POETRY WEBSITES
for National Poetry Month and Beyond

Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/

Cafe Haiku Links to Coffee and Haiku

http://caffeinesociety.com/links.html

Favorite Poem Project: Americans saying the poems they love
http://www.bu.edu/favoritepoem/

National Poetry Month
http://www.poets.org/npm/
Home page for the second annual National Poetry Month. Includes Create-A Poem and Links to expand your spectrum of poetry.

Online Poetry Classroom
http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org

PIZZAZ!
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html

A great site, featuring explanations of many different kids of poetry suitable for classroom use, from limericks to haiku to quatrains. The site is aimed at older ESL students, but the activities can be adapted for standard classrooms.

Poets Corner
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/index.htm

Activities and information for students and teachers

RhymeZone

http://www.rhymezone.com
Find rhymes, near rhymes, homophones, synonyms, and semantic siblings of any English word.
Ideas for writing poetry and lyrics.

Web English Teachers
: poetry collections, poetic forms and styles, and poets
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetry.html

Thanks to Edith Fuller from the Portland Public Schools Professional Library
for this list of resources, except the link to Cafe Haiku. for which we thank Jon Labrousse.

April, 2005
Contact: Sam Arnold