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.

Teaching resources

• Primary Source Learning: Poets & Poetry

Library collections with significant poetry-related content

PSN poet primary source collections

• Sherwood Anderson
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Emily Dickinson
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Robert Frost
• Louise Glück
• Langston Hughes
• James Weldon Johnson
• Helen Keller
• Vachel Lindsay
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Archibald MacLeish
• Gabriela Mistral
• Pablo Neruda
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Patricia Smith
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Robert Penn Warren
• Phyllis Wheatley
• Poets & the Seasons

Featured Images featuring poetry

• 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

• 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

Library of Congress From the Catbird Seat blog posts

• Start the New Year with a Poem a Day January 16th, 2015
• Christmas Greetings from Robert Frost December 24th, 2014
  Muriel Rukeyser and the Spanish Civil War January 8, 2015
• National Poetry Month and Bad King John April 3, 2014
• Olympic Promotional Ads Inspire through Poetry February 7, 2014
• Patricia Smith’s “Words That Force Us to Look” April 22, 2013
• Pindar, Poetry, and the Olympics July 27, 2012
• Poetry and the Presidential Inauguration From the Catbird Seat January 18, 2017
• Poetry at Work November 15, 2012
• RDA—Recommended Daily Allowance for Poetry in Everyday Life January 26, 2012
• Turning to Poetry November 1, 2012

Library of Congress Blog posts

• National Poets April 7, 2015
• The Library in History: Love in the Stacks April 1, 2015
• Curator’s Picks: American Women Poets March 26, 2015

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

Civil War Poetry Resources

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

More resources

• Integrating Tech: Poetry 180
• National Poets Library of Congress Magazine March/April 2015 (pp. 11-15; see also pp. 27-28)