Summary: A collection of favorite poems by such writers as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes, with portraits of the poets, brief biographical background, and illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 1998
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.008 CLASummary: A collection of more than 200 poems by such modern poets as Nikki Grimes, John Ciardi, Karla Kuskin, Ted Hughes, e.e. cummings, Eve Merriam, Deborah Chandra, Arnold Adoff, and more than 100 others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.5 TWESummary: This is one of the most popular collections of funny poetry for kids ever published. It's a classic because it's the first collection of poems selected by kids! It includes clever creations from some of the most popular names in children's poetry, including Bill Dodds, Timothy Tocher, Joyce Armor, Robert Pottle, Bruce Lansky, and Kenn Nesbitt. Humorous illustrations by Stephen Carpenter make...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Meadowbrook Press 1991
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An anthology of American poems, arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 HALSummary: An anthology of short poems inspired by food, from soup to dessert, and written by such poets as Lewis Carroll, Douglas Florian, A.A. Milne, and Edward Lear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 HOTBruchac, Joseph
Summary: Celebrates the seasons of the year through poems from the legends of such Native American tribes as the Cherokee, Cree, and Sioux.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1992
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 BRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native BruchacSummary: Over 100 poems reflect the rich and varied experiences of life, from music lessons and a circus parade to a first kiss and other affairs of the heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GOISummary: Contains a collection of poetry that spans two centuries and provides a diverse point of view of American life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.008 AMECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 811.008 AMESummary: A collection of short poems by Marchette Chute, Myra Cohn Livingston, Aileen Fisher, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and other authors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1984
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, c1936. 1936
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh)
Summary: A selection of works from American and British poets. It includes the poetry of William Blake, Robert Burns, George Crabbe, Philip Freneau, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, William Cullen Bryant, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Moore, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Darley, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, Thomas...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1982
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 AUDLatham, Irene/ Waters, Charles/ Lp̤ez, Merc (̈ILT)
Summary: Twenty poets each share a poem about a mistake they made as a young person and also provide a short statement on what they learned from it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 POESummary: "The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets) since 1988. Each volume presents a curated selection of the year's most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering unique insight into their work. Here, guest editor Mary Jo Salter, whose own poems display a sublime wit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Poetry 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BESSummary: This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr. Martin Luther King called the "beloved community," a place where we see each other as the neighbors we already are. Healing the Divide urges us, at this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Writers Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 HEASummary: Since its inception in 1972, Copper Canyon Press has remained dedicated to publishing poetry from a wide range of styles. The Gift of Tongues is drawn from among more than 150 books and chap-books of poetry published by the Press. Features Sam Hamill's in-depth personal introduction about Copper Canyon's path and dedication to the poetry of many cultures, as well as an annotated bibliography.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIFFrost, Robert
Summary: "Poet and Frost biographer Jay Parini selects sixteen poems by Robert Frost to learn by heart. Each poem is accompanied by a short interpretative essay by Parini illuminating the poem's stylistic and imaginative features"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 FROSummary: The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry--"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets)--now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, "The poems...have a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Poetry 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BESGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: Collection of 80 new poems and prose pieces including some about slavery, Rosa Parks, Hurricane Katrina, Emmett Till, Nina Simone, Dorothy Height, Mari Evans, Gwendolyn Brooks, June Jordan, Richard Fewell, the Ishley Brothers, Jackie Robinson, librarians, and libraries.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The anthology includes a mix of genres: poems, personal narratives, letters, scholarly essays, news articles, excerpts from plays, mission statements, lyrics, and herstories looking across time, generational, and geographic boundaries. Each piece is unique. Together they open a window that reveals a range of Latina perspectives on important contemporary socio-economic-political and cultural...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Sugarcane Press, Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8092 LATSummary: "The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame has partnered with Chicago publishers After Hours Press and Third World Press to produce a definitive collection of poetry by living Chicago poets."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 WHEKerouac, Jack
Summary: Features the complete recorded works, many released for the first time, of "beat generation" writer and poet Jack Kerouac.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Rhino Records] 1990