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Harjo, Joy

Summary: A collection of poems from the first Native American US Poet Laureate, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land, that opens a dialogue with history.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 HAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 811 HAR

Ada, Alma Flor

Summary: Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX ADA

Perkins, Useni Eugene

Summary: Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins. Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really are? Do you know you can be, What you want to be, If you try to be What you can be? This lyrical, empowering poem celebrates black children and seeks to inspire...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG PER

Atwood, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 ATW

Atwood, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 811 ATW

Prelutsky, Jack

Summary: Sixteen extraordinary imagined creatures inhabit the pages of this unique, inspired, humorous picture book ideal for sharing together, and for reading again and again. Jack Prelutsky reinvents many familiar and beloved animals by combining inanimate objects with them (so, for example, a pair of pants and an anteater become a panteater). Carin Berger's illustrations are showstoppers. Her shadow...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX PRE

Homer.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Parmenides Audio 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOM

Summary: "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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 SHE

Homer

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOM

Frost, Robert

Summary: Robert Frost reads from a selection of his own poetry.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FRO

Ovid

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: 871.01 OVI

Nikola-Lisa, W.

Summary: A little girl runs through the park noting differences between people, but surmising that we are all the same. "Straight hair, curly hair - different but the same!" "Big nose, little nose. Light skin, dark skin - different but the same!" Even with our differences, she chants, "Isn't it delightful bein' with you this way?" This poem reflects a perfect sentiment for our children living in this...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG NIK

Summary: Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy listeners who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CUT

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