Daily Poetry

Daily Poetry
Author: Carol Simpson
Publisher: Good Year Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1596473010

Select a "poem of the week" and then follow this book's Monday-to-Friday schedule of activities for deepening students' appreciation of that poem. Choose your own poem or use one of the 39 supplied in this book as reproducible handouts; each of the book's poems comes with half a dozen or more activities related to the poem's language and its themes, a list of related poems and children's books, and a writing assignment based on a reproducible handout. The book also describes 12 activity ideas that will work with any poem. Grades K-3. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 288 pages.

This Radiant Life

This Radiant Life
Author: Chantal Neveu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781771666336

"In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution, and corporeal movement to forge intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. This is poetry capable of holding life and death, solidarity, and love. Renewal. Breathing. In its brevity and persistence, This Radiant Life is a material call for action: it asks us to let go, even just a little bit, of our individuality in favour of mutuality, to arrive separately yet in unison at a radiance in which all living beings can thrive."--

Poetry Daily

Poetry Daily
Author: Diane Boller
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2003-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1402252838

A poem-a-day book from the Web's No. 1 poetry site

Fire Is Not a Country

Fire Is Not a Country
Author: Cynthia Dewi Oka
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0810144220

In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism. With a voice bound and wrestled apart by multiple histories, Fire Is Not a Country claims the spaces between here and there, then and now, us and not us. As she builds a lyric portrait of her own family, Oka interrogates how migration, economic exploitation, patriarchal violence, and a legacy of political repression shape the beauties and limitations of familial love and obligation. Woven throughout are speculative experiments that intervene in the popular apocalyptic narratives of our time with the wit of an unassimilable other. Oka’s speakers mourn, labor, argue, digress, avenge, and fail, but they do not retreat. Born of conflicts public and private, this collection is for anyone interested in what it means to engage the multitudes within ourselves.

A Poetry Handbook

A Poetry Handbook
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780156724005

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.

Then, a Thousand Crows

Then, a Thousand Crows
Author: Keith Ratzlaff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9781934695104

Poetry. "What could it mean to be gentle in an era of ill omen and terror? Ask Jesus or Mahatma Gandhi. Ask the omni-genius da Vinci, of whom Keith Ratzlaff writes, 'In his last great studies / Leonardo sketched the heart / as a cathedral, its vaults and arches / perfect in their calibrations.' Ask Ratzlaff himself, who--like Leonardo--makes art 'as if beauty might be / a graceful house for the blood / and so calm its turbulence.' THEN, A THOUSAND CROWS brings no easy answers, but instead the steely thing we must have to face the difficult questions: a guarded hope"--Stephen Corey, Georgia Review.

Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year

Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 014313437X

"Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is not just for Christmas, but for all time." —Helena Bonham Carter A magnificent collection of 365 passages from Shakespeare's works, for the Shakespeare scholar and neophyte alike. Make Shakespeare a part of your daily routine with Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, a yearlong collection of passages from Shakespeare's greatest works. Drawing from the full spectrum of plays and sonnets to mark each day of the year, whether it's a scene from Hamlet to celebrate Christmas or a Sonnet in June to help you enjoy a summer's day. There are also passages to mark important days in the Shakespeare calendar, both from his own life and from his plays: You'll read a pivotal speech from Julius Caesar on the Ides of March and celebrate Valentine's day with a sonnet. Every passage is accompanied by an enlightening note to teach you its significance and help you better appreciate the timelessness and poetry of Shakespeare's words. Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year will give you a thoughtful way reflect on each day, all while giving you a deeper appreciation for the most famous writer in the English language.

Alien Miss

Alien Miss
Author: Carlina Duan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780299331344

In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from "Alien Miss Confronts the Author"

Universal Beach

Universal Beach
Author: Vivek Narayanan
Publisher: In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Indian poetry
ISBN: 9781934639108

Poetry. South Asia Studies. "Vivek Narayanan's poems remind me of a thriving port city, where diverse tongues are spoken, their registers varying from a priestly classical to a piratical demotic. Narayanan founds his poetic universe on a sophisticated understanding of bricolage: with a keen eye on the uses of friction, he counterpoints the certainties of definitions with the deceptions of synaesthesia; he sends up the vagueness of academic discourse with devastatingly precise onomatopoeia, and segues adroitly from memoir to surveillance report, from the elegiac to the carnivalesque. And then there are moments of luminosity, when the word becomes the bearer of hope and redemption. Not by offering us a spurious clarity, but challenging us into insight with a jaggedness of phrase, a treacherously ambiguous grammar, and a demanding musicality" Ranjit Hoskote."