9/12— Lydia Huntley Sigourney: "Indian Names," 72-73; "To the First Slave Ship," 76-77 William Cullen Bryant: "To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe," 78; "To a Waterfowl," 86-87
9/15—John Greenleaf Whittier: "Telling the Bees," 113-14
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Mezzo Camin," 139; "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport," 139-41; "The Cross of Snow," 141; "Seaweed," 141-43; "Afternoon in February," 143-44; "The Arrow and the Song," 144
9/17—Edgar Allan Poe: "To Helen," 152; "Sonnet—Silence," 154; "Annabel Lee," 161-62
9/19—Christopher Pearse Cranch: "Gnosis," 167-68; "The Pines and the Sea," 168—Jones Very: "The Columbine," 169; "I Was Sick and in Prison," 169; "Nature," 171—Henry David Thoreau: "I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied," 175-76
9/26—Walt Whitman: "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing," 202-03; "As Adam Early in the Morning," 203; "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," 214; any single section of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," 217-24
9/29—Frances E. Harper: "The Slave Auction," 241; "Bury Me in a Free Land," 242—Herman Melville: "Shiloh – A Requiem – April 1862," 230-31; "Art," 235
Once you have made your selections, I encourage you to come see me to talk about your poem and your presentation. We can read the poem together, talk about possible approaches, avoid dead-ends (hopefully), and look at research possibilities.