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Ms. Healy from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Healy's classroom raised $482

Poetry for Perusing, Probing and Pondering - Part I

My students need 35 books to create a poetry library.

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Ms. Healy Fiorello H Laguardia High School
New York, NY Grades 9-12

My Students

Where has poetry gone? It seems to be taking a backseat to so many other (very important) texts and topics. The art of reading poetry and understanding figurative language and writing poetry, playing thoughtfully with words is missing in my students' lives. This is a HUGE gap.

My students are burgeoning artists - dancers, designers, singers, instrumentalists - at a magnet school, who are creative thinkers and wonderful people.

They thrive in a classroom that integrates the arts and offers opportunities for engagement with big ideas. My job is to teach them English - reading and writing - while also supporting their artistic proclivities. I strive to make grammar, reading, and essays connect to real life and keep them engaged.

My Project

I'm requesting a catalog of poetry books. Why? So my students can learn how to use words creatively, think figuratively, and enjoy the fun and beauty of poetry. Our library has a woefully small collection and it's not particularly accessible. I've put together a list of accessible classic poets and collections that will appeal to my high school students, including Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Maya Angelou and collections on love, dance and more. My students will be able to browse the poetry library, find poems to connect to and then use these poems to reflect on themselves, write their own poems and practice analysis.

All of this reading will help my kids be more thoughtful artists, people and in a few years - college students!

Reading difficult texts and writing poetry require myriad skills that my students can use in college, in addition to the benefit of enjoying beautiful poetry. Create a text-rich, poetic classroom for my amazing artists! Thanks for thinking of us.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

120 students impacted 2 donors
Ms. Healy Fiorello H Laguardia High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

120 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
How to Eat a Poem: A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers American Poetry & Literacy Project (Editor), Ted Kooser, Academy of American Poets (Editor), Foreword by Ted Kooser • Barnes and Noble $2.13 1 $2.13
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry Billy Collins (Introduction), Billy Collins (Editor), Designed by Barbara M. Bachman • Barnes and Noble $9.53 1 $9.53
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day Billy Collins (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $10.90 1 $10.90
Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets Under 25 Naomi Shihab Nye • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 Nikki Giovanni, Virginia C. Fowler (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $12.98 1 $12.98
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara, Donald Allen (Editor), Allen Donald (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $23.51 1 $23.51
Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems Billy Collins • Barnes and Noble $10.22 1 $10.22
The Art of Drowning Billy Collins • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry That Inspires Them Jason Shinder, Billy Collins, John Lithgow • Barnes and Noble $18.96 1 $18.96
100 Love Sonnets / Cien sonetos de amor Pablo Neruda, Stephen Tapscott (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $11.59 1 $11.59
Love Poems Nikki Giovanni • Barnes and Noble $11.37 1 $11.37
The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart Mary D. Esselman, Elizabeth Ash V lez • Barnes and Noble $9.56 1 $9.56
Kiss Off: Poems to Set You Free Mary D. Esselman, Elizabeth Ash V?lez Bestselling authors of The Hell With Love, Elizabeth Ash Velez (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
Poems and Songs Leonard Cohen • Barnes and Noble $8.64 1 $8.64
Ariel Sylvia Plath, Foreword by Robert Lowell • Barnes and Noble $8.20 1 $8.20
Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston Robert Frost, Peter Davison (Afterword), William H. Pritchard (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $4.22 1 $4.22
Homegirls and Handgrenades Sonia Sanchez • Barnes and Noble $11.30 1 $11.30
Loose Woman: Poems Sandra Cisneros • Barnes and Noble $9.74 1 $9.74
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Editor), David E. Roessel (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $13.64 1 $13.64
Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $6.79 1 $6.79
Coney Island of the Mind Lawrence Ferlinghetti • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
Leaves of Grass (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Walt Whitman, Karen Karbiener (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
Song of Myself Walt Whitman • Barnes and Noble $2.13 1 $2.13
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East Naomi Shihab Nye • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Maze Me: Poems for Girls Naomi Shihab Nye, Terre Maher (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.79 1 $13.79
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs Naomi Shihab Nye (Editor), Paul B. Janeczko (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970 Adrienne Rich, Rich, W W Norton & Co. • Barnes and Noble $12.94 1 $12.94
Selected Poems Gwendolyn Brooks • Barnes and Noble $10.54 1 $10.54
Hoops: Poems Major Jackson • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
Poem in Your Pocket: 200 Poems to Read and Carry Elaine Bleakney (Editor), Academy of American Poets Staff (Compiler), Kay Ryan (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Seamus Heaney • Barnes and Noble $14.62 1 $14.62
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Poems about Food and Drink Peter Washington (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $10.95 1 $10.95
The Dance: Poems Emily Fragos (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $9.50 1 $9.50
The Enormous Room E. E. Cummings • Barnes and Noble $2.56 1 $2.56
And Still I Rise Maya Angelou • Barnes and Noble $12.17 1 $12.17

Materials cost

$368.62

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$409.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$72.20

Total project goal

$481.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $481.35

2 Donors

-$481.35

Donations toward project cost

-$409.15

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.20

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