Poetry

Lots of videos and ideas to watchPoetry slams, Billy Collins, etc.

Exploring Poetic Elements - video of Grade 10 Wm. Wordsworth "The World is Too Much With Us" -The Teaching Channel

Digital Poetry - cool visuals - the new poetry of this generation. Digital Poetry Blog

Poetry Friday Roundups - Bloggers present a poem each Friday. Kidlitosphere

2012 American Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Trethewey is mixed race (white father, black mother) and was born in Mississippi in 1966, a time when Jim Crow segregation laws were still in effect. By marrying (they went out of state to do so), her parents broke Mississippi’s miscegenation laws. Great Blog about one her poems,"Flounder", about her race: Better Living Through Beowulf Blog

Free multimedia educational resources online -annotated poems, discussion questions, writing ideas, poem guides, teaching tips fantastic - At Poetry Foundation Poetry Learning Lab A Vietnamese form of poetry Luc Bat

Sarah Kay "If I Ever Have a Daughter" spoken poetry - Ted videomedia type="custom" key="18411100" width="80" height="80" align="left"

Taylor Mali "What Teachers Make" media type="youtube" key="0xuFnP5N2uA" height="275" width="340"

we ever have class IPADS - Ican dream Seven apps for poetry Blog