Various
Poetry Speaks to Children
2005
speech

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Rita Dove / The First Book 0:38
2 Maxine Kumin / The Quarrel 1:12
3 Robert Frost / Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 0:51
4 Billy Collins / Wolf 1:06
5 Gwendolyn Brooks / The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves 2:40
6 Ogden Nash / from The Adventures of Isabel 1:56
7 Roald Dahl / The Dentist and the Crocodile 1:55
8 Kay Ryan / Bear Song 0:55
9 Lewis Carroll / Jabberwocky 1:57
10 Maxine Kumin / Sneeze 0:38
11 James Berry / Okay, Brown Girl, Okay 0:30
12 James Berry / Okay, Brown Girl, Okay 2 1:53
13 John Hollander / Vowel Owl 0:59
14 Joy Harjo / Eagle Poem 2:22
15 Langston Hughes / The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1:44
16 Langston Hughes / The Negro Speaks of Rivers 0:48
17 John Ciardi / About the Teeth of Sharks 0:32
18 Mary Ann Hoberman / My Sister Saw a Dinosaur 0:24
19 Brad Leithauser / Joey 1:04
20 Brad Leithauser / Joey 2 0:28
21 Mary Ann Hoberman / Rabbit 0:57
22 Mary Ann Hoberman / Rabbit 0:41
23 William Jay Smith / Balloons 0:42
24 Nikki Giovanni / The Reason I Like Chocolate 0:33
25 Nikki Giovanni / Trips 0:36
26 Nikki Giovanni / Mommies 0:19
27 Janet S. Wong / Good Luck Gold 1:49
28 Janet S. Wong / Good Luck Gold 2 0:54
29 Galway Kinnell / Crying 0:52
30 X.J. Kennedy / Art Class 0:46
31 Naomi Shihab Nye / How to Paint a Donkey 0:56
32 W.B. Yeats / A Faery Song 1:01
33 Rainer Maria Rilke / The Unicorn 1:21
34 Elizabeth Spires / The Lion and the Lily 2:46
35 Dennis Lee / The Ghost and Jenny Jemima 2:39
36 Edgar Allen Poe / from The Raven 3:39
37 John Fuller / Sheep Party 1:18
38 James Berry / Jamaican Song 1:24
39 Rita Dove / Count to Ten and We'll Be There 0:49
40 Richard Wilbur / opposite poem 4 0:47
41 Richard Wilbur / opposite poem 7 1:02
42 Richard Wilbur / opposite poem 20 0:30
43 Ernest L. Thayer / Casey at the Bat 4:26
44 Sonia Sanchez / A Poem for Jesse 0:35
45 Sonia Sanchez / To P.J. 0:51
46 W.D. Snodgrass / Summer 0:57
47 W.D. Snodgrass / Summer 1:04
48 W.D. Snodgrass / Winter 0:24
49 W.D. Snodgrass / Winter 1:08
50 Nikki Giovanni / Knoxville, Tennessee 0:33
51 William Blake / The Tyger 1:22
52 Robert Bly / Conversation with a Mouse 0:45
53 Billy Collins / On Turning Ten 1:48
54 X.J. Kennedy / How to Stay Up Late 0:48
55 X.J. Kennedy / Flashlight 1:07
56 X.J. Kennedy / Maturity 0:22
57 Mary Ann Hoberman / Brother 1:56
58 Mary Ann Hoberman / Brother 0:55
Total time 68:33