Below you will find a select list of literary reference titles available to you at Middletown Thrall Library. Since these books cannot be borrowed, they are always available to researchers at the library.

poets.org – The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation’s poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Alan Riach is Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, a leading figure in the study of twentieth century Scottish poetry, and is himself the author of six collections of poetry.

Cowman Poetry Week is celebrated each year during April, National Poetry Month in the United States.. In 2017, Cowman Poetry Week—the sixteenth annual—takes place April 16 …

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus’, the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.

Douglas Dunn is a major Scottish poet, editor and critic, whose Elegies (1985), a moving account of his first wife’s death, became a critical and popular success. His books – including ten collections of poetry and two of short stories, and a translation of Racine’s Andromache – are consistently well reviewed in the national press

Poetry Daily, the online web anthology and bookstore. A new poem every day, along with poetry news, archives, and more.

Joseph Brodsky. Joseph Brodsky, a Russian-American poet, was born in St. Petersburg (then called Leningrad)on May 24, 1930. A disciple of Anna Akhmatova, he began writing poetry …

With tens of thousands of poems by thousands of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest and oldest free full-text collections of verse on the web.