Poetry speaks who I am /
Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.
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Naperville, Ill. :
Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.