National Poetry Month Resources

If ever there was a national celebration made for literature teachers, this is it. So many resources, so many opportunities for total immersion in poetry. One of our high school teachers is asking her students to read a poem a day and respond to it in a writing journal, so I pulled together a list of web sources that will make it easy for students to find a new and different poem each night. Most of these sites also have some way to subscribe so the daily poem comes right to your e-mail or newsreader. How cool is that?

National Poetry Websites

• Poetry Foundation.org (site of Poetry magazine)
• Poetry Daily (a new poem each day)
• Poetry 180 - a poem a day for High School students , from the Library of Congress
• Favorite Poem Project -- Americans reading their favorite poems out loud, begun in 1997 by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
• Poets.org -- Academy of American Poets Poem a Day archive
• Poetry Out Loud - resource site for a poetry recitation competition, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts & the Poetry Foundation
• Poem-a-Day from Knopf

Poem a Day blogs

• Writing and Ruminating - blog of children's author Kelly Fineman; lots of poetry analysis, link is to poetry posts
• I'm Here, I'm Queer, What the Hell Do I Read? - blog of YA author Lee Wind; link is to GLBTQ poem posts
• 30 Poets, 30 Days at Gottabook blog -- daily posts with a previously unpublished poem by a young adult or children's author, including many by authors of col

PLUS Poetry lesson plans and ideas from my new best friend,
The New York Times Learning Network:
"11 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month with the New York Times"