Poet Project Presentation

For this project, you will be choosing a poet to present and discuss with your classmates. The poet must be from the list that will be provided by your teacher in order to get credit for this project. You will be required to give a short biography presentation on your poet as well as recite one of their poems by memory. You will be expected to talk about the poem and explain why you chose to recite it. This will count as two test grades for this marking period.

1. Choose a poet and present a picture of the poet.
2. Must show full understanding of the poet’s life as a writer
3. Discuss some of their most famous poetry and what made them different.
4. How did society feel about their poetry?
5. Recite the poem
6. Discuss why you chose that poem and what you liked about it .
7. Explain what you understood from the poem and provide a connection.

1. e.e cummings- Kawaan

2. Emily Dickinson- Melissa

3. Billy Collins- Capo

4. Ezra Pound - Travis

5. Lewis Carrol- Kaylin

6. W. B. Yeats- Katina

7. T.S. Elliot- Yami

8. Pablo Neruda- Jose Q

9. Dylan Thomas- Hailee

10. William Shakespeare-Manny 
 
11. Robert Frost- Wesley

12. Maya Angelou- Andy

13. Nikki Giovanni__Cynthia

14. Gary Soto_Genesis

15. Walt Whitman _Cristina
 
16. Marge Piercy___Yogeidy

17. Charles Baudelaire_Juan

18. Stanley Kunitz_Angel

19. Gwendolyn Brooks__Sahara

20. Yusef Komunyakaa _Jesse

21. Joseph Rudyard Kipling _Caitlyn

22. Sylvia Plath _Rosemary

23. William Carlos Williams----- Silvestre

24. May Swenson- Taiona

25. Langston Hughes- Brandon