• National Poetry Month from The Academy of American Poets
  

• EDSITEment's Montly Page -- National Poetry Month  (http://edsitement.neh.gov/monthly_feature.asp)

• LII Poetry Resources (http://lii.org/search?m=p&query=poetry&searchtype=keywords)

• The Austin Public Library  (http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/news/nr20030416.htm)

• American Academy of Poets  (http://www.poets.org)
• Use the links find a poet; find a poem in the left sidebar  (http://www.poets.org/index.cfm)
• Request Poetry month poster (http://www.poets.org/npm/kitorder.cfm)
• Sharon Olds receives Academy 68th Fellowship (http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C040500)
• American Poetry and Literacy Project (http://www.poets.org/aplp)
• Across State Lines: America's 50 States as Represented in Poetry (http://www.poets.org/aplp/50states.cfm)
• Find a Poem (http://www.poets.org/poems/Search.cfm): Our site currently includes more than twelve hundred poems, with new ones being added all the time. Now you can search for text within a poem, or browse the list by title or first line. If your favorite poem isn't here, let us know and maybe we'll post it.  Some of the poems included are:  "Harriet Tubman" by Eloise Greenfield, "Write about a radish..." by Karla Kuskin, "God went to beauty school" by Cynthia Rylant, "Sick" by Shel Silverstein, "To people I hear talking loudly on their cell phones" by James Stevenson, "My soul" by Ember Ward.
• Free poetry curriculum units  (http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org)
• Poetry map (http://www.poets.org/map):  state by state listings of poets, poetry journals, poetry organizations, small presses, poet laureates, reading series, conferences, literary festivals, creative writing programs, etc.
• Example, click on a state, California, then on a poet, Philip Levine, and a poem, "Gospel"
• If a poet is not listed, you can search by name, i.e., Jack Kerouac (http://www.poets.org/search/search.cfm).
• Poets.org Update  (http://www.poets.org/academy/contact.cfm), a bimonthly electronic newsletter, will tell you what poets, poems, and other features have been added most recently.

• American Verse Project (http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse): This is an electronic archive of approximately 175 volumes of American poetic berse published prior to 1920.  Search features include: Simple, Proximity, Boolean, plus a Word Index.  These texts may be copied freely by individuals for personal use, research, and teaching (including distribution to classes) as long as their statement of availability is included in the text.

• British Women Romantic Poets (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/index.htm):  This collection consists of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written between 1789 and 1832.  Complete texts are included that are not readily accessible from other sources, and often may not be well known, or are only beginning to be of interest to scholars.

• Representative Poetry On-Line (http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm): This excellent collection of the great poets of the English language includes about 2,500 English poems by 403 poets.  Time period ranges from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.  Included is an extensive collection of criticism, both in verse and prose forms.  The collection is indexed by access by: poet, title, date, keyword, and first line.  There is a timeline and glossary included.

• Poetry Daily (http://www.poems.com): This site provides a new contemporary poem, some for mature readers, for every day of  the year.  They are arranged in a continuous timeline index.  A brief biographical sketch of each poet is included as a link at the end of the poem, along with a link to the publisher of the original printed source of the poem.  Click on the link for the poem of the day or  "Previously on Poetry Daily" link for the archives of poems.

• Favorite Poem Project (http://www.bu.edu/favoritepoem): Created by Rober Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, this collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love.  The text of the poems are included.  Many of the videos are quite moving and are highly engaging.

• Haiku Resources from National Endowment for the Humanities (http://edsitement.neh.gov)
• Can you haiku? (http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=250): Grades 3-5.  Students learn the rules and conventions of haiku, study examples by Japanese masters, and create haiku of their own.
• The world of haiku (http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=305): Grades 6-8.  Explore the traditions and conventions of haiku and compare this classic form of Japanese poetry to a related genre of Japanese visual art.
• Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're welcome (http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=399): Grades 9-12.  This unit on the Japanese poetic form tanka encourages students to explore the structure and content of the form and to arrive at a definition of the tanka’s structure in English. Students will read and analyze the tanka form and compare it to English structures of poetry, and will finally compose their own tankas.
 
• A fun site with funny poems! A must see! (http://www.gigglepoetry.com)
 
• International Library of Poetry  (http://www.poetry.com):  Take the poetry I.Q.quiz in the right sidebar. Find poems in the "100 best lists", or "Our world of poetry" in the right sidebar.
  
 
• Poetry Archives  (http://www.emule.com/poetry)
Check out the Classic Poets, Random Poems, Top Poems, and Top Authors links
on the left sidebar.
 
• Representative Poetry On Line  (http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm)
Search for poems by the poet index, the poem index, or random search bars at
the top of the page.
 
• Poetry Society of America  (http://www.poetrysociety.org)
Check out the Poetry in Motion link and come up with some ideas. Check out
the Favorite Poem Project link.
 
• Poetry 180  (http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180)
A poem a day for American high schools from the Library of Congress.
 

"I Love the Look of Words" by Maya Angelou from Soul Looks Back in Wonder
by Tom Feelings

Popcorn leaps, popping from the floor
of a hot black skillet
and into my mouth.
Black words leap,
snapping from the white
page. Rushing into my eyes. Sliding
into my brain which gobbles them
the way my tongue and teeth
chomp the buttered popcorn.

<>When I have stopped reading,
ideas from the words stay stuck
in my mind, like the sweet
smell of butter perfuming my
fingers long after the popcorn
is finished.
I love the book and the look of words
the weight of ideas that popped into my mind
I love the tracks
of new thinking in my mind.  
Maya Angelou ©1993



JACK PRELUTSKY RESOURCES


• Prelutsky from Poetry Foundation (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.children.html?id=178694)
  

• Poetry Foundation Names Jack Prelutsky First Children’s Poet Laureate--  (http://poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_092706.html)

• Poets.org  (http://www.poets.org)  Search for Prelutsky

• Prelutsky’s own site  (http://www.jackprelutsky.com/)

• Jack Prelutsky Teacher Resource File  (http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/prelutsky.htm)

• Poem Hunter  (http://www.poemhunter.com/jack-prelutsky/)  (commercial)

SONGS

• Lyrics World (http://www.ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/main_index): Find the lyrics to many popular song here.  It contains lyrics for song found in Top 40 Hits of 1930-1999, the #1 Songs of 1930-1999, Top Singles by Decade abd Artist Collections, plus many songs that aren't easily found.  The site is well organized and easy to navigate.

• History in Song (http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html):  This site offers a nice collection of songs that reflect key periods in U.S. history.  Organized according to the historical period, mostly 20th century.  Includes lyrics and recordings for many of the songs.

• Sing Along Songs (Midis and Lyrics)(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/music.htm): A substantial collection of lyrics for songs that is suitable for use in the elementary school classroom.  Many of the lyrics are accompanied by musical accompaniment that can be played while singing the song.  Songs are arranged in two ways: alphabetically by title, and in various sub-collections.

• The Aria Database (http://www.aria-database.com/index2.html): A collection of information about opera and operatic arias, which provides basic information about each aria and includes translations of many arias and aria texts.  It also includes a collection of operatic MIDI files.  The Database holds information on the complete collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner. and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other composers.  It may be searched using a very powerful search engine, or its index browsed by aria, starting with that aria's first letter.

• All Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/index.html):  Well-organized and comprehensivw, this site has a lot of informative and descriptive material, explaining the different styles of popular music, from bluegrass and country to gospel and rock.  Includes essays and background information on the styles, performers, and other aspects of popular music.  Includes a glossary, discographics, and music maps which trace the development of various styles, with a nice decades listing section.