poetry

Useful Links - Poetry

The Poetry Archive	Das britische Poetry Archive, das sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, Audio-Aufnahmen aller bedeutenden angelsächsischen Dichter beim Lesen eigener Werke zugänglich zu machen, erweist sich wenige Tage nach dem Start des Webangebots als Erfolg. Zu dieser Bewertung kommt der britische Dichter Andrew Motion laut einem Gespräch mit der BBC. Motion hatte Poetry Online zusammen mit dem Plattenproduzenten Richard Carrington gegründet. Das Non-Profit-Projekt finanziert sich aus Zuschüssen öffentlicher Stellen und durch Zuwendungen gemeinnütziger Organisationen und durch Privatspenden. Nach Einschätzung des Dichters trägt das Sound-Archiv erheblich zum Verständnis von Gedichten bei. Deren Wirkung im mündlichen Vortrag sei dem Eindruck aus der Lektüre der Druckfassung mindestens ebenbürtig, teilweise erschließe sich der Sinn der Verse erst durch den auditiven Vortrag. Zu lange habe die 'Papierform' der Lyrik deren Deutung dominiert. (Zitat: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/67325 )
Representative Poetry Online	offers a comprehensive overview of classical poetry
Poetry 180	180 works by contemporary poets
Bartleby Anthology of Classical Poetry	With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web.
How to become a poet yourself	webpages that show you examples of poetic creativity
Poetry for Kids	From the moment they arrive at Kenn Nesbitt's poetry site, your students will be laughing too. Kenn posts all his funny poems for kids here first. The most recent rhymes bump the old favorites, so get there quick. You won't want to miss any of the current Funny Forty, which include such funny-bone ticklers as "My Senses All Are Backwards," "Be Grateful for Your Epidermis," and "What to Remember in School." The evolving "how to"- page on rhyme schemes is full of fun and useful tips for aspiring young poets.
Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive	This site, dedicated to the father of modern American poetry, houses all of Whitman's works as well as biographical information, manuscripts, notebooks, letters, and critical reviews. Although the materials here are not specifically intended for classroom use, the Archive in the Classroom section provides a useful collection of suggested activities and projects for teachers.
Listen and Write Home	Teaching pop song lyrics as an approach to poetry is a well-established educational technique, and this British site makes effective use of the strategy. Of course, times have changed, and the current rhythm is rap, but it still works -- and it's a lot of fun! The site includes a discussion of rap, a rap quiz, and several fun raps to listen to. Creative activities engage students in turning a story into a hippo rap, adding to a haunted house rap, and writing raps of their own. When they're done, successful rap writers will want to submit their lyrics to the Wordz R Wilde Showcase!
Sonnet Central	Sonnet Central, "an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, and relevant Web links," provides a wonderful resource for high school teachers tackling the poetry genre. The Java-based navigation tool makes sifting through the site's wealth of materials easy, and the sonnet board and sonnet competitions create a highly interactive experience for sonnet enthusiasts. Aspiring poets can even submit their own sonnets for consideration!
Poetry Pals	The Peter Burnett Academy in San Jose, California, hosts this poetry project, which offers K through 12 students from around the world the opportunity to publish original work. Every two months, the site features a different style of poetry, and students can submit poems in the featured style. This year's styles include autobiographical poems, cinquain, diamante, acrostics, rhyming and limericks, and haiku. The site also includes information about poetry forms, lesson plans, a click-and-drag magnetic poetry page, and links to the poetry pages of participating classes.
The HyperTexts	*What are The HyperTexts? Where do we find the most intense, the most highly charged works in the English language?* Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. If it arouses your curiosity that A. E. Housman was able to capture something essential about war, death, youth, honor and humanity in two perfect sentences, perhaps The HyperTexts is a site you'll enjoy exploring.
Poets on poets	*Poets on Poets* is an audio archive of Romantic-period poems selected and read by practicing poets from around the world. These poets have chosen poems they particularly admire, and some have provided audio commentary on how the poem has influenced their work.