Poems I Teach revised June 2010
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Poem Poet Alligator Pie Dennis Lee Dreams Langston Hughes How to Eat a Poem Eve Merriam Alabanza Martin Espada This Is Just To Say William Carlos Williams Ode to Marbles Max Mendelsohn Things Eloise Greenfield [Popcorn-can cover] Lorine Niedecker A Spiral Notebook Ted Kooser Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins A Major Work (first stanza) William Matthews Afraid So Jeanne Marie Beaumont Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Maya Angelou The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams I May, I Might, I Must Marianne Moore Poem Langston Hughes Mirrorment A.R. Ammons If I Were A… Karla Kuskin I May I Might I Must Marianne Moore Let the Fall Leaves Fall Clyde Watson An Autumn Evening Lucy Maud Montgomery Fame is a bee Emily Dickinson An Everywhere of Silver Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson To a Poor Old Woman William Carlos Williams Crumbs Hal Sirowitz Chopped Off Arm Hal Sirowitz Deformed Finger Hal Sirowitz Robert, Who is often a Stranger to Himself Gwendolyn Brooks The Unwritten W.S. Merwin Fog Carl Sandburg Cellar Stairs Thomas Lux Birthday Shel Silverstein His bill an auger is Emily Dickinson Between Walls William Carlos Williams Honeybee Naomi Shihab Nye Trees Nikki Grimes Ode to Tomatoes Francisco Alarcon Ode to My Socks Pablo Neruda
Transcript of Poems I Teach revised June 2010
Poem PoetAlligator Pie Dennis LeeDreams Langston HughesHow to Eat a Poem Eve MerriamAlabanza Martin EspadaThis Is Just To Say William Carlos WilliamsOde to Marbles Max MendelsohnThings Eloise Greenfield[Popcorn-can cover] Lorine NiedeckerA Spiral Notebook Ted KooserIntroduction to Poetry Billy CollinsA Major Work (first stanza) William MatthewsAfraid So Jeanne Marie BeaumontLife Doesn’t Frighten Me Maya AngelouThe Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos WilliamsI May, I Might, I Must Marianne MoorePoem Langston HughesMirrorment A.R. AmmonsIf I Were A… Karla KuskinI May I Might I Must Marianne MooreLet the Fall Leaves Fall Clyde WatsonAn Autumn Evening Lucy Maud MontgomeryFame is a bee Emily DickinsonAn Everywhere of Silver Emily DickinsonHope is the thing with feathers Emily DickinsonTo a Poor Old Woman William Carlos WilliamsCrumbs Hal SirowitzChopped Off Arm Hal SirowitzDeformed Finger Hal SirowitzRobert, Who is often a Stranger to Himself Gwendolyn BrooksThe Unwritten W.S. MerwinFog Carl SandburgCellar Stairs Thomas LuxBirthday Shel SilversteinHis bill an auger is Emily DickinsonBetween Walls William Carlos WilliamsHoneybee Naomi Shihab NyeTrees Nikki GrimesOde to Tomatoes Francisco AlarconOde to My Socks Pablo NerudaHomage to H & the Speedway Diner Bernadette MayerOde to Dandelions Pat MoraOde to Mi Gato Gary SotoTrouble, Fly Susan Marie SwansonStars Deborah ChandraThe Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry
Strengthen the Things that Remain Nancy WoodThis Place Eloise GreenfieldPassword Naomi Shihab NyePoem William Carlos WilliamsPoem Langston HughesStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert FrostThe Road Not Taken Robert FrostHoles Lilian MorrisonKeepsake Eloise GreenfieldSong Faiz Ahmed FaizThe Tyger William BlakeDog Valerie WorthThe Pasture Robert FrostStreet Music Arnold AdoffThe Apple S.C. RiggLove that Boy Walter Dean MyersPraise Song for the Day Elizabeth AlexanderThirteen Ways of looking at a blackbird Wallace StevensInvitation Shel SilversteinCaged Bird Maya AngelouOne Boy Told Me Naomi Shihab NyeHoney, I Love Eloise GreenfieldA Valentine for Ernest Mann Naomi Shihab NyeAn Apology F.S. BergmannShort Order Cook Jim DanielsGas Pump Jed ChambersI, Too Langston HughesWon’t you celebrate with me Lucille CliftonFrederick Douglass Robert HaydenWhen I heart the learn’d Astronomer Walt WhitmanI am Nobody Emily DickinsonPerfection William Carlos WilliamsAnyone lived in a pretty how town e.e. cummingsNotes from a Non-Existent Himalayan Expedition Wislawa SzymborskaMaggie and milly and molly and may e.e. cummingsThe Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston HughesMy People Langston HughesMeditatio Ezra PoundPhotons Nicole GuentherThings to Do If You are King Kong Elaine MagliaroAcross the Back Fence Tracie Vaughn ZimmerThe Night Garden Janet WongLitany Billy CollinsA Life Howard NemerovWe Real Cool Gwendolyn BrooksQuick as a Cricket Audrey Wood
My Many Colored Days Dr. SuessNight Letter to the Reader Billy CollinsThe Trouble With Poetry Billy CollinsLullaby for a Daughter Jim HarrisonFoundling Matthew BakerOde to Poetry Matthew BakerRootless Michelle BrittanBird Kim AddonizioIf Rudyard KiplingAlone Maya Angelou
