The Unterberg Poetry Center at New York’s 92nd Street Y.
Poetry Online
Poetry websites worth visiting, listed alphabetically. Choose a group below, or select an image or name to visit a site.
- All Sites
- Daily Poems and Readers’ Blogs
- Journals and Magazines
- Libraries and Archives
- Listening, Podcasts and Film
- Organizations, Centers and Presses
- Poets Online
- Prizes
- Teaching and Young Readers
- To Explore
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The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
Brings great poems from page to film, with poem films and readings.
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An online literary magazine of poetry, prose, and art, with a mentorship program for young writers.
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Lift Every Voice, a Library of America project celebrating African American poetry.
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Publishes and promotes African poets through book series, prizes, and a digital library; now based at Brown University.
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The Allen Ginsberg Estate’s site, with poems, recordings, photographs, and news.
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Amherst College: Emily Dickinson Collections
The largest Emily Dickinson holdings anywhere, with every Amherst manuscript digitized and free to view.
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The museum in the Fountain House, St. Petersburg, where Akhmatova lived for thirty years.
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Voca, the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s audiovisual archive of readings.
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The Asahi Shimbun’s English-language haiku column, with poems by haikuists in Japan and abroad.
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Asian American Writers’ Workshop
A literary arts organization amplifying Asian and Asian diasporic voices, publisher of The Margins.
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The Poetry Foundation’s daily audio recording of a classic or contemporary poem read by poets and actors.
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A Canadian small press publishing poetry in books, chapbooks, leaflets, and longsheets.
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An online magazine of poetry, fiction, and translation from India and beyond.
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Promoting the writing and appreciation of haiku in the UK; publisher of the journal Blithe Spirit.
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
A Hong Kong-based English-language journal of Asian writing; regular issues are paused, but the archive remains.
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A Ukrainian magazine on reading and publishing, with an English section on Ukrainian literature.
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News and essays from City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, the San Francisco home of the Pocket Poets.
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A biannual literary journal from Bard College publishing innovative poetry, fiction, and essays.
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The Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s guide to Polish culture, with extensive writing on Polish poets.
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An archive of innovative poetry and poetics, with author pages, recordings, and journals.
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Essential American Poets: Recordings
The Poetry Foundation’s recordings of essential American poets reading their work.
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A nonprofit that preserves and archives English-language haiku, with a digital library and Haiku Dialogue.
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Haiku International Association
A Tokyo association promoting international exchange between Japanese haiku and haiku written worldwide, with an annual contest.
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Founded in 1968 to promote haiku in English; publisher of the journal Frogpond.
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The Johannesburg Review of Books
A South African review publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews.
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The Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s magazine of Korean literature in English, including poetry.
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Recordings from Lannan’s Readings & Conversations series with poets and writers.
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Latin American Literature Today
A bilingual journal of new Latin American writing, with poetry in Spanish, Portuguese, and English translation.
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The Library of Congress’s poetry collections, recordings, and Poet Laureate programs.
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Anthony Wilson’s blog series of poems chosen and introduced as poems that sustain a life.
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Daily haiku in English chosen from readers around the world, from The Mainichi, Japan’s oldest daily newspaper.
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Maria Popova’s long-running journal of reading on literature, philosophy, and poetry.
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Medellín International Poetry Festival
One of the world’s largest poetry festivals, held each July in Medellín, Colombia.
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A leading English-language haiku journal, publishing haiku, senryu, haibun, essays, and reviews since 1969.
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National Book Award for Poetry
The National Book Foundation’s awards, including every winner and finalist in Poetry.
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Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast, each episode a single poem read and reflected upon.
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The foundation that keeps Neruda’s houses in Chile and his work, with an English site.
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Chinese literature in translation, including poetry, from a collective of translators.
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The literary magazine’s author pages and archive, including its interviews on the art of poetry.
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Ukrainian writers’ organization for literature and free expression, with news of Ukrainian poets.
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Greek and Latin texts, including Homer, Sappho, and Pindar, with translations and tools.
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The Washington, D.C., museum of language, with a curated selection for National Poetry Month.
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Interviews from a half-hour radio program of poetry readings and conversations with poets.
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Short poetry films from PBS and the Poetry Foundation, for classrooms on PBS LearningMedia.
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The Poetry Hour, from the Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation, on the power of poetry read aloud.
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Elisa New’s television series and courses bringing poetry into living rooms and classrooms.
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An international archive of poems and translations from the Rotterdam festival.
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Translations of contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
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A global community project, co-founded by Jane Hirshfield, joining poetry and science.
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The world’s largest online collection of Urdu poetry, with ghazals, nazms, and poets’ pages in English.
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A collection of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry, quotations, and writings in translation.
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Russian poems in English translation, with the originals and many translators side by side.
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The Poetry Center’s digital archive of readings recorded at San Francisco State since 1954.
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Poem of the Week from Split This Rock, which calls poets to a greater role in public life.
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Promotes tanka, the five-line Japanese form, in English; publisher of Ribbons.
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The Academy of American Poets’ weekly series for K–12 teachers: one poem with primary sources and classroom activities.
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Maria Popova’s annual celebration of science through poetry, from The Marginalian.
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Thousands of classical Japanese waka in English translation, from the Man’yōshū to the imperial anthologies.
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A Dartmouth seminar blog reading Emily Dickinson’s poems week by week through the year 1862.
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Wikipedia’s article on the Poetry Archive, the online collection of poets reading their own work.
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The foundation set up by Szymborska’s will, with her life, work, and the Szymborska Prize.
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A digital magazine of international literature in translation, including poetry.
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A worldwide saijiki of season words for haiku, with examples from Japan and many other countries.
