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Resources

Note:  If you are using GALILEO at home, don't forget the password! 

Encyclopedia Britannica Online (on GALILEO) - You may also use the recommended websites listed on the right of the article.  (NOTE: If this does not have your poet, please check the "Individual Poet Pages" below!)

Kids Galileo - Click on databases "Searchasaurus--MiddleSearch Plus" or "SIRS Discoverer."  Your keyword will be the poet's full name.  This will help you search newspaper and magazine articles about your poet!

Individual Poet Sites

Shel Silverstein
www.shelsilverstein.com
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Ken Nesbitt
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Bruce Lansky
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Jack Prelutcky
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Robert Frost 
http://www.frostfriends.org/
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Nikki Grimes
www.nikkigrimes.com
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Nikki Giovanni
http://nikki-giovanni.com/
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Mattie JT Stepanek
http://www.mattieonline.com/
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Robert Louis Stevenson
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Lewis Carroll
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

2Pac (Tupac)
http://tupac_a_shakur.tripod.com/id139.htm
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

William Shakespeare
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Emily Dickinson
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dickinson/dickinson.htm
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Robert Service
http://www.robertwservice.com/
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Gary Soto
http://www.garysoto.com/index.html
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Lee Bennett Hopkins
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Ellen Hopkins
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Roald Dahl
www.roalddahl.com
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Edgar Allen Poe
http://www.poemuseum.org/
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

JRR Tolkien
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Maya Angelou
www.mayaangelou.com

Langston Hughes
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Carl Sandburg
http://carl-sandburg.com/
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Walt Whitman
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/ 
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Rudyard Kipling
http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/h
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org

William Jay Smith
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.authorsinschools.com/  (Nesbitt and Lansky)
www.poets.org