Yes, this blog is for lovers of poetry - all kinds of poetry, ancient as well as modern. Our main purpose is to help all of you to find more easily those nice poetry sites among the myriads of pages across the ever-growing Net. It is said that there are pages by the billions on the Internet, and Search Engines are able to index only a percentage of them. Moreover, it is possible that SEs do not retrieve for you that important page. Thus, you, a poet (or, simply a lover of poetry), seeking a little "bread for the soul," starts to feel discouraged by the heap of pages that is hiding that particular one you were hoping to find.

A little of statistics and Keyword popularity

When we searched the word "poetry" in Yahoo, the S.E. retrieved the huge quantity of 81,700,000 web pages containing this word. The question arises, how many of those pages are really useful to comply with our interest? Some answers to this question can be found in Wordtracker's weekly reports on keywords.
Wordtracker's report about keywords (those words we use to query search engines for pages with info on our topic) in the last week of June surprised us, when we found the word "poetry" was positioned in 50th place, in a list of 300 of the most-used words registered by meta search engines in the previous 24 hours. And our surprise was even greater, when we turned to the list of the long term (the past two months) report. There, we found that this same word was in the incredible number 8 position, among the 200 most searched-for words.

Battle of Idealistic vs materialistic people

And what does this means for all of us poets and lovers of poetry? Simply put, it means that there is still a great amount of humanity in our ultra- liberal, materialistic world, and surely poets will be heard, because there is an audience out there.
So here we are, encouraged by those optimistic statistics about the keyword "poetry".
We are humbly displaying our pages in the hope that we may happen to be a torch to light your way in the search for that "little bread for the soul." This has been our introduction. Now, to the subject at hand. The web site chosen to inaugurate our blog is that of the Academy of American Poets. Happy reading!

This outstanding web site of the American poets, was launched in 1997 and receives nearly 400,000 visitors each month. The site has various sections packed with diverse topics relating to poetry. The database of more than 500 well- known poets chocke full of information about them is very important to visit - everybody can access it freely by using either the search options or an alphabetic index. This database includes not only American poets, but also many from other corners of the world and earlier epochs, such as the Roman, Catullus, and South Americans Cesar Vallejo and Pablo Neruda. Needless to say, here it is possible to find some of the finest works of the masters.

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