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QUESTION:
Where can I find about more info about poets and samples of their work?

The Writer's Almanac is a column by Garrison Keillor, featuring a new poem every day (you can listen to the poem as well as read it). You can also learn about interesting literary events that happened on a particular day.

Poetry Daily: An anthology of contemporary poetry, published a new poem every day from books, magazines and journals currently in print.

Poets.org: The Academy of American Poets. This site has a wealth of resources for anyone interesting in reading and writing poetry. Includes a searchable database where you can enter a particular poet or poem as a search term.

Poetry Archive: "The Poetry Archive includes a range of resources specially designed to help students. Alongside the recordings, you will find a wealth of background material on the poets, which will help you understand the context for their work. There are filmed interviews with some of them, so you can see and hear them giving the inside story on their writing lives. The Archive is a great place for students to research and learn about poetry. But it's also a place for you to explore and enjoy, to listen to old favourites, make new discoveries, relax and just listen."

AmericanPoems.com: Poets listed by birthdate and name.

Poets' Corner: "The goal of this project is to create a user-friendly library of works that promotes browsing and exploring through a site that spans thousands of works by hundreds of authors covering thousands of years."

EveryPoet.com: Poetry forums, poetry classics archive, poetry generators, reading recommendations, "Find a Poet" directory, links to poetry publications and resources.

About Poetry: Part of the About.com site. Lots of poetry articles, resources, how-to tips.

Poetry Archives: An educational resource to aid students, educators, and the curious. "We have collected thousands of classical poems to help you recall fond memories or to help create new ones. Our database is searchable by first-line, author and poem title by key words using the search feature located on the top right corner of each page."