8TH Grade Poet Pathfinder
Robert Frost
Mary Oliver
Edgar Allen Poe
Julia Alvarez
Shel Silverstein
Octavio Paz
Billy Collins
ee cummings
William Carlos Williams
Elisabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
Below are links to several reliable sources. All of these can be found
on the Ipswich Middle School Media Center Webpage but you can
also just click on the link below to go directly to the source.
E-Books: –E-books that can be found on on the library media center website
Gale Virtual Reference Center
Databases: can also be found on the library media center website
Biography in Context
Websites:
Poets.org: Launched in 1996, Poets.org is the award-winning website of the Academy of American
Poets. Visitors to Poets.org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays,
interviews, and poetry recordings. http://www.poets.org/
Individual poet’s websites:
Edgar Allen Poe- Visit the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (http://www.poemuseum.org) to take a tour of
some of rooms in the museum and to read some of the selected works of Poe.
Knowing Poe: http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp
Maya Angelou’s Official Website: http://mayaangelou.com/bio/
Langston Hughes: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/langston-hughes
A biography of the Langston Hughes with a great list of additional resources.
Julia Alvarez's personal website - http://www.juliaalvarez.com/about/
Shel Silverstein’s official webpage - http://www.shelsilverstein.com/html/home.html
Biography of Octavio Paz - http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/645
Billy Collins biography - http://www.billy-collins.com/2005/06/biography_billy.html
ee Cummings biography - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/e-e-cummings
William Carlos Williams’s biography - http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/119
Elisabeth Bishop biography - http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/7
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography - http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/152
Robert Frost Biography - http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192
Robert Frost Home - http://www.frostplace.org/index.html
Robert Frost Reads his poems aloud - http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/012294_harp_ITH.html