Herrera, Juan Felipe
Summary: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Summary: The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Giovanni offers an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 GIONelson, Marilyn
Summary: George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born a slave in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver truly found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 811.54 NELGiovanni, Nikki
Summary: The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Giovanni offers an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 811 GIOScott-Heron, Gil
Contents: Introduction ; The revolution will not be televised -- Omen -- Brother -- Comment #1 -- Small talk at 125th & Lenox -- The subject was faggots -- Evolution (and flashback) -- Plastic pattern people -- Whitey on the moon -- The vulture -- Enough -- Paint it black -- Who'll pay reparations on my soul? -- Everyday.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Dutchman 1970
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SCOShakur, Tupac
Summary: Collection of songs interpreted and performed by various artists based on poems and writings from the book of the same name by Tupac Shakur.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Amaru/Interscope 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP SHAKerouac, Jack
Summary: Features the complete recorded works, many released for the first time, of "beat generation" writer and poet Jack Kerouac.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Rhino Records] 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KERSilverstein, Shel.
Summary: A collection of humorous poems and drawings.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Custom Marketing Group 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV SILSummary: A collection of 81 of the world's best loved and known poems. The readings are presented in the order they appear in "The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition". Thirty-nine major poets are included from Shakespeare, Blake, and Wordsworth to Keats, the Brownings, Whitman, Dickinson and Yeats.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners Pub. Corp. 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN EIGFrost, Robert
Summary: Robert Frost reads from a selection of his own poetry.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FROVanHecke, Susan.
Summary: Tells of the Civil War's first contraband camp that began when three escaped slaves were granted protection at a Union-held fort, prompting runaway slaves to seek freedom there and build the country's first African American community.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE UNDGinsberg, Allen
Contents: Epithalamion -- Wild orphan -- Over Kansas -- A dream record -- Blessed be the muses -- A supermarket in California -- The trembling of the veil -- Introduction -- Howl -- Line pick up -- Howl (part II).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GINGinsberg, Allen
Summary: "A culmination of four years of work, from the first time Allen suggested this box to me in a New York taxi to the final assembly and production by Hal Willner."--James Austin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino/Word Beat 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GINSummary: Part of the Naxos AudioBooks Essential series, this CD combines some of Poe's best-loved ghost stories, plus a selection of poetry including The Raven and an additional biography.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos Audio Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.3 POESummary: Adopting the methology of the music charts, these discs present the "top 100" poems of all time. Determined by a consensus of over 1,000 compilers and arranged in chronological order, each author's work is illuminated by notes from the editor, offering insight into the historical period in which each author lived and the author's choice of verse, form, tone, and style. Read by an emsemble of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Co. 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 821.008 CLAKerouac, Jack
Summary: Presents selections of poetry by the beat poet, Jack Kerouac.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KERScott-Heron, Gil
Contents: Paint it black (:31) -- Evolution (and flashback) (3:02) -- Free will (3:31) -- Whitey on the moon (1:45) -- The vulture (4:18) -- Small talk at 125th and Lenox (1:20) -- Billy Green is dead (1:30) -- Ain't no new thing (4:38) -- Get out of the ghetto blues (5:07) -- The King Alfred plan (2:48) -- No knock (2:11) -- Enough (4:12) -- Who'll pay reparations on my soul? (5:14) -- Home is where the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SCOGibran, Kahlil
Summary: Presents prose poetry teachings of the prophet Almustafa.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1985
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811.52 GIBPiercy, Marge.
Contents: To be of use (2:01) -- No one came home (6:25) -- Choices (1:49) -- Sneak and peek (3:01) -- If they come in the night (1:45) -- What's that smell in the kitchen? (1:21) -- Rape poem (2:45) -- Woman in the shoe (1:33) -- The good old days (2:11) -- The perpetual migration (2:46) -- The market economy (1:04) -- The nine of cups (2:53) -- The token woman (2:13) -- Right to life (3:59) -- For two...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Leapfrog Press 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN PiercVarious Authors
Summary: The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works from the following poets: Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Witter Bynner, Max Eastman,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811.508 SPOGinsberg, Allen
Contents: Howl -- Footnote to howl -- A supermarket in California -- Transcription of organ music -- America -- In the back of the real -- Strange new cottage in Berkeley -- Europe! Europe! -- Kaddish, part 1 -- The Sunflower Sutra.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GINWhitman, Walt
Summary: The poetry of Walt Whitman enhanced with tranquil music and authentic nature sounds.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: North Word Press 1994