English Poetry

Raising a child is no easy feat, but sometimes it can be made easier by giving them an extra educational and entertaining resource. Magic of Me Children’s Poetry Book can help with that! This amazing book helps children understand themselves better while also introducing them to the beauty of poetry. With its positive message and engaging story lines, kids will love exploring the pages of this magical adventure. Let's find out why you need to have it in your family arsenal and how parents and schools can use it to educate their little ones. The poems help children to explore their ...

Another beautiful collection of Poems & Short Stories from Award Winning Author Robert E. Kearns (1st Place 2019 Pencraft Awards for Hy Brasil: Island of Eternity) With Poems & Short Stories volume 2, Kearns gives us a further edition of his thought provoking poetry along with several of his highly entertaining short stories. If prose and poetry are your thing, this is the book for you.

For Hala Alyan, 29 is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past - memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith - winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone; from alcoholism to recovery; from a single woman to a wife.

At last - here from the team behind the beloved international best seller comes a companion to Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site. All of our favorite trucks are back on the construction site - this time with a focus on team-building, friendship, and working together to make a big task seem small!

The follow-up to the internationally best-selling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is an audio treasure that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.

WINNER BEST ORIGINAL SHORT STORY OF 2020: The Last Lootenant Wins His Fuckin’ Medal by William F. Crandell [Delaware Press Association] From Devil's Party Press, publishers of the award-winning anthologies EQUINOX, SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, and SOLSTICE, comes a new collection of 55 short stories, poems, and reflections. From the introduction: "The authors we publish are the voices of experience, of triumph, of tragedy, and of life. They’re bad-asses, one and all. WHAT SORT OF FUCKERY IS THIS? is a celebration of their unique badassery. INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL FOLLOWING WORKS: • The Fuckery ...

"stay beautiful if you can, i won't blame you" young, brave, dying is a collection of seventeen poems whilst also being a gnashing of teeth. exploring the violence that is love, death, and the complexity of parasocial relationships.

This varied, well-chosen selection brings onto one audiobook the best of Dylan Thomas. Here is the legendary recording of "Under Milk Wood", with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators; but here also are two radio productions he wrote before that great classic, and though interesting in their own right, they show how "Under Milk Wood" grew gradually in his imagination.

From New York Times best-selling author Karen Kingsbury comes an unforgettable story of love struggling against all odds to snatch hope from the jaws of despair. Annie Warren’s concern for her adult son Josh has intensified ever since a drunk driver careened into him.

Arizona: 100 Years, 100 Poems, 100 Poets was written to celebrate Arizona's 100th year of Statehood in 2012. Poets from all across Arizona contributed to this collection. These poems catch the flavor of Old Arizona and Modern Arizona.

William Blake's first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist, wanted to believe that Blake was a "new kind of man; and hence his was a new kind of art, and a new kind of poetry." However, what sets William Blake apart as a great poet and artist was not that he was so "new," but that he was so "old." He was a part of a mytho-poetic and Vatic tradition as old as poetry itself. Blake was heir to a mytho-poetic tradition that can be traced back to the very foundations of human thought and speech. The extraordinary in William Blake was not the "man," but his Vision and how he expressed it. But most (if...

A poetic portrait of faith, futility, and the joy of this mortal life. In this astoundingly unique audiobook, best-selling author N. D. Wilson reminds each of us that to truly live, we must recognize that we are dying. Every second we create more of our past. Then, we must see the future. We stand in the now. God says create. Live. Choose. Shape the past. Etch your life in stone, and what you make will be forever.

This poem INFERNO WITHIN, is about THE FIRE UNDER MY SKIN, and why I WEAR AN INNOCENT SMIRK, ALONG WITH AN EVIL GRIN!

START WITH "FROZEN RED," FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIRLS THEY FOUND DEAD, THEN READ "THIS ROSE HAS WILTED", BECAUSE WHAT WE DID, YOU WON'T GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD!

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts, and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has spoken out on the sensitive issues, including race and gender, that touch our national consciousness.

Discover the profound beauty and wisdom of "Voices of Poetic Genius: Celebrating Four Centuries of Great Women Poets," a stunning anthology that pays homage to the incredible female poets who have transformed the literary world over the past 400 years. Journey through the depths of human emotion and experience, as these trailblazing women explore themes of love, loss, identity, and the resilience of the human spirit. Immerse yourself in the works of twenty remarkable women poets, each possessing her own distinct voice and perspective. Marvel at the eloquent expressions of Anne Bradstreet, ...

Tian-tai Mountains are famous for their well-known reputation as a residence of saints and immortals. From ancient times adepts engaged in Chinese Buddhism and Daoism all longed for coming to Tian-tai. Richly endowed by nature, the mountain beauty spots produced unique harmonious culture, the striking prototypes of which were vagabond-poets Han Shan (Japanese "Kanzan") and Shi De (Jittoku). Once expelled from Guo-qing monastery Shi De was given a home at Mount Hanshan where Han Shan, his intimate friend and sworn elder brother, had resided for a half of century. Musing on Han Shan's poems ...

This biography is the very first in-depth telling of the life of New Mexico’s celebrated cowboy poet, S. Omar Barker. He was an amazing man who became not only widely known but greatly admired and loved. He managed to achieve that status even though he seldom left his beloved retreat in the mountains of northern New Mexico. His secret was that he made his living through his mailbox. Writing in virtual isolation, Omar sold his poetry, articles and novels to many different publishers. That was from 1926 until his death in 1985. This biography contains 50 complete poems of his, but it is ...

"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper; I wish the world would handle it more delicately." —Richelle E. Goodrich A collection of original poetry by American novelist, poet, & illustrator, Richelle E. Goodrich. Each chapter in this book touches on a specific emotional experience that affects the human heart within a lifetime. For example, the first chapter, titled TO LOVE, includes twelve poems that express aspects of love. Another chapter, titled TO LOATHE, includes poetry touching on life’s harsher challenges. The literary works in this book were written in a variety of poetic ...

What do androids do when they get the blues? Some of them take to expressing themselves.