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1999, c1995., Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press Call No: 811 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Autobiographical poems capture a thirteen-year-old boy's feelings, experiences, and aspirations in one tumultuous year of his life.
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2000, c1994., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: B KEY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An account of the writing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," detailing how Key was actually behind enemy lines at the time seeking release of a captured friend from the British, who would not allow their departure until the bombardment of Baltimore was completed.
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c1999., Twenty-First Century Books Call No: B SANDBURG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the poet who became known for his ability to speak to the common people, by shaping out of the plain English of ordinary Americans the voice of their vast experience.
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c2003., Pre-adolescent, Harcourt Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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2010., Juvenile, Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
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2010., Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
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2010., Juvenile, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the mid-nineteenth century a slave known to us only as Dave made beautiful large pots out of the Carolina clay, shaping them with wheel and coil, and signing some with a poem. Hill's poem and Collier's watercolor and collage illustrations show the making of such a pot, step by step, from the gathering and the mixing of the clay, through pulling the pot up from the mound on his wheel, finishing with coils and finally glaze.
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2010., Primary, Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
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-- "Beauty in words"[2010]., Adolescent, Enslow Publishers Call No: 811 BUC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Poetry rocks!Summary Note: Contains biographical profiles of eleven early American poets, including Anne Bradstreet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Emily Dickinson, and includes examples and analyses of their writing.
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c1998., Pre-adolescent, Lerner Publications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the life, work, and significance of the visionary poet from Amherst, Massachusetts.
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2010., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the inspiration for and history of Emma Lazarus' sonnet which is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty's plaque.
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2010., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
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2010., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 811 .4 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ..." Before Emma Lazarus wrote the final lines to her poem, the Statue of Liberty was known only as a gift of friendship from France to the United States. As Lazarus's words grew famous and stirred the nation, the statue came to be seen as the mother of immigrants, her torch a lamp held out to welcome them.
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c2013, Juvenile, Lee & Low Books Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The life of Dave, an enslaved potter who inscribed his works with sayings and poems in spite of South Carolina's slave anti-literacy laws in the years leading up to the Civil War. Includes afterword, author's note, and sources"--Provided by publisher.
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c2007., Mitchell Lane Publishers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: A Robbie Reader.Summary Note: Presents a brief biography of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to America's national anthem.
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1996, Juvenile, Lothrop Call No: 921 Hug Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
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c2003., Morgan Reynolds Pub. Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a biography of the African American poet who has received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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2018., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: 811 .6 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 place in life.
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2018., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: 811.6 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mamá 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"--Provided by publisher.
