Canadians have developed some world-leading programs in poetry education.

• The League of Canadian Poets offers a unique opportunity for Ontario students to meet, hear and talk with published Canadian poets. Through the Poets in the Schools programme, poets will visit classrooms to read from their work, conduct creative writing workshops, talk about the craft of writing poetry, or discuss other related topics.
• The Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia administers a Writers in the Schools Program. Teachers can order up classroom visits by a poet (or any other kind of writer, too). For the latest brochure, check here.
• WIER WIER The Writers in Electronic Residence program, administered by the Canadian Education Association in partnership with the Faculty of Education at York University, links classes of students in K-12 schools from across the country, east, west, north, and south, with some of the country's finest writers, for electronic mentoring and workshops. This is
• definitely a classy program.
• A complementary poetry education site is A Poet Born, which provides on-line lessons in many areas of poetry. They invite papers, on any type or area of poetry, which teach a particular lesson in the genre.
• About.Com provides an extensive guide to creative writing sites to use with teens. There's a lot of great stuff here.
• Our Youngpoets site offers workshop ideas and lesson plans for teachers teaching writing.
• And before you go, do check out Brainevent, a brand-new website for teenage writers/readers/thinkers/debaters/ complainers/contrarians.