Poetry Inspired by Original Art
Heart to Heart edited by Jan Greenberg
Side by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art from Around the World edited by Jan Greenberg
Something Permanent by Cynthia Rylant, photography by Walker Evans
Hoofbeats, Claws & Rippled Fins: Creature Poems edited by Lee_Bennett_Hopkins, original illustrations by Stephen_Alcorn
Non-fiction-based and discipline-based poetry collections
Science
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors by Joyce Sidman
Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow by Joyce Sidman
History
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders by J. Patrick Lewis
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery by Cynthia Grady
Math
Marvelous Math selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Physical Education
Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Slam Dunk compiled by Lillian Morrison
Extra Innings collected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated Poetry & Single Poem Picture Books
Casey at the Bat, illus. Christopher Bing
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, illus. Susan Jeffers
Songs and Ballads
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat by Nikki Giovanni
Balladsby Robert Service http://www.internal.org/Robert_W_Service
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka
Katherine Applegate Joseph Bruchac
Jen Bryant Ann E. Burg
Sharon Creech Margarita Engle
Helen Frost Nikki Grimes
Karen Hesse Ronald Koertge
Patricia McCormick Marilyn Nelson
Sonya Sones Maria Testa
April Halprin Wayland Jacqueline Woodson
Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
The National Education Foundation has lessons plans and ideas for bring poetry into the classroom:
http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/bringing-poetry-to-the-classroom.html
Nikki Giovanni -- http://nikki-giovanni.com/ichildrenspoetry.shtml
Georgia Heard -- http://www.georgiaheard.com/
Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger -- http://michaelsalinger.blogspot.com/p/partner-in-rhyme-sara-holbrook.html
Paul Janeczko -- http://www.paulbjaneczko.com/
Sarah Kay -- http://www.kaysarahsera.com/
Kenneth Koch -- http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/17152
Janet Wong -- http://www.janetwong.com/
Poetry Friday Anthologies by Sylvia Vardell & Janet Wong
Poetry Friday Anthology K-5
Poetry Anthology for Middle School
Poetry Anthology for Science, Reading & Langauge Arts
Poetry Friday K-5 Blog - http://poetryfridayanthology.blogspot.com/
Robert Frost
Ted Kooser
Ogden Nash
Theodore Roethke (Well a least a couple...)
Carl Sandburg
Louis Untermeyer (Collection Editor)
Additional poetry by classical poets can be found on the StoryIt Website:
http://www.storyit.com/Classics/JustPoems/classicpoems.htm