April is National Poetry Month!  We’d like to help you celebrate with this ABC list of poems compliments of the Poetry Foundation.  Click on the title to read the poem. Once you’ve read the poem click on the poet’s name to find out more.  Teachers, I thought many of these would work as mentor texts.  If you have others you love to use, please post to our Facebook page or e-mail ccrow@delcolibraries.org so we can add them at the end of this page.

April is a Dog’s Dream by Marilyn Singer

Bat Patrol by Georgia Heard

Catch a Fish by Eloise Greenfield

Drum Dream Girl by Madeline L’Engle

Earth Day by Jane Yolen

First Saturday in June by Eileen Spinelli

Grass by Joyce Sidman

Halloween Party by Ken Nesbitt

If by Karen Jo Shapiro

Jack and Jill by Mother Goose

Katie Kissed Me by Christine Lynn Mahoney

Letter A by Darren Sardelli

My Lemonade Stand by Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Noisy Noisy by Jack Prelutsky

Ostrich and Lark by Marilyn Nelson

Poorly Dressed by Bruce Lansky

Quick, Quick by Anonymous

Room with a View by Stephen Swinburne

Swimming to the Rock by Mary Atkinson

This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams

Universe by Steven Schnur

Vinegar by J. Patrick Lewis

Words Are Birds by Francisco X. Alarcon

X A spot for your own poem

You Go to My Head by Carole Boston Weatherford

Zoophabet: Ants to Zorillas by Avis Harley