Week Three Poems

Poems as Story Boxes

Fat is Not a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen

To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan

Our Other Sister by Jeffrey Harrison

Bike Ride With Older Boys by Laura Kasichke

Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike

Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana by Susan Mitchell

Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths by Sean Nevin

The Best Slow Dancer by David Wagoner

Fences by Pat Mora

Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop

Car Showroom by Jonathan Holden

The Rain Poured Down by Dan Gerber

Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller

Gods by Michael Redhill

The Idea of Ancestry by Etheridge Knight

Shawl by Albert Goldbarth

Taken Up by Charles Martin

The Abduction by Stanley Kunitz

Two Poems by Ciaran Carson

Seventh-Grade Science Project by Diane Lockward

Detroit, 1972 by Jim Daniels