These are useful resources for poets, songwriters and authors.
- A Rhyme Finder - Rhyming Dictionary from WordDB
WordDB.com's Rhyme Finder is a free online database of rhyming words for poetry and songwriting with a ton of useful features you won't find in other rhyming dictionaries, including filtering words by number of letters or syllables, audio pronunciation of words, and lots more. The site, WordDB, also offers other useful tools such as an anagram solver, word unscrambler and crossword solver.
- Children's Book Council
Web site for adults working with children and children's books. Online catalog of reading encouragement materials. Author/illustrator features; thematic essays and bibliographies; industry news.
- Dictionary.com
Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and reference guide, crossword puzzles and other word games, online translator and Word of the Day.
- Foreign Language Rhyming Dictionaries
Rhyming dictionaries for twenty different languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, German, and many others.
- Glossary of Poetic Terms
A unique guide for the study of poetry, with an extensive range of definitions, cross-references between related terms, informative sidelights, hyperlinked keywords, phonetic pronunciation guides and numerous examples.
- HyperDic hyper-dictionary
An English dictionary in hypertext-format, derived from the WordNet 1.7 lexical database and thesaurus of English words. Each word is linked to different sets of related words, such as similar, opposite, broader or narrower terms.
- Infographics for Writers
A terrific collection of infographics from GrammarCheck.net, especially designed to help improve your writing.
- Literary Devices
LiteraryDevices.net offers an extensive list of literary terms with detailed definition and examples.
- Merriam-Webster Online
Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.
- Playwriting 101
Okay, so this has nothing to do with poetry,but it is a very useful site for playwrights. Enjoy.
- Poetry4kids Online Rhyming Dictionary
The Poetry4kids Free Online Rhyming Dictionary is now up and running. If you write rhyming poems, songs or anything else that needs rhyming words, you'll find our Online Rhyming Dictionary helpful and easy to use.
- Preventing Plagiarism
Preventing plagiarism: a guide for students and educators
- RhymeNow Free Online Rhyming Dictionary
RhymeNow.com is a free online rhyming dictionary that anyone can use to find rhymes for their poems.
- Rhymes.net
Rhymes.net is a unique online rhyming dictionary that contains thousands of rhyme entries for almost any given word.
- RhymeWeaver
Lessons on how to write?for children in rhyme and meter.
- RhymeZone
A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.
- The Purple Crayon
A children's book editor's site, with book lists, articles, and other resources for writers, illustrators, librarians, teachers, and others interested in the publishing of children's books.
- The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators provides online information for members and non-members. SCBWI is dedicated to serving the people who write, illustrate, or share a vital interest in children's books.
- Thesaurus.com
Free online thesaurus of the English Language.
- Tongue Twisters from around the World
The world's largest collection of tongue twisters with 3705 entries in 118 languages, including nearly 600 in English.
- WinningWriters.com
Resources for poets and writers include Poetry Contest Insider, an expert online guide to poetry contests. Sponsors of annual War Poetry Contest and Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest.
- WriteForKids
A web site for children's book writers -- and those who dream of writing a book for kids -- how-to information and inside secrets about writing children's books.
- Writing-World.com
Writing articles and resources; how to write; how to get published.
