My Lesson Plans

My Poetry Lesson Plans
Listed Alphabetically

Abecedarian Poems
All in the Family
Am I Real?
Antipoems: Writing against Expectations
Ars Poetica
Authors Across Ages—translating great poets
Babble—The Sound of Language
Before & After (or That Was Then, This Is Now)
Before I Was Born
Be Mine
Between the Flags
The Bottled Memories
Bravery
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Building a Planet (You Ain’t Seen Nothin’)
Cause & Effect
The Challenge
Code—The Secret Language of Poetry
Colors
Concrete Poems
Contributions
A Day Off
The Dead Man
Different Dictionary
Ekphrastic Poems
Excuses, Excuses
Extreme Poems
Fear
The Final Bad
From Here to There
Haiku
Hands On
The Hidden Life of Emotions
How I Would Paint the Past
I AM
I Believe
I Call to the West
If I Were in Charge
Imprisoned
I’m Sorry (?!)
I Never Knew
In the Center of the Drum
In No Time
In Other Words—Students Translate Students
Inside the Stone
The Interview
Into My Heart
I Remember
I See Red
I Wish . . .
Kennings: Name-Changers
Kisses: The Candy Talisman
Last Day on Earth
Limericks
Look Who’s Talking—Persona Poems
The Mask Speaks
mixitup—blending languages
The Most Amazing Thing I Ever Saw
My Earliest Memory
My Heart
My Secret Place
Native American Poems
Nobody Ever Told Me
No Matter What
Odes
One World
On My Block
Operating Instructions Included
The Pantoum
Peace
A Perfect Match
The Perfect Moment
Poems as Mountains
Poems for Voices
Poems from Invisible Cities
Poem to My Future Self
Poems to the Future
Postcard Poems
Rainbow Garden
Rant!—Yell, Yap & Yawp
Reasons for Being
Recipes
Reclamation
Redwood
Request
Revisioning
Riddles in the Dark (& Quiddles)
Right Here, Right Now
Rules of the Game
Scars
Seasons
Seeing the Divine
Sensing Ancestry
The Sestina
Shadows
Silence
Sky Dreams & Reversos
Slice the Mango—Celebrations
Song It—The Sonnet
Sounds Good
Startled out of Myself
The Sultan Speaks
Tasting Titles
Teatime (Not less because . . .)
Things I Learned Last Week
Things I Like and Don't Like
Through the Looking Glass
To Do List
To Understand Me
Traps & Lies
Trust
Twenty Questions
The Villanelle
Vox Animalis—Voice of the Animal
War & Peace
Water/River Poems
Ways of Looking
What Changes the World
“Whatever”—Inverted Odes
What If It Never Happened
What’s in a Name
What You Should Know to Be a Poet
When the Violin Sings: Writing Poems to Music
Where I Come From
Who’s Your Muse?
Who Ya Gonna Call?
Wild
Wild Inside
Word Salad
World Records