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Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered

10 best books like Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered (Catherine Bowman): The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink, The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop & the poetry of a new generation), The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft, This Time: New and Selected Poems, Source, Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets, Teahouse of the Almighty, The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs

The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink
AuthorKevin Young
ISBN1608195511
Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street vendor songs. Poetry is said to feed the soul, each poem a delicious morsel. When read aloud, the best poems provide a particular joy for the mouth. Poems about food make these satisfactions explicit and complete.

Of...
The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop & the poetry of a new generation)
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN1402202466
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...
The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures
AuthorRobert Bly
Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature. For as long as people have lived together in communities and built enduring cultures, they have sung and written about their relationship...
Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
AuthorBill Moyers
ISBN0688177921
Fooling With Words is a collection of interviews of poets conducted by television journalist Bill Moyers at the Dodge Poetry Festival.

The Dodge Poetry Festival seems enormous and a bit weird - audiences in the thousands show up to hear some of the best poets in America read, and they clap and...
This Time: New and Selected Poems
AuthorGerald Stern
ISBN0393319091
"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long /...
Source
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060935405
This bold, wide-ranging collection -- his sixth book of poems -- demonstrates the unmistakable lyricism, fierce observation, and force of feeling that have made Mark Doty's poems special to readers on both sides of the Atlantic.

The poems in Source deepen Doty's exploration of the paradox...
Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets
AuthorJordan Trachtenberg
ISBN0312151918
What are are holding right now in your hands is a book. Not a telephone reciever, which is how most of the poems in this collection were first transmitted...There are plenty of examples of this spreading of one art form or another through popular mediums. There are all those wonderful Russian Constructivist...
Teahouse of the Almighty
AuthorPatricia Smith
ISBN1566891930

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.


“What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.”—Marvin Bell


“I was...
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
AuthorJ.D. McClatchy
ISBN0679741151
This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes,...
Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
AuthorAmy Hempel
ISBN0609803794
Now in paperback, an irresistible gift for dog lovers: poems from the dogs' point of view, written by the well known writers and poets who love them.

List of contributors:
Edward Albee,  Jennifer Allen,  Danny Anderson,  Lynda Barry,  Rick Bass,  Charles Baxter,  Robert...
The 100 Best African American Poems
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN1402221118
"Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by ""New York Times ""bestselling author Nikki Giovanni"

Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. Out of necessity,...
Human Dark with Sugar
AuthorBrenda Shaughnessy
ISBN1556592760
“Brenda Shaughnessy’s poems bristle with imperatives: ‘confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide.’ There are more direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot camp...Only Shaughnessy’s kidding. Or she is and she isn’t. If you just want to boss people around,...
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation
AuthorRoger Housden
ISBN1400047994
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver

This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation...
Breaking Poems
AuthorSuheir Hammad
ISBN0981913121
Poetry. In BREAKING POEMS Suheir Hammad departs from her previous poetry books with a bold and explosive style to do what the best poets have always done: create a new language. Using "break" as a trigger for every poem, Hammad destructs, constructs, and reconstructs the English language for us to hear...
Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998
AuthorLinda Pastan
ISBN0393046311
This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. When Linda Pastan's first book was published in 1971, the Jerusalem Post wrote, she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream -- the revelation of 'the miraculous in the common.'" Since then, Pastan...
Hip Logic
AuthorTerrance Hayes
ISBN0142001392
The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award

Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson,...
M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A
AuthorA. Van Jordan
ISBN0393327647
MacNolia by A. Van Jordan is a wonderful poetry collection worth reading many times. It reads like a novel because the author provides a fairly integrated story imagined by Jordan but based on a real life event. He doles out the background information in hints and pieces from several viewpoints throughout...
Looking for the Gulf Motel
AuthorRichard Blanco
ISBN0822962012
Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family’s emotion legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three...
Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
AuthorAlix Olson
ISBN1580052215
Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of...
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam
AuthorTony Medina
ISBN0609808400
Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry.

“Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming...
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across America
AuthorIshmael Reed
ISBN1560255005
Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip Hop—a truly all-inclusive multicultural anthology—a literary event which will finally even the playing field. This important collection synthesizes and...
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