Poetry & Short Story Reference Center provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques — including contemporary content from the finest publishers.
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Content includes:
- More than 700,000 full-text poems, both classic and contemporary
- More than 56,000 full-text short stories, both classic and contemporary
- More than 10,000 full-text dramatic works
- More than 2,400 audio recordings of poets reading their own works from the Academy of American Poets, poets reading works of other poets and podcasts from The Poetry Foundation
- High-quality videos provided by the Academy of American Poets and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
- More than 440 full-text explications of both classic and contemporary poems
- More than 1,000 full-text e-books focused on poetry, drama and short stories
- Teaching and learning guides
- Nearly 170 lesson plans/labs from the Poetry Foundation
- Poetry Showcases from The Paris Review
