Best Web Sites

Intenet Sites
The Iternet Poetry Archive:  Focuses on contemporary authors.
Poetry Archives:  This huge database offers more than 5,000 poems by 150 authors.
Bartleby:  Poetry anthologies are browsable
Poetry.com:  Offers a list of the 100 Greatest Poems Ever Written.
Poetry Novels

Novels in poetry format are different from what we think of as poetry books. They tell a full story in free verse or through a series of interconnected poems. This list was compiled using the American Library Association web site page "Slammin!@your library.

Compilations Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century Art

Broken Hearts Healing: Young Poets Speak Out on Divorce

Roots and Flowers: Poets and Poems on Family

Individual Poets Gary Soto's New and Selected Poems
Free Verse Make Lemonade and True Believer (Wolff )
Interconnected Poems Jump Ball

The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems

Split Image

Newbery Winner 1998

Historical Fic.

Out of the Dust (Hesse)

Witness (Hesse)

Frenchtown Summer (Cormier)

Mysteries Who Killed Mr. Chippendale

Foreign Exchange (Mel Glenn)

Humor Love That Dog (Creech)
Realistic Who Will Tell My Brother (Marlene Carvell) An Indian Mascot is changed through the efforts of an American Indian.

After the Death of Anna Gonzalez (Terri Fields) A school copes with the suicide of a student.

Brimstone Journals (Ron Koertge) Look inside a school when a student lists those he wished to kill.

Stop Pretending! What Happened the Year My Big Sister Went Crazy. (Sones)

Jinx (Wild) Jen finds herself with the love she finds in a completely unexpected place.

NonFiction Learning to Swim (Turner) Child abuse theme.

You Remind Me of You (Corrigan) A young woman's fight for survival

Carver: A Life in Poems (Nelson)