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Poet List

Homer, 900 B.C.E. Greece, "Odyssey Book 1 Lines 1-20" Sappho, 610-580 B.C.E. Greece, "Like the Very Gods" Basho, 1644-1694 Japan, "Old Pond" Shakespeare, 1564-1616 C.E. England, "Sonnet 29" John Donne, 1572-1631 England," Meditation 17" or "For Whom the Bell Tolls" William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 England, "My Heart Leaps Up" Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 England, "The Charge of the Lig ht Brigade" Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 United States, "Annabel Lee" Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886 United States, "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" W.B. Yeats, 1865-1939 Ireland, "When You Are Old" Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 India (British), "If" Robert Frost, 1874-1963 United States, "Fire and Ice" William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963 United States, "January" Edna St. VIncent Millay, 1892-1950 United States, "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver" E.E. Cummings, 1894-1962 United States, "If" Langston Hughes, 1902-1967 United States, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973 Chile, "If You Forget Me" W.H. Auden, 1907-1973 United Kingdom, "Funeral Blues" / Clip from "Four Weddings and a Funeral" Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000 United States, "We Real Cool"/ Read by Brooks with explanation Charles Bukowski, 1920 - 1994 United States/Germany, "So You Want to Be a Writer?" Alan Ginsberg, 1926-1997 United States, "Howl" Frank O’Hara, 1926-1966 United States, "My Heart" Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963 United States, "Daddy" Austin Clarke, 1934- Canada/Barbados, [untitled] from "In Your Crib" Margaret Atwood, 1939- Canada, "A Sad Child" Michael Ondaatje, 1943- Canada, "To a Sad Daughter" Kay Ryan, 1945- United States, "Winter Fear" Susan Musgrave, 1951- Canada, "The Goodness of this World" (not online) **//The Best Canadian Poetry 2014 819.1 BES//** Rob Winger, 1971- Canada, "Re/Signs From The Big Billboard" Saul Williams, 1972-, United States, "She" Ian Williams, 1979- Canada, "Dip" Sarah Kay, 1988- Canada, "Paradox" / Performance poem " If I Should Have a Daughter" Saeed Jones, 19-- United States, "History, According to Boy" Saeed Jones (I'm From Memphis, TN) - True Gay Stories Patricia Lockwood,1982- United States, "The Descent of the Dunk" / Performance of "Animorphs" Dwayne Morgan, 1974- Canada, "We Are the Ones" / Performed by poet Terrence Hayes, 1971-, United States, "Lightheads Guide to the Galaxy" Laura Broadbent, 19-- Canada, Untitled (unfound online)