Possible 2003-2004 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 2003-2004 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. If the poem you want is not linked, it is probably not Public Domain. Click the show's Bibliography link for where we've found the poem in print, many of the books are available from our product page. 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
Bibliography (HTML) - Acknowledgements (PDF)

Something is Going to Happen - Robert Penn Warren
Fog - Carl Sandburg
Dawn - Paul Laurence Dunbar
This is Just to Say - William Carlos Williams
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense - Emily Dickinson
The Tyger - William Blake
The Lamb - William Blake
Seven Ages of Man - William Shakespeare
Fire and Ice - Robert Frost
Monsoon Season - Yusef Komunyakaa
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy
There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time) - Sara Teasdale
anyone lived in a pretty how town - e.e. cummings
The Bean Eaters - Gwendolyn Brooks
When I Have Fears that may cease to be - John Keats
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas
Life is Fine - Langston Hughes
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
A Word is Dead - Emily Dickinson

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6-8th Grade List
Bibliography (HTML) - Acknowledgements (PDF)

Kidnap Poem - Nikki Giovanni
Arithmetic - Carl Sandburg
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe or
     The Cremation of Sam McGee - Robert Service
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud - William Wordsworth
The Kiss - Sara Teasdale
Why Do They Call That Love? - Sara Holbrook
7th Grade Soap Opera - Paul Fleischman
When I Hear Your Name - Gloria Fuertes
Dreams - Langston Hughes
Harlem II (Dream Deferred)- Langston Hughes
Richard Cory - Edwin Arlington Robinson
Alone - Maya Angelou
The Glove and the Lions - Leigh Hunt
Things - Eloise Greenfield

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3-5th Grade Poem List
Bibliography (HTML) - Acknowledgements (PDF)

Inside a Poem - Eve Merriam
Poetry - Eleanor Farjeon
Wilbur Wright & Orville Wright - Rosemary & Stephen Vincent Benét
A Math Lesson - Bobbi Katz
maggie and milllie and molly and may - e.e. cummings
The Panther - Ogden Nash
The Pig - Ogden Nash
The Octopus - Ogden Nash
The Rhinoceros - Ogden Nash
The Hippopotamus - Ogden Nash
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Jack Prelutsky
Accidentally - Maxine Kumin
The Crocodile - Michael Flanders
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
Knoxville, Tennessee - Nikki Giovanni
The Quarrel - Eleanor Farjeon
A Wolf - Osage Indian (or Lakota) Poem
My People - Langston Hughes
Keziah - Gwendolyn Brooks
The New Kid on the Block - Jack Prelutsky
My Aunt - Ted Hughes
Ode to a Toe - Kalli Dakos
Phizzog - Carl Sandburg
Be Glad Your Nose is On Your Face - Jack Prelutsky
Bone Chart - Allan Wolf
Open Eyes - Allan Wolf
Music - Eleanor Farjeon
Things - Eloise Greenfield

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K-2nd Grade Poem List
Bibliography (HTML) - Acknowledgements (PDF)

What's a Poem - Charles Ghigna
Hey! Diddle, diddle - Mother Goose
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - Mother Goose
Sometimes I Feel This Way - John Ciardi
The Children's Hour - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tiger Pajamas - Siv Cedering
If A Bad Dream Comes - Siv Cedering
Some One - Walter de la Mare
Mummy Slept Late and Daddy Fixed Breakfast - John Ciardi
Little Orphant Annie - James Whitcomb Riley
Five Little Monsters - Eve Merriam
Step Outside, What Do You See? - Allan Wolf
Running Song - Marci Ridlon
Hop and Skip - Mary Ann Hoberman
Slow Slide - Arnold Adoff
Lungs - Allan Wolf
Cloud Dragons - Pat Mora
Who Has Seen the Wind - Christina Rossetti
The Swing - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pasture - Robert Frost
Barnyard Dance! - Sandra Boynton
Honey, I Love - Eloise Greenfield
Ten Little Fingers - Anonymous

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