What happened to the old poetry com website?
In 2009, the ILP finally went bust, and the Poetry.com domain was acquired by self-publishing service Lulu.com (I blogged about this when it happened).
How do I find my poem?
Searching the Web. It is often possible to identify a long-lost poem by going to an Internet search engine and searching on unique names, places, words, or phrases that appear in the poem; potential words in the poem's title; or the poet's possible first or last name.
How do I find an old poem?
Go to a text archive.
When you've forgotten the name of the poet, but remember that the poem is a classic, a text archive can help. Specifically, seekers can go to major poetry text archives, which have internal search capabilities. Searches like “Classic Poetry Text Archives” will bring this up quickly.
How do I find a poem that was published?
You can search on a poem title, such as “Bereft,” to review (or at least learn about) the pages of the book on which the word/title appears. Some pages may not be available, but if you're lucky, you can find the page with the poem's entry—in this case, page 24—and it will list the poem's first publication date.