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Hip hop speaks to children: a celebration of poetry with a beat / Giovanni, Nikki (ed.) 2008  Book
Giovanni, Nikki Book
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Publication Illinois, Jabberwocky, 2008.
Description 72pWhite and Orange Spine
Summary/Abstract Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Sometimes it is obvious; somethimes it is hidden. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet, you know you've found poetry with a beat. A collection of 50 poems and songs.
Contents Things - Eloise Greenfield Hip hop rules the world - Jaqueline Woodson I think I'll call it morning - Gil Scott-Heron The girls in the circle - Nikki Giovanni From Ham 'N' eggs - A tribe called quest Music for fun and profit = Gary Soto Audition - Hope Anita Smith From Hey Mama - Kanye West Dream Boogie - Langston Hughes Funky Snowman - Calef Brown Oh, words - Eloise Greenfield From Rapper's delight - Sugarhill Gang From ladies first - Queen Latifah People equal - James Berry From it's love - Jill Scott From Umi says - Mos Def Taking action - James Berry Dream variations - Langston Hughes Allow me to intoduce myself - Charles R. Smith Jr. Me - Elizabeth Swados Dat Dere - Oscar Brown Jr. Books - Eloise Greenfield For word - Benjamin Zephaniah Waitin' for summer - Ruth Forman Jimmy Wall, 14, Boy Evangelist - Walter Dean Myers From Principal's office - Young MC Love poem for Mr People - Pedro Pietri Why some people be mad at sometimes - Lucille Clifton From Love is... - Common Harlem night song - Langston Hughes The Rosa Parks - Nikki Giovanni Harlem hopscotch - Maya Angelou From the creation - James Weldon Johnson Ego Tripping - Nikki Giovanni From No regrets - Aesop rocks First signature - Angela Shannon No images - William Waring Cuney Everything is everything - Lauryn Hill The rose that grew from concrete - Tupac Shakur From Talkin' all that jazz - Stetsasonic We real cool - Gwendolyn Brooks If we must die - Claude McKay We wear the mask - Paul Laurence Dunbar Who will crey? - Antwone Fisher The Song of the smoke - W.E.B. Du Bois Doubtless by Steve Ericson - Nikki Grimes The Negro speaks of rivers - Langston Hughes If we forget - Ja Jahannes From I have a dream - Martin Luther King Jr.
Standard Number 9781402210488 Hb.
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Kick in the head: An everyday guide to poetic forms / Janeczko, Paul B.; Raschka, Chris (ill.) 2005  Book
Janeczko, Paul B. Book
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Publication Massachusetts, Candlewick Press, 2005.
Description 61pWhite Spine
Summary/Abstract Includes 29 poetic forms where not all the examples strictly follow the rules of their form.
Contents Introduction Couplet Tercet Quatrain Haiku Senryu Tanka Cinquain Clerihew Limerick Roundel Double dactyl Triolet Sonnet Villanelle Opposites Riddle poem Ode Acrostic Concrete Epitaph Elegy Found poem Persona poem Poem of address Ballad Blues poem List poem Aubade Pantoum Notes on the forms Acknowledgements
Standard Number 9780763641320 Pb.
Key Words Poetry  Literary forms 
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Poetry speaks to children / Paschen, Elise (ed.) 2005  Book
Paschen, Elise (ed.) Book
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Publication Illinois, Sourcebooks, 2005.
Description viii, 104pRed Spine
Summary/Abstract A collection of poems that can be read or listened to with the accompanying CD. The poems on the CD are read by the poets themselves.
Contents First Book / Rita Dove Quarrel / Maxine Kumin Letter to Bee / Emily Dickinson Hurt No Living Thing / Christina D. Rossetti 1894 Stopping by woods on a Snowy evening / Robert Frost Wolf / Billy Collins Tiger who wore white Gloves / Gwendolyn Brooks Adventures of Isabel / Ogden D. Nash 1971 On a flimmering floom you shall ride / Carl Sandburg El Chicle / Ana Castillo The dentist and the crocodile / Roald Dahl Bear Song / Kay Ryan Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll Sneeze / Maxine Kumin Mrs. Mitchell's Underwear / Dennis Lee Okay, brown girl, Okay / James Berry Vowel owl (Roger) / John Hollander Magic Words / Anonymous Inuit Poet, trans. Ed Field Unwritten / W. S. Merwin Crayons: Rainbow poem / Jane Yolen Gas / C. K. Williams Knitted Things / Karla Kuskin from Macbeth / William Shakespeare Frodo's Song in Bree / J. R. R. Tolkien Harjo, Joy / J. R. R. Tolkien Eagle Poem Joy / Harjo Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes Buffalo song / Anonymous Osage poet from "The Elephant's child" / Rudyard D. Kipling 1936 Alphabet / Seamus Heaney John Smith and his Son, John Smith / Wallace Stevens About the teeth of sharks / John Ciardi Dinosaur diets / Jane Yolen My sister saw a dinosaur / Mary Ann Hoberman Joey / Brad Leithauser Rabbit / Mary Ann Hoberman At last / James Stevenson Epigram engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to his royal highness / Pope, Alexander Balloons / William Jay Smith Hide and seek / Robert Graves Every time I climb a tree / David McCord The reason I like chocolate / Nikki Giovanni Trips / Nikki Giovanni Mommies / Nikki Giovanni Lineage / Margaret Walker Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali Good luck gold / Janet S. Wong The secret song / Margaret Wise Brown Why? / James Stevenson The Question / Karla Kuskin First Grade / William Stafford Crying / Galway Kinnell Art class / X. J. Kennedy How to paint a donkey / Naomi Shihab Nye Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes Working with mother / Myra Cohn Livingston Faery song / W. B. Yeats, d.1939 Unicorn / Rainer Maria Rilke / translated by Paul Muldoon Lion and the lily / Elizabeth Spires Hist whist / E.E. Cummings Ghost and Jenny Jemina / Lee, Dennis From the Raven / Edgar Allan Poe Sheep party / John Fuller Jamacian song / James Berry Halfway down / A.A. Milne d. 1956 Count to ten and we'll be there/ Rita Dove Opposite poem 4 / Richard Wilbur Opposite poems 7 and 20 / Richard Wilbur Custard the dragon / Ogden Nash, d. 1971 Good hot dogs / Sandra Cisneros Lies, all lies / William Cole Which is the Best? / James Stevenson Casey at the bat / Ernest L. Thayer d. 1940 Testing Tree, Part 1 / Stanley Kunitz Skating in the wind / George, Kristine O'Connell Poem for Jesse / Sanchez, Sonia To PJ / Sanchez, Sonia Valentine / Donald Hall Summer / W.D. Snodgrass Winter / W.D. Snodgrass Sun has a tail / Emanuel di Pasquale Knowville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni I am cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz, d. 1966 Tyger / William Blake Conversation with a mouse / Robert Bly On turning ten / Billy Collins How to stay up late / X. J. Kennedy Flashlight / X. J. Kennedy Maturity / X. J. Kennedy Wynken, blynken, and nod / Eugene Field, d. 1895 Little / Dorothy Aldis Two in Bed - Ross, Abram Bunn Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman Land of Counterpane / Robert Lewis Stevenson From The Bed Book / Sylvia Plath Coming of Teddy Bears / Dennis Lee
Standard Number 9781402203299 Hb.
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Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure / Carroll, Andrew 1999  Book
Carroll, Andrew Book
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Publication USA, Dover Publications, Inc., 1999.
Description 66pBrown Spine
Summary/Abstract 90 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate the journeys we take in the course of our lives towards love, discovery, loss, leaving the nest and coming home.
Standard Number 0486406466 Pb.
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