Madison's Favorite Poems
On
May 2nd, Robert Pinsky gave a public presentation as well as a lecture on the
America's Favorite Poems Project. Here are the favorite poems sent in by local
residents to Mr. Pinski. Highly recommended; check out the ones you don't know!
They are arranged in alphabetical order by author's last name. This list will
be expanded; send your favorite to arachne@madpoetry.org.
Links to the actual poems will be made when possible.
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| Poem and poet | Sender |
| For Harold Bloom by A.R. Ammons | Jonathan Ivry, UW English faculty |
| Psalm 27, from the Bible | Fabu Mogaka, local poet |
| This is a Photograph of Me by Margaret Atwood | Jeannie Bergmann, local poet |
| The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop | Aimee Nezhukumatathil, UW Creative Writing Institute fellow |
| Unknown Street by Jorge Luis Borges | Stephanie Good, UW student |
| Waiting by Marilyn Elain Carmen, from Adam of Life | Jarvis Mason, grade schooler |
| I am a Black Woman by Mari Evans | Brittney Blue, Stephanie Mosley, and Shafaun Smith, grade schoolers |
| Where Have You Gone by Mari Evans | Klarus Mason, grade schooler |
| Birches by Robert Frost | Meghan Miller, high schooler |
| The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Fran Rall, local poet |
| Honey I Love, book by Eloise Greenfield | Catherine Roach , grade schooler |
| Butterflies by Angelina Weld Grimke | Kayasia Blake , grade schooler |
| Angels Wings by Langston Hughes | Marvin Webb, grade schooler |
| Havana Dreams by Langston Hughes | Dorothea Mandier, grade schooler |
| To Be Somebody by Langston Hughes | Quenisha Johnson, grade schooler |
| Fire by Langston Hughes | Gregory Henderson, grade schooler |
| All The Words by Jewel, from A Night Without Armor | Samantha Stroede |
| B.B. King by Sybil Kein | Natori Pettaway, grade schooler |
| Goldilocks: The Husband Speaks by Ellen Kort | Peg Sherry, local poet |
| Touch me by Stanley Kunitz, from Passing Through – The Later Poems, New and Selected | Bill Scanlon, Local Poet |
| Something More by Denise Levertov | Kathy Miner, local poet |
| They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine | Benjamin Warner, local poet & UW student |
| You, Andrew Marvell by Archibald MacLeish | Jeannie Bergmann, local poet |
| Bible Study by Gloria Oden | Kenny Jackson, Jr., grade schooler |
| The Changes by Robert Pinski, from The Figured Wheel | Tim Dirkx |
| The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter by Ezra Pound | Mary Ptacek |
| Homework! Oh, Homework! by Jack Prelutsky | Isis Bernard, grade schooler |
| Nobody Knows the Answer to This Poem by Joe Salerno, from Only Here | Susan O'Leary |
| My Father's Eyes by Sonia Sanchez | Fabu Mogaka, adult and local poet |
| Whatifs by Shel Silverstein, from A Light in the Attic | Darius Willis, grade schooler |
| For Robert Frost by David Steingass, from Body Compass | Fran Rall, local poet |
| A Blessing by James Wright | Aimee Nezhukumatathil, UW Creative Writing Institute fellow |
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