Literary Hybridity!

Here is an interesting video on literary hybridity which melds short film with poetry in a way that is different from visual narrative. It makes me think of my favorite genre: the mashup and what we could do with this in 9th and 10th to build understanding of intertextuality. I wonder if I could get the kids in 10th to do a hybridity project in which they either used found [visual] "texts" and mashed them with a poem or a selection of prose and then created them using Moviemaker or iMovie, and defended them like an IB Art exam. Since we just did a similar project, I will skip it this year, let it germinate and move onto... Soundscapes!!!

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21948

Poem videos

More poem videos. I liked the first one in particular to use for discussing artistic choice and interpretation.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23387?utm_source=March%3A+Film+Update&utm_campaign=march_update&utm_medium=email

Slam Poetry Resources

Tasha's HS Student-Friendly and Favorite Slam Poem Youtube Playlist. 
27 wonderful poems by Sarah Kay, Anis Mojgani and student poets. Appropriate for high school students.

When introducing slam poetry, I will often show a few poems from this list in class, then ask students to watch three for homework and write down a quote they like from each. (They often watch all of them.) The next day, we spend a good chunk of time re-watching poems and talking about what works in each.