Meet the Poet

Objective: Research a poet to read nonfiction literature and create a Slideshow

Directions: 1. Research your poet -- Use books on cart, reference books on library shelves, and online resources. Write your information in the rough draft packet.
                        2. Type your text on Impress slides.
                        3. Insert a picture of your poet. Use Google Images for a great selection of pictures of your poet.
                        4. Jazz up your show with a color background, graphics, music, and animation. Be creative but tasteful in your choices; have a color scheme and a theme. Make sure graphics and music pertain to your poet.

Use these websites to get more interesting facts about your poet:

http://www.poets.org – Poets.org

Poet biographies, bibliographies, and photos are available. At each poet’s page there are related pages and links. Search for specific poets or poems. Listen to poet performance readings. Educator links and more online poetry resources included.

http://www.bartelby.com/ - Bartleby.com

Poet biographies, definitions, quotes, and poems are searchable. Definitions have an audio function. Multiple reference, fiction, nonfiction, and verse sources are available.

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm - Representative Poetry Online

Poet biographical information is available. Commentaries and criticisms are given. Poems are searchable by title, first line, or last line. There is a glossary of poetic terms. The Timeline of English Poetry is from 658 – 2003 beginning with Old English and ending with Postmodern New English. The calendar is birth and death dates as well as publication dates.

http://capa.conncoll.edu/ - Contemporary American Poetry Archive

If you cannot find a poem for your poet, look here. This is an electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers. If an author has had an offer to reprint a book, the text is removed from this site.

http://www.everypoet.com/ - Everypoet.com

There are forums for posting comments on poems submitted. Visitors may submit their own poems in the Poetry Showcase. More than 5,000 classic poems have been archived here. Poets can be searched for. Related links are accessible. There are Haiku generators where you can record your own audio. Click on an element from the poetic table of elements to read a poem related to the element.