Poetry

//A while ago, we spoke about wanting to share poetry resources. There are several great sites where you can look, including //
 * [|The Poetry Foundation]
 * [|The Academy of American Poets]
 * [|The Poetry Society of America]
 * [|Poetry Everywhere]
 * [|Poetry Forge]
 * [|Poetry Archive]
 * [|PennSound]

//By the way, I found something VERY COOL the other day -- check out this //[|Poetry tour of Chicago] ! //

I don't recommend going to www.potery.com -- it's from Lulu, and will give you pop-up ads... //

I copied this straight from Poets.org ([]) __**Great Poems to Teach:**__ Matthew Arnold W. H. Auden Elizabeth Bishop William Blake David Bottoms Anne Bradstreet Joseph Brodsky Gwendolyn Brooks Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Lewis Carroll Lucille Clifton Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emily Dickinson Denise Duhamel Paul Laurence Dunbar Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Tess Gallagher John Haines Thomas Hardy George Herbert Gerard Manley Hopkins Langston Hughes James Weldon Johnson Etheridge Knight Robert Lowell Andrew Marvell Edgar Lee Masters Claude McKay John Milton Edgar Allan Poe Ezra Pound Edwin Arlington Robinson William Shakespeare Stevie Smith May Swenson Lord Alfred Tennyson César Vallejo Walt Whitman William Wordsworth W. B. Yeats
 * Maya Angelou
 * [|"Alone"]
 * [|"Still I Rise"]
 * [|"Dover Beach"]
 * [|"In Memory of W. B. Yeats"]
 * [|"The Unknown Citizen"]
 * [|"Filling Station"]
 * [|"The Chimney-Sweeper"]
 * [|"The Tyger"]
 * [|"Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump"]
 * [|"The Author to Her Book"]
 * [|"Odysseus to Telemachus"]
 * [|"The Bean Eaters"]
 * [|"the sonnet-ballad"]
 * [|"We Real Cool"]
 * [|"How Do I Love Thee?"]
 * [|"My Letters! all dead paper. . . (Sonnet XXVIII)"]
 * [|"My Last Duchess"]
 * [|"Jabberwocky"]
 * [|"homage to my hips (audio only)"]
 * [|"miss rosie"]
 * [|"Kubla Khan"]
 * [|"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"]
 * [|"Fame is a fickle food (1659)"]
 * [|"I taste a liquor never brewed"]
 * [|"Buying Stock"]
 * [|"Sympathy"]
 * [|"We Wear the Mask"]
 * [|"The Snow Storm"]
 * [|"Birches"]
 * [|"Home Burial"]
 * [|"Mending Wall"]
 * [|"Red Poppy"]
 * [|"If the Owl Calls Again"]
 * [|"The Darkling Thrush"]
 * [|"The Collar"] || Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * [|"The Chambered Nautilus"]
 * [|"God's Grandeur"]
 * [|"Pied Beauty"]
 * [|"Spring and Fall: To a young child"]
 * [|"Dream Variation"]
 * [|"Dreams"]
 * [|"The Creation"]
 * [|"Go Down, Death"]
 * [|"The Idea of Ancestry"]
 * [|"For the Union Dead"]
 * [|"To His Coy Mistress"]
 * [|"Lucinda Matlock"]
 * [|"The Tropics of New York"]
 * [|"When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"]
 * [|"Annabel Lee"]
 * [|"The Bells"]
 * [|"Eldorado"]
 * [|"In a Station of the Metro"]
 * [|"Miniver Cheevy"]
 * [|"Richard Cory"]
 * [|"All the World's a Stage"]
 * [|"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)"]
 * [|"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18)"]
 * [|"Not Waving but Drowning"]
 * [|"Water Picture"]
 * [|"The Lady of Shalott"]
 * [|"To My Brother Miguel //in memoriam//"]
 * [|"Mannahatta"]
 * [|"Song of Myself, I, II, VI & LII"]
 * [|"To You"]
 * [|"When I Heard the Learned Astronomer"]
 * [|"The Daffodils"]
 * [|"My Heart Leaps Up"]
 * [|"We Are Seven"]
 * [|"The world is too much with us; late and soon"]
 * [|"Easter 1916"]
 * [|"Leda and the Swan"] ||

Other suggestions from that website: (I'll try to find some links -- if you have them, feel free to add!)
 * Maya Angelou
 * "On the Pulse of Morning"
 * "Phenomenal Woman"

Angie Argabrite
 * "Elvis is sighted at the 7-11"

W. H. Auden
 * "[|Musee des Beaux Arts]"

Toni Cade Bambara
 * "Gorilla, My Love"
 * "Super Fly Pants"

Hilaire Belloc
 * "Tarantella"

Stephen Vincent Benét
 * "You took a carriage to that battlefield (from //John Brown's Body//)"

Elizabeth Bishop
 * "[|The Fish]"
 * "Geography"

Robert Bly
 * "All the Fruit is Ripe"

Philip Booth
 * "One Man's Wife"

Joseph Brodsky
 * "Bosnia Tune"
 * "Upon the Burning of Our House"

Rupert Brooke
 * "1 + 20"

Gwendolyn Brooks
 * "A song in the front yard"

Dina Cae
 * "My Sister of the Horses"

William Carpenter
 * "Rain"

Lucille Clifton
 * "in white america"

Countee Cullen
 * "Any Human to Another"
 * "Incident"
 * "Tableau"

E. E. Cummings
 * "love is more thicker"

Roque Dalton
 * "Yo Como Tu"

Jessica Davidson
 * "I never will learn to read English aloud"

Emily Dickinson
 * "Some Keep the Sabbath"

David Diop
 * "Africa"

Paul Laurence Dunbar
 * "[|Life]"

Richard Eberhart
 * "Horse Chestnut Tree"

Russell Edson
 * "The Broken Daughter"

T. S. Eliot
 * "[|Hollow Men]"
 * [|"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"]
 * "[|Preludes"]

Mari Evans
 * "When in Rome"

Elanor Farjeon
 * "Poetry"

Pavel Friedmann
 * "The Butterfly"

Robert Frost
 * "[|Acquainted with the Night]"
 * [|"After Apple-Picking"]
 * [|"The Death of the Hired Man"]
 * "The Draft Horse"
 * [|"Fire and Ice"]
 * "It Bids Pretty Fair"
 * "Out, Out-"
 * "The Silken Tent"
 * [|"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"]

Allen Ginsberg
 * "[|Howl (sec. III)"]

Nikki Giovanni
 * "Africa"
 * "Because"
 * "Ego Tripping"
 * "Knoxville, Tennessee"
 * "Luxury"
 * "Night"
 * "Nikki-Rosa"

Sarah Goosens
 * "Politics"

Nicholas Guillen
 * "Problemas del Subdesarrollo Que Color?"

Robert Hayden
 * "Frederick Douglass"
 * "Runagate Runagate"
 * "Those Winter Sundays"

Frank Horne
 * "Mama"
 * "To James"

A. E. Housman
 * "O, When I Was in Love with You"
 * "Terrence, This Is Stupid Stuff"
 * "To an Athlete Dying Young"

Langston Hughes
 * "Africa"
 * "As I Grew Older"
 * "Consider Me"
 * "Harlem"
 * "Harlem Sweeties"
 * "I Dream a World"
 * "Justice"
 * "Mother to Son"
 * "My People"
 * "Negro Weeps"
 * "Refugee in America"
 * "To Paint a Water Lily"
 * "Too Blue"

Ted Hughes
 * "Big Poppy"

Robinson Jeffers
 * "Boats in a Fog"

Brooks Jenkins
 * "Loneliness"

Greg Johnson
 * "Love and Aid"

X. J. Kennedy
 * "In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day"

Galway Kinnell
 * "Rapture"

Rudyard Kipling
 * "Danny Deever"

Etheridge Knight
 * "Selected Haikus"

Naoshi Koriyama
 * "Unfolding Bud"

Kush
 * "A Message to Langston"

Philip Larkin
 * "Church Going"
 * "Coming"
 * "This Be the Verse"
 * "Wedding-Wind"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * "The Wreck of the Hesperus"

Audre Lorde
 * "Coal"

Amy Lowell
 * "A Decade"
 * "Meeting House Hill"
 * "Patterns"

Don Marquis
 * "the lesson of the moth"

Luis Palés Matos
 * "Black Dance"

Phyllis McGinley
 * "First Lesson"
 * "Portrait of a Girl With a Comic Book"

Leda Mesen
 * "Dog"

* || Edna St. Vincent Millay
 * "Love Is Not All"
 * "Recuerdo"

Susan Mitchell
 * "I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman"

Thomas Moore
 * "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms"

Howard Nemerov
 * [|"To David About His Education"]

Pablo Neruda
 * "Ode to a Tomato"
 * "Ode to Salt"
 * "Walking Around"

Frank O'Hara
 * "Why I Am Not a Painter"

Mary O'Neill
 * "Feelings About Words"
 * "What is Black?"

Sharon Olds
 * "Glass"
 * "On the Subway"
 * "Rite of Passage"
 * "The Victims"

Mary Oliver
 * "The Sea"

Wilfred Owen
 * "Disabled"
 * "Dulce et Decorum Est"

Bonnie Parker
 * "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"

Octavio Paz
 * "[|The Street"]

George Peele
 * "Whenas the Rye"

Marge Piercy
 * [|"Barbie Doll"]

Pedro Pietri
 * "Broken English Dreams"
 * "Puerto Rican Obituary"

Sylvia Plath
 * "Cut"
 * "Metaphors"
 * "Mirror"
 * "Mother"
 * "Point Shirley"
 * "Poppies in October"

Adelia Prado
 * "Pieces for a Stained-Glass Window"

Dudley Randall
 * "Ballad of Birmingham"

John Crowe Ransom
 * "Parting, Without a Sequel"

Jonathan Revere
 * "Gull Skeleton"

P. J. Ricatto
 * "New York is the A Train"

Theodore Roethke
 * "Meadow Mouse"
 * [|"My Papa's Waltz"]

Tom Romano
 * "The Teacher"

Muriel Rukeyser
 * "Effort at Speech Between Two People"

Carl Sandburg
 * "33"

May Sarton
 * "Mud Season"

Siegfried Sassoon
 * "Wild Rue"

Anne Sexton
 * "The Dead Heart"
 * "Welcome Morning"

William Shakespeare
 * "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"
 * "Out, Out Brief Candle"
 * "When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time"
 * "Winter"

Eleni Sikelianos
 * "Listening to The Grownups Quarreling"

Shel Silverstein
 * "Smart"
 * "Tired"

Charles Simic
 * "Everything's Forseeable"
 * "My Secret Identity"

William Jay Smith
 * "Fog"

Gary Snyder
 * "Changing Diapers"

Sophocles
 * "The Theban Plays"

Stephen Spender
 * "Amoretti (selections)"
 * "My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were Rough"

Robert Louis Stevenson
 * "My Shadow"

Wallace Stevens
 * "Poetry Is a Destructive Force"

Mark Strand
 * "The Babies"
 * "Elegy for My Father"

May Swenson
 * "The Hippopotamus"
 * "The Pigeon"
 * "The Road"

Sara Teasdale
 * "Barter"

John Tobias
 * "Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle"

Quincy Troupe
 * "Poem for Magic Johnson"

John Updike
 * "Flick Webb Ex-basketball Player"

Judith Viorst
 * "[|If I were in charge of the world"]

Derek Walcott
 * "Omeros"

Alice Walker
 * "Expect Nothing"
 * "He Said"
 * "I Wrote an Omelet"
 * "Medicine"
 * "Poem at 39"

Robert Wallace
 * "The Double-Play"

James L. Weil
 * "A Coney Island Life"

Walt Whitman
 * "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
 * "The Open Road"

Richard Wilbur
 * "Boy at the Window"
 * "The Groundhog"
 * "The Pardon"

William Carlos Williams
 * "The Yachts"

William Wordsworth
 * "The Daffodils"

James Wright
 * "A Blessing"
 * "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota"

Kit Wright
 * "The Magic Box"

W. B. Yeats
 * "No Second Troy"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
 * "Mother"
 * "People"

Al Young
 * "Lonesome in the Country" ||