Henry Carter Hull

A collection of humorous poetry written by Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Melville, Dickinson, Harte, Field, Frost, Sandburg, Lindsay, Aiken, MacLeish, Nash, and other well-known and lesser-known Americans.

Contains descriptions of monsters from various countries in the form of the travel guide for a world tour by balloon.

An anthology of American poetry containing the work of major poets, introducing many newer writers, and including brief biographies of the poets in an appendix.

"A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect...

Readers are asked to picture themselves as the earth, turning in space, facing the light, feeling the green things growing and the oceans shifting.

An exploration of poetic form, presenting overviews of verse forms, meter, shaping forms, and open forms, with historical and contemporary examples and interpretations of each type.

A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

Presents a collection of illustrated poems about a wide variety of activities characteristic of kindergarten.

"A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology...

Presents a collection of inspirational poems by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, and Raymond Carver.