poets

A narrative poem by Ed Sanders that chronicles the life of poet Allen Ginsberg, discussing his personal relationships, writing career, religious and political beliefs, and other related topics.

A narrative poem by Ed Sanders that chronicles the life of poet Allen Ginsberg, discussing his personal relationships, writing career, religious and political beliefs, and other related topics.

Presents interviews with twelve significant contemporary poets, including Seamus Heaney, Donald Hall, Rita Dove, and Bei Dao, about their lives and their craft.

A series of autobiographical essays that chronicle the public and private life of African-American poet Nikki Giovanni.

Fifteen-year-old Ogilvie Kidd, whose life revolves around freestyle biking with his best friends Roland and Couch, suddenly has a new passion: writing poetry about the thrills of riding--but Og worries about what Tony Jones, the world's best freestyler, will think of that poetic side when he comes to town.

Charlie, a man who has a problem with commitment, invents excuses to break up with his girlfriends--one's a kleptomaniac, another must belong to the mob--and works them into his poems which he recites at a San Francisco coffeehouse. But then Charlie meets Harriet, a butcher at Meats of the World who may be his soulmate. There's a little problem, though, since Charlie is convinced Harriet is the unknown Mrs. X, a tabloid favorite who marries and murders her husbands.

A fictionalized biography of the girl who was brought to America from Gambia as a slave and who later gained fame as an African American poet of great renown, from her time in Africa until she gained her freedom.

A Mixteca Indian from Oaxaca, Am?rica Soliz, suffers from the poverty and hopelessness of her Chicago ghetto, made more endurable by a desire and determination to be a poet.