New Releases by Paul B. Janeczko

Provides practical advice on the art of writing different forms of poetry.

An anthology of poems celebrates the feelings of home and explores such settings as Anne Frank''s house in Amsterdam, a post office in Poland, a safe haven in Nicaragua, and a Texas ranch

Poems which present a wide-ranging look at life in contemporary America.

A series of poems in which a young boy describes his life with his flower children parents, his friends, and neighbors.

An anthology of poetry about being a teenager and adolescent problems and concerns.

Thirty-nine United States poets share their poems, inspirations, thoughts, anecdotes, and memories.

In a series of poems, the speaker and his best friend meander through the summer after eighth grade, encountering for the first time in the local people of their economically depressed neighborhood enormous courage and vitality.

A collection of bittersweet, thought-provoking poems by a variety of modern authors.

While struggling to cope with his very strict Catholic school, fourteen-year-old James fights his mother over the right to make his own decisions without having to lie to her.

A selection of 120 short modern poems by eighty American poets, including Angelou, Updike, Creeley, Williams, and Merwin, in pocket-sized format for travelers and others on the move.

A collection of 125 modern poems based on the poets'' experiences of family life, as parents, children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, cousins, nieces and nephews, and grandchildren.

A collection of 148 poems on a variety of topics by 62 modern poets who provide commentary on their individual works.