Contemporary Poems

• Love Waltz with Fireworks by Kelli Russell Agodon
• At the Lake by Sarah Anderson
• I Am Offering This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca
• Possums by Sheila Black
• I Remember by Joe Brainard
• My Mother’s Tortilla by Joanne Diaz
• Still Life With Summer Sausage, a Blade, and No Blood by Vievee Francis
• Chorus, Venable Elementary by Ann Hudson
• Snow in North Jersey by August Kleinzahler
• Draw by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
• Nighthawks by Edward Hopper by Nathan McClain
• Full Capacity by Rose McLarney
• Because of Libraries We Can Say Such Things by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Letter to a Cockroach, Now Dead and Mixed into a Bar of Chocolate by Matthew Olzmann
• Parting by Octavio Quintanilla
• The Falcon by Leslie Contreras Schwartz
• Fixing on the Next Star by Patricia Smith
• What I Learned This Week by Angela Narciso Torres
• Maria by Natalia Trevino
• On the Shoreline by Laura Van Prooyen
• As Always, Thirty Years Between Us by Laura Van Prooyen
• Postcard from Texas by Laura Van Prooyen
• She Inherits His Steady Hand by Laura Van Prooyen

Classic Poems

• The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
• Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
• To a Mouse by Robert Burns
• Regret by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
• I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died by Emily Dickinson
• The Flea by John Donne
• A Musical by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
• Excerpt from “Preludes” by T.S. Eliot
• Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
• Learning to Read by Frances Ellen Harper
• Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• When I was One and Twenty by A.E. Housman
• A Jelly-Fish by Marianne Moore
• Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• Excerpt from “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope
• On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1990 by Alexander Posey
• Grass by Carl Sandburg
• Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun by William Shakespeare
• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas
• I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman
• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
• When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats