Presents an overview of concrete poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use concrete poems to express ideas. Conveying meaning with words through phrases, rhythm, and line structure--that's a poem. With a celebratory tone, young learners are introduced to different forms of poetry through the delightful Poetry Party series. Each book focuses on a specific type of poetry, describing its elements and traits in an engaging...

A former United States Poet Laureate shares secrets about viewing the world from a poet's perspective, explaining how "jabberwalking" poets draw inspiration from everything they experience to express themselves in creative ways.

A collection of poems about the experiences of young people and a section with information about how each poem was written to enable readers to create their own original poems.

A former poet laureate provides introductions and sidebar notes for more than eighty poems by greats including William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, and George Herbert, in an effort to spark pleasure in reading and writing poems.

"A poet's narrative of a troubled psychoanalysis, and a meditation on the powers of language"--