Download or read book Poetry in Motion written by Molly Peacock and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1996 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred poems from the poetry placards in New York City's subway and buses. Amid ads for mace and cockroach exterminators, a happy glimmer in 16 lines or less. From Sappho, to W. H. Auden, to Chu Chen Po.
Download or read book The New York City Subway Poems Poemas Del Metro de Nueva York written by Carlos Aguasaco and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated by Carol O'Flynn and Pilar Gonzalez. "The poetic language of Carlos Aguasaco is familiar, fluid, and thoughtful. His work is founded on several sensible, personal myths: some declared and others hidden with great discretion and skill. His poetry reveals him as a wounded, yet defiant poet, master of a layered tongue, far from conventional or traditional styles."--Ahmad Alshahawy
Download or read book On the Subway written by Kurt Boone and published by Kurt Boone Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On The Subway is a book of poetry written by Kurt Boone--a New York City messenger--while riding on MTA, the largest subway system in the world. As a messenger, Kurt rode all 22 major subway lines every week. While on the subway, he wrote original poems to pass the time and record his thoughts. On The Subway is an adventure into the world of a subway rider.
Download or read book Clackety Track Poems about Trains written by Skila Brown and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queue up for a whistle-stop tour of trains of all kinds, narrated in lively verse and featuring dynamic retro artwork. Rows of grooves, cables, and bars. Graffiti rockin’ out the cars. A badge of rust. A proud oil stain. There’s nothin’ plain about a train. Trains of all shapes and sizes are coming down the track — bullet train, sleeper train, underground train, zoo train, and more. All aboard! Skila Brown’s first-class poems, as varied as the trains themselves, reflect the excitement of train travel, while Jamey Christoph’s vintage-style illustrations provide a wealth of authentic detail to pore over.
Download or read book Poems on the Underground written by Judith Chernaik and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets. It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.
Download or read book Running with Trains written by Michael J. Rosen and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the grass greener on the other side of the train window? Even a brief brush with a stranger can change our lives. It's 1970, and Perry feels adrift in turbulent times: his father is missing in action in Vietnam, his mother is studying to become a nurse in the city, his older sister has become a peacenik in college. Traveling between his hometown, where he lives with his grandmother, and his mother's house in Cincinnati, Perry notices Steve, whose farm lies on the B&O railroad line. Steve likes to race the train as it blows by his fields; Steve skillfully sends his collie after an escaped cow; Steve watches the Cincinnatian, longing for its speed, longing for adventure. In alternating voices, Michael J. Rosen's poems weave a tale of two boys—one wishing for the stability of home, the other yearning to travel—and the unexpected impact of their fleeting encounter.
Download or read book When You Are Old written by William Butler Yeats and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful early writings by one of the 20th century’s greatest poets on the 150th anniversary of his birth A Penguin Classic The poems, prose, and drama gathered in When You Are Old present a fresh portrait of the Nobel Prize–winning writer as a younger man: the 1890s aesthete who dressed as a dandy, collected Irish folklore, dabbled in magic, and wrote heartrending poems for his beloved, the beautiful, elusive Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne. Included here are such celebrated, lyrical poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” as well as Yeats’s imaginative retellings of Irish fairytales—including his first major poem, “The Wanderings of Oisin,” based on a Celtic fable—and his critical writings, which offer a fascinating window onto his artistic theories. Through these enchanting works, readers will encounter Yeats as the mystical, lovelorn bard and Irish nationalist popular during his own lifetime. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book City I Love written by Lee Bennett Hopkins and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighteen poems that guide the reader on an international tour"--Jacket front flap.
Download or read book The Poet X written by Elizabeth Acevedo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent. “Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.” —Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation “An incredibly potent debut.” —Jason Reynolds, author of the National Book Award Finalist Ghost “Acevedo has amplified the voices of girls en el barrio who are equal parts goddess, saint, warrior, and hero.” —Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street This young adult novel, a selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List, is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 6 to 8. Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land!
Download or read book Train of Thought written by Jason Wright and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets are going to hate this book. This book isn't for them. This book is for the kid with headphones on. This is chicken soup for the distracted. This book is for the medicated and sedated. And the ones who rose all above their diagnosis. This is for the lack of focused, focused on the potions. This book is poetry for the intelligent and alienated, the worst and the best minds of this generation. This book was my escape into my own world. The poetry in this book saved my life.
Download or read book Hope Is the Thing with Feathers written by Emily Dickinson and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a new collection of literary voices from Gibbs Smith, written by, and for, extraordinary women—to encourage, challenge, and inspire. One of American’s most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing, religion, and society. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is a collection from her vast archive of poetry to inspire the writers, creatives, and leaders of today. Continue your journey in the Women’s Voices series with Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte and The Feminist Papers by Mary Wollstonecraft.
Download or read book Train River Poetry written by Train Train River and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Train River Poetry features poetry from our brilliant cohort of poets from around the world. The poems within reflect the diverse experiences of our poets, while illuminating the universal truths of being. Showcasing poetry contributions from the talented: Elizabeth Adan, Akshita Agrawal, Zobia Ahmad, Amorie Poetry, Anagha, Riya B, Liz Baronofsky, Alexzander Baetsen, Amy Bennett, Joanne Blake, Elizabeth Brandis, Rachael Brown, Alshley Buchanan, Jeremy Burwell, Jen Carl, Sonal Chhibber, Devi Chong, Cluttered Room, Margaret Daly, Grace Daniels, Cory Decker, Seth Delaware, Jessica Doble, Anna Douglas, Karri Ehrhart, Eman Fatima, Zachary J. Ferrara, Roza Fire, Framed Floromancy, Carol G, Perry G, Ruchka Ghulati, Aubrey Glave, Jenny Ham, alix hill, Adittya Raj Jain, Era Jain, Sailani Jat, Jeanieshewrote, James Kinsella, Rob Kish, [k.sam], Abigail Kuhn, Osanna Lau, Michelle Lee, Amy Littleford, Sevi Locks, Henery Long, Taylor Lutka, Mary Anne Massaro, B Mark, Luis Martinez, Derrica McCalla, Victoria Mccleskey, David McIntyre, Maritza Mejia, Georgina Melendez, Cristine Marie Vélez Morales, More Than Just a Tinder Girl, Melanee Morin, Andrew Myles, Diya N, N K, Lilian Odell, J. Oscar, Anais Osipova, Kaleido Peace, Kelsea Pernsteiner, poemsbyrelic, Zaina Qubeissi, Fatima Raza, Debby Regan, Gabriel Rodriguez, Charlene Rosario, Champagne Ryder, Anjali Sethi, M Shanath, Alley Shubert, Madneshwar Solanker, Kate Spirduso, hemy sounds, T.A., Neha Taneja, theworldthroughmyeyes, Julia Topkin, Bhavana Venkat, irene wolff, and Naomi Wood.
Download or read book Dead Shark on the N Train written by Susana H. Case and published by Broadstone Books. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. The middle section of this new poetry collection from Susana H. Case consists of ekphrastic poems inspired by the crime scene dioramas of Frances Glessner Lee, the "mother of forensic science." How appropriate, for this entire collection is an exercise in forensics, as Case deploys her poetic powers of detection to investigate and interrogate life in its minutest details; and all too often she too is depicting acts of violence, committed against women, against migrants, against the marginalized. Early on she questions the "puzzling utility" of her "street light eyes," but those eyes miss nothing, and it seems as well that she has missed no opportunity to learn from what they have seen, whether it is recognizing that "everything was happening" even while it seemed to her adolescent self that "nothing nothing nothing happened," or taking from an encounter with a baby skunk in a tent the lesson "Don't move. / Don't make a sound." Fortunately that silence yields profound words here, as in the title poem where a quintessentially quirky New York City experience of, quite literally, a dead shark in a subway car provides an occasion for meditation on death and destinations, what we see and what we don't, and how long we can journey to end up not so far from where we began. "Remind me none of this will kill me," she writes in one poem--except sometimes it can, and does, and she does not flinch from putting even the "shriveled flesh" of a dying friend into her poetry. If this sounds grim, it can be, but the sure touch and precision of Case's language elevates her work from any sense of morbid voyeurism. Nor does she spare herself from this examination, as in the closing poem where she grapples with her own physical fragility and the limits of language to express it. Recalling how she came to say "icebox" for refrigerator from her mother, she remembers a time she "did not have the vocabulary," and how since then she learned "Words deceive, the way love is often inarticulate." Case is certainly not the first poet to distrust language, the tools of her craft, nor the first to wonder about who is listening, "you people, / you whom I don't even write for." Those of us who are listening, for whom she is writing even when she is not sure herself, are fortunate indeed to receive these poems. It is perhaps an outrageous pun to call this a "Case report," but as an account of her poetic forensics it is an essential document of our time.
Download or read book The Mind body Problem written by Katha Pollitt and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Antarctic Traveller presents a new volume of poetic works that include pieces inspired by the Bible and evoke such subjects as the joys and pain of parenthood, the private side of a literary life, and the complexities of love and marriage.
Download or read book One Train written by Kenneth Koch and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the themes and variations of One Train May Hide Another, the poems by ships at sea, and the post-Apollinaire couplets of A Time Zone, for example, reveal Kenneth Koch's interest in new forms, directions and kinds of writing.
Download or read book The Arrow Finds Its Mark written by Georgia Heard and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twitter feeds, school notes, advertisements, street signs--find poetry in the unlikely places with thirty comtemporary poets. Imagine picking up a scrap of paper off the floor or reading a sign at a gas station or looking at graffiti on the subway and finding poetry in these words. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poems take existing text, reorder and refashion it, and present it as a poem. Youthful, urban, and ironic, this energetic and surprising poetic form demonstrates the beauty of everyday words and will inspire young poets to find their own poetry. Find your own poems with Georgia Heard's The Arrow Finds Its Mark as your guide.
Download or read book Soul Train written by Allison Joseph and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry by Allison Joseph.
