General Poetry Sites

Basic Tutorial
http://fuzzy.snakeden.org/poetry1.html
Amanda Barncord Doerr's page that'll teach you loads about forms of verse.

Magnetic Poetry Online
http://www.magneticpoetry.com
These folks gave us something creative to do with our fridge while we waited for the water to boil. There's an anthology and you can play online.

Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive
http://plagiarist.com/
"A repository of classic and modern poetry."

PoemHunter.com
http://www.poemhunter.com
Lots and lots poem.

dbqp: visualizing poetics
http://dbqp.blogspot.com/
"A kaleidoscopic review of visual poetry and related forms of art over the centuries, joined with the recollections of one contemporary visual poet."

My Favorite Poetry

Diane Di Prima

Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems by Diane Di Prima Thirteen Nightmares left a dent in my head in college.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 29 is my favorite.

Piet Hein
Piet Hein was my type of guy. He was a poet, artist, mathematician. He wrote wonderfully charming aphorisms called Grooks/Gruks, accompanied by lithe line drawings that capture do much in so few lines. Oh, yeah, and he invented a shape, "the super egg."

If you find his Grooks books, snap them up - they are very hard to come by and very charming. Read them and then send them to me. ;^)

My favorite Grook:
"PROBLEMS
Problems worthy
of attack
prove their worth
by hitting back."

A few Piet Hein Grooks:
Notes on Piet Hein
http://www.ctaz.com/~dmn1/hein.htm

Piet Hein on PoemHunter.com
http://www.poemhunter.com/p/t/poet.asp?poet=6706

A Few Gruks
http://www.fam-bundgaard.dk/SOMA/GRUK.HTM

Ogden Nash

A Collection of Poems and Short Verses by Odgen Nash
http://www.hxms.com/nash/nash.htm
"I don't mind eels
Except as meals."
I feel the opposite. Unagi's tasty, but live eels make me shudder.

Candy is Dandy but Liquor is Quicker: Ogden Nash Online
http://www.westegg.com/nash/
A nice index of Nash's work.

http://dbqp.blogspot.com/