Sunday, April 03, 2005

April is Poetry Month

"Poetry: the best words in the best order." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Celebrate Poetry Month! Learn more about this wonderful art form, and find a poem that inspires or motivates you, by visiting the links below.

American Literature: Poetry
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761596671/American_Literature_Poetry.html
Read this informative article to learn about the origins, development and different forms of American poetry, from the 1600s to the present.

National Poetry Month
http://www.poets.org/npm/
http://www.poets.org/npm/faq.cfm#1 (FAQs about National Poetry Month)

The Academy of American Poets: Find a Poet
http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm
Search the Academy's growing database (it currently includes more than 450 poets) for biographies, photos, and other information.

The Academy of American Poets: Find a Poem
http://www.poets.org/poems/search.cfm
Search the Academy's companion database of poems (1,200 and growing) by keyword for poem text, or browse lists of titles and/or first lines.

Slam Poetry
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Slam_poetry
Poetry? A competitive event? Learn more about this form of performance poetry, in which the delivery is as important as the quality of the poetry itself.

Background on Slam Poetry
http://www.slamnation.com/info/backgrnd.htm
Read about the history of the Poetry Slam as a competitive performance event, and learn the rules, too, by reading this brief article, and checking out some of the links available at this site.

SITES FOR TEACHERS
Teach Now! National Poetry Month
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/k_2theme/poetry.htm

Education World: Poetry Month
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/poetrymonth.shtml

Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm

Poetry Forms and Terminology
http://thewordshop.tripod.com/forms.html

Glossary of Poetic Terms
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acrostic

FAVORITE POETS
Shel Silverstein
http://shelsilverstein.com/html/home.html

Edward Lear
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/lear.htm

Selected Poetry of Edward Lear (1812-1888)
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet200.html

Dr. Seuss: Seussville
http://www.seussville.com/

The Academy of American Poets: Robert Frost
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=196

Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems
http://www.bartleby.com/113/

Modern American Poetry: Emily Dickinson's Life
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dickinson/bio.htm

Nobelprize.org: T. S. Eliot
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html

Modern American Poetry: T. S. Eliot's Life and Career
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/life.htm

The Literature Network: William Shakespeare
http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/
Visitors to this site will find a biography of Shakespeare, and links to the full text of his tragedies, histories, comedies, and selected poetry.

Shakespeare of Stratford
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/

"Search Oxford Shakespeare"
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/shakespeare/poetry/

Langston Hughes
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm