Academy of American Poets.
The Academy supports American poets at all stages of their careers by administering seven major awards—from a first-book prize through a lifetime-achievement award—and nearly 200 College Prizes at schools across the country. The Academy also fosters the appreciation of contemporary poetry by administering several programs: Poets.org, this award-winning website; National Poetry Month (April); the Online Poetry Classroom, an online resource providing free poetry lesson plans and other tools for teachers; the Poetry Audio Archive, a collection of nearly 500 recordings dating back to the 1960s; and American Poet, a biannual literary journal and magazine for members.

Basho.
National Geographic feature article on the famous Japanese Haiku master, Basho.

Glossary of Poetic Terms.

Completeclasssics.com's Classic Poets.
A database of over 1,000 non-copyrighted poets and full text of over 10,000 of their poems. Use the search function for poets not listed on the page.

Poetry Archives.
Provided by eMule.com and maintained by University of Georgia students. Free "classical" poetry archive contains over 3,600 non-copyrighted poems by 137 poets. Browseable by author name or searchable by keyword. Search results also display the first line of each poem.

Poetry Explication.
From the University of North Carolina, how to write "a relatively short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem."

Poet's Corner.
Hosted by Gale Group, this site has biographies, poems, explanations, criticism and more.

Robert Burns.
Eighteenth century Scottish poet. This site includes the Robert Burns Encyclopedia, full text of "the most authoritative Burns reference volume available;" a songs and poetry archive; everything you need to know to host a "Burns Supper" to honor the Bard's birthday on January 25th, plus much more.