PART I: GOT STYLE? How to write a poem / celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye (Kwame Alexander)
In every season / celebrating Robert Frost (Marjorie Wentworth)
I like your / celebrating e. e. cummings (Kwame Alexander)
Contemporary haiku / celebrating Bashō (Chris Colderley)
Snapshots / celebrating Nikki Giovanni (Chris Colderley)
Jazz jive jam / celebrating Langston Hughes (Kwame Alexander)
PART II: IN YOUR SHOES. Walter, age ten / celebrating Walter Dean Meyers (Kwame Alexander)
A field of roses / celebrating Emily Dickinson (Chris Colderley)
The blue alphabet / celebrating Terrance Hayes (Marjorie Wentworth)
How Billy Collins writes a poem / celebrating Billy Collins (Marjorie Wentworth)
The Music of the earth / celebrating Pablo Neruda (Marjorie Wentworth)
Tambourine things / celebrating Judith Wright (Chris Colderley)
(Loving) the world and everything in it / celebrating Mary Oliver (Marjorie Wentworth)
PART III: THANK YOU. Hue and cry / celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks (Kwame Alexander)
The poet inside me / celebrating Sandra Cisneros (Chris Colderley)
No idle days / celebrating William Carlos Williams (Chris Colderley)
Song of Uhuru / celebrating Okot p'Bitek (Kwame Alexander)
For our children's children / celebrating Chief Dan George (Chris Colderley)
Spin a song / celebrating Rumi (Marjorie Wentworth)
Majestic / celebrating Maya Angelou (Kwame Alexander)
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