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 --
The delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday --
Indian education / Sherman Alexie --
One art / Elizabeth Bishop --
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 --
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 --
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 --
The writer / Richard Wilbur.
