Days to celebrate: a full year of poetry, people, holidays, history, fascinating facts and more

JANUARY. From "In memoriam" / Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg ; A question for Martin / Nikki Grimes ; Aphorisms / Benjamin Franklin ; Prayer for the lunar new year / Janet S. Wong

FEBRUARY. My people / Langston Hughes ; Groundhog / Maria Fleming ; Flying man / Mother Goose ; Weather / Anonymous ; I love you / Anonymous ; From "The rainy day" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Remembering Marian Anderson / Joyce Carol Thomas

MARCH. Freedom! / Bobbi Katz ; Irish song for St. Patrick / Anonymous ; Spring / Prince Redcloud ; Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins ; Blue-butterfly day / Robert Frost ; Pencils / Beverly McLoughland

APRIL. If you believe me / Lee Bennett Hopkins ; From "More opposites" / Richard Wilbur ; Earth, what will you give me? / Beverly McLoughland ; Little birds / Anonymous ; Comments on poetry / various artists

MAY. Mother to son / Langston Hughes ; There was a young lady of Firle / Edward Lear ; There was an old man with a beard / Edward Lear ; Fossil finds / Rebecca Kai Dotlich ; Memorial Day / Constance Andrea Keremes ; Now lift me close / Walt Whitman

JUNE. Skipper / Gwendolyn Brooks ; A father's hands / Rebecca Kai Dotlich ; From "Stay, June, stay" / Christina G. Rossetti ; The river is a piece of sky / John Ciardi ; First lady of twentieth-century sports / J. Patrick Lewis

JULY. From Sing-Song / Christina G. Rossetti ; Fourth of July parade / Anonymous ; The ringmaster / Lee Bennett Hopkins ; St. Swithin's Day proverb / Anonymous ; The new colossus / Emma Lazarus

AUGUST. Evening: Ponte al mare, Pisa / Percy Bysshe Shelley ; The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer ; Wishing for winter in summer / X.F. Kennedy

SEPTEMBER. Labor Day / Marci Ridlon ; From James Lee / Robert Browning ; Oh, the Lord is good to me / John Chapman ; The naming of cats / T.S. Eliot ; Me x 2 yo x 2 / Jane Medina

OCTOBER. Treasure words / Rebecca Kai Dotlich ; In the moon of falling leaves / Joseph Bruchac ; Soccer / Lee Bennett Hopkins ; Subways are people / Lee Bennett Hopkins ; From Chansons innocentes, II / E. E. Cummings

NOVEMBER. Windshield wipers / Rebecca Kai Dotlich ; Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Two lives are yours / Richard Armour ; Thanksgiving / Anonymous ; Iroquois prayer / Anonymous

DECEMBER. I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford ; Muffs / Lee Bennett Hopkins ; From Near the window tree / Karla Kuskin ; The Year / Felice Holman.