
- Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
- Walt Whitman and the Civil War
- A Whitman Notebook
- Anne Bradstreet, Colonial Poet
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Renascence”
- Poetry of Robert Frost
- Poetry, Narrative, and Surinomo (scroll down to access section)
- Shakespeare in America
Presidential poetry resources
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- John Quincy Adams
- John Tyler
- Abraham Lincoln
- Warren G. Harding
- Jimmy Carter
- Barack Obama
- Frequently Asked Questions
U.S. poets laureate resources
- Current poet laureate
- Poetry in America (essays, readings, discussions)
- American life in poetry
- Favorite poem project
- Poetry 180
Library of Congress From the Catbird Seat blog posts
More Library blog posts
- Curator’s Picks: American Women Poets Library of Congress Blog March 26, 2015
- The Library in History: Love in the Stacks Library of Congress Blog April 1, 2015
- National Poets Library of Congress Blog April 7, 2015
- Poetic Decisions In Custodia Legis April 30, 2018
More resources
- World War I Poetry Topics in Chronicling America
- National Poets Library of Congress Magazine March/April 2015 (pp. 11-15; see also pp. 27-28)
- Integrating Tech: Poetry 180
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