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My Favorite Poem Sixth Annual Literary Event - 2011

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MY FAVORITE POEM READERS 2006-2011

Abbott, Valerie
2006 “The Touch of the Master’s Hand” by Myra B. Welch
 
Austin, Joyce
2009 “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
 
Bailey, Jimsey
2008 “‘Tis Mirth that Fills the Veins with Blood” by Francis Beaumont
 
Bates, Jess
2011 “Little Word, Little White Bird” by Carl Sandburg
 
Bates, Kelsey
2011 “I am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg
 
Boliek, Robert
2006 “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” by W.H. Auden
 
Carter, Joanna
2006 “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll
 
Chapman, Sadie
2006 “Annabelle Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
 
Cole, Devin
2011 “The Davenport Lunar Eclipse” by Jim Harrison
 
Colvin, Bill
2007 “The Face on the Barroom Floor” by Hugh A. D’Arcy
Cunningham, Carolyn "Mickey"
2010 "Kidnap" by Nikki Giovanni
 
Davidson, Rodney
2006 “Loveliest of Trees” by A.E. Housman
 
Davis, Christopher
2009 “If” by Rudyard Kipling
 
Dawson, Frank
2008 “Incident of the French Camp” by Robert Browning
 
Dawson, Joan
2008 “Sit Beside the Fire” & “In Western Lands” by J.R.R. Tolkien
Denson, Sadie T.
2010 "I, Too" & "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes
 
Dill, Todd
2008 “To My Beloved Self” by Greg Purcell
 
Downs, Elizabeth
2007 “Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot (excerpts)
 
Downs, Scott
2011 “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest L. Thayer (aka Phin)
 
Dykes, Rachael
2007 “Love Poem” by Gregory Orr
 
Edmondson, Steve
2011 “Patterns” by Amy Lowell
 
Eggers, Danielle
2011 “The Lion and the Lily” by Elizabeth Spires
 
Flynn, Stuart
2009 “In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver
 
Forsythe, Jennifer
2007 “Nao se mate” by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
 
Freeman, Bernice Tolbert
2009 “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou 2009
 
Friedman, Bob
2010 "The Internationale" by Eugene Pottier
 
Gallaway, Deb
2006 “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” by Wendell Berry
 
Gamble, Danny
2006 “next to of course god america” by e. e. cummings
Green, Darlene
2010 "Maud Miller" by John Greenleaf Whittier
 
Haddin, Theodore
2009 “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” by Richard Wilbur
Hameer, Zahir
"No Different" by Kendra Dexter
 
Harris, Tina
2008 “Telling Our Stories” by Lucille Clifton
 
Hendley, Sarah
2011 “What I Think of Death, if Anyone’s Asking” by Maud Kelly
 
Howard, Mary
2006 “Outwitted” by Edwin Markham
 
Hunter, Jan
2011 “Grandmother Travels” by Jane Trechsel
 
Kennedy, Joey
2006 “Stopping by Woods” by Robert Frost
 
King, BJ Love
2010 "Thank You" by Ken Schmeski
 
Kirchikov, Peter
2011 “My Buddy Did Not Come Back from the Battlefield” by Vladimir Vysotsky
 
Kennedy, Veronica
2007 “The Lovers of the Poor” by Gwendolyn Brooks
 
Latham, Irene
2006 “My Secret Life” by Stephen Dunn
 
Lightsey, Stephen G.
2009 “If Thou Must Love Me” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
Luther, Bob
2006 “High Flight” by John G. Magee, Jr.
 
Major, Rod
2011 “Opportunity” by Walter Malone
 
McCammon, Robert
2011 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot
 
Mishra, Manisha
2007 “Gayatri Mantra” Sanskrit
 
Mumford, Greg
2008 “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley
 
Nelson, R.A.
2007 “My Father in the Night Commanding No” by Louis Simpson
 
Newton, Demetrius C.
2010 "Color" by E.D. Tyler & "Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes
 
Northrop, John
2008 “Byzantium” by Yeats
 
Norton, Carol
2006 “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
 
Norwood, Judith A.
2011 “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
 
Nunn, Annetta
2006 “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou
 
Parcak, Sarah
2008 “Magic” & “Magic Carpet” by Shel Silverstein
 
Powell, Ricky
2007 “Loveliest of Trees” by A.E. Housman
 
Pearson, D.S.
2007 “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart” by e.e. cummings
 
Pratt, Tyler
2010 "Francesca" by Ezra Pound
 
Reed, Jim
2006 “Stars” by Sara Teasdale
Richardson, Alexis
2010 "Thinking" by Walter D. Wintle
 
Rinke-Hammer, Iris
2010 "Mark Climbs Trees" by Adam Hammer
 
Royer, Mike
2008-2011 “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert W. Service
 
Rudolph, Denise C.
2008 “I Will Write” by Jill Scott
 
Sarris, George
2007 “Ithaka” by C.P. Cavafy
 
Smith, Alexandria
2008 “Being in Love” by Marvin Bell
 
Smitherman, Carol
2006 “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes
 
Sneed, Kaitie
2007 “Writer Waiting” by Shel Silverstein
 
Stefanson, Don
2008 “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats
 
Stefanson, Margaret
2011 “Don’t Quit” Anonymous
 
Stewart, Don
2007 “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
 
Stephan, Linda Newby
2011 “One Day” by Barbara Schmitz
 
Swagler, Susan
2007 “Messenger” by Mary Oliver
Thompson, Jordan
"All My Life" by Langston Hughes
 
Trechsel, Jane
2006 “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas
 
Vines, Melissa Dameron
2009 “Museum of the Unmoving Image” by Clive James
 
Wade, Erika
2010 "Strange Fruit" by Abel Meeropol
 
Walker, Rev. Joseph W. Jr.
2006 “Sermons We See” by Edgar Guest
 
Walker, Sue Brannan
2006 “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
 
Wallace, George Jr.
2007 “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
Washington, Daryl
2009 “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley
 
Whitten, Joe
2011 “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
 
Williams, Wanda
2009 “A Song in the Front Yard” by Gwendolyn Brooks