The Favorite Poem Project
What's your favorite poem?
Skokie Public Library joined The Favorite Poem Project, a national initiative developed by United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, with an evening of "Poetry in the Petty" on Monday, April 12, 1999. Following is a list of the participants and the poems they read.
- Carolyn Anthony - Director, Skokie Public Library
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
- Susan Van Dusen - representing Mayor Van Dusen, Village of Skokie
- Warning by Jenny Joseph and Endings by Lynn Kozma
- Lisa Edelson - Executive Director, Skokie Chamber of Commerce
- A Closet Full of Shoes by Shel Silverstein
- Somer Nissan - Niles North High School
- I'm Leaving by Waelkfory (in Arabic)
- Julia Godun - Niles North High School
- Love by Edward Asadov (in Russian)
- Neal Ney - Director, Evanston Public Library
- Birds and Fishes by Robinson Jeffers
- Lesley Williams - Evanston Public Library
- Poem to a Dead Soldier and Crowns and Garlands by Langston Hughes
- Roger Stein - Principal, Niles West High School
- Execution by Edward Hirsch
- Paul Ulyanov - Niles North High School
- I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin (in Russian)
- Alan Damarsky - Niles North High School
- There are No More Butterflies and To Run Away to a Different Place (in Hebrew)
- Alma Molino
- Against Still Life by Margaret Atwood
- Jeremy Groh
- As One Put Drunk into the Packet- Boat by John Ashbery
- Alex Chernyavskiy - Niles North High School
- Excerpt from Borodino (in Russian)
- Tim Paperny - Niles North High School
- Untitled (in Russian)
- Darlene Hoseman
- Our Haven by Darlene Hoseman
- Helen Moshak
- Alive Together and Daughter by Liesel Mueller
- Chris Kabir - Niles North High School
- April by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Mariya Sukher - Niles North High School
- Beautiful Fall by Nikolai Krasov (in Russian)
- Thomas Neihengen - Media Specialist, Niles North High School
- Home Burial by Robert Frost
- James Batts - English Department, Niles West High School
- There's Magic in the Hollow by James Batts
- Albert Aessa - Niles North High School
- Love Poem (in Maltese)
- Andrea Norstad - Niles North High School
- Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day by Nikki Giovani
- Pearl Cohen
- Hypnotic Senses by Pearl Cohen
- Peter Milan - Niles North High School
- Atlantis (in Russian)
- Asima Nazeen - Niles North High School
- My Country (in Gujarati)
- Bettina Maravolo - Barnes & Noble/Village Crossing
- Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
- Vlad Brunshteyn - Niles North High School
- Poem (in Russian)
- Pauline Szapiro
- Fiftieth Class Renuion by Pauline Szapiro
- Victoria Muravina - Niles North High School
- Summer Garden (in Russian)
- Steven Jablonski - Skokie Public Library
- Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
- Carol Wechter - Still Acting Up
- 2000 Here We Come by Carol Wechter
- Roman Pistryak - Niles North High School
- Uznik (in Russian)
- Alex Tchaplygin - Niles North High School
- I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin (in Russian)
- Ruchit Shah - Niles North High School
- The Monster that Ate the Cafeteria
- Anastasia Alter - Niles North High School
- Conscience and Love by Alexander Pushkin (in Russian)
- Max Krupsky - Niles North High School
- The Star Called Sun (in Russian)
- Mike Khait - Niles North High School
- Rain (in Russian)
- Sofi Isakhanian - Niles North High School
- I made a Bridge by Tanya Bulanova (in Russian)
- Emanuel Aessa - Niles North High School
- My Love (in Assyrian)