- Albany Poets, Inc.
A membership organization in Albany, NY, organized to promote poetry, poets, and the local community. The site offers a calendar of events and other information for the Albany poetry community, calls for submissions to be featured on the Web site, poetry tutorials, and a BBS.
http://www.albanypoets.com/
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- Forrest Fest
The annual poetry festival in West Texas features local, area, and international poets and musicians. Details about upcoming and past fests, including workshops, contests and more, are available on site.
http://www.forrestfest.com/
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- Gemini Ink
A nonprofit, independent literary center in San Antonio, Texas. Provides university and master level classes; discounted to members. Produces performance poetry productions and readings open to the public at no charge.
http://www.geminiink.org/
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- PEN American Center
Organization works to defend freedom of expression and resist censorship worldwide, promotes reading, forums, literary awards, PEN America (Journal), ethnic minorities outreach, prison writing program, writers fund for professional literary writers facing financial crisis, promotes translation into English, panels, readings, and forums for children's book authors.
http://www.pen.org
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- Poetry Society of Texas
Founded to promote public recognition of the art of poetry, and encourage writing of poetry by Texans. Offers outreach program, education and publication opportunities, fellowship and support to members. Information about membership, events, programs and contests available to members and the public.
http://members.tripod.com/psttx/
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- PoetryFoundation.org
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in American culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
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- Poets House
Poets House is a literary center and poetry archive - a collection and meeting place that invites poets and the public to join the living tradition of poetry.
http://www.poetshouse.org
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- Spoken Word of Tulsa
Nonprofit organization formed to develop a collaborative atmosphere fostering professional mentorship and advancement of regional artists in conjunction with the spoken word. Calendar of spoken word events in Tulsa, OK. Emphasis on slam poetry.
http://www.swot.org/
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- Texas Nafas
Non-profit organization that produces programming for television and educational videos. Includes program schedule, history, people and information about available DVDs.
http://texasnafas.org/
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- The Academy of American Poets
An organization with a national membership that supports American poets at all stages of their careers. Provides an information database on recognized contemporary poets, their educational and promotional programs, and events.
http://www.poets.org/
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- The Poetry Factory
Located in Southwestern Michigan, the organization is sponsored by the Berrien Artist Guild, and features monthly readings by exceptional poets, a yearly Poetry Workshop Weekend, and a monthly poetry open mic.
http://www.poetryfactory.net
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- The Saturday Poets
A nonprofit organization in San Mateo, CA, that focuses on contemporary free verse. Sponsors readings and workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area. See site for events calendar and information on pending release of journal and publication information.
http://www.saturdaypoets.org/
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- Writer's Garret
A literary center that offers live readings, classes, workshops, educational programs, panels, salons, forums, outreach programs and special events. Publishes ¡TEX!, a journal of contemporary literature.
http://writersgarret.org/
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