Poets Sign in Sheet: Period __________
Poet
Student Name
Female American Poets
Adrienne Rich
Anne Sexton
Naomi Shihab Nye
Marilyn Chin
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Pat Mora
Emily Dickinson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sylvia Plath
American Poets
William Carlos Williams
Li Young Lee
Theodore Roethke
Walt Whitman
Henry W. Longfellow
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Gary Soto
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ogden Nash
Raymond Carver
Billy Collins
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
Carl Sandburg
(No designation= Poetry for Students) (LF= Gale’s LIT FINDER) (LP=Library Page)
Suggested Poems
Notes on the Poet
“Driving into the Wreck” (LF) “Ghost of a Chance” (LP)
“Rusted Legacy” (LP)
“Courage” “Oysters” “Self in 1958” (LP) “Young”(LP)
“Cinderella”
“Kindness” “Shoulders” (LP)
“How I got that Name” (LP)“The Floral Apron”
“Freeway 280”
“Elena” (LP) “Legal Alien” “Uncoiling”
“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” “Success is Counted
Sweetest” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
“An Ancient Gesture” “Conscientious Objector”
“The Courage that my Mother Had” “Wild Swans”
“Mirror” “Daddy” (LP) “Mushrooms” (LP)
“Blackberrying” (LP)
Modern, Lesbian, Feminist
“Overture to a Dance of Locomotives” “Queen Anne’s
Lace” “The Red Wheelbarrow” “This is Just to Say”
“Early in the Morning” “For a New Citizen of
These United States” “The Weight of Sweetness”
“My Papa’s Waltz” “The Waking” (LP) “Night Journey”
(LP)
“A Noiseless Patient Spider” “O Captain, My Captain” “
Miracles” (LF) “I Hear America Singing”
“A Psalm of Life” “The Arsenal at Springfield”
“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”
“Richard Cory” “Miniver Cheevy”
“Oranges” (LP) “Small Town with One Road”
“Concord Hymn” “The Rhodora” “The Snow Storm”
“The Hippopotamus” (LP)
“The Cobweb”
“The Afterlife” “The History Teacher”
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “Journey of the
Magi”
“Mending Wall” “The Road Not Taken”
“Sunday Morning” “Of Modern Poetry” (LP) “The Idea
of Order at Key West”
“Chicago” “Cool Tombs” “Hope is a Tattered Flag” “Jazz
Puerto Rican Mother, Modern
Modern, Suicide, Mental Illness
Modern, Arab American
Modern, Asian American
Modern, Mexican American
Modern, Mexican American
Recluse, Mid- 1800s
Had affairs, Early Feminist
Modern, Suicide, Mental Illness
Modern, Asian American
Modern
Nature poet, Mid-1800s
Mid-1800s
Turn of the Century 1900s
Modern, Mexican American
Nature
Modern
Modern
Poet Laureate
Modern, difficult
Nature
Modern
Beat Poet
e.e. cummings
Hispanic Poets
Pablo Neruda
African American Poets
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Yusef Komunyakaa
Female, African American
Phillis Wheatley
Gwendolyn Brooks
Rita Dove
Maya Angelou
Nikki Giovanni
English , Male Poets
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dylan Thomas
John Donne
John Milton
Lewis Carroll
Percy Bysshe Shelly
John Keats
Lord Byron
William Blake
English, Female Poets
Emily Bronte
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Stevie Smith
Fantasia” (LF)
“Anyone lived in a pretty how town” “Since feeling it first”
“In Just” (LP) “Old age sticks”
Modern
“Tonight I Can Write” “Sonnet LXXXIX”
Chilean
“ We Wear the Mask” “Sympathy”
“ Harlem” “I, Too” “The Weary Blues” (LF) “Mother to
Son”
“Any Human to Another”
“Facing It” “Ode to a Drum” “Slam, Dunk & Hook”
Late 1800s
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
Modern
“On Being Brought from Africa to America”
Colonial
“We Real Cool” “The Mother”
Harlem Renaissance
“Geometry” “Grape Sherbet” “This Life”
Modern
“Still I Rise” (LF) “Woman Work” “On the Pulse of Morning” (LP)
Modern
“Harlem Hopscotch”
“Ego Tripping” “Winter” “The World in Not a Pleasant
Modern
Place”
“The World is Too Much With Us” “I Wandered Lonely as
a Cloud”
“Kubla Khan”
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
“Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnet 10)” “Song”
[“When I Consider How My Light is Spent” “On his
blindness (Sonnet 16)” ] [“On his arriving at the age of
twenty-three”(Sonnet 9) “How Soon Hath Time, the Subtle
Thief of Youth” (Sonnet 7)”]
“Jabberwocky” “The Walrus and the Carpenter”
“Ozymandias”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“She Walks in Beauty” “When we two parted”
“The Tyger” “The Lamb”
Early 1800s
“Old Stoic” “Remembrance”
“How do I Love Thee” (Sonnet 43)
“Not Waving But Drowning”
Romantic Era
Romantic Era
Modern
Early 1800s, difficult
Modern
Playboy turned preacher
Blindness
Late 1800s, difficult
Romantic
Romantic
Romantic
Romantic