What Have You Lost?
10 best books like What Have You Lost? (Naomi Shihab Nye): Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, All the Small Poems and Fourteen More, Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop & the poetry of a new generation), Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, Poetry Speaks Who I Am with CD: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence, and Everything Else (A Poetry Speaks Experience), Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem, Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States, You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys
| Author | Marilyn Nelson |
| ISBN | 1932425128 |
There is a skeleton in the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of a slave name Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune's death,...
| Author | Langston Hughes |
| ISBN | 0786818670 |
Langston Hughes has long been acknowledged as the voice, and his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the song, of the Harlem Renaissance. Although he was only seventeen when he composed it, Hughes already had the insight to capture in words the strength and courage of black people in America.
Artist...
| Author | Valerie Worth |
| ISBN | 0374403457 |
This is a lovely collection of very short poems about myriad things. There's a wide variety of topics and I was fascinated at the different ways of describing the things. Occasionally, the poem would provide a different perspective, such as how fleas see their world from the back of a dog.
We...
| Author | Georgia Heard |
| ISBN | 1596432209 |
TRY THIS AT HOME. Poems to inspire young readers.
From Eileen Spinelli's many goodbyes to summer at the shore, to Avis Harley's catalog of ways to say hello across the globe, to a close look at the birds and animals outside Valiska Gregory's window in winter…Georgia Heard has collected list...
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 1402202466 |
The poetry on the page wasn't very good. A DVD goes along with it. I enjoyed that more, which is the point of spoken word poetry.
Here is one example:
"The Foxhole Manifesto"
by Jeffrey McDaniel
There are no atheists in foxholes.
--old Christian proverb
The...
| Author | Jan Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0810943867 |
Fantastic concept. Seeing the works of art through the poets' eyes really helped me see more in them, connect with them on a deeper level. Many were new to me, though, and that was interesting, too.
I really liked what Bobbi Katz did in "Lessons from a Painting by Rothko" for one of Marc Rothko's...
| Author | Elise Paschen |
| ISBN | 1402210744 |
Poetry Speaks Who I Am is filled with more than 100 remarkable poems about you, who you are, and who you are becoming. Dive in-find the poem you love, the one that makes you angry, the one that makes you laugh, the one that knocks the wind out of you, and become a part of Poetry Speaks Who I Am by adding your own...
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
| Author | Jack Prelutsky |
| ISBN | 0061434485 |
Have you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents?
Jack Prelutsky has written more than a thousand poems about all of these things—and many others. In this...
| Author | Lori Marie Carlson |
| ISBN | 0805076166 |
i think in spanish
i write in english
i want to go back to puerto rico,
but i wonder if my kink could live
in ponce, mayagüez and carolina
tengo las venas aculturadas
escribo en spanglish
abraham in español
--from "My Graduation Speech," by Tato...
Teenage boys speak out—without the filter of adult sensibility—in a compelling collection of poetry and prose.
In a powerful collection of more than seventy uncensored poems and essays, more than fifty teenage boys from across the country explore their many-layered concerns: identity,...
| Author | Douglas Florian |
| ISBN | 1416986723 |
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his signature wit and whimsy. Featuring a dynamic vertical format that illustrates...
| Author | Joyce Sidman |
| ISBN | 0618616802 |
When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back.
In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes,...
| Author | John Grandits |
| ISBN | 0618503617 |
An eleven-year-old boy named Robert voices typical—and not so typical—middle-grade concerns in this unique, memorable collection of hilarious poems. His musings cover the usual stuff, like pizza, homework, thank-you notes, and his annoying older sister. In addition, he speculates about...
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| ISBN | 0618234837 |
A sijo, a traditional Korean verse form, has a fixed number of stressed syllables and a humorous or ironic twist at the end. Like haiku, sijo are brief and accessible, and the witty last line winds up each poem with a surprise. The verses in this book illuminate funny, unexpected, amazing aspects of the...
| Author | Paul B. Janeczko |
| ISBN | 0763606618 |
Even kids who don’t know they like poetry will love this playful, visually accessible collection of thirty concrete poems—illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist!
Concrete poems startle and delight the eye and mind. The size and arrangement of words—or even just letters on the page...
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0152055649 |
Few writers capture the everyday moments of life like Gary Soto. In direct and vivid poems, he draws from his own youth in California's Central Valley to portray the joys and sorrows of young people. His writing focuses on Latino characters, yet speaks to readers of all ethnicities. Acclaimed...
| Author | Stephen Dunn |
| ISBN | 0393306585 |
Angels as a concept do not particularly resonate with me, which may be why a number of these poems failed to take flight in my mind. I don't want divine failsafes, watchful protectors, anthropomorphic saviors, nor gambling tables, nor luck; my hope takes different forms. If I'm to be really honest, my...
| Author | Jon Agee |
| ISBN | 1423103157 |
Have you ever gotten tripped up trying to say a silly succession of similar syllables? Of course-everyone has!It can be sometimes frustrating, but it's always funny! For example, you know New York's unique, but did you know that unique New York's also pretty chic? And if you switched your wristwatch...
A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems
| Author | Deborah Ruddell |
| ISBN | 1416942114 |
In a watery mirror
the rugged raccoon
admires his face
by the light of the moon:
the mysterious mask,
the whiskers beneath,
the sliver of cricket
still stuck in his teeth.
Take a lighthearted romp through four seasons in the forest with these whimsical poems....
