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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 is an awesome game! Great diversion for English majors

Good place to look up the origin/history of any word.

If you are a creative writer and haven't heard of nanowrimo, you need to check it out. It is a website that spurs writers on, through word goals and inspirational e-mails, to write a novel in a month. It could also be useful if you teach a creative writing class in the future. Effective writing teachers are writers.

This is a great lesson plan that teaches what poetry is and exposes students to different types of poetry. Students will write their own poetry and create a poetry anthology.

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 site has ideas for practicing and resources to aide in vocabulary words, grammar, writing, research, free online books, public libraries, literature guides, and poetry.