Frank Carlson Library

An anthology of almost 800 poems written by 115 American poets.

This volume includes selections from all of the poet's previous poetic works and fifty new poems, never before published, to introduce this collection.

A complete collection of Whittier's poetry is prefaced by a discussion of his journalistic and political ventures, association with abolitionists, and status as a popular but underrated artist.

An anthology of 650 short poems (less than fourteen lines) written in the English language from medieval times to the present day.

"In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history ... Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's...

Reprints the nearly two hundred pieces from his earlier Collected Poems, together with the poems from his most recent collections--Entries, Given, and Leavings--to create an expanded compilation.

An omnibus volume containing 286 stories and poems.

Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...