TEACHERS AND YOUNG POETS

• Our Teachers’ Lounge rounds up tips on teaching poetry in classrooms
• “Why Teaching Poetry is So Important”
• “4 Reasons to Start Class With a Poem Each Day”
• “A Poem a Day: 30 Poems for Secondary Students”
• Young poets’ prizes
  • Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for Canadian youth
  • Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
  • Betjeman Poetry Prize (poets aged 10 to 13, £1000 grand prize)
• Poetry recommendations for getting through high school
• Poetry in Voice, a nationwide poetry recitation competition for schools
• CBC Books’ Shakespeare Selfie Student Writing Contest happens annually and asks students to answer the question “what would Shakespeare think of the world of today?” in the form of a poem
• The Poetry Society’s resources for teachers, including lesson plans that incorporate award-winning poetry by young poets
• The Young Poets Network, an online platform for young poets up to the age of 25 with articles, challenges, prompts, advice, and more
• Page Fright, where four contemporary spoken word poets re-examine and perform page poems that have inspired them
• Sit Down and Write– Poetry Resources from Seat Up: check out this great list of resources for more poetry prompts and learning activities. (Thank you to Carol Briggs and youth poet Amelia for this resource!)