Poetry Writing

Class Assignments

Poetry Supermarket Poems from our class lesson on selecting poetry

Sites for finding poems for the poetry anthology:

Academy of American Poets Both classic and more contemporary poems
Bartleby searchable database of classic poems
Modern American Poetry
American Verse Project a catalog of American poems prior to 1920
BBC Poetry from the British Broadcasting Company
Contemporary Poets
Contemporary American Poetry Archive Full texts of out-of-print volumes of contemporary poetry
Poets & Writers Magazine
Poetry Foundation
Electronic Poetry Center hosted by the University of Pennsylvania
Luminarium.org Medieval, Renaissance, 17th-century, and Restoration poets
Poetry 180 A Poem a Day for America’s High Schools, Hosted by Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003
Poetry Daily Anthology features one new contemporary poem each day, selected from current journals and books. Includes an archive of past selections.
Poet’s Corner one of the largest and oldest text resources on the web
The Favorite Poem Project Americans talking about their favorite poems
Poetry International Web
Rattle contemporary poetry journal: “poetry without pretension since 1995”

Looking for a particular type of poem?

The 32 Most Iconic Poems in the English Language (Plus more that should be since “our literary iconography is still too white and male and old”)

Teenagers Are Not Exempt from Poetry a teen writes about her experiences as a teenage poet and some of her favorite poets and poems

Internet Archive Poetry books to borrow from the internet for free; Ms. McMane especially recommends:

Don’t Forget to Fly Edited by Paul Janeczko, an anthology of modern poems touching on such phenomena as parents, love, suicide, dentists, poets, insomnia, marriage, Sundays, cemeteries, and cats
Wherever Home Begins Edited by Paul Janeczko, An anthology of poems celebrates the feelings of home and explores such settings as Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam, a post office in Poland, a safe haven in Nicaragua, and a Texas ranch
Preposterous: Poems of Youth Edited by Paul Janeczko, poems about adolescence and teen experience
No more masks! : an anthology of twentieth-century American women poets Edited by Florence Howe
Earth-Shattering Poems Edited by Liz Rosenberg, the author of the article “What is Good Poetry?” An excellent anthology of poems
Good Poems Edited by Garrison Keillor, as Heard on The Writer’s Almanac
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
The Oxford Anthology of Latin-American Poetry
Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry
Revolutionary voices : a multicultural queer youth anthology

Poetry rubric rubric for grading individual poems

Poetry Prompts Tumblr site dedicated to poetry prompts

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