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Playing Around with Poetry

This unit plan includes hyperlinks to background reading for teachers on poetic forms, examples of student work, and a self-assessment sheet.

http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/poetry/home.html

PBS NewsHour Extra: Poetry

Learn poetry's rules, tools, and forms. Submit a poem, find poetry lesson plans, and link to the Favorite Poem Project. Click NewsHour Poetry Index Page for seasonal poems.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/poetry/

Poetry Styles

This resource encourages literacy through teaching students different forms of poetry.

http://members.cox.net/berniehpoetry/index2.html

Craft of Poetry

This site studies writing poems in rhyme, meter, and inherited forms. Try using blank verse, line and meter, couplet, rhyme and music, quatrain, sonnet, sestina, and more.

http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/

Modern American Poetry

This is really an awesome website that organizes some 160 poets into sub webs.  You click on the name of the poet and then get to a sub site just about them.  The emphasis at each site depends on the category the poetry fits in.  "Extraordinary in its depth and breadth, and a one-of-a-kind resource for teaching modern American poetry, MAPS provides a single clearinghouse for some of the best criticism on the best poets of our time." Richard Powers

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm

Glossary of Poetic Terms

The glossary of poetic terms presented on this site features " Phonetic pronunciation ,Cross references, Broad range of definitions, Numerous examples, A wealth of poetic quotations, Writers' guidelines, Hyper-linked keywords & cross references"

http://www.poeticbyway.com/gl-a.html