Features 10 engaging rhymes that will capture readers' ears and hearts. With topics that range from a rainy day to getting up in the morning, to using imagination in play. These rhymes will soothe children even as they introduce them to the spectrum of human emotion.

A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings.

"John Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most, beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library's highly acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this edition reflects up-to-date scholarship and includes a substantial introduction, fresh commentary, and other features - annotations...

Sheila Packa's poetry is at once deeply personal and widely universal in its evocative exploration of fundamental human experience. Using the red ore dust with which she was raised, she paints vivid images of birth and death, work and struggle, hope and despair. Packa captures the unrest of immigrants leaving their homes in Finland and the unrest of the bitter labor union conflicts of the early days of twentieth century on the Iron Range of northeastern...

"A new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era"--Publisher's description.

Showcases the work of seventy-six extraordinary poets from across generations who invite readers to experience Minnesota through hundreds of diverse and deeply personal works.

Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...

Poems by poets from Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Rice, Steele, Wabasha, and Winona counties, Minnesota.

"A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife"--