poets

A portrait in poems of Juan Francisco Manzano, the poet who was born a slave in Cuba in 1797.

A poet yearns for the sea, but his writing on the subject falls flat, even to his own ears. Then, one night, he is shanghaied onto a clipper ship destined for Hong Kong and gets to find out about life at sea first hand.

Marty Frye, a seven-year-old who likes to read poetry and talk in rhymes, solves three separate mysteries for a classmate, a toy store owner, and his younger sister.

In 1881 Amherst, Massachusetts, six-year-old Gilbert finds it both challenging and wonderful to spend time with his aunt, the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, who lives next door.

After the death of her sister, Tara struggles to deal with her guilt through slam poetry.

Looks at the life of African American poet and slave Phillis Wheatley.

"Read about Phillis Wheatley, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Jay Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Rita Dove"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces the reader to fifteen world poets from throughout history, including Sin-leqi-unninni, Homer, Rumi, Dante, Bash?, Tagore, Ahkmatova, Neruda, Walcott, and others; and providing biographical information on each poet, along with several analyzed poems.

Describes some of the boyhood experiences that influenced the development of the African-American poet Langston Hughes.

In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.