Poetry & Short Story Reference Center ™

Support teaching and learning with reference materials from dozens of authors and estates, literary journals, and high-quality publishers such as Knopf, Houghton Mifflin, New Directions and Copper Canyon Press.

Key Content

• More than 374,000 full-text poems, both classic and contemporary
• More than 55,000 full-text short stories, both classic and contemporary
• More than 4,000 full-text dramatic works
• More than 2,600 audio recordings of poets reading their own works from Academy of American Poets, poets reading works of other poets and podcasts from The Poetry Foundation
• High-quality videos from Academy of American Poets and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
• Highly respected reference books including Critical Survey of Poetry and Critical Survey of Short Fiction
• More than 440 explications of both classic and contemporary poems
• More than 1,000 e-books focused on poetry, drama and short stories
• Poetry Showcases from The Paris Review highlighting current and emerging writers and their works

Support for Students and Educators

• Lesson plans aligned to NCTE and Common Core curriculum standards
• Infographics depicting short story plot points and poetry word clouds
• Text-to-Speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers, auditory learners or those developing English-language proficiency
• Citation tool to help students format references
• Advanced search with Lexile^® Reading Level and page length limiters to help address text complexity requirements
• Literary glossary