Collections Spotlight: Poetry
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.
Library collections
- Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature
- The PALABRA Archive
- Poetry of America
- Poetry 180
- St. Mark’s Poetry Project Audio Archive
- Library collections with significant poetry-related content
PSN poet primary source collections
- Sherwood Anderson
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Billy Collins
- Emily Dickinson
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Robert Frost
- Louise Glück
- Joy Harjo
- Hen-Toh
- Langston Hughes
- James Weldon Johnson
- John Keats
- Helen Keller
- Stanley Kunitz
- Vachel Lindsay
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Archibald MacLeish
- Gabriela Mistral
- Pablo Neruda
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Patricia Smith
- Tracy K. Smith
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Natasha Trethewey
- Robert Penn Warren
- Phyllis Wheatley
- Walt Whitman
- Poets & the Seasons
- Library Spotlight: A Poem a Day from the Laureate
Digitized poetry materials from the Library’s collections
- 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
- Poems of History, by the Most Famous Poets of All Ages 1883
- Songs of History. Poems and Ballads Upon Important Episodes in American History 1887
- More poetry books
Poet Laureates
- Current Poet Laureate
- Poet Laureate Biographies
- Poet Laureate Projects
- Poetry 180
- National Poets Library of Congress Magazine March/April 2015
Finding Resources: Poetry in Historical Newspapers
Multimedia & music
- Poetry webcasts & podcasts
- Poet Vision Video Series
- “The Poet and the Poem” Audio Podcasts
- Poetry Out Loud
- 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
Library of Congress poetry blog posts