Monster School

Monster School
Author: Kate Coombs
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre:
ISBN: 145215757X

Twilight's here. The death bell rings. Everyone knows what the death bell brings—it's time for class! You're in the place where goblins wail and zombies drool. (That's because they're kindergartners.) Welcome to Monster School. In this entertaining collection of poems, award-winning poet Kate Coombs and debut artist Lee Gatlin bring to vivid life a wide and playful cast of characters (outgoing, shy, friendly, funny, prickly, proud) that may seem surprisingly like the kids you know . . . even if these kids are technically monsters.

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-08-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0393050688

Back cover: "With selections from Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, WIlliam Carlos Williams, and many others, "Singing school" offers a bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Instead of offering rules, theories, or recipes, Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the eighty poems and brief introductions to each section respect poetry's mysteries, in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable."

Teaching Poetry in High School

Teaching Poetry in High School
Author: Albert B. Somers
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Describes the different resources that can be used to teach high school students about poetry.

Awakening the Heart

Awakening the Heart
Author: Georgia Heard
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i, s, t.

The New York Poets

The New York Poets
Author: Frank O'Hara
Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2004
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Gathers the work of four of the 'first generation' of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology provides introductions to the poets' work, and charts an exchange between experiment and the emergence of language poetry.

Poetry Everywhere

Poetry Everywhere
Author: Jack Collom
Publisher: Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780915924691

The dazzling new edition of this "tremendously valuable resource" (Kliatt) contains 65 writing exercises and more than 400 example poems. It also discusses how to integrate poetry writing into the English class and essential topics such as sound and rhythm, traditional poetic forms, inventing and adapting exercises, revision, and publishing. "The lessons are presented with clarity, common sense, and sophisticated artistic sensibilities."-Missoula Independent "Poetry Everywhere will ease any trepidation [about writing poetry]."-English Journal

Learning by Heart

Learning by Heart
Author: Maggie Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1999
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

A collection of poems written primarily between 1970 and 1995 by contemporary American poets that recall the experiences of elementary and high school.

The Sobbing School

The Sobbing School
Author: Joshua Bennett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0143111868

The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose “astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable” (Tracy K. Smith) The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett’s mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. What animates these poems is a desire to assert life, and interiority, where there is said to be none. Figures as widely divergent as Bobby Brown, Martin Heidegger, and the 19th-century performance artist Henry Box Brown, as well as Bennett’s own family and childhood best friends, appear and are placed in conversation in order to show that there is always a world beyond what we are socialized to see value in, always alternative ways of thinking about relation that explode easy binaries.

Poetry 180

Poetry 180
Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2003-03-25
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0812968875

A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible not to love at first glance. Open the anthology to any page and discover a new poem to cherish, or savor all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of contemporary poetry’s vibrance and abundance. With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.

Poets, Philosophers, Lovers

Poets, Philosophers, Lovers
Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0822987597

With a foreword by Ilan Stavans This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation. Since the 1980s, Braschi’s linguistic and structural ingenuities, radical thinking, and poetic hilarity have spanned the genres of theatre, poetry, fiction, essay, musical, manifesto, political philosophy, and spoken word. Her best-known titles are El imperio de los sueños, Yo-Yo Boing!, and United States of Banana. She writes in Spanish, Spanglish, and English and embraces timely and enduring subjects: love, liberty, creativity, environment, economy, censorship, borders, immigration, debt, incarceration, colonialization, terrorism, and revolution. Her work has been widely adapted into theater, photography, film, lithography, painting, sculpture, comics, and music. The essays in this volume explore the marvelous ways that Braschi’s texts shake upside down our ideas of ourselves and enrich our understanding of how powerful narratives can wake us to our higher expectations.