POETRY - The Poetry Foundation App Reviews

This app had very few classics on it, needs a lot of work. Would not recommend it.

I love how the poems can be searched by mood or author. The "spinner" idea is very neat as well. Good selection.

They love using the thematically organized spinning wheel to discover poems to read for us at their bedtime. They save long poems as "favorites" and recite them over a few days. Wed like a feature allowing us to mark and return to an exact place within a poem.

great app, very cool, but a dictionary in the app would be an awesome update

This app is a superior app that lets you see poetry from 50+ authors. It lets you pick an emotion such as humor, worried, or even gratitude. Then you pick a topic such as life, youth, or even celebration! Then it searches for the poetry using those topics you chose and finds poems that match what you were searching for. This app also lets you search by poet, moods, and subjects. Also when you are reading a poem you can touch the authors name and some information about the poet pops up. For example when I looked at Shel Silversteins biography it shows that he is a singer-songwriter, a cartoonist, an actor, and an award-winning childrens author. This Is pretty fantastic that you can see what the poets do aside from poetry. Something this app didnt have was a modern spin. It really doesnt need to look modern but it would be nice if it had a little more detail to what the app looked like. Overall a wonderful app. This app is ranked very high on my "Good Apps List". It is very organized and it shown very clearly where everything is placed. Some apps are a little more kid-friendly and this app could be a little more fun and creative. For example they couldve used more colors to show where everything is. Or every section could be color coded. This app really helps you learn how to write poetry in better ways by showing you professional examples from professional poets. This app is overall a very user-friendly app that anyone could use.

Excellent App for casual reading or when you need something inspirational quickly.

Please include an in-app dictionary so you can highlight and define any word! Great app, thank you!

Small app. A lot of well-selected poems. Fun and intuitive. I love the colors. The interface could be refreshed to give more space to the poems themselves. See also the poetry app by Penguin publishers.

This app is great when I was trying to complete a language arts project.The app got me a 4 and, helped me my grade point average.Also I got a variety of poems that I may have never seen if I did not download the app.Thi app was great for Christmas project I had tried to find a poem for my teacher.So I really love this app it is great.WHOO!!!

I use it daily, and I always read each poem out loud. Thanks for the great collection of poetry!

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The iPhone is a computer and computers are at their best when you can interact and connect in new ways - this app lets me connect with poetry wherever I am, however I am feeling. I have used this app for years to pull up poems - just a wonderful thing to experience.

What a great app! I became interested in poetry after taking a Modern Legacies class and our final was reciting famous poems. Mine was the Cremation of Sam McGee which if any of you havent yet heard, its a good one. This convenient app allows me to pull up and read most poems to work on memorizing throughout the week.

Would like to see the option to search by movement and style

Because I was expecting something more linear and prescriptive, it took me a while to warm up to this app. Once I gave in to the inherent happenstance, however, Ive come to use it as a kind of divining rod for mood, temper, mental state, and state of awareness. Of course, Ive met dozens of new poets and read all sorts of unexpected works in the process. Im guessing I use it much like kids do video games, but perhaps without the obsession.

I never write reviews because who has time for that? But this app is the exception. I love the way it makes poetry accessible and fun. You can either spin to randomize the poem selection or you can browse by mood. You can also save favorites to reread or share. After using this app, I wrote some of my own poems. Inspired! This app is the greatest. Check it out.

this app is a surprise found inside a box filled to the brim with data and parts and tunnels to nowhere. this app is a small door in the box where word treasures are kept apart from the head-scratching data. it opens as a flower and invites one to stay awhile, unencumbered by information news messages deadlines music distractions. one can stay as long as one wants...until a sound reminds one of what the box is really for.

This magnificent device leads one from poem to poem, from thought to ideas, skipping mountaintops like a wild goat threatening/offering/beckoning the user onward, upward, deeper into rocky steeps, reminding what our minds and souls are for. Richard Goffman 1/31/16

A tragedy has occurred By Isaiah Taylor I was browsing your app When all of the sudden I noticed a lack Of W. H. Auden! I tapped on the search bar And typed in his name But no Auden beheld there It was really a shame! I know that youre busy And all working hard But without good ole Auden Your app must be marred! Im only a student But Ive got some time Would you but allow me To add in the rhymes? Authors note: Im not sure what your process is for adding poems to the app, but it would be great if there was a way that we laymen could add them. If this isnt possible, the particular Auden poems that I miss dearly are The Shield of Achilles, Epitaph on a Tyrant, and September 1, 1939. Cheers, Isaiah Taylor

This app is such a great idea! But it seems to be pretty incomplete e.g. Famous poems missing like Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Frost and The Tiger by Blake, and point taken about lack of diversity of poets (lots of white folks!). I understand the challenges of needing the poems to be in the public domain or have mobile rights, but the two I cited are easily findable in the Internet and Id expect Blake at least to be in the public domain.