Katherine Larson is the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. With "Radial Symmetry," she has created a transcendent body of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces that separate scientific inquiry from empathic knowledge, astute observation from sublime witness. Larson's inventive lyrics lead the reader through vertiginous landscapes - geographical, phenomenological, psychological - while always remaining attendant to the speaker's own fragile, creaturely self. An experienced research scientist and field ecologist, Larson dazzles with these sensuous and sophisticated poems, grappling with the powers of poetic imagination as well as the frightful realization of the human capacity for ecological destruction. The result is a profoundly moving collection: eloquent in its lament and celebration. Metamorphosis [an excerpt]: We dredge the stream with soup strainers and separate dragonfly and damselfly nymphs - their eyes like inky bulbs, jaws snapping at the light as if the world was full of tiny traps, each hairpin mechanism tripped for transformation. Such a ricochet of appetites insisting life, life, life against the watery dark, the tuberous reeds.

Composed as a long text message, this poem asks what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history.

The "magic of Rhyme" has made learning easier and more enjoyable for my students and science workshop participants over my 41 years of writing and using my Science poems and songs. I'll share that "magic" with you through the pages of my book. Mr. Musmanno invites you to enjoy learning the important science education involved in the NSTA's And New Jersey Science Core Curriculum content Standards. The poems in the book will be easy and enjoyable to learn because they rhyme. For example, you will learn about an insect from the grasshopper poem. The chorus to the poem goes-"I am an insect, I've got six legs you see. And three parts to my body-I am an insect. The "magic of rhyme" will make learning easier most of the time. Many years ago, when I first started teaching, I was told that the vice principal would be coming in to evaluate my lesson on the upcoming Monday. I was worried and wanted to do my best. We were studying the cell and the vocabulary included the words-endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondrion, protoplasm, etc.. A lot of my students had trouble reading so I had to develop a lesson that would enable them to be able to pronounce, read and understand the vocabulary and the lesson about the cell. I was a lead singer in a band in my younger years and realized that the rhymes to the lyrics of the songs made it easy for me to remember and understand. So, I wrote my first science poem and science song-The Cell. I drew the parts of the cell on the board, labeled them and explained what the parts did. The students copied the drawing and the information. Then as a review of the lesson, we read the cell poem. The kids were able to pronounce the words and understand them through the "magic of rhyme." The kids loved it and my principal said it was a great lesson and great poem. Use the poems in my book to help you or someone else near you understand the concepts of Science. I even invited my students to write Science poems about the science we were studying. They even wrote Science Songs. I taught for 41 years using my poems and songs about science to stir up the "magic of rhyme" in my classroom and science workshops to make the learning easier and more enjoyable. I was even sent to Puerto Rico and South Korea to teach Science teachers and school principals "hands on Science lessons" and share my poems and songs with them. They're probably using my poems and songs right now. Now I've included many of them in my book. Enjoy the "magic of rhyme" to make your learning easier and more enjoyable most of the time.

EDGAR ALLAN POE was a famous American writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. He penned more than 70 different short stories across multiple genres: psychological, mystical, gothic, romantic, detective, satirical. He also wrote poetry, of which "The Raven" with its haunting rhythm, is unsurpassed. His writing style falls into the category of American romanticism. Poe was one of the first American writers predominately publish short stories. He is one of the creators of the detective fiction genre in literature. His work also marked the beginning of the science fiction genre. Contents: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Gold-Bug, The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Hop-Frog, Ligeia Morella, The Oval Portret, The Raven Al Aaraaf, Annabel Lee, The Bells, The City in the Sea, The Conqueror Worm, A Dream Within a Dream, Eldorado, Eulalie, The Haunted Palace, To Helen, Lenore, Tamerlane, Ulalume

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies—and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility Both formally exciting and a delight to read, The Collection Plate is a testament to Allen’s place as the voice of a generation—and a witness to how we come into being in the twenty-first century.

"Masculinity doesn't have to be toxic, but some men choose to put poison on their tongue ..." The Birth Of All Things is an eclectic mix of poems from Marcus Amaker, the first Poet Laureate of Charleston, SC.This personal collection delivers poems about a wide range of topics: life as a new dad, racism in America, Bjork, anxiety, Star Wars, masculinity, pandemics, black music, history, and more. Amaker is an award-winning graphic designer, musician, and performance poet. The Birth Of All Things is the sum of all of his talents.The book features an original illustration from Florida artist Nick Davis.

Poetry FM is the first book to explore the dynamic relationship between post-1945 poetry and radio in the United States. Contrary to assumptions about the decline of literary radio production in the television age, the transformation of the broadcasting industry after World War II changed writers’ engagement with radio in ways that impacted both the experimental development of FM radio and the oral, performative emphasis of postwar poetry. Lisa Hollenbach traces the history of Pacifica Radio—founded in 1946, the nation’s first listener-supported public radio network—through the 1970s: from the radical pacifists and poets who founded Pacifica after the war; to the San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, and New York poets who helped define the countercultural sound of Pacifica stations KPFA and WBAI in the 1950s and 1960s; to the feminist poets and activists who seized Pacifica’s frequencies in the 1970s. In the poems and recorded broadcasts of writers like Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Spicer, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Pat Parker, Bernadette Mayer, and Susan Howe, one finds a recurring ambivalence about the technics and poetics of reception. Through tropes of static noise, censorship, and inaudibility as well as voice, sound, and signal, these radiopoetic works suggest new ways of listening to the sounds and silences of Cold War American culture.

Poetry. Chris Haven's debut collection of poems, BONE SEEKER, celebrates the mystery of what we take into our lives and can't let go. In lyrics, prose poems, and persona poems from voices ranging from Marie Curie to Emma Darwin to Janis Joplin, we journey through parenthood and politics, song and miracle, and life and loss, wondering, "will the cold things inside / Of you light up, as they should, for no reason?"

In the first full-scale edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduction and comprehensive commentary that situate Gray's Latin verse in relation to his vernacular poetry, epistolary correspondence, and, especially, his appropriation of classical and Neo-Latin literature. This book also traces hitherto unlocated manuscripts of several of his Latin poems, and includes an editio princeps of recently discovered Latin verses pertaining to his Neapolitan sojourn. Gray's Latin poetry presents an illuminating portrait of the artist as a young man, mapping his growth and development from his Etonian days to his undergraduate years at Cambridge University, to his continental journey and his return to England. Impressively eclectic in its scope and tone, it ranges from experimental renderings of English, Greek and Italian verse to more strikingly original pieces, including poetic reinterpretations of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man and John Locke's An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. Gray looks back to a classical past, offering imaginative re-readings of Lucretius, Virgil and Horace. At the same time, his Latin verse is firmly rooted in a postclassical world. At its heart is the theme of presences, whether sacred, imagined, absent or remembered, conveyed with a linguistic ingenuity that facilitates the encoding of homoeroticism in a Neo-Latin language of sensibility.