English Literature

• Literary Sources (Gale) A collection of several literary databases, searchable in one interface.
• MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) The primary database for literary and film scholarship.
• Primary Sources (Gale) Search across our Gale primary source databases; find historical newspapers and primary documents, mainly from the United States and Great Britain.

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  Includes the Times (London) and Economist historical archives, and a wide range of early modern/colonial British and American primary sources.

• Black Drama Contains plays written by black playwrights and/or highlighting black experiences, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
• HathiTrust Digital Library A digital preservation repository that provides access to millions of digitized materials from libraries around the world. For enhanced access to materials, log into HathiTrust using your Macalester email credentials.

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• Academic Search Premier Interdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.

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• Literary Encyclopedia Authoritative reference work that includes biographies of major and minor writers in world literature; scholarly descriptions of their texts; and essays on the literary, cultural, and historical contexts that influenced their writing.

• Poetry Foundation The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. Contains overviews and poems from a wide range of notable poets.

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  PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884, PMLA has published members’ essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature.
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  Poetry The Poetry Foundation's monthly journal.
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  The Kenyon Review Founded in 1939, the Kenyon Review is published by Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. They primarily publish poems and short stories.

• Button Poetry Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for performance poetry. They seek to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community.
• Cow Tipping Press Cow Tipping Press applies lean startup principles to create just that—an opportunity to relish assets rather than pity deficits of our peers with disabilities through the unique lens of creative writing.
• Coffee House Press Coffee House Press creates new spaces for audiences and artists to interact, inspiring readers and enriching communities by expanding the definition of what literature is, what it can do, and to whom it belongs.
• Milkweed Editions Milkweed Editions is a nonprofit publisher of literature for adults and young adults based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They believe that literature has the potential to change the way we see the world, and that bringing new voices to essential conversations is the clearest path to ensuring a vibrant, diverse, and empowered future.
• Graywolf Press Graywolf Press is a Minneapolis nonprofit literary publisher of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and work in translation. They have published books such as Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead that are read, taught, and appreciated by the Macalester community.
• Loft Literary Center The Loft Literary Center holds classes and literary events to support up-and-coming community writers. Their mission is to advance the artistic development of writers, foster a thriving literary community, and inspire a passion for literature.