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This category includes poetry criticism and theory in the form of book reviews, essays, treatises and articles. The material covers a wide range - from contemporary to classic, regional to international. While some online journals and literary reviews are included, it is not primarily a category for webzines.

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Resources in This Category

• Against National Poetry Month As Such

  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/044106.html
  Poet and critic Charles Bernstein explains why National Poetry Month is bad for poetry.

• Aristotle's Poetics

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0086,034
  Heavily annotated translation at the Perseus Project's website.

• Bad Poetry

  http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/index.html
  An introduction to bad poetry, though not necessarily by bad poets, with texts of various exemplary poems. As selected and annotated by Professor Seamus Cooney.

• berniE-Zine: Rants, Raves & Reviews

  http://rantsravesreviews.homestead.com/
  Book reviews by Bernadette "bernie" Geyer.

• Callaloo

  http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27
  Journal of African and African-American writing containing original work by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.

• Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia

  http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/gioia/gioia.htm
  A 1991 essay examining why poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America.

• Criticizing the Poetry Slam by John Brady

  http://bad.eserver.org/issues/1993/08/brady.html
  An article that examines the "free-for-all" atmosphere of performance poetry.

• Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Poetry

  http://dannyreviews.com/s/poetry.html
  A collection of poetry reviews. Authors reviewed include Ursula K. Le Guin and Robert Graves.

• DiversityBay: Book Reviews

  http://diversitybay.tripod.com/books/page1.html
  Reviews of gay writing coming out of Australia.

• Electronic Book Review

  http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev8/index.html
  An online literary review.

• It Is, As It's Elsewhere

  http://www.lynetteabel.org/Report-Sandburg.html
  Report by Lynette Abel of a class given by Eli Siegel on the meaning of poetry. In it, he discusses Carl Sandburg's "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter."

• Life, love, death, and poetry in the work of Brian Patten

  http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/patten.html
  An essay on the work of Brian Patten, one of the Liverpool Poets.

• Luminarium

  http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
  Collection of classical literary criticism on the Internet (1350 to 1660 A.D.)

• Modern American Poetry

  http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/
  Critical and historical essays and syllabi on modern American poetry. Many of the works relate to poems in the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry.

• Online Literary Criticism Collection

  http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
  The Internet Public Library's database of literary criticism.

• Poetry Snark

  http://poetrysnark.blogspot.com/
  Attacks on contemporary American poets.

• Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s

  http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/
  An essay on the "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" by Steven Watson.

• The Genealogy of Postmodernism

  http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/gelpi.html
  An essay by Albert Gelpi.

• Whose New American Poetry?

  http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/perloff/anth.html
  Anthologizing in the nineties. An essay by Marjorie Perloff.

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