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 Larua Van Prooyen "As Always, Thirty Years Between Us" by Laura Van Prooyen "Postcard from Texas" by Laura Van Prooyen "One of Those Day" 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 "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" Oliver Wendell Holmes "Pied Beauty" Gerard Manley Hopkins "When I Was One and Twenty" by A.E. Housman "The Jellyfish" Marianne Moore "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe Excerpt from "An Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope "On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900" by Alexander Posey "Grass" by Carl Sandburg "Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" by William Shakespeare "Ozymandias" by Percy Byshee Shelley "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing" by Walt Whitmas "I Wandered a Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats
"Pop the hood" on fifty poems to discover what makes them work and lead the way to a rewarding love of poetry for teachers and students alike.
A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE's James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle school and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications' The Good Writer's Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts. Laura Van Prooyen is author of two collections of poetry, Our House Was on Fire (Ashland Poetry Press 2015) and Inkblot and Altar (Pecan Grove Press 2006). She has more than 20 years experience teaching poetry and writing in a variety of academic settings including: Dominican University, Chicago Public Schools, Del Valle High School, and Henry Ford Academy: The Alameda School for Art + Design. Presently, Van Prooyen teaches in the Low-Res MFA Creative Writing Program at Miami University in Oxford, OH and lives in San Antonio, TX. You can find more of her work at www.lauravanprooyen.com.