# data[].attributes.body
Ha Jin
Read by Ms. Stoddard

# data[].attributes.body
Robert Frost
Read by Ms. Janssen

# data[].attributes.body
Good sonnet. About 1:30 of introduction before he reads it.

# data[].attributes.body
Siegried Sassoon
Read by Mr. Telfer

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon | Poetry Foundation

# data[].attributes.body
William Shakespeare
Note the similarity in rhythm even in a different language

# data[].attributes.body
multiple haikus by Betsy Snyder

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
7 Spring Haiku (Poems for the classroom.)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Poem Almquist reads My Wish Rascall Flatts

# data[].attributes.body
William Shakespeare
read by Patrick Stewart

# data[].attributes.body
Shane Koyczan

# data[].attributes.body
Sharon Olds

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
I Go Back to May 1937 Sharon Olds poem - Into the Wild film

# data[].attributes.body
Rick Lupert

# data[].attributes.body
Billy Collins

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The Country - Billy Collins Animated Poetry

# data[].attributes.body
Sarah Kay

# data[].attributes.body
By Rick Lupert

"Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried 5000 to 8000 years ago, hugging each other."

That ’s the way I want to go
in her arms, teeth intact

Discovered in five thousand years
a beacon to the loveless masses of the future

Our femurs and tibias co-mingled
a love only bones would know

We’ll be like black and white movies
an innocent portrayal of a time long gone

They knew how to do it back then, they’ll say
just imagine if they still had eyes.

# data[].attributes.body
Clint Smith

# data[].attributes.body
Billy Collins

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Forgetfulness - Billy Collins Animated Poetry

# data[].attributes.body
Paul McCartney
read by Dr. Salerno

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Mr. Braedon's Poetry Reading Assignment -  "Here Today"

# data[].attributes.body
John Lennon

# data[].attributes.body
Jamaal May
read by Ms. Pommerening

# data[].attributes.body
Clint Smith

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Clint Smith is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and the National Science Foundation. He is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and was a speaker at the 2015 TED Conference. His writing has been published in the The New Yorker, The Guardian, The American Literary Review, Boston Review, Harvard Educational Review, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. His first collection of poems, Counting Descent, is published by Write Bloody Publishing (2016).

Other poems by this author

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Clint Smith is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and the National Science Foundation. He is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and was a speaker at the 2015 TED Conference.

# data[].attributes.body
John Mellencamp

# data[].attributes.body
Carol King
read by Ms. Cuthbertson

# data[].attributes.body
William Wordsworth

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
J'Kobe Wallace reads "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"

# data[].attributes.body
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Learning to Love America

"Learning to love America" by Shirley Geok-lin Lim from What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say. Copyright 1998 by Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of West End Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico. www.westendpress.org. Produced by USC Film School.

Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this animated film explores the interplaying identities of country and family. "Learning to love America" by Shirley Geok-lin Lim from What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say. Copyright 1998 by Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of West End Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico. www.westendpress.org. Produced by USC Film School.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Learning to Love America - Poem Videos | Poetry Foundation

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Learning to Love America "Learning to love America" by Shirley Geok-lin Lim from What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say. Copyright 1998 by Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of West End Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico. www.westendpress.org. Produced by USC Film School.

# data[].attributes.body
Carol King
Performed by Vincent Price and the Muppets

# data[].attributes.body
Dylan Thomas
Mr. Breadon's favorite poetry recording

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Dylan Thomas reads "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"

# data[].attributes.body
Bill Withers & Skip Scarborough
read by Mr. Killinger

# data[].attributes.body
Charles Bukowski
suggested by Ms. Hillary

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The laughing heart (Tom Waits reads a Charles Bukowski poem)

# data[].attributes.body
Gwen Mahoney

# data[].attributes.body
Tupac

# data[].attributes.body
Melissa Olmsted
posted in daily poetry

# data[].attributes.body
Judith Slater

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Poem copyright ©2011 by Judith Slater from her most recent book of poems, The Wind Turning Pages, Outriders Poetry Project, 2011. Reprinted by permission of Judith Slater and the publisher.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Family Vacation by Judith Slater | Poetry Foundation

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Poem copyright ©2011 by Judith Slater from her most recent book of poems, The Wind Turning Pages, Outriders Poetry Project, 2011. Reprinted by permission of Judith Slater and the publisher.

# data[].attributes.body
Run DMC

# data[].attributes.body
Shel Silverstein

# data[].attributes.body
Shel Silverstein
Mr.Breadon once read this to a college class learning Poetry In Performance. One of the college students yelled, "It's funny because it's about poop!"  That college student went on to become a middle school principal. True story.

# data[].attributes.body
Shel Silverstein
text

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Read Quick Trip from the story A Light in the Attic by expiredsoda with 425 reads. poems, wherethesidewalkends, shelsilverstein. We've been caught by the quick...

# data[].attributes.headline
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia would not take the garbage out

# data[].attributes.subject
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia would not take the garbage out

# data[].attributes.body
Shel Silverstein
Check G-Class for Ms. Showers reading this short poem.

# data[].attributes.body
Shel Silverstein

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
"Smart" by Shel Silverstein - Language Arts Project

# data[].attributes.body
"Glory of True Love"
John Prine & Roger Cook
the music

# data[].attributes.body
"Glory of True Love"
John Prine & Roger Cook
the words

# data[].attributes.body
William Shakespeare

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Matthew Macfadyen reads the poem 'Sonnet 29'  3/3

# data[].attributes.body
Oh Captain My Captain
Walt Whitman

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman (read by Gilberto Graywolf)

# data[].attributes.body
Lockdown
Richard Hendrick

# data[].attributes.body
"My Darlin' Hometown"
John Prine & Roger Cook

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
My Darlin Hometown John Prine with Lyrics