| Title |
Author/Organization |
Brief description |
What you liked / didn't like |
Your name |
| poetry4kids.com |
Kenn Nesbitt |
This website is a callaboration of fun artwork, games, books, and most importantly poetry. It is geared towards children, but is a fun break that reminds me of the simplicity and excitment in poetry. |
I think it's great this website exists and gives young viewers and young poets a chance to be active in a poetry site. There are so many great adult poetry sites, but few for children. |
Emily Santiago |
| poetrydances.com |
Anthony Charles French (founder) |
This website is formatted in more of a blog style. It offers a nice selection of poems and more modern poets. It also provides links to literary editors, other poetry sites, and social networks to other poetry readers! |
I liked that the site was geared towards the readers more than just the poems. Different things such as request and comment link are available. One of my favorite features was the Poem Of The Day! I thought it got readers intrigued to explore different poets. I didn't like how you couldn't just type in a poet and see their work. What is on the website in their select catagories, and that is what is offered. This can really narrow your search, but it also forces you to look at new poets. |
Emily Santiago |
| poemhunter.com |
Various Poets and Artists |
This website offers information on a wide range of poems, poets, and quotes. It offers a search bar where all you have to do is type in your request. For instance, I was researching a sonnett, and it listed an entire selection of sonnetts. |
This was a great website that offered examples of almost any type of poem, quote, poet, etc. It was excellent in helping me when I needed one specific poem. Although it offers a nice selection of examples, I wish that it had a few more examples of poems. They give you on average 5-8 per search, which is good, I just like a wide selection. Still, it's a great resource. It offers links to other helpful poetry sites. |
Emily Santiago |
|
The Practice of Poetry
(bookshelf)
|
Ed. Robin Behn and Chase Twichell |
Short chapters written by poets, each focused on an exercise in writing poetry, preparing to write poetry, improving a poem, etc. Each lesson includes section at end that explains the goal of the exercise. |
AWESOME resource. There are so many different approaches here, most of them tried and tested in workshops conducted by experienced poets. Breaks the process of writing poetry wide open; will make you WANT to sit down and write. |
Ms. H. |
| Sound and Sense (bookshelf) |
Laurence Perrine |
Comprehensive introduction to poetry. |
Classic resource used by many AP Eng. instructors. Perrine can be a bit stuffy, but it's a worthy resource. |
Ms. H. |
| Poetry 101: Resources for Beginners |
Academy of American Poets |
Several great pages -- explains forms and techniques, schools and movements, recommended reading, etc. |
Excellent. If you've wanted to try using forms, you could begin with the guide here. |
Ms. H. |
|
Poets' Workshop: Where Poets Get Schooled
|
Academy of American Poets |
Practical exercises for writing poetry, written for teens. |
This is a part of the poets.org web site, and most exercises here involve reading / listening to a poem in the collection before writing. You can click on the linked title to immediately access the poem -- this is REALLY helpful. |
Ms. H. |
| The Poetry Foundation |
The Poetry Foundation |
"The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience." |
Lots of stuff to explore here, including podcasts, full texts of many poems, a good search tool, poems of the day, etc. Very comprehensive. |
Ms. H. |
| 66 Experiments |
Charles Bernstein, poet
on Language is a Virus web site
|
Writing prompts for poets. |
Fun list. Some of these involve using search engines in creative ways.
|
Ms. H. |
| Electronic Poetry Kits |
Language is a Virus |
Click on famous poets' names to access "electronic poetry kits" (online magnetic poetry) that use words from their poems. |
A good way to explore new words and observe the way a collection of words can begin to evoke tone, images, etc. |
Ms. H. |
| Creative Writing Widgets |
Language is a Virus |
More widgets like the one above |
See for yourself. |
Ms. H. |
|
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
(bookshelf)
"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
|
William Carlos Williams |
Opens with a series of poems in response to paintings by Brueghel. Very famous poems; collection won Pulitzer for poetry.
"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is most famous of these poems.
Click here to view the painting.
|
Try using these as a model for writing poems in response to paintings. If you choose paintings at The Nelson, we should be able to get high resolution digital reproductions. |
Ms. H. |
| Poetry Writing: Top 10 Tips |
Kara Ziehl |
Ten tips for writing poetry. Thoroughly explains the tips and uses examples. Good for young writers. |
Uses examples. Gives very basic tips, like avoiding cliches. These easy to remember tips can make a big difference. |
Sinead McDonough |
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