2005-2006 Poetry Alive! Shows

Many schools invite Poetry Alive! for assemblies each year or every other year. As a result, many students see us many times. We provide distinctive programs from year to year to ensure that students see different shows.

The 2005-2006 programs for grades 9-12, 6-8, 3-5, and K-2 audiences are listed below, in show order. This program is subject to change based on show time allotted or other needs that your school may have.

Your assigned team will contact you at least one week prior to the show date to confirm the details of our visit.

The poem books are available online!

Follow the links to copies of poems or author biographies on the internet. Please note, we are still in the process of searching for links to both poems and authors. If the poem you want is not linked, you can visit the Public Domain link for that show to see if the poem is available there, or click the Bibliography link for where we've found the poem in print. We are unable to copy and distribute print versions of poems that are not in public domain.

K-2 Show : 3-5 Show : 6-8 Show : 9-12 Show

9-12th Grade Poem List -- Shop for Books!
Bibliography : Public Domain Poems : Print PDF of Showlist

Constantly Risking Absurdity - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot
Pershing at the Front - Arthur Guiterman
Harriet Tubman - Eloise Greenfield
Women - Alice Walker
Woman Work - Maya Angelou
Lucinda Matlock - Edgar Lee Masters
Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare
The Calling - Luis J. Rodriquez
Chrysalis Diary - Paul Fleischman
The Lawyer's Ways - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Mr. Flood's Party - Edwin Arlington Robinson
My Papa's Waltz - Theodore Roethke
Those Winter Sundays - Robert Hayden
We - Lee Bennett Hopkins
The Funeral - Gorden Parks
Lochinvar - Sir Walter Scott
Poem for Roman Jakobsen "Between What I See and What I Say" - Octavio Paz

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6-8th Grade List -- Shop for Books!
Bibliography : Public Domain Poems : Print PDF of Showlist

Poem for Roman Jakobsen "Between What I See and What I Say" - Octavio Paz
The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
The Bells - Edgar Allan Poe
Mama is a Sunrise - Evelyn Tooley Hunt
Elena - Pat Mora
The Courage that my Mother Had - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mother to Son - Langston Hughes
The Women's 400 Meters - Lillian Morrison
The 1st (or Eviction) - Lucille Clifton
At This Age, This Time of Young Age - Arnold Adoff
Which Lunch Table- Kristine O'Connell George
in Just– - e.e. cummings
The Lesson of the Moth - Don Marquis
To Satch - Samuel Allen
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
A Word is Dead by Emily Dickinson

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3-5th Grade Poem List -- Shop for Books!
Bibliography : Public Domain Poems : Print PDF of Showlist

Nathanial's Rap - Eloise Greenfield
The Helpful Centipede - Allan Wolf
The Butterfly and the Caterpillar - Joseph Lauren
Whirligig Beetles - Paul Fleischman
Billy Button - Anonymous
Toboggan - Colin West
El Coco - Anonymous
Permutations - Mary Ann Hoberman
The Dog - Ogden Nash
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog - Judith Viorst
My Dog is a Plumber - Dan Greenburg
My Dog He is an Ugly Dog - Jack Prelutsky
Motto for a Doghouse - Arthur Guiterman
The Aliens Have Landed- Kenn Nesbitt
My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
To Be - Sara Holbrook
Thumbprint - Eve Merriam
I'm Nobody - Emily Dickenson
I Am Rose - Gertrude Stein
Chicago Poet - Carl Sandburg
The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll
Where do you get the idea for a poem? - Karla Kuskin

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K-2nd Grade Poem List -- Shop for Books!
Bibliography : Public Domain Poems : Print PDF of Showlist

A Poem is a Little Path- Charles Ghigna
Nursery Rhymes:
      Little Jack Horner - Mother Goose
      Jack Be Nimble - Mother Goose
      Little Boy Blue - Mother Goose
      Little Miss Muffett - Mother Goose
Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya Angelou
Today I Feel Silly - Jamie Lee Curtis
Angry - Sara Holbrook
Puzzle - Myra Cohn Livingston
The Time I Learned to Ride My Bike - Brod Bagert
Five Little Monkeys - Anonymous
Two Little Apples - Anonymous
Jell-O Cups - Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Crayons: A Color Poem - Jane Yolen
What Happens to the Colors? - Jack Prelutsky
The Bad Dream - Tony Bradman
Good Morning - Muriel Sipe
The End - Mary Ann Hoberman
Keep a Poem in Your Pocket - Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

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