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This is the first poem on a series on HBO called Def Poetry Jam that features spoken word poetry. Might be a good visual for a poetry unit on modern poetry/tying it back to the Beats in the 1950s which are the predecessors of modern spoken word.

This clip from the Simpsons is a great resource to use when reading Poe's The Raven. It reads to poem out loud and acts it out in an entertaining way that i think high school students would get a kick out of! It would also help students understand the poem better and lead into a discussion about it.

This video is really cool! And there are many more like it on youtube. Essentially the videos are of pictures of poets with animated mouths. They move corresponding to the words on an audio track of the poem, so it looks like they are speaking the poetry outloud. It's a good way to listen to a poem or reading your version while listening to the audio. Perhaps the listener can also see how others would approach reading and vocalizing the poem.

This is a great tool for teachers because it allows them to search for poems by specific author, title, or theme as well as giving audio clips for many of the poems. It also has resources for both teachers and students.

This is a video that I saw at the Epsilon Delta spring initiation. It's a poem! Kind of like slam poetry, but a little less bash-y :)

Although this is sometimes a little inappropriate (as always with Taylor Mali) it hits on a very important topic that we will look at as English Teachers - Proofreading. Pretty much all of Taylor Mali's poems has relevancy and maybe you've seen this or others, but I definitely think it's worth checking out again!

Taylor Mali is funny and edgy as always but he targets a very important topic for English teachers: proofreading.