poetry month

This illustrated book contains haiku, 3 line poems, that capture some of the traditional activities and natural beauty of the seasons.

Fifty-four poems to honor the people of Harlem.

A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...

Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become a messenger from the past, our voice for the future. The final poem in the book is The hill we climb, which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021 inauguration. -- adapted from jacket and perusal of book

Presents a collection of one hundred eighty-five poems written by such notable writers as Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, Carl Sandburg, Herman Melville, and many more.

Filled with wordplay, rhymes, and the clever language of spoonerisms to show Runny Babbit's topsy-turvy world.

"More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others. The work of these poets captures the beauty,...

A collection of forty poems by the Pulizer Prize-winning author, centered on themes of nature and love.

Presents all the "Flower Fairies" verse, including the fairy poems and illustrations from various other books in print.