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Poet's Page Project


 * Now that we have studied different poets and poems, you will be creating a Poet's Page!** **View the project description and rubric below.**

__Suggested Project Timeline:__ 5/8: Read poems and select poet 5/9: Complete biography and writer's style description 5/10: Select favorite poem and complete description 5/14: Poem analysis (other than favorite poem)


 * No class time will be provided to complete this project after Monday, May 14th. However, you have until the due date (Friday, May 18th) to work on your project on your own time.**

//Here are __some__ ideas for poets you might choose (you may also want to visit the website [|famouspoetsandpoems.com]to help with your search)://
 * Maya Angelou ||  || **[|Maya Angelou]** (18) (1928 - present) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Ai ||  || **[|Ai]** (1) (1947 - 2010) ||   ||
 * Gwendolyn Brooks ||  || **[|Gwendolyn Brooks]** (13) (1917 - 2000) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Imamu Amiri Baraka ||  || **[|Imamu Amiri Baraka]** (1) (1934 - present) ||   ||
 * Arna Bontemps ||  || **[|Arna Bontemps]** (7) (1902 - 1973) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Lucille Clifton ||  || **[|Lucille Clifton]** (2) (1936 - 2010) ||   ||
 * Countee Cullen ||  || **[|Countee Cullen]** (15) (1903 - 1946) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Paul Laurence Dunbar ||  || **[|Paul Laurence Dunbar]** (38) (1872 - 1906) ||   ||
 * Rita Dove ||  || **[|Rita Dove]** (2) (1952 - present) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Cornelius Eady ||  || **[|Cornelius Eady]** (1) (1954 - present) ||   ||
 * James A. Emanuel ||  || **[|James A. Emanuel]** (21) (1921 - present) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Jessie Redmon Fauset ||  || **[|Jessie Redmon Fauset]** (1) (1882 - 1961) ||   ||
 * Nikki Giovanni ||  || **[|Nikki Giovanni]** (1) (1943 - present) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Langston Hughes ||  || **[|Langston Hughes]** (29) (1902 - 1967) ||   ||
 * Robert Hayden ||  || **[|Robert Hayden]** (12) (1913 - 1980) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Forrest Hamer ||  || **[|Forrest Hamer]** (4) (1956 - present) ||   ||
 * Jupiter Hammon ||  || **[|Jupiter Hammon]** (1) (1711 - 1806) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Yusef Komunyakaa ||  || **[|Yusef Komunyakaa]** (3) (1947 - present) ||   ||
 * Etheridge Knight ||  || **[|Etheridge Knight]** (7) (1931 - 1991) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Audre Lorde ||  || **[|Audre Lorde]** (8) (1934 - 1992) ||   ||
 * Claude McKay ||  || **[|Claude McKay]** (76) (1889 - 1948) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Wanda Phipps ||  || **[|Wanda Phipps]** (8) (1960 - present) ||   ||
 * Natasha Trethewey ||  || **[|Natasha Trethewey]** (3) (1966 - present) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Quincy Troupe ||  || **[|Quincy Troupe]** (3) (1939 - present) ||   ||
 * Alice Walker ||  || **[|Alice Walker]** (1) (1944 - present) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Phillis Wheatley ||  || **[|Phillis Wheatley]** (41) (1753 - 1784) ||   ||
 * James Weldon Johnson ||  || **[|James Weldon Johnson]** (4) (1871 - 1938) ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Etheridge Knight ||  || **[|Etheridge Knight]** (7) (1931 - 1991) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Audre Lorde ||  || **[|Audre Lorde]** (8) (1934 - 1992) ||   ||
 * Claude McKay ||  || **[|Claude McKay]** (76) (1889 - 1948) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Wanda Phipps ||  || **[|Wanda Phipps]** (8) (1960 - present) ||   ||
 * Natasha Trethewey ||  || **[|Natasha Trethewey]** (3) (1966 - present) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Quincy Troupe ||  || **[|Quincy Troupe]** (3) (1939 - present) ||   ||
 * Alice Walker ||  || **[|Alice Walker]** (1) (1944 - present) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Phillis Wheatley ||  || **[|Phillis Wheatley]** (41) (1753 - 1784) ||   ||
 * James Weldon Johnson ||  || **[|James Weldon Johnson]** (4) (1871 - 1938) ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Alice Walker ||  || **[|Alice Walker]** (1) (1944 - present) ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Phillis Wheatley ||  || **[|Phillis Wheatley]** (41) (1753 - 1784) ||   ||
 * James Weldon Johnson ||  || **[|James Weldon Johnson]** (4) (1871 - 1938) ||   ||   ||   ||
 * James Weldon Johnson ||  || **[|James Weldon Johnson]** (4) (1871 - 1938) ||   ||   ||   ||
 * James Weldon Johnson ||  || **[|James Weldon Johnson]** (4) (1871 - 1938) ||   ||   ||   ||


 * **Popular Poets** ||
 * [|Langston Hughes] [|Shel Silverstein] [|Pablo Neruda] [|Maya Angelou] [|Edgar Allan Poe] [|Robert Frost] [|Emily Dickinson] [|Elizabeth Barrett Browning] [|E. E. Cummings] [|Walt Whitman] [|William Wordsworth] [|Allen Ginsberg] [|Sylvia Plath] [|Jack Prelutsky] [|William Butler Yeats] [|Thomas Hardy] [|Robert Hayden] [|Amy Lowell] [|Oscar Wilde] [|Theodore Roethke] ||
 * [|Langston Hughes] [|Shel Silverstein] [|Pablo Neruda] [|Maya Angelou] [|Edgar Allan Poe] [|Robert Frost] [|Emily Dickinson] [|Elizabeth Barrett Browning] [|E. E. Cummings] [|Walt Whitman] [|William Wordsworth] [|Allen Ginsberg] [|Sylvia Plath] [|Jack Prelutsky] [|William Butler Yeats] [|Thomas Hardy] [|Robert Hayden] [|Amy Lowell] [|Oscar Wilde] [|Theodore Roethke] ||