Sherman Alexie
W.H. Auden
"W. H. Auden" from the British Library's Discovering Literature: 20th century
Abstract of 'Some Notes on Auden's Early Poetry' in New Verse, 1937 -
W H Auden and identity: the individual versus the world and Teaching Resources from the British Library's Discovering Literature: 20th century
Elizabeth Bishop
"Voices and Visions: Elizabeth Bishop" - (PBS) includes a video that explores the life and works of the author as well as links to other good resources
"Elizabeth Bishop" from Poets for Young Adults
Billy Collins
"Billy Collins" from Twenty-First-Century American Poets, Second Series
"Billy Collins" from Poets for Young Adults
Reviewed Works: Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins; The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
"Voice, Form and Looney Tunes"
"Billy Collins on Life, Death and Poetry"
"Billy Collins Online Resources" from the Library of Congress
"A Brisk Walk: Billy Collins in Conversation"
ee cummings
Emily Dickinson
Before I Got My Eye Put Out - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Crash Course English Lit #8
Finding Emily Dickinson in the power of her poetry
"Voices and Visions: Emily Dickinson" - (PBS) includes a video that explores the life and works of the author as well as links to other good resources
Emily Dickinson from BrainPop
Rita Dove
Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Paul L. Dunbar, a Groundbreaking Poet"
Bob Dylan
"Desolation Row Revisited: Bob Dylan's Rock Poetry"
"Bob Dylan" from Poets for Young Adults
"Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature" from Poets and Writers Magazine
"The Poetry of Bob Dylan" lesson plan
"Bob Dylan and the Tone Behind the Language"
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes & the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Literature 215
Dream Deferred (Langston Hughes) by Shmoop
"Writer Langston Hughes Used Many Styles"
"A Reading Guide to Langston Hughes"
"Voices and Visions: Langston Hughes" - (PBS) includes a video that explores the life and works of the author as well as links to other good resources
Major Jackson
"About Major Jackson" (Ploughshares article)
‘Roll Deep,’ by Major Jackson (NTY book review)
"An Interview with Major Jackson" from The Fiddleback
from New Letters, "An Interview with Major Jackson"
Rupi Kaur
"Rupi Kaur: the inevitable backlash against Instagram's favourite poet" from the Guardian
"The Technopo(e)litics of Rupi Kaur: (de)Colonial AestheTics and Spatial Narrations in the DigiFemme Age" from Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
"Rupi Kaur’s work is teaching the world about the journey of growth, one poem at a time" from Global Citizen
"English Alum Rupi Kaur makes top seller lists with poetry collection" from University of Waterloo
Edna St Vincent Millay
Ogden Nash
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda from BrainPop
"Pablo Neruda: Poet from the End of the Earth"
Grace Paley
Sylvia Plath
The Poetry of Sylvia Plath: Crash Course Literature 216 - John Green Crash Course
"Sylvia Plath" from the British Library's Discovering Literature: 20th century
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: Biographical context and Teaching Resources from the British Library's Discovering Literature: 20th century
"Voices and Visions: Sylvia Plath" - (PBS) includes a video that explores the life and works of the author as well as links to other good resources
Edgar Allen Poe
EDGAR ALLAN POE from BrainPop
Edgar Allen Poe from Newsela
Rumi
"Why is Rumi the Best-Selling Poet in the US?" from the BBC, "Jane Ciabattari explains his enduring influence."
"The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi" - New Yorker article
Carl Sandburg
Chicago (Carl Sandburg) by Shmoop
Walt Whitman
"Voices and Visions: Walt Whitman" - (PBS) includes a video that explores the life and works of the author as well as links to other good resources
William Carlos Williams
"Voices and Visions: William Carlos Williams" - (PBS) includes a video that explores the life and works of the author as well as links to other good resources
William Butler Yeats