"Hum of Our Blood peels back time to the dawning days of the AIDS pandemic when the world seemed to be standing at the edge of a foreboding precipice. In an exploration that is both personal and universal, Garner's poems expose the best and worst of humanity at times of peril. With language that cuts straight to the nature of grief as the author watches her beloved son's body dying, Hum of Our Blood also stands as a love song to those, then or now,...

In this brilliant collection of new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant and revisits kitschy concepts like 'love' and 'illness', now relegated to the museum of obsolescence. With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe, accompanying the discoveries, failures and oddities...

From three of Jack Prelutsky's books, a collection of silly poems about the trials of school and the adventures of a variety of fantastic creatures that are combinations of animals, objects, and plants.

A collection of nursery rhymes, each in both English and Spanish, collected from the Spanish community in the Americas, many with instructions for accompanying finger plays or other activities.

A playground rap that introduces young readers to how people are different yet the same.

Compiles, organizes, and indexes texts and tunes for use as programming materials by librarians and educators.

A musical, magical, resilient volume from one of our most celebrated and essential Native American voices.In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz...

Poems, stories, and art created by participants in the Lighthouse Writers Workshops held in Colorado. Workshops initially geared towards people experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty and then expanded to veterans, refugees, older adults, cancer patients and their caregivers, and people transitioning out of incarceration.

Bees, snails, & peacock tails (2008): "Discover the hidden patterns and shapes in nature. Children explore the hexagonal cells of a beehive, the lacy lines of a spider's web, the intricate design of a spiral shell, and much more. Includes 'New angles on the animals' that provides additional information."--From publisher description. Birdsongs (2007): "Get to know your birds and numbers... Hear the authentic calls of gulls, chickadees, robins, and...