Writing Poetry In First-Year Composition Courses

By Art Young, Clemson University

Academy of American Poets

Indexes 200 poets and 600 poems by last name, title, and first line. Special features include the Listening Booth, with audio clips of poems accompanying texts, and the Online Poetry Classroom (under development at http://www.poets.org/opc/) “to provide high school teachers with poetry- and technology-specific professional development opportunities, to create an online community of teachers and poets dedicated to teaching poetry, and to set new benchmarks for poetry education.”

Electronic Poetry Center

SUNY Buffalo offers traditional and hypermedia poetry, sound and video clips, and “experiments” that suggest interesting approaches for writing poetry.

Haswell, Richard. "Re: query WI & poetry." WPA-L Archives, 16 Mar 2000

The discussion of poetry in composition classes is discussed every so often at conferences and on discussion lists. Here is Richard Haswell's contribution in an exchange with Will Hochman on the writing program administrators' discussion list.

Hochman, Will. "Re: query WI & poetry." WPA-L Archives, 16 Mar 2000

The discussion of poetry in composition classes is discussed every so often at conferences and on discussion lists. Here is Will Hochman's contribution in an exchange with Richard Haswell on the writing program administrators' discussion list.

Montecino, Virginia. Metaphors in Various Disciplines. George Mason University. 3 Feb. 2001

This website gateway lists theoretical sites about metaphor as well as discipline-specific sites such as science and law that might help students think and write figuratively.