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PoetryTeachers.com

Inspire your students to love the reading and writing of poetry with this site that includes fun poetry activities, teaching tips, and more. (Learn more)

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Provided by: Meadowbook Press

Poetry (Library of Congress)

Learn about Poet Laureates, listen to webcasts of poets reading their own poems, and get updates of news and events on poetry at this site from the Library of Congress. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Library of Congress

National Poetry Month

Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, this site celebrates poetry all year long! This website contains useful resources and links to read, learn, and teach poetry. One of the links includes poems to teach, "compiled by the Teachers & Writers Collaborative,... (Learn more)

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Provided by: The Academy of American Poets

Giggle Poetry

Poems about school and fun, read 'em, rate 'em, write just one! (Learn more)

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Provided by: Meadowbrook Press

Poetic Power

Dedicated to publishing accepted poetry and essays. Additional resources are available to teachers of poetry and literature arts. (Learn more)

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Provided by: Creative Communication

Poet's Corner

Read the poems and biographies of such notable poets as Walt Whitman, Dante Alighieri, John Donne, Edgar Allan Poe, and many others. Take a quiz to test your poetry knowledge and learn how to look at a poem critically. Not enough? This site includes links... (Learn more)

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Provided by: Gale Group Inc. 2000

Poets.org: The American Academy of Poets

The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets. Its website provides a rich collection of essays, interviews of poets, biographies, poems, audio clips, teacher resources, and much more. (Learn more)

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Provided by: The American Academy of Poets

Fooling With Words with Bill Moyer

A companion site for the 1999 PBS series chronicling the 1998 Geraldine K. Dodge Poetry Festival. It provides poems from featured poets at the festival, links to online poetry related resources, lesson plans, teaching strategies, and more. (Learn more)

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Provided by: PBS

Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest

Join high school students from across the nation in this contest that encourages high school students to memorize and perform great poems. (Learn more)

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Favorite Poem Project

Find over 50 short video documentaries of both common and eminent Americans reading aloud their favorite poem and explaining why it is special to them. Also find selected poetry and lesson plans. (Learn more)

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Provided by: Boston University

Poetry 180: a poem a day for american high schools

Former Poet Laureate of the United States, Billy Collins, has selected 180 poems for high school students, one for each day of the school year. Who can resist such titles as "Cartoon Physics," "Biscuit," "Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the... (Learn more)

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Provided by: Library of Congress

Confederate Broadsides Poetry Collection

Digital images of over 250 examples of poems written by Southerners and Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War. (Learn more)

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Provided by: Wake Forest University, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Internet Poetry Archive

Text and audio recordings of seven poets including Phillip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection

Four early notebooks of Walt Whitman that contain fragments of the poem "Song of Myself," trial lines of poetry and prose, Civil War hospital notes, and personal jottings on a wide range of subjects. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Library of Congress

Poets' Corner

Poets, poems, biographical information and references to print and other online collections. Interesting features include American Folk Songs and Spirituals, a subject index and a chronological index. A mega-poetry site with nearly 7000 poems and 800 poets! (Learn more)

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Provided by: The Other Pages

The Stars and Stripes - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919

The newspaper written by servicemen for servicemen was created to improve morale and provide unity within the American forces during World War I. Included in the newspaper was news from the home front, poetry, sports and cartoons. (Learn more)

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Provided by: Library of Congress

Lyrical Legacy: 400 Years of American Song and Poetry

Explore eighteen American songs and poems that are housed in the Library of Congress. (Learn more)

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Provided by: Library of Congress

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

Images of artifacts, a library of relevant texts, essays, eyewitness accounts, contemporary journalism and popular illustrations, imaginative forms such as fiction and poetry and painting, and more describe the Great Fire, Chicago's recovery, and the way this... (Learn more)

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Provided by: Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University

WINC Writers and Illustrators of North Carolina

Learn more about children's books published by North Carolinians when the authors and illustrators come and visit your classroom, media center, or conference. (Learn more)

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Cultures of the Andes

A straightforward website that includes many resources for learning about the Andes cultures. Find videos, photos, language guides, jokes, poetry, and more. (Learn more)

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Provided by: www.andes.org