poetics

"Explores beauty-themed poetry, including famous American and European poets and their poems, as well as literary criticism, poetic technique, explication, and prompts for further study"--Provided by publisher.

A comprehensive guide to poetry that covers the lives and works of famous poets; stanza, meter, and form; the intersections of religion, music, and art with poetry; poems about love, war, death, and nature; free verse, spoken word, rap and slam; and more.

An introduction to poetry that describes how poems are different from other kinds of writing; discusses rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, similes, onomatopoeia, acrostics, cinquains, concrete poems, free verse, haikus, and limericks; and includes examples.

"Children's writer and poet Amy Ludwig VanDerwater leads us on an adventure through poetry, pointing out craft elements along the way that students can use to improve all their writing, from idea finding to language play. "Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small," Amy explains. "And, too, poems teach us how to write. Anything." This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher. Each lesson exploration includes three poems, one by a contemporary adult poet and two by students in grades 2 through 8, which serve as models to illustrate how poetry teaches writers to: find ideas, choose perspective and point of view, structure texts, play with language, craft beginnings and endings, [and] choose titles"--Back cover.

A guide to the elements of poetry focusing on the dramatic, lyric, and narrative.

Introduces acrostic poetry, a type of poem that is formed by writing a word vertically down the page.

Robert Pinsky presents an approach to writing and reading poetry using 80 great poems of the past.

Poet Ben Lerner discusses the common and intense criticism of poetry, using people's dislike of poetry to defend the art form. Explains what he calls poetry's "noble failure" and gives examples from poets such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Claudia Rankine.

"Get to know the Get Lit Players--a group of teens who use poetry to take on the world--with this common-core aligned book that sheds light on teen issues through their own poetry and slam poetry performances. The Get Lit Players include teens who are homeless, autistic, have parents in jail, battle with weightand body issues, depression, and more. But they use the power of poetry to pursue lives of promise and to reach out to friends, families, and communities ... Each chapter offers questions, writing prompts, and how-tos for readers to set their own inner poet free. Ending with a section for parents and educators featuring the curriculum that ... shows how to get teens excited about poetry and how to create poetry groups and slams in their own communities"--Provided by publisher.