Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, these celebratory original poems pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts sing and their minds wander.
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in 4 3/4 in digital optical widescreen laser optical NTSC video file DVD video
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: NR
Other Title:
Poems celebrating poets
Notes:
Based on the book of the same name Wide screen Animation, Maria M. Linero ; graphics, Nick Pearson Narrators, Ron Butler, MacLeod Andrews, Erin Bennett DVD-R (might not be compatible with all players); widescreen presentation English dialogue; with read-along track featuring English subtitles; closed-captioned
Contents:
How to write a poem : celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye In every season : celebrating Robert Frost I like your : celebrating e.e. cummings Contemporary haiku : celebrating Bashō Snapshots : celebrating Nikki Giovanni Jazz jive jam : celebrating Langston Hughes Walter, age ten : celebrating Walter Dean Myers A field of roses : celebrating Emily Dickinson The blue alphabet : celebrating Terrance Hayes How Billy Collins writes a poem : celebrating Billy Collins The music of the earth : celebrating Pablo Neruda Tambourine things : celebrating Judith Wright (Loving) The world and everything in it : celebrating Mary Oliver Hue and cry : celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks The poet inside me : celebrating Sandra Cisneros No idle days : celebrating William Carlos Williams Song of Uhuru : celebrating Okot p'Bitek For our children's children : celebrating Chief Dan George Spin a song : celebrating Rumi Majestic : celebrating Maya Angelou About the poets being celebrated
