Below are a collection of links to find "Poems by Others". Please see HANDOUTS section for model pages of "Poems by Me" and "Poems by Others"-titled "Sample Poetry Portfolio"
Places on the web to find five poems by DIFFERENT authors for your "Poems by Others". Please select poems by PUBLISHED authors on an APPROVED/LEGITIMATE website:
Poetry Project (see Handouts section as well)
Due November 28th.
Some poetry sites to try:
Poets.org
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Everywhere
Poetry 180
Famous Poets and Poems
For younger children: Giggle Poetry
Make sure, whichever site you use, that the writer is a published poet and not a random person posting his or her poetry on the internet! An easy way to check is to search for the poem elsewhere and confirm that it is widely published.
Some ideas for poets, in no particular order:
- Jack Prelutsky
- William Butler Yeats
- Thomas Hardy
- Robert Hayden
- Amy Lowell
- Oscar Wilde
- Theodore Roethke
- William Shakespeare
- Langston Hughes
- e. e. cummings
- Billy Collins
- Shel Silverstein
- Pablo Neruda
- Maya Angelou
- Mary Oliver
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert Frost
- Emily Dickinson
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- E. E. Cummings
- Walt Whitman
- William Wordsworth
Some ideas for poems to recite:
“All that is Gold does not Glitter” ~ JRR Tolkein
“Fire and Ice” ~ Robert Frost
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” ~ Robert Frost
“Is Love, then, so Simple” ~ Irene Rutherford Mcleod
“Lines” ~ Martha Collins
“Introduction to Poetry” ~ Billy Collins
"Hope is the thing with feathers” ~ Emily Dickenson
“If I can stop one Heart from breaking” ~ Emily Dickenson
“A Book” ~ Emily Dickenson
“We Real Cool” ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
“Invictus” ~ William Ernest Henley
“Alone” ~ Maya Angelou
“This Is Just To Say” ~ William Carlos Williams
“i carry your heart with me” ~ e.e. cummings
“The Eclipse” ~ Richard Eberhart
“Lost” ~ David Wagoner
“My Life Has Been the Poem” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“The Road Not Taken” ~ Robert Frost
“Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” ~ Langston Hughes
“Dreams” ~ Langston Hughes
“After Years”~ Ted Kooser
“Sonnet CXXX” ~ William Shakespeare
“Roses” ~ George Eliot
“The Summer Day” ~ Mary Oliver
“The Arrow and the Song” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The Rainy Day” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Eldorado” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
"Poems by Me" that we have completed in class- pick your best five rough drafts to create final draft versions:
30 word poem (free verse, traditional, or acrostic)
Autumn poem (free verse, traditional, or acrostic)
Experimental poem (free verse)
Epitaph
Lyric poem
Ballad
Repetition poem (free verse or traditional)
Riddle poem (point of view poem)
Ode
Autobiographical poem
Found poem