Poetry+Resources

General Poetry Resources
[|Poets.org] great collection and search function (by line, theme, poem, poet) [|Poetry 180:] Former poet laureate Billy Collins created this site just for high school students. Some schools read one a day for the school year (180!) [|Poetry Out Loud] a great searchable collection Youtube channel for the [|Dodge Poetry Festival] or the [|Dodge Poetry Festival Collection of Video]
 * For use with your poetry log:**

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 * For Listening and Watching Poetry:**

[|Library of Congress Audio recordings] Hear poets read their own poetry! [|Laurable's Audio links:] More poetry audio links [|Favorite Poem Project]: videos of Americans reading their favorite poems; fantastic teaching ideas on the education link [|Video Links:] from the PBS page of contemporary poets reading their work [|UCBerkley links] mostly audio links; great resource [|PBS Poetry Everywhere] great series of video of contemporary poets [|Poetry Outloud] in addition to a great searchable collection, a great video collection of high school students reciting poetry

For Creating Poetry: Spiney Poems: see the work of [|Nina Katchadourian] Spiney Poems: see the work of [|Nina Katchadourian] William Carlos Williams and Imagist Poetry

Background on [|William Carlos Williams] [|"This is Just To Say"] Listen to this short excerpt from the show // [|This American Life] // media type="youtube" key="Kli2sqKntz0" width="560" height="315" media type="youtube" key="0d5bLf0gq2Q" width="420" height="315"

[|Sestina builder]


 * Haiku horseplay: **


 * Three line Japanese poetry
 * 17 syllables total
 * Line 1: 5
 * Line 2: 7
 * Line 3: 5
 * Make every word matter
 * Shun adjectives, needless conjunctions
 * Set in present
 * Focus on sense: see, touch, smell, taste, sound

Make two about English class: poetry, grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing

Make two about anything else (here are some suggestions to get you thinking): pop culture, news event, HC traditions, family quirks

My examples:

Mr. Darcy looks:

No girl beautiful enough!

Lizzy surprises!

Sentence diagrams,

spider webs across the page;

my headache now starts.

Dinnertime Drama:

Sister wounds sister with words.

Please pass the salt now.

To create imagery-linked poems
1. Select poem from poetry resources. 2. Copy/paste or type poem in word. 3. Select the most vivid images from the poem and highlight. (you need six hyperlinked images!) 4. Go to insert hyperlink. 5. Find picture in [|creative commons from Flickr]. 6. Begin bibliography on [|easybib]. 7. Before you finish the citation, add annotation by clicking the annotation button. 8. Put the annotated bibliography on the bottom of the hyperlinked poem page.

Outcome: Upload your hyperlinked poem and annotated bibliography to dropbox. You will be sharing these with the class on Friday.

[|Pablo Neruda on Poetry Foundation]