Out of wonder: poems celebrating poets

PART I: GOT STYLE? How to write a poem / celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye (Kwame Alexander)

In every season / celebrating Robert Frost (Marjorie Wentworth)

I like your / celebrating e. e. cummings (Kwame Alexander)

Contemporary haiku / celebrating Bashō (Chris Colderley)

Snapshots / celebrating Nikki Giovanni (Chris Colderley)

Jazz jive jam / celebrating Langston Hughes (Kwame Alexander)

PART II: IN YOUR SHOES. Walter, age ten / celebrating Walter Dean Meyers (Kwame Alexander)

A field of roses / celebrating Emily Dickinson (Chris Colderley)

The blue alphabet / celebrating Terrance Hayes (Marjorie Wentworth)

How Billy Collins writes a poem / celebrating Billy Collins (Marjorie Wentworth)

The Music of the earth / celebrating Pablo Neruda (Marjorie Wentworth)

Tambourine things / celebrating Judith Wright (Chris Colderley)

(Loving) the world and everything in it / celebrating Mary Oliver (Marjorie Wentworth)

PART III: THANK YOU. Hue and cry / celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks (Kwame Alexander)

The poet inside me / celebrating Sandra Cisneros (Chris Colderley) - No idle days / celebrating William Carlos Williams (Chris Colderley)

Song of Uhuru / celebrating Okot p'Bitek (Kwame Alexander)

For our children's children / celebrating Chief Dan George (Chris Colderley)

Spin a song / celebrating Rumi (Marjorie Wentworth)

Majestic / celebrating Maya Angelou (Kwame Alexander)

About poets being celebrated

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