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LINKS: Poetry & Greeting Card Resources
- 24 of the Best Places to Submit Poetry Online
- https://writers.com/best-places-submit-poetry-online
- Academy of American Poets
- https://poets.org/
- A membership site for poets, including contests, publicity, and advertising.
- Academy of American Poets Prizes
- https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/american-poets-prizes
- List of a number of significant competitions and awards for poets.
- Advice on How to Sell Poetry, by Neile Graham
- https://neilegraham.com/howsellpoetry.html
- How to prepare and format poetry, locate markets, submit manuscripts, and more.
- Canadian Poetry
- https://canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca/
- Links to Canadian poets, journals, magazines, peotry, events, awards, grants, contests, courses, books, small presses and more.
- Forgotten Ground Regained: A Poet's Guide to Alliterative Verse
- https://alliteration.net/
- Covers alliteration in ancient, medieval and modern poetry - a huge collection of resources. (Lovers of Tolkien's poetry will also appreciate this site.)
- Glossary of Poetic Terms
- http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html
- Greeting Card Designer
- http://kateharperblog.blogspot.com/
- Blog from greeting card publisher Kate Harper, covering such topics as starting one's own greeting card line, writing for greeting cards, getting started in the industry, and more.
- League of Canadian Poets
- https://poets.ca/
- Poetry Daily
- https://poems.com
- Anthology of contemporary poetry that each day brings readers a
new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print,
along with information about featured poets and publishers, news
from the poetry world, and occasional special features.
- Poetry Dances
- http://www.poetrydances.com
- Click on "All Poetry" on the left to see a list of poetic styles (ever heard of Tetractys?). Each link will take you to an overview of what that style involves, with examples.
- The Poetry Society (UK)
- https://poetrysociety.org.uk/
- Links to poetry sites around the world, plus information on placements for poets (e.g., residencies), education projects, writing tips, poetry webzines, and more.
- Poetry Society of America
- https://poetrysociety.org/
- Poetry Through the Ages
- https://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/
- Designed to "explain the history of poetry forms in a way that grabs practicing poets and general readers alike. The exhibit features a tour of European poetry, introduces 18 poetry forms (from ancient to modern, well-known to obscure), provides background information and examples of each, and invites visitors to try to "make their own" poem using each form." A very cool site; my one criticism is that there's not enough actual poetry on the site.
- Poets & Writers
- https://www.pw.org/
- "The nation's largest nonprofit literary organization serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers."
- Representative Poetry Online
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/
- "Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 4,700 English poems by 723 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today."
- RhymeDesk
- https://www.rhymedesk.com/
- A handy rhyming dictionary with a look-up function (in case, for instance, you're looking for a rhyme for "desk" and aren't sure what "churrigueresque" means). You can also use the site to Tweet poems or post them on Facebook.
- Rhymezone
- https://www.rhymezone.com
- Find rhymes, phrases, quizzes, quotes, famous documents and more.
- A Timeline of Poetry in English
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline
- SciFaiku
- http://www.scifaiku.com
- All about science fiction haiku.
- Winning Writers
- https://winningwriters.com/index.php
- Resources for poets and writers, with a focus on tips for those who
enter poetry contests. See especially their section on how to avoid bad poetry contests.
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