Poetry


 * Poetry**
 * School #206 South Park High School**

 **Librarian's e-mail: mhkristal@buffaloschools.org**
 * Name of Collection: Poetry**
 * School Name: South Park High School**
 * Address: 150 Southside Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14210**
 * Fax: 816-4905**
 * Librarian: Morgan Kristal**

South Park is a comprehensive academic high school that includes approximately 1100 students, grades 9-12. Special curricular programs include a printing/graphic communications magnet program, a horticulture program that services special needs students, a business education program, an instrumental band program, a choral program, and a visual arts department.
 * Introduction:**

This collection is designed to provide resources for research and learning about all facets and styles of poetry, the majority of historically recognized poets, collected from around the world.

poetry, verse, ode, epic, poem, lyric, stanza, rhyme, poet, ballad
 * Keywords:**

Poetry, Poets, American Poetry, English Poetry, Poetic Techniques
 * Subject Headings:**

Poetry: 811, 821
 * Dewey Decimal Classification(s):**

Master Poems of the English Language, ed. Oscar Williams The Norton Book of Light Verse, ed. Russell Baker The Oxford Book of American Light Verse, ed. William Harmon The Oxford Book of English Light Verse, ed. Kingsley Amis Palgrave’s Golden Treasury The Premier Book of Major Poets: An Anthology, by Anita Dore Western Wind: An introduction to poetry, ed. John Frederick Nims
 * Key Books**

The Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry, by Edith Hazen Contemporary Poets of the English Language The Home Book of Verse: American and English
 * Reference:**

//__African-American__// American Negro Poetry Brown Angels, by Walter Dean Myers Good News About The Earth, by Lucille Clifton Harlem, by Walter Dean Myers I am the Darker Brother Who Will Cry for The Little Boy, by Antwone Fisher
 * Non-fiction:**

//__Anthologies__// Against Forgetting: twentieth-century poetry of witness, ed. Carolyn Forché Beat Voices First Light, Mother & Son Poems Marvelous Math Miracles: Poems by children of the English-speaking world, ed. Richard Lewis Modern Russian Poetry, by Olga Andreyev Carlisle The Music of What Happens The Oxford Book of Irish Verse, ed. Donagh MacDonagh Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle…and Other Modern Verse Rhymes and verses, ed. Walter de la Mare The Winged Horse, ed. Joseph Auslander

//__Caribbean__// Caribbean Voices

//__Chinese__// The white pony: an anthology of Chinese poetry from the earliest times to the present day, by Robert Payne

//__Latin- American__// I am Joaquin, by Rodolfo Gonzalez Inventing a word: and anthology of twentieth century Puerto-Rican poetry, ed. Julio Marzán Neruda & Vallejo: Selected poems, ed. Robert Bly

//__Native American__// American Indian prose and poetry: an anthology, by Margot Astrov The magic world: American Indian songs and poems, by William Brandon

//__Russian__// Modern Russian Poetry, by Olga Andreyev Carlisle The New Russian Poets, 1953:1966: an anthology, by George REavey

//__Selected Poets__// Angelou, Maya: Now Sheba Sings The Song Baldwin, James: Jimmy’s Blues Bradbury, Ray: When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed Brooks, Gwendolyn: In the Mecca Selected Poems Ciardi, John: This Strangest Everything Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems Dickinson, Emily: I’m nobody! Who are you? The Poems of Emily Dickinson Duba, Ursula: Tales form a Child of the Enemy Eliot, TS: Collected Poems Inventions of the March Hare Selected Poems The Waste Land and other poems Frost, Robert: The Road Not Taken Robert Frost’s Poems Steeple Bush You come too: favorite poems for young readers Gibran, Kalil: The Prophet Glenn, Mel: Class Dismissed! Class Dismissed II Heaney, Seamus: Selected Poems Hemphill, Stephanie: Your Own, Sylvia Hughes, Langston: Selected Poems Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: Evangeline Masters, Edgar Lee: Spoon River Schutz, Samantha: I Don’t Want to be Crazy Walker, Alice: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful Whitman, Walt: Leaves of grass

//__Story/Narrative Poems__// 100 More Story Poems, ed. by Elinor Parker The Aeneid, by Homer Beowulf The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer The Dark Tower: Nineteenth Century Narrative Poems, ed. Dairine Coffey The Illiad, by Homer The Inferno of Dante, by Dante Alighieri The Lays of Beleriand, by JRR Tolkien The Odyssey, by Homer Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by JRR Tolkien

Any books by Ellen Hopkins Jazmin’s Notebook by Nikki Grimes Love That Dog by Sharon Creech Stop Pretending : What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones
 * Fiction:**


 * Magazine Articles**
 * • Print:**
 * • Online:**

[|Poetry Resources for Teens] [|Poetry Foundation] [|Electronic Poetry Center] @The University of Buffalo [|Modern American Poetry Site]
 * Web Sites:**

The Canterbury Tales The Poetry Hall of Fame
 * Videos/DVDs:**


 * CDs:**