Poetry Speaks to Children

Poets: Rita Dove; Maxine Kumin; Emily Dickinson; Christina Rossetti; Robert Frost; Billy Collins; Gwendolyn Brooks; Ogden Nash; Carl Sandburg; Ana Castillo; Roald Dahl; Kay Ryan; Lewis Carroll; Maxine Kumin; Dennis Lee; James Berry; John Hollander; Anonymous Inuit Poet; W.S. Merwin; Jane Yolen; C.K. Willams; Karla Kuskin; William Shakespeare; J.R.R. Tolkien; Joy Harjo; Langston Hughes; Anonymous Osage Poet; Rudyard Kipling; Seamus Heany; Wallace Stevens; John Ciardi; Mary Ann Hoberman; Brad Leithauser; James Stevenson; Alexander Pope; Willam Jay Smith; Robert Graves; David McCord; Nikki Giovanni; Margaret Walker; Agha Shahid Ali; Janet S. Wong; Margaret Wise Brown; William Stafford; Galway Kimmel; X.J. Kennedy; Naomi Shihab Nye; Alfred Noyes; Myra Cohn Livingston; W.B. Yeats; Rainer Maria Rilke; Elizabeth Spires; E.E. Cummings; Dennis Lee; Edgar Allan Poe; John Fuller; A.A. Milne; Richard Wilbur; Sandra Cisneros; William Cole; Ernest L. Thayer; Stanley Kunitz; Kristine O’Connel George; Sonia Sanchez; Donald Hall; W.D. Snodgrass; Emanuel di Pasquake; Delmore Schwartz; William Blake; Robert Bly; Eugene Field; Dorothy Aldis; Abram Bunn Ross; Robert Louis Stevenson; Sylvia Plath.