National Library Week: Spotlight on Poetry

Just in time for National Poetry Month and National Library Week: Check out Poetry Beats Studio, an interactive studio designed for students, educators and poetry lovers, where they can explore the rhythm and sound of spoken word.

 

Hewes Library's resources on poetry can be found in the library catalog as well as our online databases.  A few databases of interest:

• Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography: Indexes 4,000 international periodicals covering literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage: since 1969. Updated ten times annually.
• Literature Resource Center (LRC): Contains 400,000+ full-text articles, 40,000+ critical essays, 122,000+ biographies, and more, covering all topics related to literature in all genres. This also includes Contemporary Authors.
• Literature Online (LION): Covers 350,000+ works of literature, including tens of thousands of primary sources, 880,000+ records of literary criticism via the ABELL index (138 journals of which are full-text), and eight renowned reference works. Coverage: since 1920.
• MagillOnLiterature Plus: Provides online access to Salem Press' editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries, combined with thousands of biographical records and images. Source materials include Masterplots, Masterplots II, and other Magill review publications.

Access to Hewes Library databases is limited to current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.