Frank Carlson Library

Presents a collection of poems by NFL wide receiver Tyler Lockett in which he address life's many challenges, temptations, and rewards.

A cumulative counting verse in which a child enumerates items in the kindergarten classroom, from the whole alphabet, A to Z, to twelve eggs for hatching.

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...

Pictures and rhyming text celebrate a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant and spending the evening with the rest of the extended family.

In this noisy poem, a wrecking ball demolishes old houses and stores to make way for a skyscraper.

In this version of Clement Moores's classic poem, two siblings witness the nighttime arrival of the Easter Bunny.

A narrative poem about the celebrated baseball player who struck out at the crucial moment of a game.

In a series of poems, Awful Ogre rises, grooms himself, dances, pens a letter, and goes through other activities as the day passes.