Poetry – Writers Workshop

Let’s Wet Our Whistle For Starters:

• The United States of Poetry
  • More US of Poetry
  • Brainpickings: Video “Proximity” Inspired by Poem “Close” (11 mins)
• Poetry Packet 2
• VERSE-REVERSE Poetry Stations (Use these models AND the few helpful links below)
  • How to make a Digital Black-Out Poem (YouTube) 
  • Black-Out Poetry @ Glitch-Me
  • Black-Out Poetry w/Google Docs (Scroll to #3)
  • Magnetic Poetry Online (Interactive)
  • WORDMOVER – Create Your Own Found Poem (ReadWriteThink.org)

Poetry Project Resource: Bringing Poetry to the People

• STUDENTS NOTE: For your “Bringing Poetry to the People” Project & Handouts, visit our Google Classroom page!

Intro:

• WHY Poetry? Dead Poet’s Society – Whitman (Video)
• POETRY 180 (w/Billy Collins)
• SHAKESPEARE OR HIP-HOP??
• “The Lanyard” read by Billy Collins (video)
• “The Lanyard” text
• “My Papa’s Waltz” read by Theodore Roethke
• “My Papa’s Waltz” (text)
• “I’m Nobody!” Who Are You?” (Emily Dickinson read by Yina Liang)
• “Yet Do I Marvel” (Countee Cullen read by Todd Hellems)
• “Song of Myself” (Walt Whitman read by John Doherty)
• Not Waving Drowning Poem (Stevie Smith)
• Favorite Poems Project – Americans Talk About Their Favorite Poems (Videos)
• Listen to Rupi Kaur (PBS)
• How Rupi Kaur Became a Hero to Millions of Young Women (PBS)
• Li-Young Lee Read “The Gift” (Vimeo)
• “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee (Text)
• 32 Of the Most Iconic Poems in the English Language
• Practical Reasons to Welcome Poetry Into Our Lives (PBS)
• “Keeping Quiet” by Pablo Neruda (read by Sylvia Boorstein)
• Poem Honors the “Wrong Roads” We’ve Taken (Jimmy Santiago Baca)
• Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets (NYTimes – video)
• Poetry is for Everyone (Jason Reynolds)
• “Tangled Up in Blue”: Deciphering a Bob Dylan Masterpiece (Video :13 mins)
• Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize Redefining Boundaries of Literature
• Beat Poet & Publisher, Lawrence Ferlingetti, Turns 100 & Reflects (NPR 5 mins)
• Honoring Allen Ginsberg’s “HOWL”
• Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer in Big Moment for Hip-Hop
• The Season for Stanzas: It’s National Poetry Month. Read a Poem or Four
• “The Palace” by Kaveh Akbar (A look at America & What It Means to Call a Country Home)
• POETRY MONTH: Perspectives on Poetry, Identity & Inspiration
• BOOKRIOT: Where to Find Free Poetry Resources for Kids
• 13 Incredible Poets to Follow on Instagram this World Poetry Day 2021