Out of Wonder POEMS CELEBRATING POETS KWAME ALEXANDER with CHRIS COLDERLEY and MARJORY WENTWORTH ILLUSTRATED BY EKUA HOLMES CANDLEWICK PRESS
9 6 4 3 1 Preface CONTENTS Part 1 Got Style How to Write a Poem celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye In Every Season celebrating Robert Frost I Like Your 4 celebrating e e cummings Contemporary Haiku 7 celebrating Bashō Snapshots celebrating Nikki Giovanni Jazz Jive Jam 10 celebrating Langston Hughes Part 2 In Your Shoes 13 Walter Age Ten 14 celebrating Walter Dean Myers A Field of Roses 16 celebrating Emily Dickinson The Blue Alphabet 17 celebrating Terrance Hayes How Billy Collins Writes a Poem 18 celebrating Billy Collins
The Music of the Earth 20 celebrating Pablo Neruda Tambourine Things 23 celebrating Judith Wright Loving the World and Everything in It celebrating Mary Oliver Part 3 Thank You 24 27 Hue and Cry 28 celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks The Poet Inside Me 30 celebrating Sandra Cisneros No Idle Days 33 celebrating William Carlos Williams Song of Uhuru 34 celebrating Okot p'Bitek For Our Children's Children 36 celebrating Chief Dan George Spin a Song 38 celebrating Rumi Majestic 40 celebrating Maya Angelou About the Poets Being Celebrated 42 About the Authors 49
