There is so much to explore in the genre of poetry. We want to give you an opportunity to read poems about topics you care about, to get to know new poets, to see how poetry is alive and well in the world today. The links below help facilitate that opportunity. Explore for a while, and then choose 2 links that you want to focus on. As you read those, fill out the form we passed out to record some of what you are discovering.
Kaveh Akbar is Poetry's Biggest Cheerleader
Protesting Through Poetry
Who Reads Poetry??
Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman as a Comic
Poetry Rx (Poetry Prescriptions/advice letters from The Paris Review)
13 Poems from Milk and Honey that Every Young Woman Needs
With Spoken Word and Hip Hop a New Generation of Poets Has Taken the Stage
Poetry is for Everyone by Jason Reynolds (co-author of All American Boys)
Celebrating Women's History Month (poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore women's history and women's rights from The Poetry Foundation)
Read and explore more by and about Maya Angelou from The Poetry Foundation
Jay Z Explains Why Rap Should Be Considered Poetry
Read and learn about Gwendolyn Brooks "classic poems from a Chicago poet" from The Poetry Foundation
Read and learn about Langston Hughes "a poet of the people, for the people" from The Poetry Foundation
Read and learn about Sylvia Plath from The Poetry Foundation
Basketball poems
Six Features of Hip Hop Poetry
Poetry and feminism
Poems about spring
The Anthology of Rap: Lyrics as Poetry
Poems of hope and resilience
Jason Reynolds writes a poem each day in April for National Poetry month
This.poem.is.amazing. (soil by Irene Mathieu)
Audre Lorde's poem Hanging Fire should be required reading for everyone.
Split this Rock is an incredible poetry database, and you can search by theme, poet identity, award winners, etc. Their goal as a website is to empower poets and call them to a greater roll in public life
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