Heritage /Personal Poems

Where I'm From by George Ella Lyons

Family Bonds

Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road? By Robert Hershon

To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan

Sure by Arlene Tribbia

Our Other Sister by Jeffrey Harrison

Loss

Some Clouds by Steve Kowit

The Death of Santa Claus by Charles Webb

About Country

American History by Michael Harper 

Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da

Nature

The Bat by Theodore Roethke

One Morning by Eamon Grennan

Dandelion by Julie Lechevsky

Daily Life

Domestic Work, 1937 by Natasha Trethewey

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

also metaphor Tuesday 9:00 AM by Denver Butson

School or Teen Life

Did I Miss Anything? By Tom Wayman

Bike Ride with Older Boys by Laura Kasischke

Sports

Fast Break  by Edward Hirsch

Physical Tricks

Advice from the Experts by Bill Knot

The Yawn by Paul Blackburn

Relationships

How to Change a Frog Into a Prince by Anna Denise

Spoken Word Style

The Ball, The Rim, and Him by Al Letson

Knock, Knock by Daniel Beatty