Select a poem from the list below, and memorize the title, author, and first two lines.
Remember, this is the first step in preparing your Poetry Out Loud performance! Pick a poem that appeals to you - that you understand fairly well upon initial readings and hits you hard in your heart, mind, or soul. This will make it easier and more satisfying to memorize. After the Disaster by Abigail Deutsch America by Claude McKay Another Feeling by Ruth Stone Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen April Love by Ernest Dowson Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish Barter by Sara Teasdale Beginning by James Wright Black Boys Play the Classics by Toi Derricotte Bleeding Heart by Carmen Gimenez smith The Bloody Sire by Robinson Jeffers Broken Promises by David Kirby Burning the Old Year by Naomi Shihab Nye Cabezon by Amy Beeder A Certain Kind of Eden by Kay Ryan The Cities Inside Us by Alberto Rios The Consent by Howard Nemerov Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams The Daring One by Edwin Markham Deliberate by Amy Uyematsu Discrimination by Kenneth Rexroth Domestic Situation by Ernest Hilbert Eating Together by Li-Young Lee El Olvido by Judith Ortiz Cofer Fairy-tale Logic by A. E. Stallings Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye God's Secretary by R. S. Gwynn Hedgehog by Paul Muldoon Holding Court by Jacob Saenz "Hope" is the thing with feathers (314) by Emily Dickinson I am Learning to Abandon the World by Linda Pastan In Praise of My Bed by Meredith Holmes It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest Living Ancients by Matthew Shenoda Makin' Jump Shots by Michael S. Harper Momma Said by Calvin Forbes The Negro Speaks of Heroes by Langston Hughes The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Not Waving by Drowning by Stevie Smith The Obligation to be Happy by Linda Pastan The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry Pity the Beautiful by Dana Gioia The Promise by Jane Hirshfield Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson Sharks' Teeth by Kay Ryan Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? by William Shakespeare "Time does not bring relief; you all have lied" by Edna St. Vincent Millay Testimonial by Rita Dova Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet Truth Serum by Naomi Shihab Nye The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov *If you cannot find a poem you like in the list above, check out the Poetry Out Loud website for many more options. Just make sure the poem you pick has at least 10 lines!
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