Poetry Contest Resources

Poets.org is produced by the Academy of American Poets. The site was launched in 1996, becoming the original online resource for poems, poets' biographies, essays about poetry, and resources for K-12 teachers.

Search this extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet's name.

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. Explore their collection of hundreds of poems.

The Quarry is a searchable collection of over 500 poems by a diverse array of contemporary socially engaged poets, published by Split This Rock since 2009. Like all of Split This Rock’s programs, The Quarry is designed to bring poetry fully to the center of public life.

Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year. Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins has selected the poems you will find here with high school students in mind.

Founded in 1997, Poetry Daily is a 501(c)3 non-profit daily anthology of contemporary poetry. Our editors read journals and books of poems first published from the widest range of sources we can find, from across the US and the world—and we continually seek to expand that reading. We carefully select the best and most interesting poems from those publications for our thousands of readers.