Poetry Blogging

For our upcoming poetry units, I am going to encourage students to create blogs to share their poetry.  Websites, such as Poetry Foundation and Poetry Out Loud, are prompting me to digitally connect students and poetry.  Poetry is often quite hard for middle school students - and some simply state it is boring.  Therefore, to inspire enjoyment, participation, and learning, I'll use technology to hopefully gain interest, and dare I say.... excitement?