Silverstein, 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 SILHomer
Summary: Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMGiovanni, 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 Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 GIOHerrera, 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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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG HERGinsberg, 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 GINSummary: "She Walks in Beauty" is Kennedy's selection of poetry that tells the story of a woman's life, including first love and lasting love; marriage, motherhood, and work; times of silence and solitude, and times of awe. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W.S....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 SHEGiovanni, 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 GIOHomer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Parmenides Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMOvid
Summary: Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: 871.01 OVIFrost, 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 FRONelson, 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 NELAtwood, Margaret
Summary: This collection of poems addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature, and, zombies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House, Ltd. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 ATWAtwood, Margaret
Summary: This collection of poems addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature, and, zombies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 811 ATWCollins, Billy.
Summary: Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares 24 of his poems and also spends some time in question and answer session where he reflects on what makes good poetry, his own process of reaching his audience as a poet, the success of his Poetry 180 programs in schools nationwide, and an amusing sidebar on his memories of growing up as an only child.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN ColliSummary: 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 CLADixon, James M.
Contents: Black token poet -- Too Langston for America -- Raw reality -- Liquor -- Naw I'm not mad just bitter -- Soul food -- Harlem renaissance -- Sights and sounds of the city -- My 8 mile -- American epiphany -- Flash cards -- Welcome to Michigan.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: J. Dixon 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN DixonKerouac, Jack
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 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 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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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 SPOSummary: Tenors sing the music of Puccini, Verdi and Bizet as Edward James Olmos reads the English translations of the classic text.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: AudioScope 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN TENDahl, Roald.
Summary: The witches: A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2014