Libraries and Archives

Digital libraries, archives, anthologies, and reference collections of poetry. Select an image or name to visit the site.

African American Poetry

Lift Every Voice, a Library of America project celebrating African American poetry.
Amherst College: Emily Dickinson Collections

The largest Emily Dickinson holdings anywhere, with every Amherst manuscript digitized and free to view.
Electronic Poetry Center

An archive of innovative poetry and poetics, with author pages, recordings, and journals.
Library of Congress

The Library of Congress’s poetry collections, recordings, and Poet Laureate programs.
Perseus Digital Library

Greek and Latin texts, including Homer, Sappho, and Pindar, with translations and tools.
Poetry Explorer

A large collection of classic and contemporary poems and poets.
Poetry International

An international archive of poems and translations from the Rotterdam festival.
poetry.sg

A home for Singapore poetry, with poets’ biographies, poems, and critical essays.
Project Gutenberg

A digital library of free eBooks, including classic poetry.
Rekhta

The world’s largest online collection of Urdu poetry, with ghazals, nazms, and poets’ pages in English.
Representative Poetry Online

A web anthology of poems in English from the University of Toronto.
Russian Poetry in Translation

Russian poems in English translation, with the originals and many translators side by side.
Waka Poetry

Thousands of classical Japanese waka in English translation, from the Man’yōshū to the imperial anthologies.
Wikipedia: Poetry Archive

Wikipedia’s article on the Poetry Archive, the online collection of poets reading their own work.
World Kigo Database

A worldwide saijiki of season words for haiku, with examples from Japan and many other countries.