National Poetry Month: Websites

This site is specifically focused on poetry for children and includes both written works and audio recordings.

Listen to audio-recorded readings of former Consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost; Nobel Laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Czeslaw Milosz, and renowned writers such as Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, and Kurt Vonnegut read from their work at the Library of Congress.

A Library of Congress resource that allows users to read a large body of poetry online for free.

Focusing on the recitation of poetry out loud, the site includes resources for writers, teachers, students, and casual enjoyers of poetry.

This site contains poems for elementary school students for every day of the school year, written by today’s best children’s poets.
The poems on PoetryMinute.org can be read in an average of about one minute.

A site of resources, original work, competitions, and teaching aids. This site features categories such as young poets, nature poetry, SLAM poetry, etc.