This page has links for specific poets. Lesson plans and activities related to specific poetry forms or poetic structure can be found on the Poetry Forms page. Poetry no longer under copyright can be found on the Poetry Collections page. Copyright restrictions may prevent contemporary poetry from being available online.
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Randall Jarrell - The Academy of American Poets
Biography, e-texts, related links.
Assignment 1: A Starting Point
This lesson focuses on Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner."
Robinson Jeffers
Lesson plans and teaching materials.
James Weldon Johnson - The Academy of American Poets
E-texts, biography, bibliography, links to related sites.
Ben Jonson
Links to biography and poems.
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
E-texts of selected poems.
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"In Memory of my Mother" by Patrick Kavanagh
Click on "Launch Lesson" to listen to the poem. Follow links to a paraphrase, analysis, and writing prompts.
John Keats
Links to collections of poetry and teaching ideas.
"Happiness" by Jane Kenyon
Audiofile and text of the poem.
Poetry of Joyce Kilmer
E-texts.
Serendipitous Personification for Poems
Students read Dickinson's "I like to see it lap the miles" and Joyce Kilmer's "Trees" (copies available on the site). They use those poems as mentor texts to write poems of their own that use personification.
"Danny Deever" by Rudyard Kipling
Follow links for an audio file OR to listen and read at the same time.
Poems of Condition
In Rudyard Kipling’s poem "If," the author strings together several adverb clauses in order to tell the reader what he or she needs to do to grow up and become "a Man, my son!" While describing all the conditions that need to be met, Kipling finds a balance between contrasting character traits. Students will practice writing poems using the conditional "if" clause while guiding the reader on how to be a certain person.
Poetry Reading by Li-Young Lee and David Kirby
Recorded February 7, 2008, at the Library of Congress, this video file is 85 minutes long.
Kenneth Koch
Biography, links to "Talking to Patrizia" and an audio file of the poet reading "One Train May Hide Another."
Yusef Komunyakaa
Lesson plans and teaching resources, including "Facing It."
Ted Kooser
Lesson ideas and teaching resources. Includes "The Abandoned Farmhouse."
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Philip Larkin: "The Whitsun Weddings"
Critical commentary, links to other poems.
Edward Lear
Biography, text of children's poems, and drawings.
Repeat After Us
Audio files of several poems by Edward Lear, including "The Owl and the Pussycat" Files are in alphabetical order by poet; scroll down.
Writing Poetry like Pros
This extensive set of lessons includes an activity using Dennis Lee's "What Will You Be?" in Lesson 2, Group 1.
Poetry Reading by Li-Young Lee and David Kirby
Recorded February 7, 2008, at the Library of Congress, this video file is 85 minutes long.
"Belle Isle, 1949" by Philip Levine
Video of Levine reading the poem, analysis, teaching tips, and related poems.
Vachel Lindsay
Biography, criticism.
Children of Long Ago by Lessie Jones Little
Summary and background, prereading and comprehension questions, vocabulary, suggestions for use in literature circles, reader response and writing topics, ESL and interdisciplinary strategies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lesson plans for teaching "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" and other poems.
Richard Lovelace
Biography, e-texts. From Netpoets.com.
Richard Lovelace
Texts of poems.
Amy Lowell: "The Garden by Moonlight"
Critical commentary and links to poems.
James Russell Lowell
Links to e-texts.
A Courtin' We Will Go
Using James Russell Lowell's poem "The Courtin'," Students research and share an assigned literary device, create a list of current words which may one day be considered dialect, and construct a poem about dating today.
Robert Lowell: "Skunk Hour"
Critical commentary, links to other poems.
"Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon
This page includes not only a copy of the poem but also sample student responses.
"Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon
A copy of the poem and sample student responses with emphasis on a sense of place.
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