Poetry Haunted House This Halloween, take a tour through our haunted house of poetry—from the poems that give you the chills to those that make you "feel physically as if the top of [your] head were taken off." Read your way through Poets.org's literary den of ghosts, goblins, and bards, along with some suggestions on putting together a poetry scare-fest, DIY style. 
On the web at: www.poets.org/hauntedhouse
The Séance Room Here, we gather around a Oujia board to summon W. B. Yeats. When the board inevitably spells out his name, his voice is suddenly upon us! I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the
shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the
pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core. You Will Need
A Medium/Fortune-teller
A Ouija board
The Poets.org Audio Archive Extra Credit
A copy of James Merrill's epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover which was composed with the help of such "visitations" 
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