poetry

Contains a guide to writing poetry, providing advice, ideas, writing activities, and encouragement from a working poet, presenting poems by a variety of poets from the unknown to the famous, including Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, Eve Merriam, and more.

Sixth grader Troy Thompson and his teacher, Ms. Kranke, face a challenging year of learning about poetry with humor and feeling.

Guidance and many examples provide help and ideas for writing poetry, covering such aspects as poetic forms, meter, imagery, and language.

College-bound Christina Curtis is creating a scrapbook of the Digital Poets, her middle-school poetry group, which, interwoven with her narrative, reflects the hormonal angst of middle school.

Presents a selection of over thirty poems by eighteenth-century English poet William Blake. Includes illustrations.

In 1926, a twelve-year-old aspiring poet nicknamed Shaky Bones enters the first annual Harlem All-School Young Poets Competition.

A collection of nearly sixty poems dealing with revenge and forgiveness, plus suggested readings about each contributing poet.

A guide to performing poetry alone and in groups, including guidelines for setting up poetry-performance contests.

A collection of poems about the joys of Christmas designed especially for older children, featuring selections by Robert Louis Stevenson, Countee Cullen, Ted Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Jennings, and many others.

Jazmin, an African-American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life.