Acknowledgements How to Use This Book Introduction: What Makes Poetry Poetry and Why Are We So Afraid of It? Poem Discussion One: Sonnet 130, by William Shakespeare More Sonnets by William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 Sonnet 20 Sonnet 73 Sonnet 116 Poem Discussion Two: Harlem Dancer, by Claude McKay More Poems by Writers of the Harlem Renaissance The Castaways, Claude McKay Tableau, Countee Cullen The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes Letter to My Sister, Anne Spencer Poem Discussion Three: I, Being born a Woman and Distressed, by Edna St. Vincent Millay More Modern and Contemporary Sonnets Poetics Against the Angel of Death, Phyllis Webb Nothing in That Drawer, Ron Padgett Sonnet #15, Alice Notley so''net I, Paul Dutton Sonnet for Bonnie, Darren Wershler-Henry Dim Lady, Harryette Mullen Poem Discussion Four: The Dance, by William Carlos Williams More Ekphrastic Poems Young Sycamore, William Carlos Williams Venus Transiens, Amy Lowell Preciosilla, Gertrude Stein Why I Am Not a Painter, Frank O''Hara from Pictograms from the Interior of B.C., Fred Wah Poem Discussion Five: Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats More Odes, Apostrophes, Addresses Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats A Supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg July Man, Margaret Avison To My Twenties, Kenneth Koch Late One Night, Margaret Christakos Poem Discussion Six: The Tyger, by William Blake More Poems about Animals The Lamb, William Blake The Flea, John Donne A narrow Fellow in the Grass, Emily Dickinson A DOG, Gertrude Stein The Shark, E. J. Pratt Bird-Witted, Marianne Moore Poem Discussion Seven: r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r, by E.E. Cummings More Concrete Poems Easter Wings, George Herbert l(a, E.

E. Cummings Forsythia, Mary Ellen Solt Cycle No. 22, bp Nichol In Medias Res, Michael McFee Love Song, Margaret Christakos Poem Discussion Eight: Daddy, by Sylvia Plath More Poems "for the ear" Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll God''s Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989, Lucille Clifton Zong! #1, M. NourbeSe Philip Ravine, Louis Cabri Poem Discussion Nine: kitchenette building, by Gwendolyn Brooks More Poems Displaying the Poetic Force of Syntax When I Heard the Learn''d Astronomer, Walt Whitman In a Station of the Metro, Ezra Pound ASPARAGUS, Gertrude Stein since feeling is first, E.E. Cummings Rolling Motion, Erin Mouré monday, Lisa Robertson Winter, Mark Truscott Poem Discussion Ten: The Three Emilys, by Dorothy Livesay More Feminist Poems Prologue, Anne Bradstreet In An Artist''s Studio, Christina Rossetti Sheltered Garden, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater, Dionne Brand Body Politics, Louise Bernice Halfe A Brief Guide to Meter How to Write about Poetry Glossary of Poetic Terms Works Cited Permissions Acknowledgements Index.