English Poetry Anthology

She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry’s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Caroline Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman’s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life’s journey.

"Letters to My Exes" - Poetry Book of Grief and Heartache Jessica Villegas has been writing poetry for as long as she can remember. She has written poetry about love and heartache, but it wasn't until her own experience with a break-up that she was able to write poetry in the rawest form of feeling. It was then that she created "Letters To My Exes," a poetry book full of poems about how she felt after her break up. What makes Jessica's poetry different from others is that these are not just some sweet words; these are true feelings put on paper after years of journaling them in hopes to ...

Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered. The great names - Owen, Sassoon - are fully represented, but there are also many poems by lesser-known or unexpected figures, ranging from serving soldiers like Isaac Rosenberg and Richard Aldington to women such as Edith Nesbit and Vera Brittain.

"100 Best-Loved Poems" is a cherished anthology that brings together some of the most timeless and evocative works of poetry in the English language. This collection features a diverse array of poems from celebrated poets such as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, and many others.

Lyrical Ballads features a selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration, which marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement. In the first episode, we hear Coleridge's "Lewti" and Wordsworth's "The Thorn", while the second episode showcases Coleridge's "The Nightingale" and Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems. In the final episode, we hear Wordsworth's "Lines Written A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" and Coleridge's ballad, "Love".

"101 Great American Poems" is a thoughtfully curated anthology that brings together a diverse collection of classic American poetry. Spanning over two centuries, the book features works from some of the nation's most celebrated poets, including Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes.

Amora dares explore the way women love each other - the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love. Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all its nuances, complexities, burdens, and triumphs revealed.

Aileen’s Allure: A Poetic Journey Dive into the enchanting world of love and longing with "Aileen’s Allure: A Poetic Journey." This heartfelt collection of poems chronicles the ardent pursuit of a man deeply in love with Aileen, a woman whose beauty and grace have captured his heart. Despite her initial resistance, his unwavering devotion and eloquent verses slowly begin to soften her guarded heart. Through vivid imagery and tender words, each poem in this collection reveals the depth of his passion and the pain of unrequited love. From "Aileen's Silence" to "The Guardian of My Heart," ...

THIS IS A POEM: about a holiday cookie, who sees the holiday as a scary time for Gingerbread.

This amazing collection of poetry from the famous Greek Anthology spans over 1,500 years of ancient Greek and Byzantine history. The selections in this recording were chosen and translated by famed classicist J. W. Mackail.

Rebuilding Scabs Scabs are the symptoms of gross dissatisfaction with past actions; OUCH! If you are not careful with the care of a scab, you'll rip the scab wide open, and the blood will ooze. The vivid reminder that past traumas are still a hindrance. What scabs do you have that have not healed? Poetry serves to offer readers emotional healing. No, poetry doesn't make things perfect. It heals just enough to allow you to grow emotionally and become an asset to the company surrounding you. L.Q. Murphy wraps personal testimony in poetry to add value to the community of poetry readers. This ...

Author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from 6 of his works of prose. Bursting with the passion of living, yet reverent of time and place, Hall's evocative style has made him one of America's foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, he gives each listener this gift of words - words painstakingly entwined with energy and love. Donald Hall: Prose and Poetry is a tour de force, an intimate convergence of poet, author, and listener.

We’ll ‘INK’ To That International Anthology, by Author Reneé Drummond-Brown and masterful poets from across the globe who are sho-nuff drunk on philosophical INK, affected by pens and paper-cuts to the extent of losing self-control of our talents, staggering with writer’s block on fine chalk lines and (get this) under poetic arrest. Somebody, anybody, please, please, please, call 911! We need comprehensive help “DrINKing Us-sum INK” (DUI)!! Burp.

American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is universally recognized for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. His stories are characterized by an original kind of supernatural horror, often using the awareness of death as a catalyzing force in its own right. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth and intense imagery, made vivid through his musical language and hypnotic rhythms, which are especially captivating when heard aloud.

How have women poets approached the question of eros throughout history? This collection explores the poetry of both physical and spiritual longing and fulfillment from ancient Greece to New York's East Village. In 50 poems, more than a dozen women poets express all the facets of desire. Included in this collection are Sappho, Mirabai, Hilda Dolittle [H.D.], Emily Dickinson, Anne Waldman, Olga Broumas, Brenda Coultas, Julie Patton, Eleni Sikélianòs, and Marina Tsvetayeva, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winners Jorie Graham, Mary Oliver, and Anne Sexton.

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Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration.

Broken Scabs is an engaging collection of poetry sneaking into the meaningful themes of failure, despair, rejection, desire, and heartbreak. This book supports the principle that we relate through our difficulties, maze runs, trip-ups, embarrassments, dense heartaches, foolish mistakes, and drowning tears. As you read into these poems, become lost in contemplation/thought and confidently absorb your reflections from broader considerations. This book does not hustle temporary uplift derived from cute cloudy words; this book is about opening eyes and realizing that life is more challenging ...

Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.

In a series of fascinating conversations with eighteen American poets, and in dozens of poems, The Language of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to recreate the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, losing faith, finding God.