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The poetry Foundation site is a great place to find poems and information about the world's most famous poets Also, download the Poetry Foundation App for iPhone and Android handsets at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/mobile/ to get a great collection of poetry and information to use in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A great poetry site for children. See poems on a range of topics and most poems have an audio of the poet reading their poems. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Poetry Foundation announces Poetry Learning Lab

"A superb resource for learning poets at primary schools. Record pupils reading the beautifully illustrated poems and listen back to them."

An English resource that takes students through writing four different types of poetry. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A poem a day for American high schools Poet Laureate Billy Collins

Newspaper + Marker = Poetry. Grab a marker and a newspaper, black out the words you don't need, and share your poem here.

"A superb creative writing site to stimulate ideas for opinion pieces, news articles, stories or poems. There is a teachers area with whole class whiteboard resources, and a pupil area where your pupils can write their pieces and print."

Free collection of online literature and poetry

This lesson plan for middle school teaches about Haiku and also reviews the concept of syllables. Very extensive resources to use on this one.

I often dream about the ocean

The Andrew Blake (1757-1827) Archive in North Carlolina, USA, is "not a physical repository of Blake's collected works, nor is it a clearinghouse through which users can obtain reproductions of those works. [...]" It is "an online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work.

Useful for literature or modern history classes.

Welcome to Poets' Corner, one of the largest and oldest text resources on the web. The goal of this ongoing project is to develop a user-friendly library that is both a useful reference and an appealing place to browse and explore - and there is a lot here to explore. The collection covers nearly 7,000 works by almost 800 poets - ranging from some of the best known works in the English language to works that were never widely known or whose popularity has been obscured by time.

brainstorming site...haven't tried it out yet so i'm not sure what happens once you've done the brainstorming.