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October Poems

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poems-for-October.mp3 Author William Jay Smith Air Date 10/26/2001 Poems for October Transcript Since this past spring, we’ve been fortunate to have William Jay Smith as our poet in residence to take us around the year with poetry. Here are two of his poems that evoke October, the first about someone […]

Poems for September

William Jay Smith, the distinguished poet for young people, joins us today with some poems about September, that month of both harvests and new beginnings.

Dog Days

We're right in the middle of that hot spell of summer that the ancients called the "dog days," and William Jay Smith has some poems for us today about this steamy time.

Poems for July

William Jay Smith is one of our leading poets for young people. He joins us today with some poems to begin the month of July.