Searching for resources on poetry

The LBCC Library catalog is web-based and searchable via the Internet. From the library homepage, click on the link "Library Catalog". The Library's URL is :

Use "Keyword" search or "Subject " search to browse the catalog. For example, you may use keywords such as: Vietnamese poetry, haiku, chansons de geste, and Beat poets, etc. Consult the Reference Librarian for suggestions of other topics.

Any one Library of Congress Classification Number (or Call Number) will not be inclusive of all books on the subject in this Library. Variances in the focus of books result in their being cataloged with different call numbers. For example, a search on the subject of "poetry" will show books with the following call numbers:

Books

Women poets of the world / edited by Joanna Bankier and Deirdre Lashgari PN6109.9 W66 1983

The double strand : five contemporary Mexican poets / Frank Dauster. PQ7171 D38 1987

The first wave : women poets in America, 1915-1945 / William Drake. PS151 D7 1987

Under 35 : the new generation of American poets. PS615 U53 1989

Heroism in the new Black poetry : introductions & interviews.Melhem, D. H. PS153 N5 M4 1990

Poets at work : the Paris review interviews. PS323.5 P65 1989

Modern American women poets / by Jean Gould. PS151 G63 1984

The Heinemann book of African poetry in English. PL8013 E3 H4 1990

Quince poetas del mundo azteca. PM4068.5 T7413 1992

Critical survey of poetry. edited by Frank N. Magill.. Z7155 C72 c1992.

Compulsory figures : essays on recent American poets / Henry Taylor. PS325 T36 1992

Gay roots : twenty years of Gay sunshine : an anthology of gay history. HQ76.2 U5 G395 c1991-1993.

No more masks! : an anthology of twentieth-century American women poets, PS589 N58 1993

The Road before us : 100 gay Black poets / edited by Assoto Saint. PS595 H65 R6 1991

Here to dare : 10 gay Black poets / Arthur T. Wilson . PS595 H65 H4 1992

The essential haiku : versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa. PL759.535 E88 1994

The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English. Z7155 O94 1994

City lights pocket poets anthology / edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. PN6014 C57 1995

100 poems by 100 poets : an anthology / selected by Harold Pinter. PR1174 A12 1992

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Online Databases

Searching for periodical articles in general on poetry

These online databases are accessible only with user ID and password. Please ask for the list of passwords at the Reference Desk.

Literature Resource Center

Contains biographical and critical information about thousands of authors and their writing. Information about literary movements, themes and genres is also included.

ProQuest

Offers thousands of articles on a wide variety of topics. ProQuest provides access to approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, many of them full-text, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Dates of coverage vary, but some are available from 1985 to the present. The database is updated daily.

To search the magazine/newspaper databases listed on LBCC Library homepage (Newsbank, Proquest, SIRS,Facts on File), use words appropriate to the discipline and subfield, including :

• Major disciplines of Literature (i.e., poetry, drama, novel, etc.)
  
• Subfield areas (e.g., Japanese poetry, French poetry, etc.)
  
• Names of authors or poets
• Names of organizations or institutions involved in the field
  
• Check in the Library of Congress Subject Headings set (the five big red books on the counter), in dictionaries, thesauri and subject-related books for the right words to use.
  
  

Internet Resources

Searching for poetry resources on the Internet

Use a Search Engine such as Altavista (http://www.altavista.com) when you know the exact terms or names of your topic.

• Enter two or more related words, each with a + in front of it to specify your search.
  
• Search for phrases by putting double quotes around two or more words, for example:
  • +"Vietnam war"+poetry
  • +"harlem renaissance"+poets
• Put an asterisk * after the root word to find plurals or other words beginning with the root, for example: comput* will bring articles with words computer, computers, computing.
• Use subject directories such as Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com) or Internet indexes such as Librarian’s Index to the Internet (http://www.lii.org) for browsing or when you are not sure of the terms or names. Indexes lead you from the general subject to the specific sub-topic.

Web sites related to poetry

1. National Poetry Month - The Academy of American Poets

http://www.poets.org/npm/index.cfm

2. Langston Hughes

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm

3. Poetry 180

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180