Creativity:
- Poet Naomi Shihab Nye talks about how she understands what creativity is. Also, she talks about what inspires her about poetry.
- Slow Down to Notice: Poet Naomi Shihab Nye talks about how slowing down to notice is important to poetry.
- Poems inspired by paintings
Listen to/view poets reading their work from Poets.org
- Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation: links to videos of contemporary poets reading their work.
- Coleman Barks, translation from Rumi
- Lucille Clifton, reading at the Dodge Poetry Festival, “Won’t You Celebrate With Me”
- Martin Espada reading a poem at the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival, “This is the Year”
- Joy Harjo, reading a poem at the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival, “Yes, That Was Me”.
- Edward Hirsch reading a poem at the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival, “A Partial History of My Stupidity” and the “Widening Sky”
- Naomi Shihab Nye, “One Boy Told Me”
- Charles Simic, “Go Inside a Stone”
- Sekou Sundiata, reading “Blink Your Eyes”
- Howard County Poetry and Literature Society link to interviews with poets about their work
- Listen to/view poets reading their work from Poets.org
- Poetry 180
- Poetry Archive
- Poetry Daily
- Poetry by Heart, a list of resources of poets reading their own work
- Poetry Out Loud an archive of poems that read well aloud, as well as audio links of poets reading poems aloud, as well as discussions about the value of poetry
- Writer’s Almanac a poem a day listed here
- Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation: links to videos of contemporary poets reading their work
- Listen to people reading other people’s poems: “Why We Play Basketball” Sherman Alexie students’ animation project for this poem
Poetry in Science:
Dissecting Prose and Squid with Biologist Poet Kate Larson
Poetry and news/ world events:
- Poetry Behind Bars: The Lines That Save Lives — Sometimes Literally
- 10 poems animated, Washington Post
- Poetry as a Weapon of War in Afghanistan
- Poetry’s affect on the brain
- Poetry is like music to the brain
- Poetry on the sidewalk in Berkely, CA
- Urban poetry on the streets of San Diego
- Letters from China written in water–poetry on the sidewalk
- Poems outside of a high school in Ohio
- Minnesota poems on the sidewalk in colored concrete
- Favorite poems in chalk on the sidewalk
- Poems at aquariums
Poetry Analysis— further guidance
Photos to Write About Archive: Pics for Learning
Poetry in Science: Dissecting Prose and Squid with Biologist Poet Kate Larson
Anna Citrino---Poetry, Place, Pilgrimage 