Poetry & Short Story Reference Center

This database contains 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.

• contains selected works of major and minor American and English poets, along with international poetry representing each continent (accompanied by English translations, when available)
• more than 700,000 full-text poems, both classic and contemporary, nearly 55,000 full-text short stories, both classic and contemporary or more than 10,000 dramatic works are available here
• nearly 450 explications of both classic and contemporary poems and 520 e-books focused on poetry, drama and short stories could be found there
• you can listen to more than 2.300 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

Free trial access until April 18th, 2016 >>