POWER IN POETRY | poetry-project

Links to class resources

Articles on how to explicate/read a poem

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/poetry-explications/

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19882

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/red-wheelbarrow

http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Radpoem.htm

Why Write?

Jane Hirshfield

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3684

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-true-thing/201401/jane-hirshfield-why-write-poetry

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/loren-kleinman/writing-poetry-to-save-yo_b_5824876.html

Mary Karr

http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/01/31/why-we-write-mary-karr/

What is a Poem?

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/what-is-a-poem/281835/

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/creativewriting/Poetry/whatispoetry.html

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/creativewriting/Poetry/interview.html

One of our favorite articles to use to help make writing poetry accessible – often used in combination with the Bukowski poem, “The History of One Tough Mother Fucker' (which you can also find online)

http://www.fastcompany.com/3028016/dialed/poetry-is-like-pooping-and-other-writing-tips-from-a-ted-superstar

A list of poems that illustrate poetic terms:

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poetic-forms-and-terms

On line breaks:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/article/248630

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/impact-poems-line-breaks-enjambment-and-gwendolyn-brooks-we-real-cool#sect-introduction

On revisions:

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/revising-drafts/

Poems inspired by art:

http://www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/listed-poems-inspired-paintings

(This was a great exercise – I took in copies of the referenced paintings as inspiration – you can find them online)

Anaphora:

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poetic-technique-anaphora

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/article/246170

Figurative language:

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/great-figure-figurative-language

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/article/248630

Rhythm and Meter:

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Handbook/meter.html

Links to class resources

Poetic Forms

Writing Prompts

Some other articles with suggested lesson plans and ideas

Teaching techniques