Great Poems to Teach

The Academy of American Poets has a website that I stumbled upon this evening. You can find them at www.poets.org. The website has a feature called Great Poems to Teach. It's not a group of lesson plans, but a list of 341 poems submitted by teachers who participated in a workshop organized by the Teachers & Writers Collaborative -- poems that they had successfully taught in high schools. It's an interesting list. The full text of many of these poems is available on the site.

There are curriculum resources on the site including lesson plans, essays on teaching poetry, a teacher discussion forum, teaching tips, etc.