poets

Explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in, democracy in the poetry of Walt Whitman. Also features carefully selected content representing a variety of perspectives.

Discusses some of the greatest works and poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Explores five women poets, ranging from Sappho to Emily Dickinson, through brief biographies and selections of their poetry.

a collection of verse-letters in which the author, Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, traces his relationship with his wife, author Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide in 1963.

Natalie, who likes to write poems, goes to a poetry reading and discovers that a poem needs to be read out loud at just the right time.

A series of poems written from the point of view of the poet Langston Hughes, offering an overview of key events and themes in his life.

The story of John Magee, a young Canadian flyer killed in Britain during World War II.

While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.

Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.