POET-POURRI!

 

PICK A POET

Read a few poems by a variety of poets.

Then make your selection!

Maya Angelou

Paul Fleischman

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Shel Silverstein
Matsuo Basho

Ralph Fletcher

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Gary Soto
William Blake Douglas Florian

Lillian Morrison

Mattie Stepanek
Gwendolyn Brooks

Robert Frost

Jeff Moss

Wallace Stevens
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Nikki Grimes

Walter Dean Myers

Robert Louis Stevenson
Joseph Bruchac

Robert Hayden

Kevin Nesbitt

May Swenson
Lewis Carroll

Sara Holbrook

 Alfred Noyes

Dylan Thomas
Samuel T. Coleridge

Langston Hughes

 Naomi Shihab Nye

Phillis Wheatley
e. e. cummings

Paul B. Janeczko

 Edgar Allan Poe

Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson Angela Johnson Jack Prelutsky 

William Carlos Williams
Paul Laurence Dunbar  Karla Kuskin Cynthia Rylant

Janet S. Wong
Rachel Field  Edward Lear Carl Sandburg

William Wordsworth  
      William Butler Yeats

Suggested Internet sites for reading poetry:
Poets.org (The Academy of American Poets)
Poets' Corner
Poetry Archives
Representative Poetry Online
Google
Literature Resource Center (Use login and password if working from home.)

A Sampling of Poetry Anthologies:
The 100 Best Poems of All Time - Ed. by Leslie Pockell
The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury - Ed. by Jack Prelutsky
Best Loved Poems of the American People - Ed. by Hazel Felleman
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost - Ed. by Harold Bloom
Classic Poetry: An Illustrated Collection - Ed. by Michael Rosen
Classic Poems to Read Aloud - Ed. by James Berry
Favorite Poems Old and New - Ed. by Helen Ferris
The New Oxford Book of American - Ed. by Richard Ellmann
Peeling the Onion: An Anthology of Poems - Ed. by Ruth Gordon
Poems that Live Forever - Ed. by Hazel Felleman
Random House Book of Poetry for Children - Ed. by Jack Prelutsky
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems - Ed. by Beatrice Shenk De Regniers
The Top 500 Poems - Ed. by William Harmon