The only rule for this Favorite Poem event is that poems recited are NOT poems the readers, or their friends, or relatives have written — but, rather poems they have read, perhaps many times, and to which they feel a personal attachment. Poems, for example, from the great history of American poetry, perhaps by Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes or Gwendolyn Brooks, Wallace Stevens or Robert Frost. A reader might also choose a poem written in another language, along with an English translation.