2004-2005 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 2004-2005 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.
9-12th Grade Poem List
Miracles by Walt Whitman
Little girl, be careful what you say by Carl Sandburg
Blood by Naomi Shihab Nye
El Olvido by Judith Ortiz Cofer
In Response to Executive Order 9066: by Dwight Okita
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Daybreak in Alabama by Langston Hughes
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
Naming of Parts by Henry Reed
Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Shiloh, A Requiem by Herman Melville
The Ballad of Hiram Hover by Bayard Taylor
Sonnet 120 William Shakespeare
Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be by Nikki Giovanni
The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt
I Gotcha by Kalli Dakos
A Word is Dead by Emily Dickinson
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6-8th Grade List
Introduction to The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg
William Clark (53) by Allan Wolf
Meriwether Lewis (54) by Allan Wolf
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Foul Shot by Edwin Hoey
Spinning by Naomi Shihab Nye
who know's if the moon's by E. E. Cummings
Class Bully by Nikki Grimes
On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
Fifteen by William Stafford
Are You the One? by Sara Holbrook
Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Permutations by Mary Ann Hoberman
Two Voices in a Tent at Night by Kristine O'Connell George
Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the Desert by Stephen Crane
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The Base-Stealer by Robert Francis
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
I Gotcha by Kalli Dakos
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3-5th Grade Poem List
Piping Down the Valleys Wild by William Blake
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How to Eat a Poem by Eve Merriam
Table Manners by Gelett Burgess
I Eat My Peas With Honey by Anonymous
Fancy Restaurants by Brod Bagert
Pizza by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky
The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash
Poem (2) by Langston Hughes
Alone by Nikki Giovanni
Keepsake by Eloise Greenfield
Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
If You're Not Here, Then Where Are You? by Kalli Dakos
The Dog Ate My Homework by Sara Holbrook
42nd Street Library by Nikki Grimes
My Book! by David Harrison
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field
I Gotcha by Kalli Dakos
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K-2nd Grade Poem List
Poetry Time by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Nursery Rhymes:
Hickory Dickory Dock (Mother Goose )
Humpty Dumpty (Mother Goose )
Jack 'n' Jill (Mother Goose )
Mary's Lamb (Sara Josepha Hale )
The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash
Fog by Carl Sandburg
Sunshine by Rose Flint
The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson
Solution by Leland B. Jacobs
Hopi Prayer a traditional chant
Rain In Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mud by Polly Chase Boyden
The Muddy Puddle by Dennis Lee
The Little Turtle by Vachel Lindsay
Poor Old Lady by Anonymous
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
I Gotcha by Kalli Dakos
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