I'm not normally a poetry guy. But I'm impressed by this: http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/. Not only is it intended to be accessible in length and difficulty, it's also freely reproducible! To make it more geek-accessible, I've created a quickie RSS 2.0 feed for it at http://www.lars.com/AmericanLifeInPoetry.aspx

For an academic exercise, I like to read it backwards: read the poem first, see if I figure it out, and then read the note from the Poet Laureate at the top about it.

I hope this moment of softness doesn't ruin my 'street cred.'