UCF Research Guides: Modern &amp; Contemporary American Poetry &amp; Poetics: Finding Poems

Using Subject Terms in Primo

Locating poetry books in the library

Use the Subject line in Primo to search for books about poetry as well as poetry collections.

Suggested subject terms:

You can also use the subject line or the author line to search for books by or about specific authors.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Information on literary figures from all time periods of writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Includes the Dictionary Of Literary Biography.
LitFinder (Gale)
Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains over 150,000 full-text works and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Poem Finder in LitFinder (Gale)
Indexes 800,000 well-known, anthologized poems, plays and literature. To search Poem Finder, Search in LitFinder and set the Type of Work to Poem.

Academy of American Poets
Allows you to search for contemporary poetry by occasion, theme, and form.
Electronic Poetry Center
A collection of poetry resources including poems, audio recordings, small magazines, and more. Hosted by the University at Buffalo.
PEN America's Digital Archive
Online archive of public and private programming featuring the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times.
PennSound Daily
An ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.
The Poetry Archive
The Poetry Archive is a not-for-profit organisation that produces, acquires and preserves recordings of poets reading their own work out loud.
Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation recognizes the power of words to transform lives. We work to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry.
UbuWeb
A wide variety of avant-garde art, including contemporary poetry, visual poetry, and conceptual writing.