American poetry
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Grocery List Poems
$16.00 Add to cart– Second full-length title by former Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Rhiannon McGavin. – McGavin’s focus around this title is to provide readers with a soft, relaxing space to dive into one’s own s… [more below]
- Author: McGavin, Rhiannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1945649313
- Language: English
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Crime Scene
$14.95 Add to cartCynthia Pelayo sings a song for the least of us, the victim we want to forget as soon as possible, the one who disappeared before ever really appearing. With a fairy tale gaze and a heart bigger than
- Author: Pelayo, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1947879480
- Language: English
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Just Like Me
$18.99 Add to cartAn ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids poring over i… [more below]
- Author: Brantley-Newton, Vanessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525582096
- Language: English
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S O S: Poems 1961-2013
$22.00 Add to cartOne of the New York Times Book Review‘s 100 Notable Books
WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK
Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preem
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0802124682
- Language: English
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
$5.00 Add to cartIn 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0486456765
- Language: English
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The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Edition
$18.00 Read more- Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
- One of the best-selling poets of 2020
- 40,000 copies sold of original paperback
- Philadelphia using The Tradition for city-wide “One Book” reading program, the first
- Author: Brown, Jericho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596421
- Language: English
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
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Singing Fierce Gratitude
$14.95 Read moreSinging Fierce Gratitude is a reminder to savor, to feast, and to share the abundance of God’s goodness. These daily poems challenge our resignation to the mundane with revelations of delight: flowers… [more below]
- Author: Datsko de S?nchez, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 829812334
- Language: English
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Good Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems to inspire and be enjoyed by everyone
Here is an anthology of poems, chosen by Garrison Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their “utte- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: August 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0142003441
- Language: English
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A Queen in Bucks County
$17.95 Read more2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST!
An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor.
In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is … [more below]
- Author: Gabriel, Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621491
- Language: English
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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)
$20.00 Add to cartDiscover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize–now in one collectible volume
“If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you only had to l- Series: American Poets Project #19
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1931082871
- Language: English
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The Essential Poe
$14.95 Add to cartThe Essential Poe gathers the most thrilling and enthralling of Poe’s poems and short stories, including “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murder… [more below]
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: August 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1735515140
- Language: English
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The Feast Delayed
$16.00 Add to cartThis beautiful and fraught book is born from a closely observed life, one rich in compassion for the natural and human worlds, for the blessings and violences we do to one another. Beneath the details
- Author: LeBlanc, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1947896415
- Language: English
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Masked Man, Black
$16.00 Add to cart“We all wear masks. There are people with whom we can take our masks off and speak from the heart. Professor Walker is an expert in masks, or personas. And he well knows that sometimes masks let us sp
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1936628597
- Language: English
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No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History
$18.99 Add to cartFans of We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices will love meeting fourteen young activists who have stepped up to make change in their community and the United States.
Mari Copeny demanded clean water- Author: Metcalf, Lindsay H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 162354131X
- Language: English
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The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King
$19.95 Add to cartWhen he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said: ‘There… [more below]
- Author: Forché, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: November 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1780373929
- Language: English
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You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages
$13.99 Add to cartA feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers
No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From The- Series: Holt Paperback
- Author: Frost, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0805069852
- Language: English
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Water Rolls, Water Rises/El Agua Rueda, el Agua Sube
$11.95 Add to cartNow in paperback: In a series of poetic verses in both English and Spanish, readers learn about the movement and moods of water around the world and the ways in which water affects different landscape
- Author: Mora, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1643792393
- Language: Spanish
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There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me
$17.99 Read morePulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Alice Walker invites readers young and old to see the world–and our place in it–through new eyes in this new edition featuring art from Queenbe Monyei.
With
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0063089912
- Language: English
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The Essential Ginsberg
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing the legendary and groundbreaking poem “Howl,” this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pa
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0062362283
- Language: English
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Don’t Bump the Glump!: And Other Fantasies
$22.99 Add to cartDon’t Bump the Glump turns fifty A commemorative gold anniversary sticker graces Shel Silverstein’s first poetry collection, celebrating fifty years since publication. This, his only book in full co
- Author: Silverstein, Shel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0061493384
- Language: English
