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GENERAL SITES | AUSTRALIAN POETRY | RESPONDING TO POETRY

 General sites

Haiku  http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~JN2K-SRMZ/haiku/top.html

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/samwhypoetrmi.html

Each carefully chosen link in this sampler includes questions and activities designed to help kids connect to poetry. This could be used to introduce a poetry unit or as an enrichment activity. Created with Filamentality.

http://eleaston.home.mindspring.com/html/reading_materials.html#Writers

http://eleaston.com/reading_materials.html#Poetry
There are also poems among the major e-text sites:
http://eleaston.com/reading_materials.html#Collections

Literature for Children

http://www2.crosswinds.net/~mymomandme/index.html
A collection of classical literature for children, including prose and
poetry.

Prose and Poetry

http://www.netten.net/~bmassey
The site, developed by a retired lumberman from Memphis, TN USA, contains a collection of classic poetry and prose. It includes pieces from Austen, Blake, Bacon, Bunyan, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Bryant, Carroll, Cervantes, Coleridge, Conrad, Dante, Dickinson and many more. Also includes brief biographical information about the authors.

Poets by Subject

http://www.homeworkcentral.com/toplinks/195.html
Look here for poems by subject, selected by the Poets' Corner, a Website
offering the full text of over 4,000 great poems. Beauty is one of the
first of many themes for which the Corner will have similar subject
listings. Choose this one for fifteen poems whose theme is beauty,
listed on a separate page. We find Browning, Masefield, Shakespeare,
Shelley, and more. There are odes to the beauty in nature, in love, in
faith, in the intellect, and a Grecian urn. Once again, John Keats
reminds us that "A thing of beauty is a joy forever. . ."

The Poetry Webring

http://www.geocities.com/~poetsgalore
Maintained by a group of volunteers with a love for poetry and the Internet, the International Poetry Webring is a well-established webring of poets, authors, playwrights, and lovers of poetry and literature.

AN INDEX OF POETS IN REPRESENTATIVE POETRY ON-LINE 

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/indexauthors.html#N

Australian Poetry

Australia's Cultural Network poetry day article, 1998 (with lots of poetry links): http://www.acn.net.au/articles/1998/08/poetry.htm

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature

http://idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/asal/
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature promotes the study,
discussion and creation of Australian writing. It also seeks to increase
awareness of Australian writing in the wider community and throughout the world.

City Lights and Sketches Poetry Society

http://student.anu.edu.au/Clubs/clas/athenaeu.htm
The aims and objectives of the Australian National University City Lights
and Sketches Poetry Society are to: provide a positive environment for the
literary development of its members; share poetry written by its members or other writers; encourage and fund performance, presentation and publication of members' work.

OZpoet

http://www.ozemail.com/~gbsavage/ozpoet.html
A gateway to contemporary Australian poetry, featuring the works of living Australians who write poetry in all forms. The site provides news, a message board, poetry readings online and a calendar of events, a search engine, links to Oz Poetry sites, dictionaries and references.

http://www.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/hompoets.html

http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/litsites.html

Jacket - an online journal of poetry: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/

OzLit poetry page: http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/poetry.html

http://www.acn.net.au/resources/pathfinders/lit_path.htm Search Australia's Cultural Network, with Literature pathfinder

Australian Bush poetryhttp://www.bushpoetry.com/Allarchives.htm an Australian poetry site which has a reqest page for those wanting to find poetry titles

"Dave's Place" of Australian poetry http://www.chariot.net.au/~dcampbel/

Works of Banjo Patersonhttp://www.uq.edu.au/~mlwham/banjo/

Banjo Paterson was a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, a jockey, among many other things. He is one of the best-loved figures of Australian
literature. This page collects many of his works including "The Man from Snowy River", "Waltzing Matilda", and "Clancy of the Overflow".

Responding to poetry
 

Favorite Poem Project http://www.favoritepoem.org/

"Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument," says U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. His Favorite Poem Project shares audio and video of people reading their favorite poems, and invites readers to send in their favorite poems with a few sentences about why it is special to them. Students are invited to participate, and this could be a springboard for classrooms to develop their own favorite poem web sites.

Poetry Pals

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/5165
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/5165/lessons2.html
The K-12 Student Poetry Publishing Project is an Internet project and
resource site developed to encourage literacy, technology skills, and global awareness. The project involves students from Bilingual, ESL, and E.O. classes, who create unique styles of poetry in English or other languages accompanied by an English translation, and submit them for publishing on the Internet.