Hip-Hop Poetry and the Classics for the Classroom

Our goal is to make the academic study of poetry accessible, relevant, comprehensible and enjoyable to students in our contemporary, multicultural classrooms.
Our methodology is to analyze the poetry of Hip-Hop and compare its motifs, themes, and general poetic devices (such as alliteration, rhyme scheme, figurative language, etc. ...) to the "classic" poems traditionally studied (by writers such as Frost, Dickinson, Keats, etc. ...) in order to teach the core elements of the poetic craft in an appealing, relevant, thorough and accessible manner.