Poetry and Short Story Reference Center
The Poetry and Short Story Reference Center is a comprehensive full-text database that offers access to a vast collection of classic and contemporary poetry, short stories, biographies, essays, and various educational resources. Designed for both serious study and leisurely enjoyment, it serves as an invaluable tool for students, educators, and literature enthusiasts alike. The database features hundreds of thousands of poems and tens of thousands of short stories from renowned publishers and literary estates, making it a rich resource for literary exploration.
Additionally, the platform includes multimedia content such as over 2,600 audio recordings of poets, high-quality videos, and extensive literary analyses. Educators will find nearly 200 lesson plans and teaching guides aligned with national curriculum standards, facilitating the integration of this rich literary content into classroom environments. The Poetry and Short Story Reference Center also hosts a diverse range of international poetry, ensuring representation from various cultural perspectives. Overall, this resource is designed to support both research and creative engagement with literature.
Poetry and Short Story Reference Center
Poetry & Short Story Reference Center is a rich full-text database of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, plus thousands of short stories, biographies, essays, lesson plans, and learning guides. It also includes high-quality videos and audio recordings from the Academy of American Poets and other sources. The breadth and depth of the content is suitable for both serious research and pleasure reading, and ensures that Poetry & Short Story Reference Center can serve as an essential resource for students, educators, and readers.
Renowned Content
Poetry & Short Story Reference Center provides contemporary content from the finest publishers including Knopf, Houghton Mifflin, New Directions, Copper Canyon Press, and dozens of authors and estates, as well as Critical Survey of Poetry, Critical Survey of Short Fiction, and other major respected reference books and literary journals. The full-text content includes hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, tens of thousands of classic and contemporary short stories, and thousands of dramatic works. Additional content includes more than 2,600 audio recordings of poets reading their own works and the works of other poets, high-quality videos from the Academy of American Poets and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, hundreds of full-text explications of classic and contemporary poems, and more than 1,100 full-text e-books focused on poetry, drama, and short stories. Educators hoping to incorporate EBSCO resources into their curricula can also take advantage of nearly 200 lesson plans/labs from the Poetry Foundation, plus additional teaching and learning guides.
A Broad Range of Source Types
Poetry & Short Story Reference Center contains selected works of major and minor American and English poets, along with international poetry representing each continent (accompanied by English translations, when available). Works include plays and speeches, short stories and classic books, biographies, critical analyses, contextual essays and explications for important works, essays on poetic forms, literary terms, techniques and movements, multimedia (audio and video) of poets reading their works, and interviews from reputable sources like the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Foundation, and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
School Curriculum Support
Poetry & Short Story Reference Center comes with its own dedicated interface that allows users to browse content by categories such as most studied poems, poets, short stories, and themes. In addition, it offers supplemental teaching and learning guides featuring lesson plans and assignments specifically crafted for use with this database. "Poetry Off the Page" lesson plans align with NCTE and Common Core curriculum standards, allowing educators to find content suitable for their students and smoothly incorporate it into their classrooms.
About EBSCO
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