Teachers can access lesson plans for teaching poetry as a living art. If you think all poets are dead, and you haven't read a poem since high school, welcome to the new medium of verse. Devoted to introducing visitors to spoken poetry, this literary cybermagazine puts the written word online and in audio format. All poems are also available as on-screen text so you can read along with the poets as you listen to the audio files. Articles discuss topics that range from the importance of poetry in the technological age to reviews and interviews.
Issues are quarterly, but monthly features are added to the site.
It's a great place to celebrate National Poetry Month. Along with an excellent forum, the site includes an archive of poems that have appeared in the magazine, book reviews and recordings of some of the country's most respected modern poets reading the works of everyone from Robert Frost to Thomas Hardy. The site helps visitors track down information on their favorite poets and answers some of the most frequently asked questions, such as how to get published or when to copyright a poem. This top-notch magazine site shines the spotlight on famous modern poets and looks back at writers from the past. There are RealAudio recordings of poems by authors including David Baker and John Updike, articles about the art of writing, poetry analyses and a large selection of works published in The Atlantic Monthly since 1993.