poetry

A guide to writing and understanding poetry, identifying fourteen poetic elements, each with a definition and examples, and including worksheets, exercises, and writing ideas.

A collection of nursery rhymes featuring the three little kittens, Old Mother Hubbard, the muffin man, and other Mother Goose characters.

Describes the work of a New York City language arts teacher and the Power Writers, an after-school group consisting of African-American and Latino students, and presents guidance on the use of spoken word poetry in literacy learning.

An anthology of seventy poems covering subjects from autumn to zebras. Includes poetry-writing exercises to help the reader get started, and shows how to compose acrostics, clerihews, haikus, and much more.

Contains alphabetically arranged articles that provide critical excerpts and biographical information on nine of the world's most frequently discussed and studied poets; and includes cumulative author, nationality, and title indexes.

"This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of poems about the natural world written by people from different places and times. It gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poems. It equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and it explains the techniques poets use to create their effects" --.

"This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of poems about emotions written by people from different places and times. It gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poetry. It equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and it explains the techniques poets use to create an effect."--Back cover.

Using seven poems about choices, discusses how to understand poetry, its meanings, and the techniques that poets use to write them.

A collection of humorous poetry and explains how to explore a poems's meaning and the techniques that poets use to create an effect.

"This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of poems about action written by people from different places and times; gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poetry; equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and explains the techniques poets use to create an effect"--Back cover.