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October 2024

poems for halloween

October 31 is Halloween. Browse Halloween poems for kids

Chansons Innocentes II” by E. E. Cummings
Mildew” by Charlotte Dacre
The Listeners” by Walter de la Mare
Ghost Music” by Robert Graves
Haunted Houses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
November 2: Día de los muertos” by Alberto Ríos
A Chilly Night” by Christina Rossetti
To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Burlee Vang

lesson plans to teach

Celebrate autumn and bring poems about change, nature, and contemplation into your classroom with the following lesson plans:

Equinox” by Elizabeth Alexander
Fall Leaves Fall” by Emily Brontë
Ghosts and Fashion” by Elaine Equi
Nimbawaadaan Akiing / I Dream A World” by Margaret Noodin
October” by Evalyn Callahan Shaw
The Plain Sense of Things” by Wallace Stevens
The Shapes of Leaves” by Arthur Sze
 

teach this poem

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American Sonnet for the New Year” by Terrance Hayes
The Lonely Street” by William Carlos Williams
Your laughter turns the world to paradise” by Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
Crow” by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Poets! Towers of God!” by Rubén Darío, translated from the Persian by Thomas Walsh and Salomón de la Selva
Autumn: Poems for Kids
Lesson Plans for Halloween

get the teach this poem book

Published through Routledge’s Eye on Education series and collected together for the first time in print, these Teach This Poem lessons offer accessible entry points to teaching poetry in the classroom, inviting readers to reflect on the natural world through prescient and urgent poems.

Get your copy of Teach This Poem Volume I: The Natural World.

dear poet

Read, download, and share the 2024 Dear Poet Booklet. Stay tuned for the announcement of Dear Poet 2025, coming late this fall.
Teachers, thank you for your work bringing poetry into the classroom year-round. We’re happy to be able to offer hundreds of free lesson plans, essays, and other resources, and we wish you and your students health and safety.
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"Dead Reckoning" by Hyejung Kook

Sunday, October 20, 2024

to estimate one's position / without instruments Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day October 16, 2024 Dead Reckoning Hyejung Kook to estimate one's position without instruments or

"job prescription" by Evie Shockley

Sunday, October 20, 2024

will poetry change the world? / no one asks / this about football . . . Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day October 17, 2024 job prescription Evie Shockley will poetry change the world? no

"Crooked" by Margaret Rhee

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Where is my head? I'm not sure. Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day October 18, 2024 Crooked Margaret Rhee Where is my head? I'm not sure. Why are some people born straight, and some

Announcing the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award and Academy Fellowship Recipients

Sunday, October 20, 2024

October 18, 2024 academy of american poets prizes We are thrilled to announce that former Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye is the recipient of the $100000 Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement and

"Ghosts" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sunday, October 20, 2024

There are ghosts in the room. / As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. Your gift today will help the Academy of American Poets

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