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How to Eat a Poem: A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers
How to Eat a Poem: A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers | American Poetry & Literacy Project, Academy of
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Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth century through today, this anthology invites young readers to sample a taste of irresistible poems that will nourish their minds and spirits. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, seventy charming poems cover a wide range of subjects: poetry, books, words, and imagination; the beauty of the natural world; travel, adventure, sports, and play; love, friendship, sadness, hope, and other emotions. Included are: "Prickled Pickles Don't Smile," Nikki Giovanni"W. D., Don't Fear that Animal," W. D. Snodgrass"A Jelly-Fish," Marianne Moore"The Porcupine," Ogden Nash"Annabel Lee," Edgar Allan Poe"The Falling Star," Sara Teasdale"Sick," Shel Silverstein"Casey at the Bat," Ernest Lawrence Thayer"With Kitty, Age Seven, At the Beach," William Stafford"Hope is the Thing with Feathers," Emily Dickinson. . . . and sixty other notable works.Chosen by the American Poetry & Literacy Project and the Academy of American Poets, two of the nation's most respected nonprofit poetry organizations, these much-loved and highly readable poems promise young readers and poetry lovers of all ages hours of reading pleasure.
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terracollichio

“I, too, dislike it, reading it.“

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terracollichio

I think this would be cool to use when introduing poems, especially for kids to just flip through. If they find something interesting, they can go and do some more research and keep reading more.

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terracollichio
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This is a huge collection of samples of poems from a pleathora of areas. They want to get kids intersted and get their minds going.

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TK-421
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I‘m so behind posting what I‘ve read for #575PMRChallenge I‘m combining 2 posts. The Poet X was excellent! Some parts were so heartbreaking I wept💔 How to Eat a Poem was good; a collection aimed at young readers. Many poems were familiar to me (Annabel Lee, Hope is the Thing With Feathers, This is Just to Say, Casey at the Bat) but some I had never read before. I loved being introduced to some new poetry! Next up is Leonard Cohen‘s The Flame.

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TK-421
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From the tagged book: The Rider by Naomi Shihab Nye #Bicycle #QuotsyApr20

gibblr Wow this is a blast from the past. It used to be in a middle school English textbook I taught once upon a time. 5y
TK-421 @gibblr Cool! I love it and wish I‘d encountered it much sooner. It‘s one of many poems in this book that I‘d never read before. 5y
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TK-421
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Spent nearly an hour outside with Minerva this afternoon enjoying the warm weather. I got to read a little bit here and there when she wasn‘t dragging me around the yard trying to eat things she shouldn‘t eat 😂 Above is part of a poem from the tagged book. @Shakespearience I‘m hoping this book qualifies as a poetry collection for children for #575PMRChallenge!

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WanderingBookaneer
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Not the best cover, but the poems I read were good.