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My Favorite Poem
MY FAVORITE POEM READERS 2006-2019 Abbott, Valerie 2006 "The Touch of the Master's Hand" by Myra B. Welch . Allen, Ben 2018 "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost . Allen, Janice 2016 "Human Family" by Maya Angelou . Austin, Joyce 2009 "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer . Baggett, Jim 2016 "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson . Bailey, Jimsey 2008 "'Tis Mirth that Fills the Veins with Blood" by Francis Beaumont . Bates, Jess 2011 "Little Word, Little White Bird" by Carl Sandburg . Bates, Kelsey 2011 "I am the People, the Mob" by Carl Sandburg . Beck, Jerri 2014 "The Trash Dragon of Shensi" by Andrew Glaze . Boliek, Robert 2006 "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" by W.H. Auden . Brooks, Avery 2017 "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins . Brown, Andrew 2018: "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" by Bob Dylan . Burgins, B. J. Jr. 2015 "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar . Butcher, Anna 2018 "Forest Fires" by Sarah Key . Camp, Emma 2017 "The Words Come, They Choke Me" by Leila Chatti . Cardwell, Philip 2012 "The Old Witch Winks & Before Terror Comes Tyranny" (both anonymous) . Carter, Joanna 2006 "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll . Chapman, Sadie 2006 "Annabelle Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe . Christian, Mel 2012 "First Moment" by Sam Shepard . Cole, Devin 2011 "The Davenport Lunar Eclipse" by Jim Harrison . Colvin, Bill 2007 "The Face on the Barroom Floor" by Hugh A. D'Arcy . Condrey, Madison 2019 "Seen from Above" by Wislawa Szymborska . Conrad, Rob 2013 "Welcome Home" by Jane-Ann Heitmueller . Cooper, Sophia 2015 "The Clown's Prayer" Anonymous . Craig, Artemis 2014 "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou . Creel, Chatham 2014 "June Jazz" by Irina-Miranova Mirumir . Crist, Amanda 2012 "Birthday" by Andrea Gibson . Cunningham, Carolyn "Mickey" 2010 "Kidnap" by Nikki Giovanni . Curtis, Barry 2015 "Palm Reader" by Rebecca Campbell . Davidson, Rodney 2006 "Loveliest of Trees" by A.E. Housman . Dameron, Tom 2012 "My Life" (words and music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) . Davis, Christopher 2009 "If" by Rudyard Kipling . Dawson, Frank 2008 "Incident of the French Camp" by Robert Browning . Dawson, Joan 2008 "Sit Beside the Fire" & "In Western Lands" by J.R.R. Tolkien . Dennis, Thomas Neil 2014 "It's Alright Ma" by Bob Dylan . Denson, Sadie T. 2010 "I, Too" & "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes . Dewberry, Lauren Elizabeth 2018 "How Origami Was Invented" by Bob Hicok . Dill, Todd 2008 "To My Beloved Self" by Greg Purcell . Donnelly, Meridian 2016 "Goodbye Our Red Flag" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko . Downs, Elizabeth 2007 "Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot (excerpts) . Downs, Scott 2011 "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest L. Thayer (aka Phin) . Dykes, Rachael 2007 "Love Poem" by Gregory Orr . Edmondson, Steve 2011 "Patterns" by Amy Lowell . Eggers, Danielle 2011 "The Lion and the Lily" by Elizabeth Spires . Feldman, Jeannie 2015 "May the Light of Your Soul Guide You by John O'Donohue . Feldman, Rebecca 2012 "In the Arms of an Angel" by Sarah McLachlan . Ferguson, Jim 2019 "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins . Flynn, Stuart 2009 "In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver . Forsythe, Jennifer 2007 "Nao se mate" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade . Freeman, Bernice Tolbert 2009 "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou 2009 . Friedman, Bob 2010 "The Internationale" by Eugene Pottier 2019 "Cartoon Physics" by Nick Flynn . Gaines, Lee 2018 "What You Should Eat Before Reading the Poem" by Richard Hague . Gallaway, Deb 2006 "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" by Wendell Berry . Gamble, Danny 2006 "next to of course god america" by e. e. cummings . Glaze, Andrew 2012: (Alabama Poet Laureate) "Sailing to Byzantium" by William B. Yeats . Godsey, Joy 2019 "Bermuda" by Billy Collins . Graves, Thomas 2015 "To Be a Pilgrim" by John Bunyan . Green, Darlene 2010 "Maud Miller" by John Greenleaf Whittier . Guthrie, Avera 2017 "I Sing the Body Electric" by Andrea Gibson . Guthrie, Bart 2019 "And Then I Closed the Book" by Avera Guthrie . Haddin, Theodore 2009 "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" by Richard Wilbur . Hameer, Zahir 2010 "No Different" by Kendra Dexter . Harris, Lauren 2013 "Strange Fruit" by Abel Meeropol . Harris, Tina 2008 "Telling Our Stories" by Lucille Clifton . Hawkins, Brian Porter 2013 "Forgotten Language" by Shel Silverstein . Hendley, Sarah 2011 "What I Think of Death, if Anyone's Asking" by Maud Kelly . Hooker, Jim 2013 "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden . Howard, Mary 2006 "Outwitted" by Edwin Markham . Hunter, Jan 2011 "Grandmother Travels" by Jane Trechsel . Isom, Chervis 2017 "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold . Jacks, Derek 2015 "Who Am I?" by Dietrich Bonhoffer . Jersey, Jeannine 2013 "I Choose the Mountain" by Howard Simon . Jones, Judy 2018 "There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves" by James Kavanaugh . Kennedy, Joey 2006 "Stopping by Woods" by Robert Frost . King, BJ Love 2010 "Thank You" by Ken Schmeski . Kirchikov, Peter 2011 "My Buddy Did Not Come Back from the Battlefield" by Vladimir Vysotsky . Kennedy, Veronica 2007 "The Lovers of the Poor" by Gwendolyn Brooks . Kinnaird, Charles 2016 "Conscientious Objector" by Edna St. Vincent Millay . Latham, Irene 2006 "My Secret Life" by Stephen Dunn 2017 "From Blossoms" by Li-Young Lee 2019 "God Says Yes to Me" by Kaylin Haught . Lightsey, Stephen G. 2009 "If Thou Must Love Me" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Lowe, Jemiah 2016 "Harriet Tubman" by Eloise Greenfield . Luther, Bob 2006 "High Flight" by John G. Magee, Jr. . Mack, Ronnie 2016 "I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. . Major, Rod 2011 "Opportunity" by Walter Malone . Marks, Barry 2013 "Host of the Air" by William Butler Yeats . McCammon, Robert 2011 "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot . McCord, Mary Grace 2012 "Ode to Bicycles" by Pablo Neruda . McMath, David 2016 "Too Many Daves" by Dr. Seuss . McMath, Katie 2014 "Ode to the Onion" by Pablo Neruda . Meadows, Luke "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost . Meeks, Michael 2014 "A Girl's Garden" by Robert Frost . Mellon, Annabeth 2015 "When the World Was Ten Years Old" by Patricia Lockwood - Milligan, Sam 2017 "See It Through" by Edgar A. Guest . Mishra, Annikah 2014 "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth . Mishra, Anoop 2012 "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson . Mishra, Manisha 2007 "Gayatri Mantra" Sanskrit . Moline, Myrna 2013 "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes . Morrow, Brielle 2018 "A Woman Speaks" by Audre Lorde . Mumford, Greg 2008 "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley . Narahanan, N J 2017 "Modalu Maanavanaagu" by Siddayya Puranik . Nelson, R.A. 2007 "My Father in the Night Commanding No" by Louis Simpson . Newton, Demetrius C. 2010 "Color" by E.D. Tyler & "Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes . Northrop, John 2008 "Byzantium" by Yeats . Norton, Carol 2006 "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen . Norwood, Judith A. 2011 "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman . Nunn, Annetta 2006 "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou . Oestreich, Lisa 2018 "One-Two-Three" by Hannah Senesh 2019 "On Aging" by Maya Angelou . Oliver, Lydia 2015 "The Last Spell of the Sea Witch" by Karen Finnyfrock . Owen, LeAnne 2012: "Some Keep the Sabbath" by Emily Dickinson . Owens, Isibeal 2016 "Origin of the Bathrobe" by Sierra DeMulder . Parcak, Sarah 2008 "Magic" & "Magic Carpet" by Shel Silverstein . Peppers, J.D. 2018 "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" by Melissa Webb . Polhill, Sarah 2014 "The Writer" by Richard Wilbur . Powell, Ricky 2007 "Loveliest of Trees" by A.E. Housman . Pearson, D.S. 2007 "i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)" by e.e. cummings . Pratt, Tyler 2010 "Francesca" by Ezra Pound . Radford, Beverly 2018 "Allison Beals and Her 25 Eels" by Shel Silverstein . Ramsay, Hope 2013 "Jimmy Jet and His TV Set" by Shel Silverstein . Ravizee, Monica 2018 "Poem" by Mikaela Ravizee . Reed, Jim 2006 "Stars" by Sara Teasdale 2016 & 2017 & 2019 "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service 2019 "No Difference" by Shel Silverstein . Reed, Liz 2014 "The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk" by Dorothy Parker 2017 "Jest 'Fore Christmas" by Eugene Field . Reeves, Chris 2013 "It's All in a State of Mind" by Walter D. Wintle . Reynolds, Colton 2019 "Oh Me! O Life!" by Walt Whitman . Richardson, Alexis 2010 "Thinking" by Walter D. Wintle . Rinke-Hammer, Iris 2010 "Mark Climbs Trees" by Adam Hammer . Rodriguez, James 2014 "Why Seek Thou My Friendship" by Lopez DeVega . Romero-Rojas, Jazmine 2012 "Ahora es Cuba" by Pablo Neruda . Royer, Amy 2015 "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas . Royer, Jack 2018 "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service . Royer, Mike 2008-2015 "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service . Royer, Will 2014 "Fog" by Carl Sandburg . Rudolph, Denise C. 2008 "I Will Write" by Jill Scott . Ruffin, Aniekan-Abasi 2013 "Who You Callin' Colored?" Anonymous . Sarris, George 2007 "Ithaka" by C.P. Cavafy . Shamsi-Basha, Karim 2016 "Aches, Shivers and Dreams by Kheriddean Shamsi-Basha . Slonneger, Brenda 2017 "Simple Things" by Sue Scalf . Smith, Alexandria 2008 "Being in Love" by Marvin Bell . Smith, Asa 2014 "Merlin's Song" by Ralph Waldo Emerson . Smitherman, Carol 2006 "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes . Sneed, Kaitie 2007 "Writer Waiting" by Shel Silverstein . Stefanson, Don 2008 "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats . Stefanson, Margaret 2011 "Don't Quit" Anonymous . Stewart, Don 2007 "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost . Stephan, Linda Newby 2011 "One Day" by Barbara Schmitz . Swagler, Susan 2007 "Messenger" by Mary Oliver . Tallaj, Jose 2015 "There Is a Country in the World" by Pedro Mir . Tate, Ashley 2017 "Our Greatest Fear" by Marianne Williamson . Taylor, Saundra 2016 "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou . Tharp, Adriane 2014 "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" by Richard Siken . Thiele, Chuck 2014 "The Prayer of St. Francis" by Francis Bernadone . Thomas, Dana Marie 2015 "Brown Penny, Brown Penny" by William Butler Yeats . Thompson, Jordan 2010 "All My Life" by Langston Hughes . Thompson, Kathleen 2012 "Maybe Dat's Your Pwoblem Too" by Jim Hall . Toppins, Kathleen 2013: "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" by J.R.R. Tolkien . Trechsel, Jane 2006 "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas . Vella, Murray 2018 "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson . Vines, Melissa Dameron 2009 "Museum of the Unmoving Image" by Clive James . Wade, Erika 2010 "Strange Fruit" by Abel Meeropol . Walker, Rev. Joseph W. Jr. 2006 "Sermons We See" by Edgar Guest . Walker, Sue Brannan 2006 "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver . Wallace, George Jr. 2007 "How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Ward, Janice 2019 "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes . Washington, Daryl 2009 "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley . Watson, Christin 2019 "Famous" by Naomi Shihad Nye . Weber, Jeanne 2016 "The White Magnolia" by Helen Deutsch . Wehby, Kevin 2016 "When I First Heard the Learned Astronomer" by Walt Whitman . Whitfield, Andrea 2012 "If" by Rudyard Kipling . Whitten, Joe 2011 "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden . Williams, Larry Lake 2015 "Don't Quit" by Edgar A. Guest . Williams, Linda 2018 "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet . Williams, Wanda 2009 "A Song in the Front Yard" by Gwendolyn Brooks . Willmarth, Robbie 2017 "Arithmetic" by Carl Sandburg . Woods, Jane 2013 "Give Me Liberty" by Patrick Henry . Youngson, Charles 2017 "No Man is an Island" by John Donne . Youngson, Jeff 2017 "Elements" by Tom Lehrer 
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