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	Online Literary Criticism Collection - http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ The Internet Public Library's enormous database of literary criticism.
	The Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/poetpage.htm An archive of interviews, readings, reviews and articles on poets and poetry - past and present.
	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.
	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.
	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.

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

	Poetry Snark - http://poetrysnark.blogspot.com/ Attacks on contemporary American poets. Featuring "Where Are They Know? Lost Poets of the 70s."
	berniE-Zine: Rants, Raves & Reviews - http://www.homestead.com/RantsRavesReviews Book reviews by Bernadette "bernie" Geyer.
	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."
	Poetry Book Review - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/poetry_book_review/ Reviews of contemporary and classic English or English-language poetry collections.
	Luminarium - http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm One of the finest collections of classical literary criticism on the Internet (1350 to 1660 A.D.)

	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.
	Whose New American Poetry? - http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/perloff/anth.html Anthologizing in the nineties. An essay by Marjorie Perloff.
	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.
	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 Art of English Poetry - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BysEngl.html Complete text of the work by Edward Bysshe, published 1702.

	Electronic Book Review - http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev8/index.html An online literary review.
	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.
	Poetry of the Eighties: Deconstructive Readings - http://www.saunalahti.fi/immopek An article on the poetry of the Eighties in Finland, using deconstructive close-reading. Also, three articles upon the subject in Finnish.
	Canadian Women Poets: Two Reviews by E. Russell Smith - http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ab297/reviews.html Reviews of Stephanie Bolster's White Stone: The Alice Poems and Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow.
	Metaphysical Reviews - http://www.metarev.com/cat/poetry/ Poetry reviews by New Age author Richard Fuller.

	Poetry Criticism of Daniele DiGiacomo - http://members.aol.com/danieledg1/mypapers.html A selection of critical papers by Daniele DiGiacomo on poetry ranging from Old English to Sylvia Plath.
	Those Who Lie Like Truth - http://www.blight.com/~bruise/ Senior thesis comparing modern and Classical Latin confessional poetry.
	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.
	DiversityBay: Book Reviews - http://members.tripod.com/~DiversityBay/books/page1.html Reviews of gay writing coming out of Australia.
	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.

	Modern Poetry - http://www.suite101.com/topicnotfound.cfm?topic=modern_poetry&CFID=2710417&CFTOKEN=69075856 Studies of twentieth and twenty-first century poetry which focus on the "modernist" shift in style and subject matter.
	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.

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