Poetry speaks who I am

Eternity / Jason Shinder --

Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo --

Still I rise / Maya Angelou --

Cinderella's diary / Ron Koertge --

Vampire's serenade / Dana Gioia --

Alone / Edgar Allan Poe --

Alone / Siegfried Sassoon --

Caroline / Allison Joseph --

"What are friends for ..." / Rosellen Brown --

I loved my friend / Langston Hughes --

In the fifth-grade locker room / Rebecca Lauren --

Bra shopping / Parneshia Jones --

Blood charm / Annie Finch --

Pause / Nikki Grimes --

The delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday --

Indian education / Sherman Alexie --

One art / Elizabeth Bishop --

Here / Arthur Sze --

Haiku / Sonia Sanchez --

Good girl / Molly Peacock --

Bad boats / Laura Jensen --

No images / Waring Cuney --

won't you celebrate with me / Lucille Clifton --

What I'm telling you / Elizabeth Alexander --

How I learned to sweep / Julia Alvarez --

Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare --

Litany / Billy Collins --

A teenage couple / Brad Leithauser --

Free period / David Yezzi --

Zodiac / Elizabeth Alexander --

The Skokie theater / Edward Hirsch --

Valentine / Wendy Cope --

An angry Valentine / Myra Cohn Livingston --

What great grief has made the empress mute / June Jordan --

Mad girl's love song / Sylvia Plath --

How we heard the name / Alan Dugan --

The gladiator / Kevin Prufer --

Worth / Marilyn Nelson --

I am a Black / Gwendolyn Brooks --

Lost sister / Cathy Song --

Flash cards / Rita Dove --

Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg --

Dream variations / Langston Hughes --

Dreams / Langston Hughes --

Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney --

Manners / Elizabeth Bishop --

Mascara / Elizabeth Bishop --

from For a girl beginning / Joy Harjo --

Every day it is always there / Rainy Ortiz --

Dear Mama (4) / Wanda Coleman --

A boy in a bed in the dark / Brad Sachs --

The talk / Sharon Olds --

A small poem / Calvin Forbes --

Fears of the eighth grade / Toi Derricotte --

When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats --

Death of a snowman / Vernon Scannell --

Oatmeal / Galway Kinnell --

Eating poetry / Mark Strand --

The bagel / David Ignatow --

Hope is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson --

If I can stop one heart from breaking / Emily Dickinson --

The Duke's castle / John Fuller --

Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --

The sacred / Stephen Dunn --

The road not taken / Robert Frost --

Prowess / Samuel Menashe --

What we might be, what we are / X.J. Kennedy --

Sideman / Paul Muldoon --

XVIII. Oh, when I was in love with you / A.E. Housman --

Sometimes with one I love / Walt Whitman --

In the desert / Stephen Crane --

Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe --

The summer of black widows / Sherman Alexie --

Permanently / Kenneth Koch --

A dog on his master / Billy Collins --

Mowing / Midge Goldberg --

Seal / William Jay Smith --

Seahorses / Brad Leithauser --

So far / Naomi Shihab Nye --

The germ / Ogden Nash --

Baseball / Bill Zavatsky --

Poetry slalom / Mary Jo Salter --

How I discovered poetry / Marilyn Nelson --

Used book shop / X.J. Kennedy --

The survivor / Marilyn Chin --

New clothes / Kay Ryan --

Mediation / Kim Stafford --

A fable / Louise Glück --

Houses / Nancy Willard --

Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali --

The floral apron / Marilyn Chin --

Abuelito who / Sandra Cisneros --

Legacies / Nikki Giovanni --

Instead of her own / Molly Peacock --

Tia Chucha / Luis J. Rodriguez --

The adversary / Phyllis McGinley --

What your mother tells you now / Mitsuye Yamada --

33 / Philip Schultz --

49 / Philip Schultz --

What are heavy? / Christina Rossetti --

The wind / Sara Teasdale --

Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost --

When you are old / W.B. Yeats --

"Nobody can counsel and help you" / Rainer Maria Rilke --

"Live a while in these books" / Rainer Maria Rilke --

Here yet be dragons / Lucille Clifton --

Sedna / Kimiko Hahn --

The writer / Richard Wilbur.