collections

Discussions of poetry alternate with poems by writers including John Donne, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T S Eliot, e e cummings, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, W H Auden, Theodore Roethke, Dylan Thomas, May Swenson, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, Mary Oliver, Lucille Clifton, Seamus Heaney, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others.

Includes work by Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and others.

Stories and verse featuring characters from the television show introduce number concepts, letters of the alphabet, and word meanings.