Research Essay: Secondary Sources

There are quite a few valuable on-line resources that you can find essays on contemporary American poetry. Below are a few of the websites that have been vetted (evaluated) by your professor:

1. The Poetry Foundation has a database of essays on Poetic Theory

• "Use This Word in a Sentence: "Experimental"" Ann Lauterbach

2. Boston Review also has a large selection of essays.

• "A Machine Ate My Language" by Carmen Gimenez Smith

3. Poetry Daily's Newsroom often links to viable sources, from magazines, interviews, and other periodicals.

4. Poets.org  (The Academy of American Poets)

5. The Poetry Society of America

6. The Rumpus Room 

7. NPR

8. Lana Turner Journal

9. The Best American Poetry blog

Other websites that are vital, yet they have limited access to articles (subscriptions). See if any of these are available through our college library databases:

1. The Paris Review

2. Virginia Quarterly

3. American Poetry Review

4. Kenyon Review