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Local literature can be a springboard to contextualized learning. This research identified the forms of poetry from Sorsogon, examined the literary merits reflected in the selected 21st century poetry from Sorsogon, and developed lesson exemplars that can be proposed for 21st century literature teaching using the selected poetry from the province. Document analysis, crowdsourcing, and snowball technique were used in identifying Sorsoganon poets and poetry which highlight the history of the province and the culture of its people. Based on the findings, Sorsogon has a rich collection of poetry in the 21st century especially lyric poems, songs, and spoken word poetry, among others. Sorsogon has talented songwriters who still write in their local language. Sorsoganon poets are fond of writing lyric poems which reveals that they are imaginative, romantic, and musical by nature. There are existing 21st century Sorsoganon writers with meritorious literary pieces that can be taught in teaching local literature. The poems have their respective literary merits and are remarkable in their totality. The selected poems embody the province's history, culture, and the characteristics of its people. Hence, teachers can use them to help promote the nation's cultural heritage, its property and history, and the ethnicity of local communities as stipulated in the Constitution. Also, the researcher developed lesson plans utilizing the selected local literature, to compensate for the dearth of instructional materials concerning localization and contextualization in teaching the subject 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World.