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)
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
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
Poetic Forms
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/collection/poetic-forms
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/article/246410 (Sonnet)
Writing Prompts
http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/all-time-favorite-writing-prompts/
Some other articles with suggested lesson plans and ideas
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson171.shtml
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/1593
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/4110
http://stacienaczelnik.hubpages.com/hub/Five-Poetry-Writing-Exercises (The Metaphor exercise came from this article)
http://www.pw.org/writing-prompts-exercises
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/lesson/letters-poets
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/what-poetry-contrasting-poetry-30738.html?tab=4#session2 (contrasting prose v. poetry)
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/onteaching/gimmicks
http://americanart.si.edu/education/pdf/Ekphrastic_Poetry_Lesson.pdf
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2230