[CALIBK12] MLA citation question

[Sarah Bosler]

I come across this everytime students do poetry projects. When citing a poem
with an author listed on a website (esp one like this where it originally
appeared in print elsewhere) how would you cite it? The new MLA guidelines
address this topic but it's still not clear when I read about it or try to
fit it into NoodleTools or Citation Machine.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179708

I also come across things like the example below where a poem or song lyric
is listed on a site (possibly along with other lyrics) The song being cited
here is the last one called "An American Dream" by Love & Rockets.

http://loveandrockets.com/lyrics/express.html

I'm inclined to use the author first, the poem title as article title and
the main title of the website as the site name. Sometimes a date is listed,
sometimes not. Even if there is a copyright date for the work elsewhere. I'm
torn between using the title of the poem and the actual page title found in
the browser's title bar (which is where I point kids to look for
article/site titles.

It seems silly to ask but with web sources I get stumped everyone blue moon.
I'm always tempted with websites listing poems to cite the author of the
site first then the article title and name of site.

Help! :) I will at least be comforted to know that you too get stumped
sometimes.

-- 
Sarah Bosler, Teacher Librarian
Chaffey Joint Union High School District
Montclair High School
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Montclair, CA 91791
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