1  The Greeks believed they inspired artists

 4  When it's all about me, me, me, me, me...

 8  In limerick, from where there once was a man...

 9  When one word sounds like another

10 Said again and again

13 What is an owl who does not go to school?

16 The raven was his bird...and poem (3 wds)

18 They may be sweet whispered into the ear

20 Not awake

21 This mariner had a rime

22 Belonging to Ms. Angelou

26 Belonging to Mr. Neruda

27 A fourteen line poem

28 It is World Wide

29 A seventeen syllable poem

 2  This country, briefly

 3  Theodore Geisel, the poem doctor

 5  Our Ms. Brooks

 6  Please be quiet

 7  A poet's feet

 8  A kind of rhyme for children

 9  What the mouse did after Hickory, dickory, dock (4 wds)

11 Langston

12 Home Owners Association (abbrev)

14 If it's swollen, put * * it. (2 wds)

15 Long, saga-like poems

17 What one does against the dying of the light

19 Do not go how into the night?

20 Get money here

23 Ms. Sexton

24 Ogden

25 How to pose a question