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Poets.org: Allen Ginsberg

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Allen Ginsberg including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Ginsberg is also provided.
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Poets.org: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Longfellow is also provided.
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Poets.org: William Wordsworth

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of William Wordsworth including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Wordsworth is also provided.
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Poets.org: "Mambo" by Jaime Manrique

For Students 9th - 10th
A short poem by contemporary poet Jaime Manrique that brings back the smells, spirit, and rhythm of his childhood in Columbia. Bilingual Spanish / English.
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Poets.org: John Ciardi

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Presents factual information on the life and literary career of poet John Ciardi. Also presents a selected bibliography.
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Poets.org: Dorothy Parker

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Dorothy Parker including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Parker is also provided.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Percy Bysshe Shelley including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Shelley is also provided.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Robert Burns

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Robert Burns including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Burns is also provided.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Robert Hass

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Robert Hass including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Hass is also provided.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Maya Angelou

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Maya Angelou including information on her life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Angelou is also provided.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Walt Whitman

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Walt Whitman including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Whitman is also provided.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Lord Alfred Tennyson

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Lord Alfred Tennyson including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Tennyson is also provided.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Walking Tour: Langston Hughes's Harlem of 1926

For Students 9th - 10th
Walk in the footsteps of the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes in this online guided tour. Contains specific directions to navigate through Harlem to places he lived and visited regularly. With quotes from various works mentioning...
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Poets.org: The Heresy of the Didactic

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org presents the full text to Edgar Allan Poe's essay, "The Heresy of the Didactic." In addition to the full length essay, links are provided for related prose.
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University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: William Carlos Williams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the Modern American Poetry index site for William Carlos Williams (1883-1963 CE). From this site you can click on links that take you to analysis of the author's works as well as a link to full text versions of additional poems.
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Poets.org: "Making a Fist" by Naomi Shihab Nye

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an audio recording and the text of the poem "Making a Fist" by Naomi Shihab Nye provided by the Academy of American Poets.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Billy Collins

For Students 9th - 10th
An biography of Billy Collins is provided here. The site also provides information about 450 other American poets and their works.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Matthew Arnold

For Students 9th - 10th
Academy of American Poets entry for Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), the Victorian era poet and critic. Includes link to full text of the poem "Dover Beach."
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Poets.org: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an audio recording and a text of the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes provided by the Academy of American Poets.
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Poets.org: "Next Day" by Randall Jarrell

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an audio recording and text of the poem "Next Day" by Randall Jarrell provided by the Academy of American Poets. A link to the author's biography is provided.
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Poets.org: "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an audio recording and text of the poem "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks provided by the Academy of American Poets.
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Poets.org: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an audio recording and text of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost provided by the Academy of American Poets.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: "The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an MP3 audio recording and text of the poem "The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens provided by the Academy of American Poets.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: X. J. Kennedy

For Students 9th - 10th
The Academy of American Poets provides a biography of X.J. Kennedy.

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