In Text Poetry Citation

- If you quote part or all of a single line of verse that does not require special emphasis, put it in

quotation marks within your text. You may also incorporate two or three lines in this way, using a

slash with a space on each side to separate each line ( / ).

Example:
Reflecting on the "incident" in Baltimore, Cullen concludes, "Of all the things that happened there /

That's all I remember" (11-12).

- Quotations of more than three lines should begin on a new line. Unless the quotation includes

unusual spacing, indent each line one inch from the left margin. Still use double spacing. DO NOT

use quotation marks.

Example:
Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room" is rich in evocotive detail:

It was winter. It got dark

early. The waiting room

was full of grown-up people,

arctics and overcoats,

lamps and magazines. (6-10)

- When a verse quotation begins in the middle of a line, the partial line should be positioned where it

is in the original and not shifted to the left margin.

Example:

I remember

he glanced at me in just that way, independent

and unabashed, the handsome sidelong look (43-45).

 

In List of Works Cited

A Poem Within An Anthology

Last name, First Name. "Title of Poem". Title of Anthology. Ed. First Name and Last Name of Editor.

Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication. Pages.

Allende, Isabel. "Toad's Mouth". Poems and Selected Letters. Ed. Margaret Peden. Chicago:

University of Chicago, 1998. 35-38.

 

A Poem from an Online Source

Last name, First Name. "Title of Poem". Title of Site. Name of Editor of Site(if given). Date of

Electronic Publication or of latest update. Date of access <url>.

 

Allende, Isabel. "Toad's Mouth". Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Ed. Steven van Leeuwen. 2002.

5 May 2002 <http.www.bartleby.com/>.