Wayland Free Public Library
Submit your own favorite poem.
Check out the poems your friends and neighbors love.
About the Wayland Favorite Poem Project
Is there a poem that means a lot to you? It can be anything...a nursery rhyme, doggerel, a song, or a classic. Would you be willing to share it with the community?
You may submit your favorite poem by completing this form. During the submission process, we will ask you to tell us whether or not you would be willing to share your selection.
The only submission rule is that your poem must NOT be a poem you or one of your family members has written. (To share your own poem, adults should click here and young poets should click here.)
There are many ways to share poems during our Favorite Poem Project.
- We will be listing people's favorite poems on our website.
- If you're interested, you might participate in a reading of your favorite poem at a program at the library.
- You might volunteer to be videorecorded reading your favorite poem and letting us put the recording on the web.
Our goal is to get as many participants as possible, so please step up and give us the name of your favorite poem.
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HERE IS A LIST OF "FAVORITES" SUBMITTED BY your friends & neighbors SO FAR:
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POEM TITLE |
AUTHOR |
Nancy McShea |
Robert Frost |
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Julia Pak |
Howard Nemrov |
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Sally Cartwright |
Ogden Nash |
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Lisa Breger |
Mary Oliver |
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Holly Zaitchik |
e.e. cummings |
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Kathy Schreiber |
Naomi Shihab Nye |
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Ann Gordon |
Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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Judith Hoyer |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Megan Lucier |
Billy Collins |
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Stu Cartwright |
Lewis Carroll |
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Ann Knight |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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Sandra Raymond |
Carl Sandburg |
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Matt Amory |
William S. Burroughs |
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Angela Corbet |
William Butler Yeats |
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Greta Stone |
Edna St. Vincent Millet |
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Charlie Anderson |
Walt Whitman |
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J. Claude Williamson |
Don Marquis |
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Michael Kotin |
C. K. Williams |
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Deborah Kelsey |
Mary Oliver |
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Erin Dalbec |
Elizabeth Bishop |
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Beth Butler |
William Butler Yeats |
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Name Withheld |
Mary Stewart Hammond |
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Happy Hollow School Team 15 Fourth Graders |
Assorted Authors |
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Maureen Devlin |
Edgar Guest |
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Gail Keene |
Mary Oliver |
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Brianna Gormany |
Walt Whitman |
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Fred Knight |
Walt Whitman |
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Name Withheld |
Joyce Kilmer |
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Fred Knight |
Walt Whitman |
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Deborah Marshall |
Anonymous |
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Jane Williamson |
William Shakespeare |
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Robert Pinsky (!) |
Ben Johnson |
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Sara Sun |
Stephanie F. Earls |
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Becky Gibbs |
John Keats |
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Roy Barnacle |
John Betjman |
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Sara Barnacle |
Matthew Arnold |
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Nancy Geiser |
Robert Browning |
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Susan Larson |
Richard Wilbur |
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Jay Rogers |
Barbara Crooker |
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Andy Moore |
Grover Amen |
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Nancy Fewell |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Jim Haber |
M. Degas Teaches Art and Science at the Durfee Elementary School—Detroit 1942 |
Philip Levine |
Dorothy Dunlay |
Paul Hooper |
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Darkness is absence of detail:
From an alien hint of hope
Caught in a corner of sun,
Even a casual orange,
Inessential and exact,
Can acquire the unexpected
And original color of fact.