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Against National Poetry Month As Such - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/044106.html Poet and critic Charles Bernstein explains why National Poetry Month is bad for poetry.

Aristotle's Poetics - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Aabo%3Atlg%2C0086%2C034&query=1447a Heavily annotated translation at the Perseus Project's website.

Bad Poetry - http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/index.html An introduction to bad poetry, though not necessarily by bad poets, with texts of various exemplary poems. As selected and annotated by Professor Seamus Cooney.

berniE-Zine: Rants, Raves & Reviews - http://www.homestead.com/RantsRavesReviews Book reviews by Bernadette "bernie" Geyer.

Callaloo - http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/index.html Journal of African and African-American writing containing original work by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.

Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/gioia/gioia.htm A 1991 essay examining why poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America.

Canadian Women Poets: Two Reviews by E. Russell Smith - http://web.ncf.ca/ab297/reviews.html Reviews of Stephanie Bolster's White Stone: The Alice Poems and Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow.

Criticizing the Poetry Slam by John Brady - http://eserver.org/bs/08/Brady.html An article that examines the "free-for-all" atmosphere of performance poetry.

Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Poetry - http://dannyreviews.com/s/poetry.html A collection of poetry reviews. Authors reviewed include Ursula K. Le Guin and Robert Graves.

DiversityBay: Book Reviews - http://members.tripod.com/~DiversityBay/books/page1.html Reviews of gay writing coming out of Australia.

Electronic Book Review - http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev8/index.html An online literary review.

It Is, As It's Elsewhere - http://www.lynetteabel.org/Report-Sandburg.html Report by Lynette Abel of a class given by Eli Siegel on the meaning of poetry. In it, he discusses Carl Sandburg's "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter."

Life, love, death, and poetry in the work of Brian Patten - http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/patten.html An essay on the work of Brian Patten, one of the Liverpool Poets.

Luminarium - http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm Collection of classical literary criticism on the Internet (1350 to 1660 A.D.)

Metaphysical Reviews - http://www.metarev.com/cat/poetry/ Poetry reviews by New Age author Richard Fuller.

Modern American Poetry - http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ Critical and historical essays and syllabi on modern American poetry. Many of the works relate to poems in the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry.

Online Literary Criticism Collection - http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ The Internet Public Library's database of literary criticism.

Plagiarist.com Poetry Articles - http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/ Articles about poets, poems, and poetry in general. Includes book reviews, student guides, and articles on writing poetry.

Poetry Book Review - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/poetry_book_review/ Reviews of contemporary and classic English or English-language poetry collections.

Poetry Snark - http://poetrysnark.blogspot.com/ Attacks on contemporary American poets.

Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s - http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/ An essay on the "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" by Steven Watson.

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7930 William Lyon Phelps, professor of English at Yale, looks at the change in poetry after the Victorian era, up until about 1918. British, Irish, and American poets are studied in this book.

The Art of English Poetry - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BysEngl.html Complete text of the work by Edward Bysshe, published 1702.

The Genealogy of Postmodernism - http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/gelpi.html An essay by Albert Gelpi.

The Morning After - http://www.goodreports.net/essays/themorningafter.htm An essay on today's poetry and how we feel about, the morning after National Poetry Month. At goodreports.net.

The Romanticism of Charlotte Turner Smith: Plurality of Vision - http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/3D/C.Fernandez.html A research paper by C. Fernandez on the multicultural aspects of the romantic poetry of Charlotte Turner Smith.

Whose New American Poetry? - http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/perloff/anth.html Anthologizing in the nineties. An essay by Marjorie Perloff.

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