Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:
"After Apple-Picking" by Robert Frost
"Grudnow" by Linda Pastan
"Hanging Fire" by Audre Lord
"In Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okita
"On the Grasshopper and the Cricket" By John Keats