These links will allow you to explore additional innovative teaching practices using poetry in the k-12 English/Language Arts classroom.
Poetry 180 -- Poet Laureate Billy Collins and the Library of Congress team up to offer up 180 different poems (one for every day of the instructional school year).
Fooling with Words
-- The companion site for Bill Moyer's PBS project.
Favorite Poem Project -- Initially
launched in 1997, this site invites readers and writers across the globe
to explore, share, discuss, and read their favorite works.
Internet Poetry Archive -- Listen
and watch as great poets read their work. Very interactive. A student favorite.
Poetic License -- An outlet
for youth poetry resources and collaborative dialogue between educators.
Focuses on performance poetry. Features a poet-to-poet program and related
info.
Online Poetry Classroom
-- A curriculum, resource, and text repository for students and teachers
alike.