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In addition to these free resources, Thomson Gale is giving away free trials to Thomson Gale’s family of literature databases, including:

LitFinder – The largest, most accessible collection of literature available online, this rich database guides users through the world of poetry, fiction and drama, delivering more than a million examples of full-text, indexed and excerpted literature, as well as biographies, explanations and images.

Literature Resource Center – With more than 371,000 full-text journal articles from more than 230 literary journals, 38,000 critical essays, and more than 122,000 author biographies, Literature Resource Center presents literature in all its dimensions and provides users with multiple points of departure for the broadest possible research.

The quiz tests knowledge of significant people and events involved in poetry. For example, this poet, known as the "New England mystic," had only 10 of her more than 1,700 poems published in her lifetime. The first was a 40-line valentine that appeared in the Amherst College magazine. Who was she? Find the answer to this and other quiz questions at http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/quiz.

Browse the biographies of some of the best-known poets throughout history at http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/bio, including Dante Alighieri, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Walt Whitman.

View a timeline of events that traces the poetry movement, from 700 to the present, at http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/timeline.

Educators will find activities that are easily adaptable for classroom use at http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/activities. These activities are designed to help students examine poetry as it relates to different subject areas, such as beauty and identity. Also included at http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/poems are popular poems and their explanations.

Links to additional resources are available at http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/links, including links to The Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America and the American Verse Project, which is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry published prior to 1920.

Visit your local library in April and throughout the year to access other poetry-focused Thomson Gale resources, such as :

 
• American Poetry, 1609-1870 (Primary Source Microfilm)
 
• Contemporary Poets ( St. James Press)
 
• Giants of American Art & Culture – Maya Angelou: America’s Poetic Voice (Blackbirch Press)
 
• Literary Companion Series: Robert Frost (Greenhaven Press)
 
• Dictionary of Literary Biography: Walt Whitman, A Documentary Volume (Thomson Gale)
 
• Poetry for Students (Thomson Gale)
 
• Poetry Criticism (Thomson Gale)
 
• The Importance Of: Edgar Allan Poe (Lucent Books)
 
• The Importance Of: Maya Angelou (Lucent Books)
 
• World Poets (Charles Scribner’s Sons)

Bookmark http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets and celebrate National Poetry Month with Thomson Gale.

For more information, contact Vanessa Birch at vanessa.birch@cengage.com.

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