Poetry+links

Poetry resources
[] Poetry resources for teens
 * Local links**

[] Poetry GSO

http://www.gcsnc.com/pdfs/07_hs_poets_laureate.pdf 2007 //Word// booklet

http://www.friendsofgpl.org/ Friends of the Greensboro Public Library

http://www.ncwriters.org/ North Carolina Writers Network. Information about North Carolina writers, conferences, literary calendar, and the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.

http://www.msrogers.com/English2/poetry/30_days_of_poetry.htm Thirty days of poetry writing assignments.
 * Classroom writing**

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetrygeneral.html General poetry writing resources from Web English Teacher.

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/poetry/poem.html Enhancing a poetry unit with American Memory resources from the Library of Congress.

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/poetry/poem.html Poetry lessons for teachers and students. Good lists of onomotopoeias and allitieration.

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3035 An integrated poetry unit from LearnNC, a North Carolina resource.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/poetry.htm Outta Ray's Head poetry lessons. Lots of links to teacher's lessons on specific topics/technique -- haiku, sonnets

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm Interactive poetry forms. Plug in the words and it creates the form.

http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/ Craft of poetry is a writing course with specific examples of couplets, imagery, sestinas and other forms.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june00/poetryboxlessonplanone.html Using a poetry slam to teach the mechanics of poetry lesson from pbs.
 * Poetry readings**

http://www.poetryslam.com/ Poetry Slam, Inc. site with lots of information about competitions.

http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=148 Virtual poetry slam ideas. Record students reading their own poetry and upload to [|http://www.teachertube.com]

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ Poetry Out Loud competition. Recitation of famous poems, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation. Resources and lesson plans.


 * Media Center promotion**

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html History from the Library of Congress
 * History of the United States Poet Laureate**

__ http://www.poets.org/ __ National Poetry Month is sponsored by this rich link with information about poets, daily poetry, poetry store and featured books. Great collection of lesson plans for teachers.
 * Poetry links**

[] Poetry web site of the Library of Congress.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml Poetry from the BBC. Listen to poets reading their own work. Has a DIY poetry kit using Shockwave that's fun to work with [|here].

http://www.favoritepoem.org/ Favorite poem project. Americans upload themselves reading their favorite poem. Robert Pinsky's addition from his time as the United States Poet Laureate.

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ A poem a day to read and hear from Billy Collins tenure as the United States Poet Laureate.

http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/ A newspaper column a day featuring a poem and information about that poem by Ted Kooser as the United States Poet Laureate.

http://www.poems.com/ Poetry daily features a new poem every day. Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation.

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/ Poet's corner. Large collection of published poems, mostly older.

http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html Glossary of poetic terms.
 * Glossaries, dictionaries, collections**

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/ Glossary of literary and rhetorical terms (Jack Lynch)

http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form. Browse 48,000 approved limericks by topic, author or word.

http://www.rhymezone.com/ Rhyming dictionary.