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Welcome to the Online Poetry Classroom. Here you will find a wealth of resources, including Discussion Forums where teachers can share ideas and seek help from colleagues; Pedagogical & Critical Essays about poetry; extensive links to relevant websites; Curriculum Units & Lesson Plans; biographies of hundreds of poets; and over 2,000 poems.

Poets.org serves both as an interactive professional development program and a virtual community, enabling teachers across the country to access free poetry resources online. These teaching tools include innovative, classroom-tested curricula and discussion forums in which users can post strategies for and ask questions about teaching poetry at the primary, secondary, and university level.

Great Poems to Teach
Compiled by the Teachers & Writers Collaborative, this list contains 341 poems submitted by teachers.

Tips for Teaching
Here are a number of creative and inexpensive suggestions for making poetry a more important part of school life during April and throughout the year.

Resource Center
Hundreds of links for teachers in ten important categories, including online teaching tools, government resources, and professional devleopment resources.

Read some of the excellent essays on teaching that are available on Poets.org. Joan Houlihan asks whether poets can teach. Bill Zavatsky answers everything you always wanted to know about poetry. Also available is a helpful poetry glossary and a list of poetic forms and techniques.

Discuss the teaching of poetry with other educators. Talk about lesson plans you've developed and strategies in the classroom. Are you looking for a good  poem to teach? Ask about it here. The Forum is meant to connect teachers with other teachers, as well as to build a database of successful methods of teaching poetry.

Developed and tested by high-school teachers, these lesson plans provide everything you need to administer a successful poetry unit in your classroom.

Voice
Students participate in a series of learning activities employing interconnectivity between poems used and core texts to explore poetry as social commentary.

Poetry in Translation
Students investigate their cultural backgrounds by translating the work of poets from their ethnic heritage as well as their own poems.

Women in Poetry
Introduces students to a range of women's voices in poetry through thematic lesson plans including "Voices of the Mothers" and "Ars Poetica."