Teach This Poem, Volume II

Foreword by Alberto Rios

Introduction by Madeleine Fuchs Holzer

Chapter 1 One Nation Out of Many

Introduction

"Ode to Sequoyah" by Alexander Posey

"Kumulipo" by Queen Lili?uokalani

"The Buttonhook" by Mary Jo Salter

"Amphibians" by Joseph O. Legaspi

"Lines Breaking" by Jose B. Gonzalez

"America" by Richard Blanco

"Kissing in Vietnamese" by Ocean Vuong

"The Dream of Shoji" by Kimiko Hahn

"Red Brocade" by Naomi Shihab Nye

"Senior Discount" by Ali Liebegott

"Girls on the Town, 1946" by Rita Dove

"Haircut" by Elizabeth Alexander

"Crossing" by Jericho Brown

"Maps" by Yesenia Montilla

"Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo

"Survival Guide" by Joy Ladin

Chapter 2 The Pursuit of Equality

Introduction

"Lesson VIII: Map of North America" by Elizabeth Bradfield

"They Don't Love You Like I Love You" by Natalie Diaz

"Declaration" by Tracy K. Smith

"Dirt" by Kwame Dawes

"Making History" by Marilyn Nelson

"won't you celebrate with me" by Lucille Clifton

"Black Laws" by Roger Reeves

"Imagine" by Kamilah Aisha Moon

"When Fannie Lou Hamer Said" by Mahogany L. Browne

"The Cabbage Butterfly" by Minnie Bruce Pratt

"Things We Carry on the Sea" by Wang Ping

"Poem for the Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere" by Danielle Legros Georges

"A New National Anthem" by Ada Limon

"Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings" by Tyree Day

"I Want the Wide American Earth" by Carlos Bulosan

"A House Called Tomorrow" by Alberto Rios

Chapter 3 Afterword by Major Jackson

Chapter 4 Glossary of Poetic Terms

Types of Feet in Poetry

Types of Meters in Poetry

Four Examples of Quatrains in Poetry

Seven Examples of Repetition in Poetry

Types of Stanzas in Poetry

Poet Biographies

Credits

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Author Biography