Poetry & Short Story Reference Center

There are a few databases that have not look familiar to you at the Mepham High School Library. One of them is the Poetry & Short Story Reference Center. "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."

Content Includes:

• More than 370,000 full-text poems, both classic and contemporary
• More than 55,000 full-text short stories, both classic and contemporary
• More than 4,000 full-text dramatic works
• More than 2,600 audio recordings of poets reading their own works from the Academy of American Poets, poets reading works of other poets and podcasts from The Poetry Foundation
• High-quality videos provided by the Academy of American Poets and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
• More than 440 full-text explications of both classic and contemporary poems
• More than 1,100 full-text e-books focused on poetry, drama and short stories
• Teaching and learning guides
• 180 lesson plans/labs from the Poetry Foundation
• Poetry Showcases from The Paris Review