How to Eat a Poem

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• 1 The First Book, Rita Dove
• 2 There Is No Frigate Like A Book, Emily Dickinson
• 3 from "Magic Words" Inuit (Eskimo) passage
• 4 Introduction To Poetry, Billy Collins
• 5 The Poem, Amy Lowell
• 6 Ars Poetica, Archibald McLeish
• 7 How To Eat A Poem, Eve Merriam
• 8-9 Six Words, Lloyd Schwartz
• 10 Prickled Pickles Don't Smile, Nikki Giovanni
• 11-13 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Wallace Stevens
• 14 This Is Just To Say, William Carlos Williams
• 15 Variations On A Theme, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Koch
• 16 Today Is Very Boring, Jack Prelutsky
• 17-18 The Unwritten, W.S. Merwin
• 19 Write, Do Write, Marilyn Chin
• 20 My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, William Wordsworth
• 21-22 W.D., Don't Fear That Animal, W.D. Snodgrass
• 23 Swift Things Are Beautiful, Emily Coatsworth
• 24 Summer, Kawabata Bo sha
• 24 Autumn, Arakida Moritake
• 24 Winter, Tikarai Kikaku
• 24 Spring, Matsua Basho
• 25 Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost
• 26-27 The Desert Is My Mother, Pat Mora (pg. 27 Spanish version?)
• 28 maggie and milly and molly and may, E.E. Cummings
• 29 A Jellyfish, Marianne Moore
• 29 The Eagle, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• 30 Eagle Poem, Joy Harjo
• 31 Considering The Snail, Thom Gunn
• 32 The Porcupine, Ogden Nash
• 32 The Crocodile, Lewis Carroll
• 33 The Tyger, William Blake
• 34 Steve Shovel, Charles Malam
• 35-36 Cartoon Physics part 1, Nick Flynn
• 37 The Falling Star, Sara Teasdale
• 38-39 Halley's Comet, Stanley Kunitz
• 40 When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer, Walt Whitman
• 41-42 Sick, Shel Silverstein
• 43 Travel, Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 44 Insomnia, Marilyn Nelson
• 45 Harlem Night Song, Langston Hughes
• 46 The Rider, Naomi Shihab Nye
• 47 The Jogger On Riverside Drive, 5:00 a.m., Agha Shahid Ali
• 48 First Love, Carl Lindner
• 49 Skier, Robert Franics
• 50 Skater, Ted Kooser
• 51 The Acrobat, Wislawa Szymborska
• 52 Baseball, Linda Pastan
• 53-55 Casey At The Bat, Ernest Lawrence Thayer
• 56 One Art, Elizabeth Bishop
• 57 I Think Over Again My Small Adventures, Anonymous
• 58 Bed In Summer, Robert Louis Stevenson
• 59 from The Bed Book, Sylvia Path
• 60 Summons, Robert Francis
• 61 Shirley Said, Dennis Doyle
• 62-63 Oranges, Gary Soto
• 64-65 The Floor and The Ceiling, William Jay Smith
• 66-67 Anabelle Lee, Edgar Allan Poe
• 68 Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar
• 69 Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 70 Spring and Fall, Gerard Manley Hopkins
• 71 Trees, Walter Dean Myers
• 72 With Kit, Age Seven, At The Beach, William Stafford
• 73 At The End Of The Weekend, Ted Kooser
• 74 Little Old Letter, Langston Hughes
• 75 from "I Am A Black Woman," Mary Evans
• 76 homage to my hips, Lucille Clifton
• 77 Childhood Morning-Homebush, James McAuley
• 78 Hope Is The Thing With Feathers, Emily Dickinson
• 79 Quintrain, Said 'Aql