Elise Paschen
Poetry Speaks to Children
2005
poetry

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Rita Dove / The First Book 0:36
2 Maxine Kumin / The Quarrel 1:10
3 Robert Frost / Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 0:49
4 Billy Collins / Wolf 1:04
5 Gwendolyn Brooks / The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves 2:38
6 Ogden Nash / from The Adventures of Isabel 1:53
7 Carl Sandburg / On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride 0:47
8 Roald Dahl / The Dentist and the Crocodile 1:53
9 Kay Ryan / Bear Song 0:53
10 Lewis Carroll / Jabberwocky 1:55
11 Sneeze / Sneeze 0:36
12 James Berry / Okay, Brown Girl, Okay 0:28
13 James Berry / Okay, Brown Girl, Okay 1:51
14 John Hollander / Vowel Owl (Roger) 0:57
15 J. R. R. Tolkien / Frodo's Song in Bree 1:59
16 Joy Harjo / Eagle Poem 2:20
17 Langston Hughes / The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1:42
18 Langston Hughes / The Negro Speaks of Rivers 0:46
19 John Ciardi / About the Teeth of Sharks 0:30
20 Mary Ann Hoberman / My Sister Saw a Dinosaur 0:21
21 Brad Leithauser / Joey 1:02
22 Brad Leithauser / Joey 0:26
23 Mary Ann Hoberman / Rabbit 0:55
24 Mary Ann Hoberman / Rabbit 0:38
25 William Jay Smith / Balloons 0:38
26 Nikki Giovanni / The Reason I Like Chocolate 0:31
27 Nikki Giovanni / Trips 0:34
28 Nikki Giovanni / Mommies 0:17
29 Janet S. Wong / Good Luck Gold 1:47
30 Janet S. Wong / Good Luck Gold 0:52
31 Galway Kinnell / Crying 0:50
32 X. J. Kennedy / Art Class 0:44
33 Naomi Shihab Nye / How to Paint a Donkey 0:54
34 W. B. Yeats / A Faery Song 0:59
35 Rainer Maria Rilke / The Unicorn 1:19
36 Elizabeth Spires / The Lion and the Lily 2:43
37 Dennis Lee / The Ghost and Jenny Jemima 2:36
38 Edgar Allan Poe / from The Raven 3:37
39 John Fuller / Sheep Party 1:16
40 James Berry / Jamaican Song 1:22
41 Rita Dove / Count to Ten and We'll Be There 0:47
42 Richard Wilbur / opposite poem 4 0:45
43 Richard Wilbur / opposite poem 7 1:00
44 Richard Wilbur / opposite poem 20 0:28
45 Ernest L. Thayer / Casey at the Bat 4:23
46 Sonia Sanchez / A Poem for Jesse 0:33
47 Sonia Sanchez / To P.J. 0:49
48 W. D. Snodgrass / Summer 0:55
49 W. D. Snodgrass / Summer 1:02
50 W. D. Snodgrass / Winter 0:22
51 W. D. Snodgrass / Winter 1:05
52 Nikki Giovanni / Knoxville, Tennessee 0:31
53 William Blake / The Tyger 1:20
54 Robert Bly / Conversation with a Mouse 0:43
55 Billy Collins / On Turning Ten 1:46
56 X. J. Kennedy / How to Stay Up Late 0:46
57 X. J. Kennedy / Flashlight 1:05
58 X. J. Kennedy / Maturity 0:20
59 Mary Ann Hoberman / Brother 1:53
60 Mary Ann Hoberman / Brother 0:55
Total time 69:17