Monday, November 10, 2008

Ms Collopy's Sites for November

POETRY WEBSITES


Poetry 180
- 180 poems chosen by a former poet laureate, Billy Collins

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/poetry/

- Entry point for the PBS poetry focus

http://www.poetseers.org/themes
- notable poems by contemporary and historic authors

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/main_poet.html

- Some notable modern poetry

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/58


- Scroll down to find lists of popular contemporary poets and lists of popular historical poets

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=browse&c=amverse
- only use this site if you know the name of the poem or author

QUOTATION WEBSITES

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/


http://www.famous-quotations.com/asp/categories.asp


http://en.proverbia.net/citastemas.asp?letra=F

http://www.inspirationalquotes4u.com/
- scroll part of the way down the page to see quotes organized by subject/topic

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics.html


http://www.quoteworld.org/browse.php

http://www.quoteland.com/topic.asp

http://www.famousquotes.com/by_category.php?letter=a

http://www.quotationreference.com/subject_index.php


http://en.thinkexist.com/topics/

4 comments:

graffiti by dj said...

Can you do more pages or is everything just a post?

Quel said...

This looks great!

Toni Olivieri-Barton said...
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Toni Olivieri-Barton said...

Everything is a post. Not perfect, but good for students work or homework assignments that are always changing.