Getting Your Daily Poetry Fix

[HowardM2]

(Many or all of these resources have been mentioned at various times, but I thought I'd collect them into a single thread for convenience.)

There are a number of ways one can go about getting one's daily poetry fix. There are several good websites which can help out:

Poetry Daily (http://www.poems.com/)

Verse Daily (http://www.versedaily.com/)

Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac (http://www.writersalmanac.org/)

Poetry 180 (http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html)

A number of these sites have produced recent anthologies:

Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website, ed. by Diane Boller, Don Selby, and Chryss Yost

Good Poems, ed. by Garrison Keillor

Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry, ed. by Billy Collins

In addition, another good recent anthology is:

Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's "All Things Considered", ed. by Catherine Bowman

Finally, one of the basic recommended anthologies, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, is now available in a new, much-expanded, edition in two volumes:

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Third Edition, ed. by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair

[Empty Chairs]

Thanks for that, Howard.

Laura Mary

[emitchel]

Thank you for pulling these items together.

I have a question about the Norton Anthology. The reviews on Amazon.com (the American version) are discouraging. I had decided not to buy it. Do you have particular praise for it?

[Rachel Lindley]

Originally posted by emitchel
The reviews on Amazon.com (the American version) are discouraging. I had decided not to buy it. I just went to Amazon.com (the American version). Average customer rating for the Norton Anthology of Poetry - 4 of 5 stars. Average customer rating for the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry - 4 of 5 stars. Average rating for the new Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry - 5 of 5 stars.

What exactly did you find discouraging?

Rachel

[emitchel]

The short answer is, my impression came from reviews of an earlier edition. I withdraw my question, and thank you for taking the time to look into this.


P.S. The price, however, is still discouraging.

[Steph#2]

Howard,

This is just to say thanks for providing such brilliant links. I’ve made the Writer’s Almanac my home page (hey, sorry pffa!) and I never miss Mr Keillor’s dulcet tones of a morning. Verse Daily and Poetry Daily have introduced me to some great poetry I’ve not read until now as they seem to feature current work. They are two great sites for those locked in the past century as far as their poetry reading goes.

Cheers,

Steph

[Jordana]

A perfect ordinary day can't be had without catching Writer's Almanac on the car radio.