Dear Poet Project

From Poetry.org, see this project that invites students to write to living poets. See also the lesson plan written especially for students in grades 9 and 10. 

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/619

Teaser:  

This April, during National Poetry Month 2013, the Academy of American Poets is celebrating the role that correspondence has played in poets' development and writing lives.

In the spirit of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, in which Rilke replies to letters from a young military cadet and aspiring poet asking for his advice, we are inviting students to engage with poetry by handwriting letters to some of the poets who serve on the Academy's Board of Chancellors.